In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms.
02/06/2026
The “White Lotus” actor plays a piano technician in his new movie, “Tuner.” At a real tuning session, in midtown, he tries to remember how to plink the strings.
01/06/2026
Last summer, in the Swiss Alps, I attended the awards ceremony for the Frontiers Planet Prize, which gives a million dollars to environmental-research projects. One finalist caught my eye: a Polish microbiologist who tracked microbes escaping from…
29/05/2026
In my writing, and in my idle thoughts, I often return to Arjuna’s lament upon surveying the battlefield of Kurukshetra and finding that he must kill his friends and family. What is his duty in that extraordinary moment? What is my duty, then, in…
26/05/2026
“Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?
25/05/2026
Plans for a forgotten art work by the late duo were found in an airshaft. Now, with the help of Christo’s nephew, “Air Package on a Ceiling” is finally on view, at Gagosian.
The astronaut Reid Wiseman talks about going deeper into space than anyone in history, eating maple cookies in microgravity, and deciding how to spend his first day off after returning to Earth.
24/05/2026
Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.
18/05/2026
At the Morgan Library’s Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish about playing classical music’s most notorious rivals, on Starz’s new “Amadeus” reboot.
In town to talk about his new album, “Lottery,” and en route to a collaboration with Sting, the Grammy-winning reggae star stretches and shakes at a reformer workout class.
Some people dream of seeing their name in lights. Others dream of a credit in print. For a few of those people, it’s not about the traditional byline. They just really, really, really want to win The New Yorker’s weekly Cartoon Caption Contest.
16/05/2026
Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.
12/05/2026
