CORAL GABLES, FL - JANUARY 03: Miami guard Bensley Joseph (4) and Clemson guard Chase Hunter (1) battle for position as Miami in-bounds the ball in the first half as the Miami Hurricanes faced the Clemson Tigers on January 3, 2024, at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida. | Photo by Samuel Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
The Tigers are starting to look pretty good
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A man looks back on half a life, beginning with his childhood, his schooling, and his higher education. As a student he is absorbed by theological questions, and for many years he rejects the Christian faith of his youth before eventually returning to the church. In the meantime we hear of his migrations as an […]
Jessamine Chan’s debut novel, The School for Good Mothers, had the kind of release writers dream about. The day the book—a dystopian fiction following a “bad” mother who has come to the attention of Child Protective Services (CPS)—was published in January 2022, the former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager chose it for her Today show […]
In 1977 the Taiwanese director Edward Yang (Yang Dechang) was nearing thirty and working as a computer designer in Seattle. As a young man he’d dreamed of making films, but to please his parents he studied electrical engineering in Taiwan and then became one of the thousands of young, upwardly mobile Taiwanese to study in […]
The effect of this little volume, which looks hardly more than a pamphlet, is wholly out of proportion to its modest dimensions. Robert Richardson died in 2020 at the age of eighty-six, and Three Roads Back is a fitting coda to his greatest achievement: the trio of biographies of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, […]
O gush of bushfire, O quintuple denim sea, sun pressing like a button on us all,O moon mirabilis, unmirrorable mirrorball, O, you, most bottomless of wholes,O arch as high as Maslow’s hierarchy, O I-wide eye, surround-soundness ofoh what’s happened this time, yet O timeless bigtime, day that lasts forever and a day,O, you, beforehand of […]
Is there anything as terrifyingly majestic as an erupting volcano? The ground shakes, fountains of incandescent lava spurt skyward, and roiling clouds, alive with lightning, grow with alarming speed. Volcanoes are so much larger than anything human, and they care nothing for us, as revealed by the body casts of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in which […]
The basil plant scenting the window ledge. You could watch itsuccumb for months. To a raffle of aphids. To heat.You could take cuttings to garnish your bruschetta with sweetcontingency. You could love how to it it must seemrisible mooning after trumpet when all there is istriangle. Ding. Flattened and blemished it laments nothing.Spirited piecemeal from […]
Some events refuse to wither and die in our collective memories. The French Revolution is one of them. It prompted admiration and loathing—many observers felt both at once—because it linked the dazzling new dreams of democracy, human rights, and universal education with the equally novel nightmares of the Terror and the inexorable guillotine. No wonder, […]
Zadie Smith’s first play is a brash, triumphant celebration of one woman’s voice and freedom, but it exists because its author found herself backed into writing it. “My beloved Brent,” her London borough, was campaigning to be chosen as London’s 2020 Borough of Culture, and Smith casually agreed to let her name be used. A […]
As a boy growing up in the postwar American ur-suburb of Levittown, Long Island, the cartoonist Bill Griffith learned to read through Ernie Bushmiller’s sublimely absurd and gloriously minimal Nancy comic strip, which ran in the daily newspaper alongside strips like Blondie, Dick Tracy, and Terry and the Pirates, tickling readers across the country seven […]
In his Decretum, a tenth-century manual on canon law, Bishop Burchard of Worms directed priests to ask female parishioners if they had inserted live fish into their vaginas and kept them there “for a while” until they were dead, then cooked and fed them to their husbands to stimulate passion. He prescribed two years of […]
Judges reveal themselves in footnotes. They use citations as signals and shout-outs, displaying their predilections and alliances. When Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer served on the Supreme Court, they would occasionally invoke judicial decisions in other countries, not because those rulings were binding in the United States but because they wanted to demonstrate their internationalist […]
In opera, the bleakest imaginable tragedies and disasters—murder, suicide, war, the apocalypse—are practically everyday occurrences. And yet, of all the varieties of human suffering on which this art form quasi-vampirically sustains itself, tales of the death of a child feature only infrequently in opera’s first three centuries, from roughly 1600 through 1900. It might be […]
A horse and cart went past.I see. I believe in them. They grow dark. The horse and cart went past.But the horse had a horse.The cart had a cart. They led their own selveslarge from shadowsalong the acacias. And now it’s hard for me to believein the horse and cart.
In 1978, at the age of seventy, Barbara Comyns jotted down a new idea for a novel: I’ve an idea for a book—“Waiting.” Elderly people retiring to a new little house on a garden estate waiting to die but things keep happening. They feel even more intensely than when they were young. Some good things […]
According to the best estimates, 99.9 percent of all the species that ever existed on earth have gone extinct. A similar fate awaits the extant ones. A lot has to go right for a new species to establish itself, yet even then most of its members do not partake in the species’s success, for they […]
In the opening scene of Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Rooney’s main character, Alice, is having a drink at a hotel bar with a man named Felix, whom she has met online. Afterward, when they return to Alice’s house, Alice reveals that she is a novelist. “What kind of people do you write […]
A woman recently went viral for explaining a theory behind why people doom scroll for hours or binge junk food. She's calling it the Dorito Theory, and it captures why we engage with products that leave their users unsatisfied.
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U.S. elected officials must protect public health and the foundations of our democracy by limiting the intrusion of guns into politics