Art and Culture

On the Road was not Jack Kerouac’s first novel, but you’d be forgiven for thinking as much. Though 1957’s On the Road is widely considered to be Kerouac’s “debut,” the author’s first novel, The Town and the City, was in fact published in…
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Tech evangelists like to say that AI will eat the world—a reference to a famous line about software from the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. In the past few weeks, we’ve finally gotten a sense of what they mean.This spring, tech…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I was teaching, and it included a number of excellent illustrations,…
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The ramifications of this contracted environment have varied. Teams are making do with less by reducing the number of episodes they produce or by employing a smaller team. Companies laid staff off over the past 18 months (or shut down…
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Your browser does not support the audio element.Oregon Ballet Theatre saw 92,000 people attend its performances this year. The Portland dance company has never had that many people go to its shows.Shane Jewell is the executive director…
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Librarian Sabrina Jesram arranges a display of books during Banned Books Week at a public library branch in New…
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I was 22 the first time I went to the McKittrick Hotel. I was 22 the second time I went, and the third, too; by the time my 24th birthday rolled around, I had spent almost every spare weekend there. The McKittrick Hotel…
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Inside the gold-dragon-adorned walls of Chef Chu’s restaurant in the heart of Silicon Valley, a group of prominent Asian venture capitalists and tech executives gathered over Peking duck and garlic noodles.They came at the behest of…
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Fran Drescher may have been “The Nanny” in another life. But as the president of SAG-AFTRA, she turned the tables on Hollywood’s power crowd.Drescher last year emerged as an unlikely labor leader and champion of the little guy. Best…
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Legendary actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke has made history, winning the 2024 Daytime Emmy award for guest performer in a daytime drama series — via his spot on Peacock’s “Days of Our Lives.” At 98, that makes Van Dyke the oldest actor…
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