Bergman: Speaking of freakiness: you describe, in stomach-churning detail, the process of growing meat in a lab from the needle biopsy of a living animal to the semisolid cells that are ultimately ...

On September 8, 2026, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board will host a book talk in the Ceremonial Hall of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The event will feature ...

Minimum number of U.S. court cases in which filed documents were found by a judge to contain AI-hallucinated content ...

[Easy Chair] Lo-fi Beats for Work or Study I’ve written in many places, some wonderful, others makeshift or uncomfortable. I’ve written on trains and in hotel rooms, at ergonomically perfect desks and ...

Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, by Keith Phipps. Henry Holt. 288 pages. $27.99. Last fall, hoping to draw weary crowds back to the multiplex, AMC Theatres enlisted ...

Let’s start with a wicked little paragraph. Guy Debord chose to kill himself the old-fashioned way; Jean-Luc Godard—“the dumbest Swiss Maoist of them all,” in the words of the amusing ...

My wife, Heidi, and I put up a string of Christmas lights early in the pandemic. They were LEDs that slowly flashed different colors, hung along a copper wire that stretched above our windows. As 2020 ...

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year, by Paul Alexander. Knopf. 368 pages. $32. Early on in Billie Holiday’s 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues, she recalls the ...

EXT. 8TH STREET—LATE AFTERNOON (C. 1959). CAMERA IN NONSTOP MOTION is on the shoulder of a young man, late teens, intently walking west on a busy Greenwich Village thoroughfare. Under one arm, he’s ...

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies, by Paul Fischer. Simon and Schuster. 416 pages. $28.99. On the morning of October 14, 1888, Louis Le Prince set ...

Two summers ago, I found myself on a whale-watching journey in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where I was teaching at the Fine Arts Work Center. We swayed from one side of the ship to the other to ...