MONDAY 8/24
Kavi Yaga with Diana Xin
(LITERATURE) I recently devoured the novel Martyr! by poet, novelist, and editor Kaveh Akbar, so when I found out that he’d chosen Hyderabad, India-based author Kavi Yaga’s debut short story collection The Vanishings for...
During an operation in Lakewood to arrest a Mexican national with a final deportation order last month, ICE agents instead detained 23-year-old Venezuelan citizen Moises Velasquez, an immigrant who had entered the United States legally but was driving the...
The famous marshmallow test presents a child with a deceptively simple choice: eat one treat now, or wait for an adult to return and receive two. The longer a child waits, the familiar story goes, the more self-control that...
It’s been over a decade and two console generations since GTA V came out, and its sequel is still a work in progress. GTA VI has faced multiple delays, with developer Rockstar Games bumping back its predicted release date...
At a certain kind of gathering, there is usually one person who never quite settles. They hold a drink, lean against a counter or windowsill, and angle themselves toward both the room and the door. When a chair opens...
Jane Schoenbrun's latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is making a splash in theaters right now. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit their first film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. I...
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The first serious workplace studies of generative AI did not reveal one universal productivity multiplier. They revealed a slope.
At the lower end of the experience curve, an AI assistant could act like an always-available coach, supplying phrases, procedures and...
A woman on a flight out of Bangkok once told me, somewhere over the Bay of Bengal, that she had not spoken to her sister in eleven years. We had been airborne about forty minutes. I knew her drink...
Discipline is usually presented as a down payment on happiness. Resist now, persist now, choose the harder option now, and a better emotional life is supposed to arrive later.
That sequence feels intuitive partly because disciplined people often do report...
