Nuclear and Environmental
W. J. Hennigan, “The US Has Received a Rare Invitation from China. There Is Only One Right Answer.”
Kathleen Kingsbury and W. J. Hennigan, “At the Brink: A Series about the Threat of Nuclear Weapons in an Unstable World.”
Anton Troianovski, “Putin Says West Risks Nuclear Conflict if It Intervenes More in Ukraine.”
David E. Sanger, “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine.”
Catie Edmondson, “Senate Approves Expansion of Fund for Nuclear Waste Exposure Victims.”
Anton Troianovski, “Russia to Hold Drills on Tactical Nuclear Weapons in New Tensions with West.”
Noah Smith, “Americans Are Still Not Worried Enough about the Risk of World War.”
Paul Thompson, “Become Death: On Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.”
Motoko Rich and Kiuko Notoya, “Oppenheimer Opens in Nuclear-Scarred Japan, Eight Months After US Premiere.”
Ariel Kaminer, “Oppenheimer, My Uncle, and the Secrets America Still Doesn’t Like to Tell.”
Jimmy So, “Killerheimer: American Betrayal in Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.”
Anna Kornbluh, “We Didn’t Start the Fire: Death Drive against Ecocide.”
Bill McKibben, “‘D Is for Despair’ Didn’t Sound so Good: A Conversation between Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert.”
Catrin Einhorn, “The Widest-Ever Global Coral Crisis Will Hit within Weeks, Scientists Say.”
STEFAN, “New Study Suggests the Atlantic Overturning Circulation AMOC ‘Is on Tipping Course.'”
Raymond Zhong, “Are We in the ‘Anthropocene,’ the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say.”
Deborah R. Coen, “What’s Next for Histories of Climate Change.”
Gaya Gupta, “Remnants of a Nuclear Missile Are Found in a Garage.”
Somini Sengupta, “The Fingerprints on Chile’s Fires and California Floods: El Niño and Warming.”
National Geographic Pristine Seas, “370 Million Tons – Landmark Study Uncovers New Source of Carbon Emissions.”
Paige McClanahan, “It Just Got Easier to Visit a Vanishing Glacier. Is That a Good Thing?”
And Tom Gillespie, “Chernobyl’s Mutant Wolves Appear to Have Developed Resistance to Cancer, Study Finds.”
Christopher Flavelle, “Warming Is Getting Worse. So They Just Tested a Way to Deflect the Sun.”
Lisa Friedman, “Biden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness from Drilling and Mining.”
Politics and Economics
Charlie Savage and Luke Broadwater, “House Passes Two-Year Surveillance Law Extension without Warrant Requirement.”
Carlos Lozada, “A Look Back at Our Future War With China.”
Andrew O’Hehir, “Never Mind Hitler: “Late Fascism” Is Here, and It Doesn’t Need Hugo Boss Uniforms.”
Jennifer Medina and Reid J. Epstein, “Do Americans Have a ‘Collective Amnesia’ about Donald Trump?”
Paul Krugman, “Trump Dreams of Economic Disaster.”
Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage, “Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim of Absolute Immunity.”
Carlos Lozada, “What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump’s Second Term.”
Reuters, “The Musk Industrial Complex.”
Neal E. Boudette, “VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone.”
Noam Scheiber, “Could the Union Victory at VW Set Off a Wave?”
Deckman, Melissa, Laurel Elder, and Mary-Kate Lizotte, “Deceptively Stable? How the Stability of Aggregate Abortion Attitudes Conceals Partisan Induced Shifts.”
Dell Cameron and William Turton, “Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil.”
Gaza and Campus Protests
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Colbi Edmonds, “US Airman’s Winding Path Ended in Self-Immolation to Protest Israel.”
Erik Baker, “Burnt Offerings: Aaron Bushnell and the Age of Immolation.”
Somdeep Sen, “How Can so Many in the West so Easily Ignore Genocide?”
Susan Abulhawa, “Gaza’s Tents Have Become Ovens.”
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, “Onslaught of Violence against Women and Children in Gaza Unacceptable: UN Experts.”
