June 2012 Archives
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TMN Weekender
Healthscare
In our latest TMN Weekender, a selection of stories from the intersection of health, employment, insurance, and legislation. Ready to read here on TMN or in an e-book you can...
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The Business Desk
Entertainment for Women
When it launched, Playboy was a literary power, nude photos or not. Its offices also happened to be an interesting place to work—for women.
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New York, New York
The City of Right Angles
When your daily commute to the office means speeding on two wheels up busy avenues, a meeting with a crosstown taxi cab can change your life. But sometimes being a New Yorker requires taking the city head on.
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Birnbaum V.
Kathryn Harrison
Our man in Boston and the author discuss her latest novel, Enchantments, the writing process, how book reviewing works at the New York Times, what it’s like to be nastied, and the life and times of two writers raising children without a television in the house.
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The Tennis Handsomes
Hello Daddy, Hello Mom
She did not qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon this year because of her terrible play over the last three years (she peaked at No. 30 in the world after...
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Gallery
Twenty-First Century Nudes
Vivid, fun, and surprising photographs where sex is mysterious and playful. Some images may not be safely viewed in an office environment.
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TMN Weekender
LeBron Wept
In our latest TMN Weekender, a selection of stories by those who endure—whether by choice or otherwise—the agony and ecstasy of basketball. Ready to read here...
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Spoofs & Satire
Coming to a Theater Near You
With blockbusters like Snow White and the Huntsman, Zombie Overkill, and Yahtzee: Alien Invasion, it’s already a smash hit for summer movies. But serious film buffs know Summer 2013 will be even better—and we’re not just talking about Jerry Bruckheimer’s live-action Hungry Hungry Hippo Apocalypse.
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Roundtables
Uncanny Kingdom
Our film scholars and Wes Anderson watchers, along with movie critic Michelle Orange, evaluate the filmmaker’s latest release, Moonrise Kingdom, where people get struck by lightning as a matter of course.
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Notes From the Exit Row
Eyes Wide Open
The next time jet lag ruins your day—exhausted, yawning, blurry-eyed, fiending for any means of correction—what if you were to stop looking for a cure inside purgatory and, instead, embrace the cloud?
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Gallery
The Infinite Lawn
Eye-catching landscapes don’t need glitter to produce mystery. Beautiful monochrome paintings that capture the vastness of sea, sand, and sky.
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The Tennis Handsomes
Fresh Meat
Let us start with big goofy Sam Querrey, who made it to the semis on the grass courts at Queens. What a run, after doing almost nothing all year other...
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TMN Weekender
Day of the Dad
In our latest TMN Weekender, a selection of stories from our archive by children of fathers (and fathers of children). Ready to read here on TMN or in an e-book...
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The News From America
The Type We Do Here Is for Self-Defense
Continuing our series of randomly calling people around the U.S. to find out what’s going on in their towns, this time we focus on the Olympics—how do folks who come from the same communities as America’s Olympians feel about their star athletes?
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Travel
Primera Vez
The thing you’ve come to Sevilla to see is the ritualized killing of bulls. What you also see: ancient architecture, handsome crowds, enormous animals, glittering suits, red capes, long swords, tradition.
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The Tennis Handsomes
Smash It Up
With our American men, the pickings are slim. Of the two Association of Tennis Professionals grass court events this week (Queen’s Club and Halle), only four American men...
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Gallery
Lower East Sides
Portraits that find Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1980 and 2010 showing different faces—blight, renewal, and the pursuit of hipsterdom—and also many things that (thankfully) never change.
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TMN Weekender
Sci-Fi Lullabies
Basically, if you’re the kind of person who stays in bed on Saturday mornings with a big mug of coffee and a sheaf of reading material, this is...
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Punchlines
Dark Material
There is a brand of humor with an inherent meaning so dark that, even though we may wish we hadn’t laughed, we’re programmed to think it’s funny. An explanation of a joke about a pedophile.
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Personal Essays
Big Blue Nights
Victory has many faces—some of them just happen to be painted. A story of violence, true love, the road from New York to Lexington, and the religion that is college basketball.
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Americans Abroad
I Believe I Speak for All of Us
Being overseas, the traveler is often taken for a diplomat—to explain his native country’s strange ways and beliefs. For example, why do all Americans belong to cults? What does Michelle Pfeiffer eat for breakfast? And why so many guns?
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From the Editors
Tell Us About Yourself
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The Tennis Handsomes
Catching Fire
Women’s Tennis Association officials across the country are right now placing Sloane Stephens icons on secret altars to the gods of the Next Big Thing. She’s...
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Birnbaum V.
Oscar Hijuelos
Our man in Boston talks to the Pulitzer-winning novelist about his new memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes, as well as nights in New York, parks in Berlin, how publishing currently compares to Indian restaurants, what life would be like if Mambo Kings hadn’t hit it big, and the difficulties of writing about yourself.
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Spoofs & Satire
Doomsday Slackers
We open the bunker on doomsayers preparing for the end of civilization—but not all them will survive the first hour of armageddon.