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Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?

Stephen Witt·Oct 27, 2025·22 min read
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Why Immanuel Kant Still Has More to Teach Us

A new introduction to the great philosopher’s work foregrounds its revolutionary nature and far-reaching impact.

Adam Kirsch·Oct 27, 2025·18 min read
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Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

Larissa MacFarquhar·Oct 27, 2025·46 min read
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Trump and the Presidency That Wouldn’t Shut Up

His posts and rants are omnipresent, ugly, and unhinged. Don’t look to history to make it make sense.

Jill Lepore·Oct 27, 2025·17 min read
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“Mother of Men,” by Lauren Groff

I saw someone coming toward me through the twilight on the road ahead, a skinny man in a glowing white shirt, and dread rushed into me.

Lauren Groff·Nov 2, 2025·17 min read
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Who My Child Was and Would Be

When Nat transitioned, I learned that when someone you love changes, you change, too.

James Marcus·Nov 3, 2025·26 min read
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Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir

The actor recalls his life, from provincial Wales to Hollywood, in stop-start rhythms with curt, unflinching reckonings.

Anthony Lane·Nov 3, 2025·13 min read
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The Surprising Endurance of Martha Stewart’s “Entertaining”

Home-cooking culture has leaned into the loose and unfussy. Stewart’s 1982 classic, newly reissued, makes the case for hosting as an endurance sport.

Hannah Goldfield·Nov 3, 2025·8 min read
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A Bulgarian Novelist Explores What Dies When Your Father Does

Writing about a son’s vigil at his dying father’s bedside, Georgi Gospodinov examines what parents and their children reap and sow.

James Wood·Nov 3, 2025·9 min read
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The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.

James Somers·Nov 3, 2025·24 min read
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The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of uncompromising activists and MAGA loyalists is demanding that all lab animals be set free.

Ava Kofman·Nov 3, 2025·45 min read
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Joachim Trier Has Put Oslo on the Cinematic Map

His new film, “Sentimental Value,” is another intimate character study set in the Norwegian capital. His approach to directing is as empathic as his films.

Margaret Talbot·Nov 3, 2025·38 min read
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“The New Coast,” by Paul Yoon

I think it was at this moment, on the beach, that everything seemed the most possible. That our sister was alive and in that building somewhere.

Paul Yoon·Nov 9, 2025·29 min read
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Rian Johnson Is an Agatha Christie for the Netflix Age

The director revived the cozy mystery with “Knives Out.” In a new sequel, can he find his way to the end of the maze?

Anna Russell·Nov 10, 2025·18 min read
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Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real

How the artist’s transformative energy made us see the world around us.

Hilton Als·Nov 10, 2025·15 min read
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Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback

The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?

Antonia Hitchens·Nov 10, 2025·44 min read
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What Was the American Revolution For?

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.

Jill Lepore·Nov 10, 2025·20 min read
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David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation

At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.

Amanda Petrusich·Nov 10, 2025·35 min read
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The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go

In mid-century America, no one quite knew what TV would be. Sid Caesar made the medium into something new and remarkable—until the medium unmade him.

David Denby·Nov 10, 2025·15 min read
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Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop

Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.

Katy Waldman·Nov 10, 2025·9 min read
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“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death

In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn persistence of compassion.

Justin Chang·Nov 14, 2025·7 min read
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The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star

As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.

Alice Gregory·Nov 16, 2025·30 min read
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“Lara’s Theme,” by Madhuri Vijay

Buried within every family, perhaps, is the secret desire to self-destruct, to push intimacy to its ugliest extremes.

Madhuri Vijay·Nov 16, 2025·35 min read
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If the Legal Campaigns Against Donald Trump Had Ended Differently

New books look at the January 6th Trial That Wasn’t and other failed prosecutions—and whether they might have changed history.

Amy Davidson Sorkin·Nov 17, 2025·17 min read
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Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality

A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.

Julian Lucas·Nov 17, 2025·8 min read
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Kash Patel’s Acts of Service

The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.

Marc Fisher·Nov 17, 2025·40 min read
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Stephen Fry Is Wilde at Heart

The polymathic entertainer has had a lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers. And now he’s starring in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

Rebecca Mead·Nov 17, 2025·30 min read
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Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy

It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.

Rivka Galchen·Nov 17, 2025·23 min read
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“Hamnet” Feels Elemental, but Is It Just Highly Effective Grief Porn?

In Chloé Zhao’s film, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, the death of a child gives rise to the creation of a literary masterpiece.

Justin Chang·Nov 21, 2025·7 min read
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“The Golden Boy,” by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Bayazid had never quite given up the fantasy he nurtured in boyhood, of discovering himself a child of some minister or prince.

Daniyal Mueenuddin·Nov 23, 2025·47 min read