Ibtisam Mahdi, “The Obliteration of Gaza’s Multicivilizational Treasures.”
Jodie Ginsberg, “The Israeli Censorship Regime Is Growing. That Needs to Stop.”
Victoria Kim, “Which Countries Are the Biggest Suppliers to Israel’s Military?”
Nesrine Malik, “Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Exposing the Holes in Everything Liberal Politicians Claim to Believe.”
Hiba Yazbek, “Palestinians in Rafah Describe ‘Night Full of Horror’ During Israeli Hostage Rescue.”
José Andrés, “Let People Eat.”
Yuval Abraham, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza.”
Jodi Dean, “Palestine Speaks for Everyone.”
Judith Butler, “There Can Be No Critique.”
Andreas Malm, “The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth.”
Sarah Brown, Sonel Cutler, and Alecia Taylor, “How Faculty Discipline Played a Key Role in the Congressional Hearing on Columbia University.”
Adrienne Lu, “Columbia Told Congress It Would Crack Down on Student Protests. Now It Has.”
Kate Hidalgo Bellows, “‘I Have Never Seen Campus Like This'” and “Arrests at Columbia Protests May Signal a Shift in the Campus-Activism Playbook, Experts Say.”
Samuel P. Catlin, “The Campus Does Not Exist: How Campus War Is Made.”
Gabriel Winant, “Why Students Must Shout to Be Heard.”
Nell Gluckman, “At Emory, Protesters Face Gas and Police Force after Setting Up Encampment.”
Kate Hidalgo Bellows, “Some Professors Face Punishments as Colleges Crack Down on Gaza Protests” and “‘These Terms Are Just Absurd’: How One University Disciplined Professors Accused of Assisting an Encampment.”
Sarah D. Phillips, “I’m a Professor. I Never Expected to Be Arrested on Campus.”
New York Times, “Police Clear Building at Columbia and Arrest Dozens of Protesters.”
Michael Powell, “The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone.'”
David Jesse, “Why Encampments Scare College Presidents.”
Anthony D. Romero, David Cole, and the ACLU, “Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests.”
Michael Vasquez, “‘Horrific Acts of Violence’: Demonstrators Spar at UCLA before Police Move In.”
Neil Bedi, Bora Erden, Marco Hernandez, Ishaan Jhaveri, Arijeta Lajka, Natalie Reneau, Helmuth Rosales, and Aric Toler, “How Counterprotesters at UCLA Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours.”
Dylan Saba, “The Student Movement Is Writing a New Chapter of History.”
Thomas J. Sugrue, “College Presidents Behaving Badly.”
Len Gutkin, “Should Columbia Be Worried about Title IV?”
Abdallah Fayyad, “The Lessons from Colleges That Didn’t Call the Police.”
Maroon Staff, “Live Updates: Police Raid Quad Encampment.”
Moh Telbani, “How We Left Gaza.”
COVID-19
Francesca Paris, “We Are in a Big Covid Wave. But Just How Big?”
Benjamin Mueller, “After 217 Covid Vaccines, Man Had No Side Effects and Robust Immunity.”
Apoorva Mandavilli, “Thousands Believe COVID Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?”
Health, Science, and Technology
Arthur C. Brooks, “The Sociopaths among Us–And How to Avoid Them.”
Ben Turner, “James Webb Telescope Confirms There is Something Seriously Wrong with Our Understanding of the Universe.”
Dennis Overbye, “A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong.”
Dennis Overbye, “How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air.”
Jonathan O’Callaghan, “The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last.”
Jan Hoffman, “‘Gas-Station Heroin’ Sold as Dietary Supplement Alarms Health Officials.”
Talya Minsberg, “Can Exercise Help Prevent Prostate Cancer?”
Carl Zimmer, “On the Trail of Denisovans.”
Julian E. Barnes, “Pentagon Review Finds No Evidence of Alien Cover-Up.”
E. J. Dickson, “The Far Right Is Crawling with Eclipse Conspiracy Theories.”
And Ali Watkins, “A Brewery Worker’s Drunken Driving Defense: His Stomach Made the Alcohol.”
