interesting things
When “The Great Gatsby†was published, on April 10, 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, living high in France after his early success, cabled Max Perkins, his editor at Scribners, and demanded to know if the news was good. Mostly, it was not. The book received some reviews that were . . . (Subscription required.)
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In the summer of 2011, when David Graeber heard rumors of a mobilization against Wall Street, he was hopeful but wary. Graeber is an anthropologist by trade, and a radical by inclination, which means that he spends a lot of time at political demonstrations, scrutinizing other demonstrators. When he wandered . . .
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For four hundred years, rumors have persisted that when all other options were exhausted, the settlers cannibalized the dead. This week, anthropologists revealed the first physical evidence.
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From the ramparts of Belvedere Castle, in Central Park, Noah Emmerich looked down on the Delacorte Theatre with a half smile. It was a spring day, and Emmerich, in jeans and an indigo T-shirt, was recalling another spring day at the Delacorte, thirty-one years ago. In 1982, Emmerich . . .
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paragraph class=”noindent”>HE COULD NOT deal with people talking about him. It’s taken me some time since he died to get used to talking about him because I was under such strict instructions not to. But he fucked up something really major. He made a really dumb . . .
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The HBO series “Girls†has been a trending topic all year, but in one sense it’s nothing new. Created, written, and directed by the twenty-six-year-old Lena Dunham, who plays the wannabe memoirist Hannah Horvath, “Girls†is merely the latest in a . . .
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Steven Soderbergh, who has made twenty-six feature films in twenty-four years, has just turned fifty, and he says that, after his new film, “Side Effects,†he wants to leave movies behind in order, mostly, to paint. (He has completed another film, “Behind the Candelabra,” . . . (Subscription required.)
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After the Israel Defense Forces used social media two months ago to hint that they were about to take military action in Gaza—“We recommend that no Hamas operatives . . . show their faces above ground in the days ahead,†a spokesperson tweeted on November 14th—observers were . . . (Subscription required.)
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8220;Wow. You’re here. It’s really great to see You. So. Do You prefer to be called God or . . .â€
“I’m partial to Yahweh, actually.â€
“Yahweh it is, then. Can I get You something? Coffee? Water? We got Pellegrino, if You . . . (Subscription required.)
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The embodied collective memory of Newsweek, a magazine once printed on paper, for almost eighty years as inevitable as Monday—and then as tangible and indispensable as last month’s tweets—assembled one recent evening on the third floor of the old Herald Tribune Building, on West . . . (Subscription required.)
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