Art and Culture

“What Is an Author?” predicted a future where old ideas about authorship would give way to new questions about technology and power. “What are the modes of existence of this discourse?” Foucault asked. “Where does it come from, how is…
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Pour out a Scotch and soda — make that a malted milk — for this spry codger of a novel that’s stayed on the dance floor long past when might be expected, leaping over book bans from the right and dodging cancellation from the left. …
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This is your daily news rundown for Wednesday, July 8. In this edition:A famous Stephen King collection is banned in Utah schoolsThe Utah State Board of Education banned its 40th book — “Different…
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Naomi S. Baron, a linguist who studies technology and literacy, worries that AI is making books feel obsolete. Her concern is easy to understand. When a chatbot can reduce a book to ten points, students may decide that reading hundreds…
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Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, a traveling retrospective on view at Los Angeles’s The Broad museum, features black and white footage of Ono’s 1965 Carnegie Hall performance of Cut Piece projected on to one of its walls. It was a landmark…
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A revelatory new biography of the overlooked French Surrealist painter Jacqueline Lamba brings to light her long-rumored affair with Frida Kahlo—all thanks to a cache of newly discovered love…
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Davryn McDuffie didn’t know people could bet on reality TV until a Kalshi ad for “Love Island” trading came across her social media feed.Out of curiosity, the 21-year-old college student from Palos Verdes decided to place her first-ever…
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Loneliness is one of the great challenges not just of our time but of our whole form of self-government. A new report from Columbia World Projects sums up America’s civic “supply problem,” in a litany reminiscent of Robert Putnam’s…
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Donald Trump appeared on CNN for the first time in his second presidential term on Sunday, giving a phoner on Jake Tapper’s show to remember the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. But as Tapper pressed the President on Iran…
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