In the Coronavirus Era, the Force Is Still With Jack Dorsey
A look at the fortunes of Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, who is squaring up to activist investors looking to make him change his ways, or make way for a new CEO.
The Hubble Space Telescope and 30 years that transformed our view of the universe
The story of the Hubble Space Telescope over the last 30 years.
In search of Inigo Philbrick, the disappearing art dealer
The story of an alleged elaborate fraud involving complex transactions in the global art market.
Living Through the Blitz
One from the New Yorker’s archive, this brief September 1940 dispatch from London describes life during the blitz and marvels at the “cheerfulness and fortitude with which ordinary individuals are doing their jobs under nerve-racking conditions.”
My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
An intimate portrait of a popular local restaurant shutting down due to covid-19, written by its owner. The piece looks beyond the end of this crisis, to what purpose a restaurant will have in our cities in the future.