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  • Return to Seoul

    Return to Seoul

    At an unassuming dinner spot in Seoul, Freddie (Park Ji-min) is talking with a few newly made friends, Tena (Guka Han) and Dongwon (Son Seung-Beom). She is a Korean adoptee raised in France who has returned to her parents’ country—but the reasons are not yet clear. Was it to get answers as to why she…

  • Emily

    Emily

    “If I could I would work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.” — Emily Brontë Her wish came to pass. Wuthering Heights is a book for the ages, and her poetry (unlike her sisters’), still lifts off the page with bleak despairing imagery and a ferocious independence of tone.…

  • The 12th Victim

    The 12th Victim

    In 1958, 18-year-old Charles Starkweather was dating 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate when she reportedly broke up with him, starting a murder spree that would become one of the most infamous in history. Framed as a modern Bonnie and Clyde, the violence that unfolded became the foundation for not just legal controversy but incredible pop culture influence.…

  • Pacifiction

    Pacifiction

    Ambiguity is as ambiguity does in “Pacifiction,” a 165-minute French echo chamber drama that often seems to be more about its own narrative’s open-endedness than its Tahitian setting, punchy French politicians, or woozy dealmaking. “Pacifiction,” the latest baroque provocation from writer/director Albert Serra, follows—but not too close!—the smirking De Roller (Benoît Magimel), a smooth-talking French…

  • A Vegetable Soup Recipe That Delicately Balances Sweet and Sour

    A Vegetable Soup Recipe That Delicately Balances Sweet and Sour

    Full of lemongrass, tamarind and tofu, this light winter dish is a little different each time you make it — and that’s part of the allure, Yewande Komolafe writes.

  • Fox News is worse than you thought

    Fox News is worse than you thought

    Internal communications among network officials show a concern for ratings and not much else.

  • This French onion pasta is internet famous — and lives up to the hype

    This French onion pasta is internet famous — and lives up to the hype

    This dish, popularized on TikTok, turns French onion soup into a one-pot pasta full of onion flavor that captures the essence of the classic soup.

  • Yes, fungus can eat your house. Here’s what to know.

    Yes, fungus can eat your house. Here’s what to know.

    Meruliporia incrassata is considered one of the most devastating of all the fungi that destroy wood.

  • Why Chatbots like ChatGPT Weren’t Invented in China

    Why Chatbots like ChatGPT Weren’t Invented in China

    The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.

  • Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot

    Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot

    The company knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems. But users have prodded surprising and unnerving interactions.