History
Alan Yuhas and Jesus Jiménez, “Remnants of Sprawling Ancient Cities Are Found in the Amazon.”
Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy
Anna Kornbluh, an excerpt from Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso, 2024) and “Against Anti-Theory.”
TANK MAGAZINE special issue on Immediacy.
Bruce Robbins, “Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time.”
The American Vandal, “2024 with Anna Kornbluh and J. D. Connor” and “The AK Collection.”
Grace Byron, “Antitheory: On Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy.”
Christina Fogarasi, “Premium Content: On Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy.”
Daniel Zamora, “Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed with Individual Experience? An Interview with Anna Kornbluh.”
theory underground, “Anna Kornbluh on Immediacy Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024).”
New Books in Critical Theory, “An Interview with Anna Kornbluh.”
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, “Life in Pixels ft. Anna Kornbluh.”
Novara FM, “Critical Theorists Hate This One Weird Trick.”
Hotel Bar Sessions, “Episode 130: Immediacy (with Anna Kornbluh).”
Behind the News, “The Culture of Immediacy.”
Theory and Criticism
Arne De Boever, “In Memoriam: David Golumbia (1963–2023).”
Clay Risen, “Antonio Negri, Ninety, Philosopher Who Wrote a Surprise Best Seller, Dies.”
Len Gutkin, “Remembering the Great Helen Vendler.”
McKenzie Wark, “Critical (Auto) Theory.”
Adam Kelly, New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age.
Brendan Chambers, “Dan Sinykin on Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter.”
Gregory Jones-Katz, review of Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology, by Richard Wolin.
Vaughn Rasberry, “Frantz Fanon and the Birth of Decolonization.”
Frederik Tygstrup, “Learning from Madoff: On Fiction and Finance in the Twenty-First Century.”
Michelle Chihara, “Uncanny All the Way Down: A Response to Frederik Tygstrup.”
Alan Liu, “Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?”
Conor McCarthy, “Empire and Liberalism—a Saidian Reading: On Jeanne Morefield’s Unsettling the World.”
Anthony Alessandrini, “Ambivalent Fanonism: On Adam Shatz’s The Rebel’s Clinic.”
Adrian Daub, “Gender and Its Enemies: Five Scholars Discuss Judith Butler’s New Book.”
Sam Adler-Bell, “The New York Intellectuals Were a Boys’ Club.”
Robert T. Tally Jr., “Living in the Teratocene: Bad Places, Dreadful Times.”
Steven Shaviro, review of The Ex-Human, by Michael Bérubé.
Crispin Sartwell, “What Happened to David Graeber?”
Peter E. Gordon, “Everyone Talks about ‘Critical Theory.’ What Is It?”
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, “Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths about the World?”
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, “The Place You Now Live: On Lauren Markham’s A Map of Future Ruins.”
Émile P. Torres, “Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, and the Eternal Return of Eugenics.”
Jeffrey J. Williams, “A Shadow to the Visible Canon: A Conversation with Doran Larson.”
Tobias Wilson-Bates, “Hands of Time: An Interview with Rebecca Struthers.”
Charlotte E. Rosen, “‘The Joke’s Ultimately on Me’: ‘Diabetic of Enlightenment’ on Academic Twitter.”
Existential Comics, no. 177.
Lorenzo Tondo, “Plato’s Final Hours Recounted in Scroll Found in Vesuvius Ash.”
And Fredric Jameson, “The Notes of Fredric Jameson” and Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory.
Hyperarchival
Hanjo Berressem, “Writing in Flux.”
New York Times Book Review, “Book Review’s Best Books since 2000.”
Jim Milliot, “Small Press Distribution Shuts Down.”
Sarah Hotchkiss, “Berkeley’s Small Press Distribution, Champion of Indie Books, Shuts Down.”
Justin Weinberg, “The End of the Future of Humanity Institute (Updated).”
Gregory Bennett, “Heat Death of the Internet.”
Sarah Brouillette, “Compulsive Reading.”
Roxane Gay, “The Age of the Open Letter Should End.”
