查看原文：虽无童话般的结局，但梅西为阿根廷留下了划时代的遗产 - Reuters - 国外新闻头条 - 全球新闻头条 - 美国新闻头条

I worship at the altar of trash, by which I mean that I am one of those cinephiles with a fondness for bad movies. Perhaps I am underselling the corpus I have in mind by calling it merely “bad,” and understating my sect’s feeling by calling it merely “fondness.”…

A priest, a rabbi, and a poet walk into a barand we’re laughing already, calculating their clashing philosophies—New Testament, the Torah, W. B. Yeats—allthe earnest sacraments undertaken in the name of world harmony:loaves & fishes, bitter herbs, the spread…

At seventy-five, she may be New Zealand’s greatest living artist.

Mano’s place was a third-story walkup on a quiet stretch of Montrose Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Marcy projects. It was stuffy, barely furnished, and perpetually muggy on account of its lack of air-conditioning, a discomfort outdone only by the…

A sense of impending doom—that was how Weary had described the feeling many people got, like a heaviness in the chest.

The author Helen Simpson reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

Since the release of the Blue Album, in 1994, Weezer—the alt-rock juggernaut led by the singer and guitarist Rivers Cuomo—has been influential enough that it’s now almost impossible not to hear echoes of Cuomo’s yearning, melodic voice on contemporary pop…

When Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and C.E.O. of Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has tried to defend his business to the public, it’s generally gone poorly. (“I think I’m actually well known to be sort of bad at this,” the billionaire confessed…

It is raining, raining, raining.The sky is falling, falling, falling.I never, never, never.Saw this would happen, happen, happen.As in any flooding, flooding, flooding.The earth is breaking, breaking, breaking.All the sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, kneeling.Inside…

This week’s story, “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub,” opens as two old friends, Tracey and Lois, meet for coffee in London on a hot May day. (“The air was already at blood heat outside,” you write.) They’re discussing Tracey’s new cooker and how much she dislikes…

A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.

Short reviews of recent releases.

Matisse’s “Femme au Chapeau” (1905), or “Woman with a Hat,” is a strong contender for my least favorite masterpiece of the twentieth century. When it was first exhibited, in Paris, waves of journalists ridiculed it, viewers laughed and jeered, and at least…

Earlier this summer, a small night club in Passaic, New Jersey, hosted a brief performance by one of the year’s most talked-about musicians. A post on Instagram had promised attendees “an unforgettable night,” although not necessarily a long one: the only…

Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes.

In the new film “Coyote vs. Acme,” starring Will Forte, Wile E. Coyote demands justice from the company that keeps blowing him up. Here to weigh in is the personal-injury attorney Motorcycle Mike.

Marlon James’s novels, though they range from historical fiction to high fantasy, share a distinct spiritual frequency—a mix of bravado and bereavement. They are heroic in their scope, ambition, length, extremity, variety, unclassifiability, and apparent…

The liberal list of Republican offenses is long—so long, indeed, that the outrages blur. That time Ted Cruz shut down the government for two weeks seems like a century ago, and, if anyone was ever angry about the White House promoting Melania Trump’s jewelry…

Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.