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The Poetry
Rational Irrationality
America’s Decline, by the Numbersby John Cassidy
In basic literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills, young Americans have now fallen behind almost all of their peers in other advanced countries…
Currency
What’s a Banksy Really Worth?by Adam Alter
The artist’s subversive stunt is so compelling because it forces us to acknowledge how incoherently humans derive value…
Our Local Correspondents
New York’s
Hidden Shameby Ian Frazier
The city’s homeless population is larger than at any time in decades, and includes one out of every hundred children…
The Sporting Scene
The Cardinals
Get Evenby Roger Angell
The teams are now even, but the Cardinals’ opportunism and kiddie participants make you feel as if they’re ahead…
Page-Turner
The Poetry
of the Internetby Kenneth Goldsmith
While poetry as we’ve known it has become culturally marginal, the Internet is producing more extreme forms of modernism than modernism ever dreamed of…
The Latest
10/26 5:55 PM
Behind Twitter’s Eleven-Billion-Dollar Valuation
Maybe there isn’t a complicated reason that Twitter is keeping its price low. Maybe the price isn’t actually low.
10/26 5:36 PM
The Real Guide to Using Twitter
Twitter brings together millions of people to share news, flirt with celebrities, interact with brands, and lose their jobs and political
10/26 1:21 PM
Weekend Reading: Gay Talese’s Best, Least-Known Story; Life As a Drone Operator
Weekend Reading: Gay Talese’s Best, Least-Known Story; Life As a Drone Operator
10/26 11:49 AM
A Wes Anderson Book
It’s odd to remember that taking Wes Anderson seriously was, until recently, an unduly uphill critical battle.
10/26 8:00 AM
How to Deal with the Coming Robot Apocalypse
In the ultimate showdown between the computers and humans, our creativity will be the solution to our salvation.
10/25 8:00 PM
Bruce Wrighton’s Binghamton
Few people had encountered the work of Bruce Wrighton when he died, twenty-five years ago, at the age of thirty-eight. His
10/25 7:28 PM
The Koch Brothers in California?
How are the Kochs connected to the Center to Protect Patient Rights, which admitted violating California’s campaign-disclosure requirements?
Editors’ Choice
Annals of Surveillance
A History of Secretsby Jill Lepore
Why the case for privacy always comes too late.
A Reporter at Large
The Great Tyrannosaur Heistby Paige Williams
A Florida man’s curious trade in dinosaurs.