Annette Vee, “Student Data Is the New Oil.”
Livia Albeck-Ripka and Aimee Ortiz, “Tired of Streaming? Free Blockbuster Libraries Offer an Alternative.”
Timnit Gebru, “The TESCREAL Bundle: Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial General Intelligence.”
Leif Weatherby, “Artificial Intelligence and the Significance Crisis.”
Gary Smith and Jeffrey Funk, “When It Comes to Critical Thinking, AI Flunks the Test.”
Anissa Gardizy and Aaron Holmes, “Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations.”
Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, and Nico Grant, “How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI.”
Kevin Roose, “Meet My AI Friends.”
Chloe Mac Donnell, “‘Reading Is So Sexy’: Gen Z Turns to Physical Books and Libraries.”
Domingo Docampo, “The Dark World of ‘Citation Cartels.'”
Becky Ferreira, “Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia.”
T. M. Brown, “Drowning in Mediocre Data: On Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld.”
Marah Eakin, “What’s the Value of Three Million LPs in a Digital World?”
Laura Raicovich and Laura Hanna, “To Save Museums, Treat Them Like Highways.”
Cade Metz, “OpenAI Unveils AI That Instantly Generates Eye-Popping Videos.”
A. O. Scott, “Literature under the Spell of AI.”
Jason Farago, “AI Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?”
Michael M. Grynbaum and Ryan Mac, “The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Use of Copyrighted Work.”
Adam Yoe, “Slept-On Records from Classic Labels: Jade Tree.”
John Walker, “Bethesda’s Biggest Game Ever Is Free And Remastered.”
Taylor Swaak, “Arizona State and OpenAI Are Now Partners. What Does That Mean?”
Mara Hvistendahl and Lauren Hirsch, “How an Obscure Chinese Real Estate Start-Up Paved the Way to TikTok.”
Scott Campbell, “The Final Ten Movies to Be Released on VHS.”
Frank Rose, “A ‘Holopoem’ for the Cosmos.”
Alan Yuhas, “The Spellbinding Freedom of Baldur’s Gate 3.”
Alicia Parlapiano, “Just How Formulaic Are Hallmark and Lifetime Holiday Movies? We (Over)Analyzed 424 of Them.”
Zeynep Tufekci, “Avert Your Eyes, Avoid Responsibility and Just Blame TikTok.”
Amanda Holpuch, “A Few Jelly Beans and a World of Disappointment at Willy Wonka Event.”
Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac, “Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.”
Victoria Song, “Meta Might Demo a Pair of ‘True’ AR Smart Glasses Later in 2024.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, “The Best Scholarly Books of 2023.”
Ryan Broderick, “TikTok Is for Millennials, It Turns Out.”
And Amanda Silberling, “Bluesky Is Now Open for Anyone to Join.” (I have!)
Though Peter Kafka, “Jack Dorsey Says He Quit Bluesky because It Was Becoming another Twitter.”
Beyoncé and Taylor Swift
Enzo Escober, “Cyborg Manifesto: On Beyoncé’s Renaissance.”
Ben Sisario, “Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Is Here, and It’s Much More Than Country.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Beyoncé Asks, and Answers, a Crucial Question in Her Latest Album.”
Stephanie Burt, “A Poet on Taylor Swift’s Complicated Embrace of Tortured Poets.”
David French, “Taylor Swift and the Profound Weirdness of MAGA.”
Jessica Bennett, “The Joy of Communal Girlhood, the Anguish of Teen Girls.”
Ben Parker, “About That Taylor Swift Class at Harvard . . .”
Charlotte Matherly, “For Some Professors, Taylor Swift Is a Student-Engagement Tactic.”
Madison Malone Kircher, “Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholars Have Thoughts on Tortured Poets.”
Hannah Williams, “Taylor Swift’s Hollow Empowerment Narrative.”
Rob Sheffield, “Come for the Torture, Stay for the Poetry: This Might Be Swift’s Most Personal Album Yet.”
Paste Staff, “Taylor Swift Strikes Out Looking on The Tortured Poets Department.”
Lindsay Zoladz, “On The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift Could Use an Editor.”
