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  • Trump: The Choice We Face | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

    My family supplies other examples of this slippery slope of collaboration. Take my own. In 2012, I was working as the editor-in-chief of a popular science magazine called Vokrug Sveta when Vladimir Putin, who fancies himself an explorer and a nature conservationist, took a liking to the publication. His administration launched a kind of friendly takeover of the magazine, one that the publisher could not refuse. I found myself in meetings with the Russian Geographic Society, of […]

  • Rusalka and audiences who crave doom

    Today I made the trek to the Marcus South Shore multiplex to see Rusalka, the Met Live in HD simulcast of the performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. $24 for a four-hour experience, including two ample intermissions. It was, for me, a powerful experience. This is only the second Met Live in HD production I’ve seen, and, not coincidentally, the second time I’ve understood the fuss about opera. Renee Fleming’s voice was luscious and buttery, […]

  • Why You Hate Google’s New Logo – The New Yorker

    Now, in its place, we have an insipid “G,” an owl-eyed “oo,” a schoolroom “g,” a ho-hum “l,” and a demented, showboating “e.” I don’t want to think about that “e” ever again. But what choice do I have? Source: Why You Hate Google’s New Logo – The New Yorker

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