Daniel A. Gross

Jan 17, 2025 | newyorker.com | Daniel A. Gross

In a recent episode of “Silo,” the sci-fi series from Apple TV+, a character who does not have long to live puts on a virtual-reality headset. She’s spent her entire life in a subterranean shelter, which descends more than a mile into the earth like an upside-down skyscraper. What she sees in the headset is totally alien: the cloud forests of Costa Rica, recorded in the bygone year of 2018.

Apr 4, 2024 | link.newyorker.com | Sarah Larson |Daniel A. Gross |Jay Caspian Kang |Susan Glasser

John McPhee and others reflect. Plus: tremors on the Lower East Side; showing Trump’s speeches; and the twilight of the music manager. View in browser | In today’s newsletter, “like a voice from the ground,” and then:• Tremors on the Lower East Side• Why we need to see Trump’s speeches• The twilight of the music manager Waking Up to a New York City Earthquake After the most powerful quake in more than a century, the city was full of stories, arm-waving, and whispers of California.

Nov 21, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Daniel A. Gross

Palestinian poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha, whose 2022 poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (City Lights) won an American Book Award and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist, has been released after being detained by the Israel Defense Forces, his publisher has confirmed.

Apr 25, 2023 | energycentral.com | Daniel A. Gross |German Toro Ghio

image credit: Germán & Co by Shutterstock CEO, Germán & Co Germán José Manuel Toro Ghio, son of Germán Alfonso and Jenny Isabel Cristina, became a citizen of planet Earth in the cold dawn of Sunday, May 11, 1958, in Santiago, capital of southern Chile....

Apr 24, 2023 | energycentral.com | Daniel A. Gross