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The New Yorkerby Meghan O’Gieblyn24d ago
What the weak-willed lack in discipline, they make up for in ingenuity. Although the story of Odysseus binding himself to the mast to resist the Sirens’ song may belong to the mythical imagination...
The New Yorkerby David Owen24d ago
In 2023, the comedian, actor, writer, and banjo virtuoso Steve Martin was walking through SoHo, followed closely by two men holding a laptop.
The New Yorkerby John Lanchester24d ago
Billionaires have never been more central to the cultural and political conversation, more impressed with themselves, or more consumed with a sense of their own victimhood.
The New Yorkerby Kelly Marie Coyne24d ago
Earlier this year, when Keke Palmer was featured on “Open Door,” a video series of celebrity-home tours published by Architectural Digest, the actress was eager to draw attention to the evidence of...
The New Yorkerby Rachel Syme24d ago
The 1998 Grammy Awards should have been a triumphant night for the singer-songwriter Paula Cole. She was nominated for seven awards for her second album, “This Fire,” including Producer of the...
The New Yorkerby Sarah Larson24d ago
Before becoming a child movie star, in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies,” the Oscar-winning actor Ke Huy Quan, born in Vietnam to ethnic-Chinese parents, lived with them and...
The New Yorkerby Dexter Filkins24d ago
In the waning hours before the U.S. went to war with Iran, this February, Jared Kushner held a meeting with Iranian negotiators in Geneva—one last chance to avoid a conflict that would plunge the...
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker24d ago
Dèy, by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf). Set among Haitian Americans in Miami, this novel centers on Magnolia, a young mother who is at a mall when a mass shooter opens fire.
The New Yorkerby Tyler Foggatt25d ago
Was it ever a good idea for the Metropolitan Museum of Art to honor John Galliano, a British fashion designer who has made hateful remarks about Asians and Jews, at its spring Costume Institute...
The New Yorkerby Isaac Chotiner25d ago
The greatest cognitive dissonance in the debate over Gaza concerned the fate of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
The New Yorkerby Joyce Carol Oates25d ago
He said, Come with me! Take Daddy’s hand. How all the stories begin. A large hand lowered, your small hand lifted. She isn’t sure, she admits, exactly what happened. Or when.
The New Yorkerby Chris Wiley25d ago
Who hasn’t, at some point in their lives, daydreamed about sloughing off the trappings of civilization and roughing it?
The New Yorkerby Joshua Yaffa25d ago
The Brandmauer, or firewall, was meant to protect German democracy. The principle arose in the mid-twenty-tens, in response to the rise of Alternative für Deutschland, or the AfD, a right-wing...
The New Yorkerby Deborah Treisman25d ago
Your story “Lost Child” is a story within a story: a middle-aged woman is telling a friend about an incident in her childhood, which is narrated, for us, more or less in the voice of the child she...
The New Yorkerby Eric Lach26d ago
Not long ago, the documentary filmmaker Ric Burns appeared in the doorway of his Upper West Side office with a fresh wound over his forehead.
The New Yorkerby Anna Holmes26d ago
In 2014, a decade before my mother died, I helped her sort through the contents of her garage, on Baja Avenue, in Davis, California.
The New Yorkerby Justin Chang27d ago
In “The Uprising,” a new film from the British director and screenwriter Paul Greengrass, we never learn the protagonist’s name.
The New Yorkerby Joshua Rothman27d ago
PHASEONE10841: that’s the name of the A.I. agent that—or who?—kicked off last month’s insurrection at OpenAI, leading to the unanticipated and illegal hacking of another A.I. company, Hugging Face.
The New Yorkerby Robin Wright27d ago
Twenty-five years ago, President George W. Bush made a sweeping pledge shortly after Al Qaeda’s airborne hijackers slaughtered almost three thousand people, from more than a hundred countries, at...
The New Yorkerby Rachel Syme, Dan Stahl, Sheldon Pearce, Marina Harss, Brian Seibert, Richard Brody, Taran Dugal27d ago
In today’s world of rumbling, thunderous Dolby surround sound, the concept of silent cinema can feel very distant.
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