The New Yorker
THAT WAS AWKWARD
Pilvi Takala and the art of excruciation.
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
A PARENTS' GUIDE TO CAMPUS TOURS
Welcome, parents! We are delighted that you have chosen to tour our campus with your offspring today.
3 min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
BORDERLINE CHAOS
America’s broken immigration system has spawned a national fight, but Congress lacks the will to fix it.
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
The New Yorker
COMEBACKER
Daniel Bard overcame mysterious control problems to resume his career. Then the problems returned.
10+ min |
June 19, 2023
Archaeology
HYBRID HOARD
A hoard of silver and gold items buried in the Netherlands 800 years ago-possibly for safekeeping during a time of war-was recovered by a licensed metal detectorist.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
A NEW DAY FOR THE ANCESTORS' MOUNDS
In fall 2007, Glenna Wallace, chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, visited the Octagon Earthworks in the central Ohio city of Newark while attending a lecture series at the Ohio State University in nearby Columbus.
3 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
UPDATE - TEMPLE TIMES TWO
A team led by archaeologist Jessica Ortiz Zevallos has returned to the Temple of the Painted Pillars at the site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru, where they have discovered new well-preserved, brightly colored paintings.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
BULLISH ON THE STORM GOD
In southern Turkey's Amuq Valley, a curious one-inch-tall lead figurine unearthed at a rural Bronze Age site is giving archaeologists a glimpse of how villagers living around 2000 B.C. responded to a period marked by increasing drought.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
VIKING SUPPORT ANIMALS
The warriors of the Viking Great Army who campaigned in Britain from A.D. 865 to 878 worshipped gods often associated with animal companions, such as Odin and his eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
Inside a Magnificent Celtic Tomb
New investigations of an Iron Age burial in France reveal the source of one woman's exceptional power
10 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
DEFENDING THE CANYONLANDS
Rare shields from the American Southwest are a legacy of a turbulent time in Native history
8 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
AFRICA'S MERCHANT KINGS
The early Christian kingdom of Aksum was at the heart of a great maritime trading network
10+ min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
OFF THE GRID
One of Mexico's most important archaeological sites is hidden in plain view in the Tlalpan borough of southern Mexico City.
2 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
Rise of the Persian Princes
In their grand capital Persepolis, Achaemenid rulers expressed their vision of a prosperous, multicultural empire
10+ min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
BIG GAME HUNTING
Archaeologists rarely unearth the remains of large predators such as leopards, lions, and bears. But University of Haifa archaeologist Ron Shimelmitz and his colleagues wondered if, by looking at a large number of sites over thousands of years, they could identify evidence showing that ancient people hunted these fearsome creatures.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
BOG TOGS
A piece of fabric found in a Highland peat bog in the early 1980s has now been determined to be the oldest example of true tartan ever located in Scotland.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
THE PALACE ON TABLET HILL
At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu A in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French archaeologists excavated tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets there.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
A SURPRISE IN SUDAN
Beneath the ruins of the medieval village of Old Dongola, on the Nile in northern Sudan, a team from the University of Warsaw was surprised to find stone blocks that may date to the time of the pharaoh Taharqo (reigned ca.690-664 B.C.).
1 min |
July/August 2023
New York magazine
In Conversation: Curtis 50 Cent Jackson
Every record label once wanted what he had (and was afraid of it). Now all of Hollywood wants it too.
10+ min |
June 05 - 18, 2023
New York magazine
The Simpsons is Good Again
After 34 seasons, 750 episodes, and a decades-long funk, the beloved show innovated its way back to popularity and relevance
10 min |
June 05 - 18, 2023
New York magazine
Drew Barrymore Is Figuring It Out Live
Her radically intimate, extremely strange daytime show has become a sensation—and as much therapy for her as it is for her guests
10+ min |
June 05 - 18, 2023
The New Yorker
MINORITY RULES
LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA | The once fringe legal theory that became a threat to democracy.
10+ min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
PLAYTIME
“Past Lives” and “Squaring the Circle.”
7 min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
THE INTERVIEW ARTIST
James Grissom met Tennessee Williams—and suddenly knew everybody.
10+ min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
BORDER CONTROL
The economics of immigration vs. the politics of immigration.
10+ min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
COMIC EFFECT
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS | How the Marvel Cinematic Universe swallowed Hollywood.
10+ min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
UNCANNY VALLEY
Mannequins and mystification in Dorothy Tse’s dreamlike Hong Kong.
7 min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
Back From the Dead
The afterlife of Susan Taubes.
10+ min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
Thursday
Fiction
10+ min |
June 12, 2023
The New Yorker
A Network Executive Writes a Sitcom
Shouts & Murmurs
4 min |