The ‘Scrubs’ star and writer/director behind ‘Garden State’ has returned with ‘A Good Person’, an emotive drama inspired by the tragedies that have shadowed his last four years – and starring his ex-girlfriend. He speaks to Adam White
Talking Creativity, Time Management, and Going off the (LEGO) Grid With Brooklyn-Based Designers Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy Interview: Maxwell Neely-Cohen…
We worked seasonal jobs to make enough money to spend the rest of our time traveling and feared a white-picket-fence life. But now they've all put down roots, and I still have the same lifestyle.
The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.
The man any true basketball devotee wants to play with or against
The weird and wonderful world of East Germany’s Working Circle of Writing Chekists
Scott was a top undercover agent for the FBI, putting himself in harm’s way dozens of times. Now, he’s telling his story for the first time to sound the alarm about the threat of far-right ex…
The artistic process, as revealed by demos, alternative takes, and abandoned cuts of a heavy-metal classic
Growing up as a Mexican American kid in an anti-immigrant environment, Eric Arce began a yearslong struggle with anxiety and depression. In this essay, he explains how biking has helped him.
His career has taken him from Shakespeare to Star Trek – and soon he will be swimming with sharks on TV. He discusses longevity, tragedy, friendship and success
There’s a long, and problematic, history behind Stowaway.
After saying a racial slur and being exiled from radio, Morgan Wallen has become only more popular. What’s going on?
If Slack, which improves a fundamentally flawed approach to collaboration, is worth tens of billions of dollars, imagine the value in fixing the underlying problems.
Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Outbreak” issue…
"Ted Lasso" and "Emily in Paris" are works of escapism that grapple with the inescapable.
What we talk about when we talk about addressing the savage roots of policing: justice and safety for everyone.
As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead?
"I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot."
When doing the right thing is too hard, we give up and let fate run wild
How the mechanisms of reality TV taught us to trust no one
I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions…
We’re eating at street-corner stalls, food trucks, and the grocery. Restaurants might not be here when we get back.
It is tempting to view Roger Angell, who is now ninety-nine, as a keeper of this publication’s institutional memory. But he’s more likely to say, “I learned something truly amazing today!”
A spacefaring species could easily settle the entire Milky Way given billions of years. Yet the fact is that there is no obvious one…
How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
It’s a cool night in downtown San Diego on the weekend before Halloween, and I’m standing outside the Hall of Justice in an astronaut costume,...
“Mild as May” That was the original advertising slogan for Marlboro cigarettes when they first hit the market in the 1920s. Decades before the rugged...
