The Sanitized Words of Complicated Women
Essayist Dianca London Potts wonders whether our culture’s tendency toward turning the words of writers and theorists we admire into soundbites and affirmations easily consumed on Twitter, coffee mugs, and tote bags helps us avoid truly reading and absorbing their work.
A Voyage Along Trump’s Wall
With a group that includes Teddy Roosevelt’s great-grandson and Senator Tom Udall, New Yorker writer Nick Paumgarten floats the most rugged section of the Rio Grande to see the canyon lands and wilderness experience that Trump’s border wall would destroy.
‘I Expected to Have a Day Job for the Rest of My Life’
How Philip Glass went from driving taxis to becoming one of the most celebrated composers of our time.
How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice
Jenna Wortham profiles actress/singer/songwriter Janelle Monáe on the eve of the debut of her newest album, “Dirty Computer.” With many sounds vetted by the late Prince, and an accompanying film, the album will the be artist’s first release without the use of her alter ego, the android Cindi Mayweather, and will touch on themes of non-binary gender identity and female sexuality.
Oregon Grew More Cannabis Than Customers Can Smoke. Now Shops and Farmers Are Left With Mountains of Unwanted Bud
It’s, like, market forces, man.
To Hug, Or Not to Hug
In this personal essay, Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.
Inside the Black Market Hummingbird Love Charm Trade
“Catch a hummingbird. Kill it. Wrap it in underwear, cover it with honey—and sell it to arouse passion in a lover.” On the booming black market for dead hummingbirds to be made into Latin love charms called chuparosas.
It’s OK to Say if You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler
“When you say to people in the street ‘time travel,’ what do they say? They say ‘kill Baby Hitler.'”
Databodies in Codespace
As the bioengineering of people and cities converges, where do we locate the public sphere?
The $100 Laptop That Was Going to Change the World—Then It All Went Wrong
One Laptop Per Child was the vision of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, who unveiled the small, green, affordable hand-cranked laptop in 2005. The marketing touted a laptop that would cost $100—except Negroponte quickly learned that creating that was impossible
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