What Queen Anne Boleyn Can Teach Us About Duchess Meghan Markle
There are distinct similarities between the ways we perceive the historical figure of Anne Boleyn and the contemporary figure of Meghan Markle, and that’s a shame.
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Anthony Bourdain’s Last Word on Travel
In World Travel, readers are once again welcomed to Anthony Bourdain’s world, although that world is trapped in time.
Chilean Author Nona Fernández’s Historical Fiction ‘The Twilight Zone’ Dismantles Good and Evil Dichotomies
In search of answers from Chile’s painful past, Nona Fernández imagines and reconstructs the events surrounding the testimony of a real-life torturer in her book, The Twilight Zone.
Why We Didn’t Need a ‘Friends’ Reunion
The Friends Reunion has awakened the beast of ’90s nostalgia…but what else has it unearthed?
Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg Show Us How to Be a Woman in the ’70s
Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg jolted audiences who weren’t used to unsatisfied and belittled housewives starring in a film, or to the concept of such people existing.
Dawoud Bey’s American Project
Photographer Dawoud Bey’s exhibit at the Whitney (now until 3 October) represents Blackness as an integral part of the American experience.
‘Doom’ Illustrates Niall Ferguson’s Historical Flaws
While historian Niall Ferguson’s broad survey of human catastrophe, Doom, has erudition, insight, and sweep, it is frequently derailed by contrarian carping.
Capitalism Chemistry or ‘Drug Use for Grown-ups’
Our capitalist language of minute gradations and improvised adjustments—of the plasticity of bodies and minds—places drugs in the service of economies of labor, production, and value.
Photo Essay: Postcards from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Postcards from the milieu of the pandemic shutdown. A photo essay.
‘Chrono Trigger’ and Coping with Pandemic Trauma through Video Games
Coping with the COVID-19 shutdown via a video game, where I have control over the apocalyptic outcome, was what I needed. Chrono Trigger delivered.
Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla’s One Degree of Separation
Influential poet/occultist Aleister Crowley and inventor Nikola Tesla traveled in similar circles but never met. What might have happened if they had?