Tom Breihan, “Premature Evaluation: Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department.”
Matt Stevens and Shivani Gonzalez, “Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much?”
Claire Lampen and Olivia Craighead, “Tortured Poets Department: All the Lyrics, Conspiracies, and Easter Eggs.”
Jon Pareles, Ben Sisario, Lindsay Zoladz, and Caryn Ganz, “Tortured Poets Has Shifted the Taylor Swift Debate. Let’s Discuss.”
Emma Madden, “What Tortured Poets Think about Taylor Swift’s Album Title.”
And Rebecca Turkewitz, “Other Things That Could Be Called The Tortured Poets Department.”
Literature and Culture
Ali Chetwynd and Marie Fahd, eds., William Gaddis at His Centenary, special issue, electronic book review.
David Hering, “Viewing the Ob-scene: On Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest.”
Matt Seybold, “Gulp Fiction, or Into the Missouri-verse: On Percival Everett’s James.”
Sheila Liming, “Girls Gone Wild? On Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers.”
Ryan Ruby, “The Longest, Least-Remembered Great American Novel.”
Aaron Bady, “Dune Two Little.”
A. O. Scott, “A Poem That’s Like a Perfect First Date.”
Devin Griffiths, “Power over Spice Is Power over All: Extractivism and Indigenous Knowledge in Frank Herbert’s Dune.”
Vicky Osterweil, “Image without Metaphor.”
Dan Sinykin, “The Gigification of Publishing.”
Hamilton Nolan, “Books Are the Missing Piece of a Unionized American Culture Industry.”
Mike Jeffrey, “Who Gets to Name What’s Evil? On Blake Butler’s Molly.”
Associated Press, “John Barth, American Postmodernist Novelist, Dies Aged Ninety-Three.”
Alex Williams, “Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at Seventy-Seven.”
Wilson Wong, “Paul Auster’s Best Books: A Guide.”
Michael Wood, “Paul Auster, The Art of Fiction No. 178.”
Michael T. Kaufman and Dwight Garner, “John Barth, Writer Who Pushed Storytelling’s Limits, Dies at Ninety-Three.”
Clay Risen, “Jerome Rothenberg, Who Heard Poetry beyond the West, Dies at Ninety-Two.”
Roberta Smith, “Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at Eighty-Five.”
William Grimes, “Frank Stella, Towering Artist and Master of Reinvention, Dies at Eighty-Seven.”
Deoborah Solomon, “Frank Stella Went from Bauhaus to Fun House.”
Mike Rubin, “Damo Suzuki, Singer Who Ignited the Experimental Band Can, Dies at Seventy-Four.”
Margalit Fox, “Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at Eighty-Eight.”
Alexandra Alter, “Gabriel García Márquez Wanted to Destroy His Last Novel. It’s About to Be Published.”
John Koblin and Matt Stevens, “Jon Stewart Will Return to Host The Daily Show on Mondays.”
James Poniewozik, “You Might Not Like What Jon Stewart Has to Tell You.”
Jason Zinoman, “In Calling Out Tucker Carlson, Jon Stewart Reminds Us He Has (Old-Fashioned) Skills.”
Richard Siken on The Realms Meringue.
Adam Morgan, “Inside the Censorship Scandal That Rocked Sci-Fi and Fantasy’s Biggest Awards.”
Ian Scuffling, Slow Learners.
Hanjo Berressem, “Writing in Flux.”
Rowland Bagnall, “Avoid Having a Self: On Anne Carson’s Wrong Norma.”
Victoria Wiet, “Outgrowing Melodrama: On Todd Haynes’s May December.”
Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize, “Episode 12: Don DeLillo’s America: An Interview with Curt Gardner.”
Elizabeth Alsop, “The Past Is Never Dead: On TV’s Backstory Problem.”
Daniel Bessner, “The Life and Death of Hollywood.”
Manohla Dargis, “Civil War Review: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us. Again.”
Christopher Kuo, “Alex Garland Answers the Question: Why Make a Film about Civil War Today?”
