The New Yorker
WHAT GOOD IS MORALITY?
Ask not just where it came from but what it does for us
10+ min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
MOMMA MIA
Audra McDonald triumphs in \"Gypsy\" on Broadway.
5 min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
WORKING MAN
The Hollywood slog that led Adam Scott to “Severance.”
10+ min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
TALK SENSE
How much sway does our language have over our thinking?
10+ min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
TO THE DETECTIVE INVESTIGATING MY MURDER
Dear Detective, I'm not dead, but a lot of people can't stand me. What I mean is that breathing is not an activity they want me to keep doing. What I mean is, they want to knock me off. My days are numbered.
3 min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
Archaeology
ISLAND OF FREEDOM
Many of the enslaved Africans sent to Brazil beginning in 1549 were from what is now Angola, where one of the most widely spoken languages was Kimbundu.
1 min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
DANCING DAYS OF THE MAYA
In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions
10+ min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
Medieval England's Coveted Cargo
Archaeologists dive on a ship laden with marble bound for the kingdom's grandest cathedrals
10+ min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
ORIGINS OF PERUVIAN RELIGION
While investigating looters' holes at the site of La Otra Banda in northern Peru's Zaña Valley, archaeologist Luis A. Muro Ynoñán of the Field Museum and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru spotted carved blocks around seven feet below the surface.
1 min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
LOST GREEK TRAGEDIES REVIVED
How a scholar discovered passages from a great Athenian playwright on a discarded papyrus
8 min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
Unearthing a Forgotten Roman Town
A stretch of Italian farmland concealed one of the small cities that powered the empire
10+ min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2024
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year's most exciting finds
10+ min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
BAD MOON RISING
The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 B.C. and the first century A.D.
2 min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
COLONIAL COMPANIONS
The ancestry of dogs in seventeenth-century Jamestown offers a window into social dynamics between Indigenous people and early colonists.
1 min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
NAZCA GHOST GLYPHS
From the 1940s to the early 2000s, geoglyphs were discovered in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru depicting animals, humans, and other figures at the rate of 1.5 per year.
1 min |
January/February 2025
The New Yorker
HOLIDAY PUNCH
\"Cult of Love\" on. Broadway and \"No President\" at the Skirball.
5 min |
December 23, 2024
The New Yorker
THE ARCHIVIST
Belle da Costa Greene's hidden story.
10+ min |
December 23, 2024
The New Yorker
STIRRING STUFF
A secret history of risotto.
10+ min |
December 23, 2024
The New Yorker
OCCUPY PARADISE
How radical was John Milton?
10+ min |
December 23, 2024
The New Yorker
UP FROM URKEL
\"Family Matters\" and Jaleel White's legacy.
9 min |
December 23, 2024
The New Yorker
OUTSIDE MAN
How Brady Corbet turned artistic frustration into an American epic.
10+ min |
December 23, 2024
The New Yorker
CHAOS THEORY
What professional organizers know about our lives.
10+ min |
December 23, 2024
The New Yorker
BASIC INSTINCT
A feminist director takes on the erotic thriller.
10+ min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
THE ORCHESTRA IS THE STAR
The Berlin Philharmonic doesn't need a domineering maestro.
6 min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE
President Emmanuel Macron has plunged the country into chaos.
10+ min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
EACH OTHER'S BACK
\"Nickel Boys.\"
6 min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
LEG WORK
A surgeon and an engineer reimagine the prosthetic limb.
10+ min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
HEAD CASE
Paul Valéry's ascetic modernism.
10+ min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
NO ROOM FOR A MASTERPIECE
Rashid Johnson's art of masculine vulnerability is going to the Guggenheim.
10+ min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
BOOK A STRESS-FREE GETAWAY
Recently refurbished houseboat. Sleeps four guests comfortably, and many more less comfortably, but it's definitely doable and safe, though no jumping all at once, please.
3 min |