Writer’s Digest
Agentspotlight
Seasoned literary agents on the business of publishing.
4 min |
July - August 2023
The New Yorker
Cold Case
The final season of "Happy Valley."
6 min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
Measure for Measure
On the frontiers of penile enhancement, competition for patients grows cutthroat.
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Jamaican-born artist Ebony G. Patterson’s installation “. . . things come to thrive . . . in the shedding . . . in the molting . . . ,” at the New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx (through Oct. 22), is the result of a four-year residency. Dotting the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and its lawn are glittering black-foam vultures and glass sculptures of feet and plants, just some of the pieces with which Patterson probes the garden’s surface. “How do I get people to look beneath the landscape?” she asks. “There’s a secret that’s being concealed.”
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT HAZY DAYS The masks came out again this month-only, contrary to the COVID years, New Yorkers donned them outdoors and slid them off when they stepped inside. As smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires drifted across the northern U.S. border, engulfing much of the eastern seaboard in an orange miasma, it sent New York's air quality to the worst levels on record, and, at one point, the worst in the world. Planes were grounded, outdoor activities were cancelled, and patients with asthma and other respiratory conditions filled emergency rooms. Senator Chuck Schumer called on the Biden Administration to send more American firefighters up North to stave off a \"summer of smoke.\"
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
MAN CHILD
Raising a boy in a world of male monsters.
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
WITCH HUNT
Juliet Stevenson stars in \"The Doctor.\"
5 min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
YOU GOOD?
Aristotle's guide to human flourishing.
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
THE ANCIENT WORLD DIVINE COMEDY
The godlike aspirations and all too human last moments of Roman emperors.
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
LETTER FROM CHENGDU - A DOUBLE EDUCATION
Educating American twins in China revealed two disparate systems, despite a history of mutual influence.
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
The New Yorker
A TRILLION LITTLE PIECES
How plastics are poisoning us.
10+ min |
July 03, 2023
Time
Next Generation Leaders – Argentina - Bizarrap
Elusive hitmaker
2 min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
Role of a Lifetime
Why Sarah Jessica Parker keeps playing Carrie Bradshaw.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
The Pandemic Generation
Remote school was devastating for many kids. How can they get back on track?
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
READING BODY LANGUAGE LIKE THE EXPERTS
We can understand so much about W people are communicating by simply paying attention to their physical cues. Let's say that you're walking down the street and pass a guy who raises his arm in the air, then swings a knife at you. Body-language-wise, he wants to stab you.
3 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
Status in flux
For two years, no one travelled. Countries closed their borders to other countries that had closed their borders first.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
LONDON CALLING
\"Operation Mincemeat,\" \"Guys and Dolls,\" and \"The Motive and the Cue.\"
5 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
NOW YOU SEE IT
The curious allure of the heist.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
OUT OF PLACE
Megan Fernandes's map of desire.
5 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
NOWHERESVILLE
\"Asteroid City\" and \"Maggie Moore(s).\"
6 min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
SHOW OF SUPPORT
Is the Army Tactical Bra ready for deployment?
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
The New Yorker
BITTER PILL
Dying patients wanted access to a new drug of uncertain benefit. But hasty approval comes at a cost.
10+ min |
June 26, 2023
Reason magazine
Ben Smith's One Neat Trick for Going Viral
The Semafor editor and former BuzzFeed News editor in chief on the online media explosion of the 2000s
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Archaeology
An Elegant Enigma
The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck
7 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
Ancient Egyptian Astrology
For centuries, layers of soot have coated the ceilings and columns in the entrance hall of Egypt's Temple of Esna. Now, an Egyptian-German team of researchers, led by Hisham El-Leithy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen, is restoring the temple's vibrant painted reliefs to their original brilliance.
1 min |
July/August 2023
The New Yorker
LIVES IN THE BALANCE
Why do \"dowry deaths\" persist?
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
THE STORY OF US
The startling intimacy of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
6 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
SONIC SIGNATURES
The unique sound worlds of Salvatore Sciarrino and Kaija Saariaho.
5 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
MORTAL COIL
Loving and letting go in Lorrie Moore's new novel.
9 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
DANCE OF DEATH
“The Comeuppance,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
6 min |