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LORDING IT
The New Yorker

LORDING IT

Can Byron be freed from the Byronic?

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10+ mins  |
March 04, 2024
THE SPIT OF HIM
The New Yorker

THE SPIT OF HIM

Kevin didn't have a rain jacket and for that reason he wasn't wearing one. A pair of \"Bananas in Pyjamas\" pajama bottoms bunched over the shafts of his rain boots. From his left shoulder, a flat laptop bag dangled. It had been consigned to his school's lost-property box and had remained there more than four months before he'd claimed it for himself. Now it flapped rhythmically against his hip. It contained next to nothing, but he felt that it lent him a professional air.

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6 mins  |
March 04, 2024
INVISIBLE WORKERS
The New Yorker

INVISIBLE WORKERS

How North Korea operates a forced-labor program in China.

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10+ mins  |
March 04, 2024
IDENTITY CRISIS
The New Yorker

IDENTITY CRISIS

A professor claimed for years to be Native. She insists it was just a mistake.

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10+ mins  |
March 04, 2024
UNREAL LIFE
The New Yorker

UNREAL LIFE

\"Russian Troll Farm\" lands Off Broadway.

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5 mins  |
February 26, 2024
TORN PAGES
The New Yorker

TORN PAGES

The fate and the power of books in wartime.

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
FOUR YEARS LATER
The New Yorker

FOUR YEARS LATER

What we can't learn from 2020.

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
DISPOSSESSED
The New Yorker

DISPOSSESSED

In Tommy Orange's \"Wandering Stars,\" history and its horrors are heritable.

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February 26, 2024
NORTHERN ATTITUDE
The New Yorker

NORTHERN ATTITUDE

How Noah Kahan went from rural Vermont to the world.

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
ON THE NIGHT OF THE KHATAM
The New Yorker

ON THE NIGHT OF THE KHATAM

Through no fault of our own (naturally), we were late. Our wives, you see, had decided to tag along.

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
BORDER TROUBLES
The New Yorker

BORDER TROUBLES

Why are Republicans impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas?

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
THE CHAOS AGENT
The New Yorker

THE CHAOS AGENT

Matt Gaetz threw the House into disarray. What does he want?

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
SKIN IN THE GAME
The New Yorker

SKIN IN THE GAME

Inside the frenzied business of designer ball pythons.

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
EXCERPTS FROM A POSTING FOR MY IDEAL JOB
The New Yorker

EXCERPTS FROM A POSTING FOR MY IDEAL JOB

You are an experienced writer who lives and breathes finding excuses to avoid writing.

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2 mins  |
February 26, 2024
IN THE WEEDS
The New Yorker

IN THE WEEDS

The struggle to sell legal marijuana in New York.

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10+ mins  |
February 26, 2024
The Oligarch's Son
The New Yorker

The Oligarch's Son

Following a mysterious plunge into the Thames, two grieving parents reckon with the anatomy of a fall.

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10+ mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
A Reporter at Large – Democracy in Darkness
The New Yorker

A Reporter at Large – Democracy in Darkness

What Ukraine has already lost in its fight against Russia.

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10+ mins  |
February 05, 2024
Post-Apocalypse Now
The New Yorker

Post-Apocalypse Now

The experimental Ukrainian opera "Chornobyldorf," at La Mama.

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7 mins  |
February 05, 2024
REALMS OF THE SENSES
The New Yorker

REALMS OF THE SENSES

“The Taste of Things” and Ennio.”

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6 mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
LUSH LIFE
The New Yorker

LUSH LIFE

“Days of Wine and Roses” and The Animal Kingdom.”

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5 mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
BURN BOOK
The New Yorker

BURN BOOK

“Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” on FX.

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5 mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
PUCKER UP
The New Yorker

PUCKER UP

The offbeat indulgence of handmade vinegar.

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7 mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
THE RETICENT RADICAL
The New Yorker

THE RETICENT RADICAL

Baruch Spinoza's quiet revolution.

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10+ mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
WHAT GOES AROUND
The New Yorker

WHAT GOES AROUND

The stories we tell about female violence.

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10+ mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
THE ART OF CHANGE
The New Yorker

THE ART OF CHANGE

Thelma Goldens role in desegregating the art world.

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10+ mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
MY WAITING LIST
The New Yorker

MY WAITING LIST

I am happy to announce that I have opened a new waiting list, for people who have been trying to get on my regular waiting list. When and if there are openings on the regular list, those on the new list will be eligible to move into one of the open slots, after paying a transfer fee.

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2 mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
THE FRIENDSHIP CHALLENGE
The New Yorker

THE FRIENDSHIP CHALLENGE

How envy destroyed the perfect connection between two teen-age girls.

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10+ mins  |
February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
THE SPORTING SCENE: NO JOKE
The New Yorker

THE SPORTING SCENE: NO JOKE

Somehow, Nikola Joki¢ has become the world’s best basketball player.

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February 12 -19, 2024 (Double Issue)
Poor Houdini
The New Yorker

Poor Houdini

Four very thin trees stand above their own reflections and hesitate, as cold girls do. She thinks of rhymes for girls do. Whirls through. Pearls anew. Use it in a sonnet? Eddy's mother lives by a lake. It is a gray: and glassy evening. Supper was all reminiscences, Eddy recalling slow white mists drifting over the schoolyard each day at five, when the chemical plant incinerated its Styrofoam, and how he broke his collarbone and no one believed him for three days, his mother at the head of the table smiling and continuing with her fruit cup, his brother sitting opposite with his head down, a man tall and thin as a door, closed like a door. He ate as if expecting more. Four, chore, whore, underscore ran through her mind perkily. She mumbled something, got up from the table, and left. Now, at the lake, no one swimming, she watches the water slide from slate to black.

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10+ mins  |
January 29, 2024
MAD, CONCEITED, RIDICULOUS
The New Yorker

MAD, CONCEITED, RIDICULOUS

Why Margaret Cavendish was considered both a genius and an eccentric.

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10+ mins  |
February 05, 2024