We think we need space to be creative"but that might have it exactly backward.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]We're used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination?
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Shakespeare's influence is so vast that it's hard to choose a selection of New Yorker pieces about him"he comes up everywhere! Still, in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of his dea…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:37PM[SHARE]Mike Nichols, the director of "The Graduate" (1967) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), died last night, at the age of eighty-three. Nichols first came to prominence in the ninetee…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:16PM[SHARE]The Oedipus complex is a misnomer. It should be called the Hamlet complex.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:59PM[SHARE]Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings of sunflowers, made in the late 1880s, are widely known for their vibrant yellow color — Van Gogh used a new kind of paint, “chrome yellow,R…
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