11 book and music recommendations that will ignite your imagination
Want to get your creative juices flowing? We’ve got just the thing for you. Filmmaker and writer Wanuri Kahiu and sci-fi author Charlie Jane Anders know more than a thing...
Why It’s So Hard to Write About Science
COVID-19 put new and unexpected demands on science writers. For the famed journalist David Quammen, writing a book about it meant playing a constant game of catch-up, because, as Joshua...
What Makes Neil Young’s Voice Irresistible
The cover of Neil Young’s fourth album, Harvest, is the color of unbleached muslin, lending a mellow vibe to a pleasant, if not groundbreaking, work. Yet as the author Sam...
Will Smith Isn’t the Main Reason to Avoid Emancipation
The filmmakers behind Emancipation probably wanted a standard Hollywood publicity circuit, with its stars offering amusing anecdotes about production and talking up the importance of the Training Day director Antoine...
‘That’s Just Like White Noise.’
On the afternoon of the 2016 election, I took a cab directly from my polling place in South Brooklyn to JFK, where I boarded a full flight to San Francisco....