Do You Need a Writer's Room?
We think we need space to be creative"but that might have it exactly backward.
We think we need space to be creative"but that might have it exactly backward.
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?
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…
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…
The Oedipus complex is a misnomer. It should be called the Hamlet complex.
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…