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The New Yorkerby Peter Hessler10d ago
In the valley where I live, along a quiet stretch of the Uncompahgre River, in southwestern Colorado, there is only one paved road, and, like most people around here, I don’t drive it south without...
The New Yorkerby Anthony Lane10d ago
The first thing you notice about the film director Paweł Pawlikowski is that he looks like a movie star. This is an unusual state of affairs.
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker10d ago
The Radiance, by Ayad Akhtar (Summit). The narrator of this form-bending novel is a man who shares the author’s name and profession, and who, at the story’s outset, is the victim of a hit-and-run.
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker10d ago
Things of Nature I was intrigued by M. R. O’Connor’s article about wildland firefighters who leap out of airplanes (“Going Up in Smoke,” September 7th).
The New Yorkerby Beverly Gage10d ago
In fiction, spoiler alerts exist to protect the reader experience, premised on the idea that knowing a story’s outcome will reduce momentum and suspense.
The New Yorkerby Jelani Cobb11d ago
Donald Trump’s decision, on September 18th, to summarily revoke White House access from three major news outlets—CNN, Politico, and MS NOW—is consistent with the mercurial, paranoid, and...
The New Yorkerby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn11d ago
In 1948, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was then twenty-nine and incarcerated in a Soviet facility—serving an eight-year sentence for having criticized Joseph Stalin in his private...
The New Yorkerby Deborah Treisman11d ago
The story “Narrow Escape” is excerpted from Solzhenitsyn’s unfinished novel “Love the Revolution,” most of which was written in 1948, though it wasn’t published in Russia until 1999, and is only...
The New Yorkerby Robin Wright12d ago
On a whirlwind trip to New York this week, Mahmoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, looked exhausted. His country has been at war with the United States and Israel for seven months.
The New Yorkerby Cristian Farias12d ago
At 7:54 P.M. this past Monday, Christine Wells-Wonsley received a text message from the Jackson County district attorney, Angel Myers McIlrath.
The New Yorkerby Emily Witt12d ago
In the mid-nineteen-eighties, at the age of nine, Taryn Simon helped her father transform the living room of her family’s home, on Long Island, into a replica of a teak-walled room that he had seen...
The New Yorkerby Parker Henry12d ago
“In New York City, the streets are your living room,” Jack Espel said the other day, at a coffee shop on East Fifty-ninth Street.
The New Yorkerby Margaret Talbot12d ago
The photographer Joseph Szabo’s pictures in the new book “American Teen” look timeless in certain ways—the crisp black-and-white of the images, the stately framing, the instantly recognizable...
The New Yorkerby Anand Giridharadas12d ago
At midnight, Lisette Lojo started her rounds at Penn Station. She cruised through the New Jersey Transit waiting area, past shuttered concessions selling pizza and magazines and headphones.
The New Yorkerby Emma Green12d ago
The sky was still streaked with sunrise one recent morning when Senator Susan Collins arrived at Bath Iron Works, a naval shipyard in Midcoast Maine.
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody13d ago
Many of the best films I’ve seen at advance screenings of this year’s New York Film Festival are by veterans of the annual event, but this year’s main-slate lineup adds a twist: a veteran filmmaker...
The New Yorkerby Sheldon Pearce, Shauna Lyon, Dan Stahl, Marina Harss, Jillian Steinhauer, Richard Brody, Ryan Gellis13d ago
In the past two decades, the singer Laura Kabasomi Kakoma, who performs music mononymously as Somi, has become a bridge between Western jazz and the jazz of Africa.
The New Yorkerby Justin Chang13d ago
The title of “Primetime,” Lance Oppenheim’s thriller about the making and unmaking of the scuzzy reality-TV phenomenon “To Catch a Predator,” tells us we’re watching a period piece.
The New Yorkerby Tyler Foggatt13d ago
It would be hard to overstate the influence of Resident Evil. The franchise, one of the most successful ever, spans thirty-odd games—many of which are very good—and has spawned multiple live-action...
The New Yorkerby Susan B. Glasser13d ago
Here’s a thought experiment: try listening to the speech that Donald Trump gave, earlier this week, at the United Nations General Assembly as if you’d never heard Trump before—or, at least, not for...
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