The New Yorker
AFFINITY COMEDY
The state of the Netflix standup special.
6 min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT
An audience with the Pope.
10+ min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
LUCK OF THE DRAW
Nate Silver argues that poker can help us game our uncertain world.
10+ min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
GREEN SLEEVES
“What I want to know,” the woman said to the therapist, “is why the voices always say mean, terrible things.
10+ min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
EVERY OBITUARY'S FIRST PARAGRAPH
Alfred T. Alfred, whose invention of the plastic fastener that affixes tags to clothing upended the tag industry and made him one of America’s youngest multimillionaires—until he lost his plastic fastener fortune in a 1993 game of badminton, as depicted in the Lifetime original movie “Bad Minton”— died on Saturday. He was eighty-one.
2 min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
DUTY DANCING
How Seamus Heaney wrote his way through a war.
10+ min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
DESPERATELY SEEKING
The supreme contradictions of Simone Weil.
10+ min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
SPREADING THE WEALTH
Why a young heiress asked fifty strangers to redistribute her fortune.
10+ min |
September 09, 2024
The New Yorker
Early Scenes - Remembering a childhood in the South Bronx.
When I was born, in 1940, my father, Salvatore Pacino, was all of eighteen, and my mother, Rose Gerardi Pacino, was just a few years older. Suffice it to say that they were young parents, even for the time. I probably hadn’t even turned two when they split up. My mother and I lived in a series of furnished rooms in Harlem and then moved into her parents’ apartment, in the South Bronx. We hardly got any financial support from my father. Eventually, we were allotted five dollars a month by a court, just enough to cover our expenses at my grandparents’ place.
10+ min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY
How Post Malone made himself at home in Nashville.
5 min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
FAITH HEALING
\"Between the Temples.\"
6 min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
A GUIDE TO BRAT SUMMER
This summer, we’ve found ourselves in an unprecedented era of Brat.
2 min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
THE LAST DAY
How declining enrollment threatens education nationwide.
10+ min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
THE COLLECTOR
Bonnie Slotnick, the downtown food-history savant.
7 min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
BUNKER MENTALITY
Shopping for a home at the end of the world.
10+ min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
LIVING UNDER A ROCK
A geologist reflects on her life.
10+ min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
THE PARTICLES OF ORDER
The guest from America was to arrive in the late afternoon.
10+ min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST
The forgotten history of sex in America.
10+ min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
LIFE OF THE PARTY
The Democrats seem rejuvenated by their new candidate. Why was it so hard to get one?
10+ min |
September 02, 2024
The New Yorker
The Kamala Show
The evolution of Harris’ public persona.
9 min |
August 26, 2024
The New Yorker
A Cult in the Forest - The vast majority of Kenyans are Christian, a faith that arrived with early colonization. A group of Finnish missionaries brought Pentecostalism in the nineteen-hundreds
The vast majority of Kenyans are Christian, a faith that arrived with early colonization. A group of Finnish missionaries brought Pentecostalism in the nineteen-hundreds. The colonial government tried to suppress it, because a faction of pro-independence freedom fighters belonged to the African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa, which included messages about decolonization in its hymns. But after independence, in 1963, Pentecostalism and other forms of evangelical Christianity spread. They emphasized charismatic forms of worship—visions, spiritual healing, speaking in tongues—and a gospel that promised prosperity to the faithful. “If you want your church to be full, do what I call ‘spiritual gymnastics,’ ” Martin Olando, a scholar of African Christianity at the Bishop Hannington Institute, in Mombasa, told me. “Jump up and down, prophesize good tidings, tell people what they want to hear.” By the nineties, Kenya’s President, Daniel arap Moi, enjoyed a beneficial relationship with Arthur Kitonga, an influential Pentecostal bishop. “President Moi has been appointed by God to lead this country,” Kitonga said at the time. William Ruto, Kenya’s current President, and its first evangelical one, brought gospel singers into his campaign team and party, and has donated cars, and thousands of dollars, to evangelical churches. His wife, Rachel, invited the U.S.-based televangelist Benny Hinn to preach with her at a crusade. (This year, Hinn apologized for giving fake prophecies. “There were times when I thought God had showed me something that He wasn’t showing me,” he told the Christian podcast “Strang Report.”)
10+ min |
August 26, 2024
The New Yorker
My Life's Work- All I have in the world is a paternal aunt and a tank of fish that love me. And my work. I'm nobody.
Who am I? I’m nobody. I was cut from every team in high school. I didn’t go to an Ivy League college.
3 min |
August 26, 2024
The New Yorker
FUTURE IMPERFECT
“Hum,” Helen Phillips’s third novel, begins with a needle being drawn, steadily and irreversibly, across a woman named May’s face.
8 min |
August 26, 2024
The New Yorker
THE NARAYANS
Mrs. Narayan was small, dark-skinned, oval-faced. She had a wonderful singsong voice.
10+ min |
August 26, 2024
The New Yorker
OUT OF THE PAST
At the beginning of “The Spirit of the Beehive” (1973), Víctor Erice’s sublime first feature, a travelling projectionist arrives at a remote Castilian village, bearing a print of James Whale’s “Frankenstein.”
6 min |
August 26, 2024
The New Yorker
THE INFILTRATORS
Who’ leading the way in investigating far-right extremists: FBI. agents or leftist vigilantes?
10+ min |
August 26, 2024
The Atlantic
An Intoxicating 500-Yearold Mystery - The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars-and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists.
The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars-and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.
10+ min |
September 2024
Vanity Fair US
Another Country- Searching for James Baldwin in the South of France
Since James Baldwin's death nearly 40 years ago, the literary lion's final home, in the South of France, has drawn a procession of acolytes to the Provençal community of Saint-Paul de Vence, where he spent the last 17 years of his life.The 300-year-old villa in which he resided no longer exists: By 2019 developers had converted the site into a luxury apartment complex. But that hasn't deterred generations of admirers, inflamed and enlightened by Baldwin's prose, from making a pilgrimage. Including me. Seizing the occasion of the writer's centennial year, I paid a visit in April. My first stop was a table at a Baldwin hangout, the Café de la Place on Place du Général de Gaulle, for a croque monsieur and a double espresso.
5 min |
September 2024
Vanity Fair US
Playing It STRAIGHT
Dynamic young stars have broken out in queer roles. Should their own sexuality matter?
5 min |
September 2024
Vanity Fair US
FAULT Lines
With tensions still running high over the war in Gaza, many of the Upper East Side's Jewish denizens are circling the wagons.
10+ min |