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From the 1950s through the 1980s, mammoths of magazine design and art direction walked the earth. Arguably the grandest of them all was twen, art directed from 1959–1971 by Willy Fleckhaus. His orchestration of content—word, type, picture, layout—was nothing less than symphonic. He was the maestro.
In postwar West Germany, twen‘s luminescence...
The back matter of a book, matters. Did you see what I did there?
Every part of a book’s design has a purpose, and the back of the book has a specific one. It is a beautifully formatted catch-all for the extras you want people to know...
Tucker Carlson is too smart to sound like Tom Friedman, sweeping aside facts with the alacrity of the machines that sweep the floors of the Moscow Metro, because no substance—neither the most potent soap nor the most pungent solvent—can blot out the image of Lenin and the legacy of Stalin. For Carlson to say otherwise is no oversight, because it takes...
I can’t remember the last time I cried in a movie. It used to be a regular thing. You invest in the characters, then some tragedy happens and—you can’t help it—suddenly you’re in fits, tears streaming down your face. Sometimes it happens in public, in the cinema, or at home with your family, and you do your best to suppress the emotion. But you can’t....
A study purportedly of scars left by caesarean sections included women yet to undergo the surgery, say sleuths. But an investigation into the research by the author’s employer and the journal that published it found no evidence of research misconduct.
The paper, published in Wiley journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, was flagged...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.Before Pauline Kael was Pauline Kael, she was still very much Pauline Kael. When her first essay for The Atlantic ran in November 1964, she had not yet lost it at the movies. She had not yet...
“A Man in Full,” the sprawling Tom Wolfe novel now adapted by screenwriter David E. Kelley into a limited series for Netflix, centers on a protagonist who, for all his resources, can’t bend the world to his will. Over six episodes, the show finds itself in a similar bind. “A Man in Full” boasts an […]
Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will return to Broadway starring in new comedy The Roommate by Jen Silverman this August, producer Chris Harper announced today. Directed by Jack O’Brien, The Roommate will begin performances on Thursday, August 29, with an official opening night of Thursday, September 12, at Broadway’s Booth Theatre. “The Roommate is funny,...
At some point in the last 24 hours, Siri on the HomePod and the HomePod mini seems to have forgotten how to relay the time. When asking Siri "what time is it?" Siri is unable to answer and directs users to the iPhone.
"I found some web results, I can show them if you ask again from your iPhone," is Siri's full response to the time question....
Chroma Medicine laid off an undisclosed number of employees earlier this week, as the privately held startup focuses its resources on moving its first epigenetic editors into human testing.
The Boston-based biotech is developing drugs that change gene expression, by adding or removing methyl groups, rather than changes to DNA like typical gene-editing...
In 1939, Ernest Hemingway left a large collection of his belongings—the manuscript of his earliest short story, childhood trinkets, memorabilia from his time at war, intimate letters, books, and more—in a storeroom behind Sloppy Joe’s, a bar he frequented in Key West that was owned by some friends of his. When Penn State University’s Toby and Betty...
Mercredi 1er mai dans un communiqué, le parquet de Bourges s’est indigné des attaques une ancienne magistrate du tribunal judiciaire de Châteauroux qui lui reprochaient la remise en liberté du suspect de l’homicide de l’adolescent.
CRITIQUE - Réédition des Carnets et Mémoires de celui qui fut en son temps une gloire mondiale.
...featuring two victims well-known to readers of the blog, Kathleen Stock and Rebecca Tuvel (whose views on trans issues are quite different, as it happens, but both have felt the wrath of the Wokerati). Now the Department of Philosophy at...
Former Judge J. Michael Luttig has been right on just about everything he predicted coming from the Supreme Court so far, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said. So, she wanted to know his predictions for the decision over Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity.
Trump's 2020 election case went before the Supreme Court last week after he appealed...
Jass sass gets a pass A US National Labor Relations Board judge has decided that public remarks made by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor laws.…
Tech-interested people and early adopters have been extremely hyped for portable/wearable AI assistants since the Humane AI pin was announced in 2023. Sadly, blue sky techie visions of an easier, glossier, "in the flow" lifestyle powered by an ever-ready AI brain have been blown apart by the release of the first two products in the space. They are just...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.I had been avoiding my friend Jens Söring for months. Whenever his emails arrived, I’d open a reply window and stare with dread at the blinking cursor. I no longer knew what to say to him, this man who had spent 33 years in prison for a double homicide he swore...
