This is an especially grim illustration of Pressly’s argument about how the production and the circulation of information can undermine our agency. The person targeted by the deepfake did not consent; neither did the masses of anonymous others...
James Ijames has three genres in mind for “Good Bones,” directed by Saheem Ali. First, it’s a haunted-house thriller: Aisha (Susan Kelechi Watson) walks around her new home—a restored manse shrouded in construction plastic—disturbed by unearthly laughter. Second,...
Last spring, a graduate student in social anthropology—let’s call him Chris—sat down at his laptop and asked ChatGPT for help with a writing assignment. He pasted a few thousand words, a mix of rough summaries and jotted-down bullet...
Early last year, on a slushy predawn morning, I drove to the Montana state capitol building, in Helena, to see the legislature in action. The body is made up of a hundred and fifty “citizen legislators” who meet...
At the end of “Anna Karenina,” Konstantin Levin, the less famous of the novel’s two main protagonists, muses on his isolation amid a loving family. Unlike Anna, he has a happy marriage. His wife, Kitty, and son, Mitya,...
If every city has a culinary punch line, it’s easy to identify Los Angeles’s: Erewhon, the cultish chain of grocery stores, where a half gallon of “hyper oxygenated” water will run you an unconscionable $25.99. It started, in...
For the cover of the October 7, 2024, issue, in which the editors endorse Kamala Harris for President, the artist Malika Favre portrays the Democratic candidate. “As soon as Harris—an empowered woman, but also the first both Black...
When the British comedian Rosie Holt heard that Rishi Sunak, then the Prime Minister and head of the Conservative Party, would be holding a snap election in July, earlier than many expected, her first thought was: “So annoying!”...
While Gustavo Dudamel is busy jump-starting the Carnegie Hall season with a glamorous gala—complete with another Gustavo, the baritone Castillo—the Park Avenue Armory has a slightly less ostentatious night planned. The tenor Karim Sulayman, a Lebanese American son...
In 1952, a book appeared that redefined children’s literature. “A lap is so you don’t get crumbs on the floor,” it proclaimed. “A mustache is to wear on Halloween. A hat is to wear on a train.” The...
