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Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb and the Art of the Edit
Making movies about writers is notoriously difficult, though the temptation is clear. After all, filmmakers, like authors, are storytellers, and…
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How to Destroy a Brand, Musk Style
True story: When I won the Nobel Prize in 2008, Princeton quickly set up a special event on campus and…
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‘The Daily’ checks in with a Russian man who fled the draft.
Kirill, 24, worked at a nonprofit for homeless people in the Moscow region. He does not support the policies of…
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Have I Been Good or Bad This Year? Here’s Some New Math.
Here we are at the end of another year, and as humans are wont to do around this time, I’ve…
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After Half a Century, Fauci Prepares for Life After Government
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, whose last day as a federal employee is Saturday, plans to write a memoir…
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Clutter Is Good for You
Several years before she died, my mother began sending me things — ostensibly significant objects. These included expected items like…
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The Sad Tales of George Santos
What would it be like to be so ashamed of your life that you felt compelled to invent a new…
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The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
Two weeks ago, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey passionately advocated in a blog post the view that neither Twitter nor…
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This 2022 ‘Best of’ List Includes Swaddling a Chicken
For my last newsletter of 2022, I want to highlight parenting media that I loved this year. I tend toward…