Culture
The New Yorker
CONTRIBUTORS
Eliza Griswold (\"Young Americans,\" p. 12) is a contributing writer.
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June 29, 2026
The New Yorker
THE READERS
Early in my treatment, we decided that you wouldn't read my work.
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June 29, 2026
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URBAN LEGEND
Closing out a crime trilogy about a changing New York, Colson Whitehead excavates his own foundations.
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June 29, 2026
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ABOUT TOWN
POST-ROCK | Last year, the Chicago instrumental post-rock band Tortoise returned with \"Touch,\" its first album in nearly a decade, the further explorations of an inquisitive nature.
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June 29, 2026
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GOINGS ON JUNE 24-30, 2026
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.
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June 29, 2026
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LONGING FOR ITHACA
There’s a reason Homer’s homecoming epic has long defeated the directors.
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June 29, 2026
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HOT PURSUIT
The repo man coming for your ride.
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June 29, 2026
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WILD THINGS
Why do animals have sex, anyway?
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June 29, 2026
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PRICKLY PAIRS - “The Invite.”
“The Invite” begins with an aphorism: “One should always be in love.
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June 29, 2026
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BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT.INSTANCING
Wednesday evenings at Hex&Co., board-game café and bar in Morningside Heights, are dedicated to \"RPG Encounters,\" in which fans of role-playing games gather to create collaborative stories over espresso drinks.
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June 29, 2026
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THE PIED PIPER
In 1284, the story goes, the Pied Piper visited the German town of Hamelin.
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June 29, 2026
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BRIEFLY NOTED
A Terrible Intimacy, by Melvin Patrick Ely (Holt).
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June 29, 2026
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YOUNG AMERICANS
For Charlie Kirk’s followers, faith and patriotism are intertwined.
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June 29, 2026
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PICK THREE
Jennifer Wilson on Italian-lesson inspiration.
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June 29, 2026
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THE TALK OF THE TOWN
There are moments when a phrase, or a current of thought, that had seemed condemned to archival history is suddenly all anyone talks about.
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June 29, 2026
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TABLES FOR TWO
To descend the stairs into Marcel, the new French-continental restaurant on the lower level of the Breuer building, on Madison Avenue, is to watch a brutalist masterpiece surrender, with a kind of gracious compliance, to the softening influence of a great deal of money.
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June 29, 2026
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GROWING PAINS
Olivia Rodrigo’s early-twenties lament.
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June 29, 2026
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DEADPAN DEPT.ANIMATED
Comedians can be control freaks.
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June 29, 2026
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AROUND A DARK CORNER
Navigating a year of grief.
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June 29, 2026
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DEPT. OF HOOPLA KNICKSOMANIA
In the spirit of New York's Regents exams, the standardized tests that public-school students have been taking in recent weeks, a multiple-choice question:
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June 29, 2026
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BETTER, RICHER, HAPPIER
The curious career of “the American Dream.”
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June 29, 2026
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ANAKAINOSIS DEPT.BOOGIE-WOOGIE TIME
The artist Alexandra Grant flew into Newark on a recent stormy Thursday, checked into a hotel, and zipped over to the Albertz Benda gallery, in Chelsea, just before the opening party for \"Antigone 3000 (Anakainōsis),\" her new show of paintings.
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June 29, 2026
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CONTACT SOLUTIONS
“Disclosure Day.”
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June 22, 2026
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BAD ROMANCE
When did white-collar work start to look so bleak?
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June 22, 2026
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MUTTER
I'm waiting for my mother at the airport, holding a strip of cardboard above my head that says \"MUTTER.\"
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June 22, 2026
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BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
The hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin beats the competition at making money—and spending it.
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June 22, 2026
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MISERY LOVES COMPANY
The rise of \"Admin Nights\" in pursuit of productivity.
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June 22, 2026
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MEET RUSS FREUD
It used to be called the Roberts Institute for Living, but everybody knew that it was the insane asylum, and that’s what people called it.
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June 22, 2026
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UP TO NO GOOD
The hell-raising rocker who conquered country radio.
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June 22, 2026
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SOUL-SEARCHING
How the American church found its followers.
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