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Kanye West Makes a Record for the A.I. Era

Over the years, Ye has amassed perhaps the most obsessive fan base in all of hip-hop, and some of them have carefully charted the evolution of the tracks on “Bully.” During that Laboy interview, Ye enthused about a...

How Arsenio Hall Dreamed Up His Life

“The audience went crazy,” Hank Moorehouse says.Later, a fire at Hall’s grandmother’s house would destroy most of his magic act. But Moorehouse proved prescient: Hall followed his advice all the way to Hollywood. “Arsenio” tells that story—with “The...

My Childhood in the Weather Underground

I was born underground and spent my early years on the run. By 1980, though, my parents had finally decided to turn themselves in. A plea deal awaited us in Chicago, but, for the deal to work, we...

In “Yes,” an Israeli Filmmaker Charges Israel with Self-Satisfied Brutality

That delirious excess befits the essence of Lapid’s method, which is a fusion of fiction with indigestibly and irreducibly nonfictional elements. That method was also evident in his previous feature, “Ahed’s Knee” (2021), in which a filmmaker (likewise...

What Happens When a Whale Is Born?

When sperm-whale calves are born, weighing about a ton, they are pretty helpless. They can’t immediately swim—their flukes are bent from being cramped in the womb—and, to use the technical term, they are “negatively buoyant.” Left to their...

Louise Erdrich on Novels of Parentless Children

Lately, the writer Louise Erdrich—whose newest story collection, “Python’s Kiss,” is out this week—has been reading books about children who have lost their parents. As she explained recently, these books examine questions of rootedness and inheritance in roundabout...

Michael Ian Black Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The actor and comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link

Engels in the Outfield

A radical history of the Mets insists that baseball can still be the people’s game. Source link

How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?

From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins is notoriously blurry. Source link

The Style Is the Substance in Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs Documentary

In the show notes handed to audience members at Marc Jacobs’s Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in early February, the designer included a section titled Credits and Receipts. The list included entries like “Yves...
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