Twitter helps the powerful discover their worst selves and leaves everyone else vulnerable. Facebook brings people together only to subject them to marketing and...
Huawei, the Chinese technology giant, on Friday unveiled its own mobile operating system, Harmony, in an effort to ensure that its fast-growing smartphone business...
A 75-minute crunch version of Wagner’s epic opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was recently performed at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, as this year’s...
When customers message Nicolas Travis, the founder of the skin-care brand Allies of Skin, with questions about their sensitive skin, he asks them what...
Writers have their pet themes, favourite words, stubborn obsessions. But their signature, the essence of their style, is felt someplace deeper—at the level of...
The costs will be spread out over years and will depress the overall profitability of the Max programme.
The financial fallout from the troubled 737...
Steiner Studios opened along the Brooklyn waterfront in 2004 as the largest film studio outside Hollywood. Television and movie productions had fled New York...
It’s been apparent since his first book, Esther Stories (2001), that Peter Orner was a major talent.
He’s a writer’s writer. He’s been compared, with...
Thom Yorke’e much-awaited solo album, Anima, teeters on a psychological divide between intellectually informed glumness and the physical pleasures of rhythm, writes Jon Pareles....
Scroll through Lisa A. Olivera’s Instagram grid and you’ll find a distinctly 2019 tableau: a desert palette of blush, mauve and slate backgrounds with...
Facebook unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to create an alternative financial system that relies on a cryptocurrency that the company has been secretly working...
For many LGBTQ people, June signals rainbows and glitter, but also reflection. With the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and the WorldPride festival...
Year after year, Apple and Google announce big upgrades for their smartphone operating systems. That means the software that makes your phone tick is...
Artist David Hockney is the subject of a restored ‘pseudo-documentary’ from 1973 and a reissued French novel from last year. Can such semi-fictional accounts...
For years, scientists have been refining techniques to determine the age of a painting using radiocarbon dating and the lingering effects of mid-20th-century nuclear...
There’s protest behind the prettiness of Omoiyari, the fourth studio album by songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi, who records as Kishi Bashi. He is the American...
The shoehorned-in progressive messages in recent Disney films, like Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, only call more attention to the inherent crassness of Disney’s current exercise...
737 Max remains grounded as Boeing works on a software fix for control system.
Boeing is facing compensation claims from the three biggest airlines in...
Party City, one of the country’s leading suppliers of colorful balloons, disposable tablecloths and small signs declaring “Oh, Kale Yeah!,” announced recently that it...
Kids these days.
For more than two millenniums, older adults have claimed that their younger counterparts are uniquely self-absorbed. Young people today, it seems, agree.
That’s...
The 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, now open to the public, epitomises how conflicted today’s art world feels about financial concerns, with organisers...
In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded anti-terrorism law. The Twitter accounts of German citizens were blocked because...
Researchers have discovered Stone Age rock carvings—which could be between 10,000 to 40,000 years old—on a stony hilltop south of Mumbai. Some of the...