David Pierson, “The Bizarre Chinese Murder Plot behind Netflix’s The Three-Body Problem.”
Mireille Silcoff, “Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.”
Ana Cecilia Alvarez, “The Second First Love: On Maggie Millner’s Couplets.”
Lacey Rose, “Donald Glover and Maya Erskine on Real-Life Marriage, Professional Divorce, and When to Walk Away.”
And Vanessa Friedman, “Can I Wear My Vintage Concert Tees to Work?” [Yes.]
Nina Siegal, “Surrealism Is One Hundred. The World’s Still Surreal.”
Eileen Jones, “The New Mr. & Mrs. Smith Is Very Different from the Brangelina Film.”
James Poniewozik, “The Sympathizer Opens a Counteroffensive on Vietnam War Movies.”
Literary Hub, “Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme: J. G. Ballard’s ‘The Garden of Time.'”
Hattie Lindert, “Still Raw: Love in David Cronenberg’s Crash.”
Jason Schmidt, “Ten Highlights from the Venice Biennale.”
Jesse David Fox, “The Simpsons Is Good Again.”
Daniel Bergner, “Lessons from a Twenty-Person Polycule.”
Brandy Jensen, “The Polycrisis: Why Can’t We Stop Talking about Nonmonogamy.”
Patricia Hernandez, “The End of the MrBeast Era.”
Iva Dixit, “In Defense of Never Learning How to Cook.”
Jefferson Pooley, “Academic Life Is About Humiliation and Envy. This Novel Gets It.”
Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction
Paul Celan, “Todesfugue,” trans. Dean Rader.
Richard Siken, “Piano Lesson,” “Patty Melt,” “Three Poems,” and “Albondigas.”
Gary Shteyngart, “Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever.”
Brandon Som Wins Pulitzer for Tripas: Poems.
atmospheric quarterly 1, no. 1 (Spring 2024).
Shena McAuliffe, “Felicity Ace Falls over and Sinks, Tuesday 9 a.m.”
Avery Bauer, “Interview: Salvatore Pane: The Neorealist in Winter.”
Comics
Asher Elbein, “The Judgment of Magneto.”
Music
Nina Corcoran and Jazz Monroe, “Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at Sixty-One.”
Ben Sisario, “Steve Albini, Studio Master of ’90s Rock and beyond, Dies at Sixty-One.”
J. J. Skolnik, “Fill In the Blanks.”
Video Games
Nate Schmidt, “Power, Protest, and Playing to Win.”
Joseph Earl Thomas, “To These Writers, Video Games Are Not Just Entertainment, but Art,” review of Critical Hits, ed. J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado.
Maria Bose and Jason Willwerscheid, “Watching Pixels Die: Sony, HBO, and The Last of Us.”
Jonathan Balofsky, “NES Tetris Has Been Beaten for the First Time.”
University of Chicago Game Design, “UGD x Careers Winter Game Jam 2024.”
Yussef Cole, “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Review: Apocalypse Later.”
Alessio Palumbo, “Dark Souls Archthrones Demo Now Available for Download.”
Zachary Small, “The Shocking Death That Has Devastated Gamers for Decades.”
Sports
Robert D. McFadden, “O. J. Simpson, Football Star Whose Trial Riveted the Nation, Dies at Seventy-Six.”
Wesley Morris, “O. J. Was an Earthquake. We’re Still Living with His Aftershocks.”
Chris Vannini and Nicole Auerbach, “Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Players Are Employees, Can Unionize, NLRB Regional Director Rules.”
Nell Gluckman, “Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Players Can Vote to Unionize. What Does That Mean for Everyone Else?”
The Athletic Staff, “Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Players Vote to Unionize in Landmark Moment for Athlete Rights.”
Will Hobson, “The Concussion Files.”
Leif Weatherby, “Noise from Signal: On Matthew Coller’s Football Is a Numbers Game.”
Jovan Buha, “LeBron James Becomes the First NBA Player to Eclipse Forty Thousand Career Points.”
Joe Vardon, “NBA Bars Jontay Porter for Betting, League’s First Gambling Ban for Player in Seventy Years.”
