Not all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This …
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Sunday Reads for November 28, 2021
Air pollution kills more than 10x as many as the flu every year & yet we hear even less about it. The LRB piece offers a staggering account of the effects of smog. The story of freediver Alenka Artnik is as immersive as water itself — and uses multimedia gorgeously. Is Keanu Reeves really *that guy*? A new cover story says yes. (RZA is another sage.) The interview with Lars Doucet, a game developer living with Tourette’s and Narcolepsy, makes a stranger's life intensely interesting.
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The Depths She’ll Reach Sunken by grief, Alenka Artnik found herself alone on a bridge, contemplating suicide. Ten years later, she is the world’s …
Guy’s always working—sixty-eight movies in thirty-five years. Playing killing machines, doofuses, romantics, messiahs, and devils. But always Keanu. Which always means something more. Sweater by Dries Van Noten. PARIS, the Day Before Halloween He sits in the black leather booth of a Paris brasserie, a …
When the Wu-Tang Clan burst onto the scene in the early 1990s, they were like nothing the world had ever seen. A crew of 9 of the deadliest MCs in …
Neuroscientist Nina Kraus draws a direct connection between the sonic environments we live in and who we are in her new book, “Of Sound Mind.”
Uri Bram: Welcome! I’m delighted to be here today with Lars Doucet, a writer and thinker and technologist and generally excellent person. Lars Doucet: …
The author of ‘Pictures for Sad Children’ went AWOL after a 2014 Kickstarter drama. In an exclusive interview, she explains why she had to unplug …
The health-care brand Hims wants to leverage young men’s anxiety over erections and hair loss into a multibillion-dollar empire. This article was …
Costume designer Janty Yates was fortunate to have unprecedented access to the Gucci archives when she was planning the looks for “House of Gucci,” …
Academy members, film critics, and guild members are often incredibly busy over the Thanksgiving holiday, catching up on a flood of screeners, RSVPing to special screenings, and rushing to catch all the award hopefuls that are suddenly knocking on their doors. For the average moviegoer, it can …
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