The New Yorker
PERSONAL HISTORY- ONE OF A KIND
When you're a medical patient, being unique can have its drawbacks.
10+ min |
January 30, 2023
The New Yorker
LETTER FROM TBILISI- NOVELS OF EMPIRE
Rereading Russian classics in the shadow of the Ukraine war.
10+ min |
January 30, 2023
The New Yorker
THE CURRENT CINEMA- GROWING PAINS
\"When You Finish Saving the World\" and \"Close.\"
7 min |
January 30, 2023
The New Yorker
EAT, PRAY, CONCENTRATE
What monks can teach us about paying attention.
10+ min |
January 30, 2023
The New Yorker
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
Those fretting over the future of indie rock can rest assured that the music has found stylish caretakers in the bandmates of Horsegirl, who débuted their trio while still in high school, in Chicago—they’re now spending their college years in New York.
10+ min |
January 30, 2023
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Republicans are, unsurprisingly, in an uproar over the discovery, in three different locations associated with President Joe Biden—his former office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a room in his Delaware home, and his garage—of documents marked as classified.
10+ min |
January 30, 2023
The New Yorker
Everyone's a Critic
What are literary studies for?
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
A Reporter at Large – Trust Issues
A disgruntled wealth manager exposes her clients' tax secrets.
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
Annals of Innovation Build Better
Can 3-D printing help solve the housing crisis?
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
Life is Too Short
Life is short. Why not spend it mired in regret? Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbors’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble?
3 min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
THE ROYAL ME
In \"Spare,\" Prince Harry must be cruel only to be kind.
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
THE BOOK OF LOVE
Reimagining the Victorian reformers who defended same-sex desire.
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
TWO FOR THE ROAD
\"The Last of Us,\" on HBO.
5 min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
THE SWAMP
Could corruption have led Alex Murdaugh to murder his wife and son?
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
Wednesday's Child Yiyun Li
The difficulty with waiting, Rosalie thought, is that one can rarely wait in absolute stillness. Absolute stillness?—that part of herself, which was in the habit of questioning her own thoughts as they occurred, raised a mental eyebrow. No one waits in absolute stillness; absolute stillness is death; and when you’re dead you no longer wait for anything. No, not death, Rosalie clarified, but stillness, like hibernation or estivation, waiting for . . . Before she could embellish the thought with some garden-variety clichés, the monitor nearby rolled out a schedule change: the 11:35 train to Brussels Midi was cancelled.
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
PROFILES A RAUCOUS ASSAULT
How the Iranian American artist Tala Madani sees men and women.
10+ min |
January 23, 2023
The New Yorker
A Critic at Large: the American Beast
Accounting for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
Reason magazine
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
As someone who covers the intersection of sex and technology, I was primed to love Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. A great book could be written on this topic-but this is not it.
1 min |
February 2023
Reason magazine
A Modern History of 'groomer' Politics
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
10+ min |
February 2023
The New Yorker
THE INFINITE-MONKEY THEOREM: FIELD NOTES
SHOUTS MURMURS
3 min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
LETTER FROM ITALY: THE MISSING
Many migrants disappear on their way to Europe. Most are never identified.
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
PROFILES: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
The executive leading Netflixs quest for worldwide domination.
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
THE CURRENT: CINEMA COLLUSION
“Saint Omer” and Turn Every Page.”
6 min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
DEEP CUTS
Franz Kafka’ diaries reveal a writer who was antic as well as agonized.
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist (and tobacco apologist) Darrell Huffdetails common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, among them truncating the y-axis of a graph.
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
ANNALS OF INQUIRY: THOUGHT PROCESS
What really goes on between our ears?
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Public’s Under the Radar, now in its eighteenth installment, is a lively showcase of experimental performance. Last year’s edition was scuttled by the Omicron surge, but the festival returns, through Jan. 22, with work contemplating desire, loss, queerness, chain restaurants, and King Leopold II. Among the offerings: LatinXoxo,” by the Venezuelan-born performance artist Migguel Anggelo above), who uses Spanish boleros, comedy, and pop songs to subvert Latin-lover tropes and his own father’s machismo.
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
U.S. JOURNAL: THE TOTAL PACKAGE
UPS offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs, so why is a strike looming?
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
HAMMER ATTACK
Three Virgin Marys kept their baleful eyes on the back of Allen’s head. But more powers were needed—of clemency, of healing—so, to accompany the dolorous mothers, somebody had also taped to the wall behind Allen’s hospital bed half a dozen Jesuses (a few were laminated), the famous “Last Supper” painting, and a grave-looking figure who, Alice, one of Allen’s sisters, told Gina, was St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, of last hope.
10+ min |
January 16, 2023
The New Yorker
THE THEATRE: LANDS OF THE LOST
London’ Orlando,” My Neighbour Totoro,” and The Burnt City.”
6 min |