Danny Emerman, “Former A’s Prospect Is Attempting Miracle Comeback at Age Forty Two. Should Oakland Give Him a Chance?”
Richard Deitsch, “Iowa’s Win over LSU Shatters Record for Most-Watched Women’s College Basketball Game.”
Shams Charania and Doug Haller, “Phoenix Suns Swept: What Went Wrong, What’s Next for Vogel, Big 3, and More.”
Parenting
Arthur C. Brooks, “The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids.”
Food
Christina Morales, “Another Sriracha Shortage May Be on the Horizon. What Happened?”
Humanities and Higher Education
Adam Kotsko, “The Loss of Things I Took for Granted.”
Ian Bogost, “Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem.”
Genie N. Giaimo, “The College Writing Center in Times of Crisis.”
Kevin R. McClure, “Your Pay Is Terrible? You’re Not Alone.”
Brian O’Leary, “How Much Has Faculty Pay Changed over Time?”
MLA Academic Program Services, “Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes.”
Forest Hunt, “Colleges Contend with a Tidal Wave of New Undergrad Unions.”
Grist, “Misplaced Trust: How Public Universities Profit Off Land Taken from Indigenous Tribes.”
Megan Zahneis, “The Rise of the Faculty Budget Activists.”
David C. K. Curry, “The Gutting of the Liberal Arts.”
Martha C. Nussbaum, “The Humanities Are Alive and Well in Utah.”
Erin Gretzinger and Maggie Hicks, “Why Campus Life Fell Apart.”
Emily J. Isaacs, “It’s Time to Start Teaching Your Students How to Be a Student.”
Karen Froud, Lisa Levinson, Chaille Maddox, and Paul Smith, “Middle-Schoolers’ Reading and Processing Depth in Response to Digital and Print Media: An N400 Study.”
Claire Cain Miller, Sarah Mervosh, and Francesca Paris, “Students Are Making a ‘Surprising’ Rebound from Pandemic Closures. But Some May Never Catch Up.”
John D. Skrentny, “Opinion: Why Pushing STEM Majors Is Turning Out to Be a Terrible Investment.”
Rebecca Schuman, “The Disposable, Indispensable Faculty Member.”
Steven Mintz, “Can an Academic Discipline Exhaust Itself?”
Sonel Cutler, “UNC-Greensboro Reckons with the Fallout of Painful Academic Cuts.”
Dan Bauman, “Colleges Were Already Bracing for an ‘Enrollment Cliff.’ Now There Might Be a Second One.”
Len Gutkin, “Are There Too Many Elderly Professors?”
“How Much Are Private-College Presidents Paid?”
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, “Biden Chips Away at Student Loan Debt, Bit by Bit, Amid High Expectations.”
Robert Kelchen, “Are Colleges Really on the Brink?”
Steven Brint, “If Trump Wins . . .”
Savannah Jones, “Past and Present WVU Faculty Gather for ‘The Big Goodbye.'”
And Laura McCullough, “Class Is Canceled until Further Notice while I Do My Job.”
Tucson
Michael Vasquez, “‘Simply Stunned’: A Sudden Financial Crisis Has Left the University of Arizona Fearful of What’s to Come.”
Jack Healy, “As University of Arizona Confronts Budget Cuts, Workers and Students Brace for the Worst.”
Francine Diep, “Arizona Board of Regents’ Chair and Executive Director Leave Their Positions after Governor’s Criticism.”
Eric Kelderman, “Amid a Financial Crisis and a Governor’s Ire, University of Arizona President Will Resign.”
Oneonta
Hartwick College, “Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Rozene.”
The American Prize, “National Finalists: Conductors (Band/Wind Ensemble), 2024” (Andrew Pease).
Mallika Mitra, “The Fifty Best Places to Live in the US: Oneonta, New York.”
Teresa Winchester and Robert Bensen, “Richards Avenue Gas Explosion Not Over for Residents.”
And “Official Obituary of Molly MacKenzie Nichols, February 1, 1981 – December 25, 2023” and “Molly M. Nichols, 1981-2023.”
The Hyperarchival Parallax 