The New Yorker
BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS
How the Brothers Grimm sought to awaken a nation.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
TUCKER EVERLASTING
Trump's favorite pundit takes his show on the road.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
The Puppet Masters - Compulsion, complicity, and the art of Bunraku.
The National Bunraku Theatre, in New York recently for the first time in more than thirty years, presented an evening of suicides. The performance, at the Japan Society, consisted of excerpts from two of the company’s most celebrated productions. In the Fire Watchtower scene from “The Greengrocer’s Daughter,” by Suga Sensuke and Matsuda Wakichi, from 1773, the titular character sacrifices herself to save a temple page boy she loves. In a scene from “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki,” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, from 1703, two lovers are driven to take their own lives. Both plays were inspired by real events, and Chikamatsu’s was followed by a wave of double suicides that led to a ban on further performances. This mirroring of life and art is all the more astonishing given the fact that the actors are not people but puppets.
6 min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
TAKE ME HOME
The filmmaker Mati Diop turns her gaze on plundered art.
10+ min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
THE BIG DEAL
Joe Biden's economic policies are starting to transform America. Will anyone notice?
10+ min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
EACH MORTAL THING
What other creatures understand about death.
10+ min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
THE LAST MILE
The aid workers who risk their lives to bring relief to Gaza.
10+ min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
A PIECE OF HER MIND
Does the Enlightenment’s great female intellect need rescuing?
10+ min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
SONGS OF WAR
Early on in “Blitz,” Rita Hanway (Saoirse Ronan), a London factory worker, puts her nine-year-old son, George (Elliott Heffernan), aboard a train. Rather, George puts himself aboard; he twists angrily free of his mother’s grasp—“I hate you!” he cries—and tears off down the platform.
6 min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
From the Wilderness
One morning in the rainy season, I went to bed at 6 a.m. after working all night and was on the verge of falling asleep when I was startled by the sound of my father’s voice coming through the air-conditioner next to my bed.
10+ min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
STAR-CROSSED
“Sunset Blud.” and Romeo Juliet,” on Broadway.
5 min |
November 04, 2024
The Atlantic
You Are Going to Die - Oliver Burkeman has become an unlikely self-help guru by reminding everyone of their mortality.
"The average human lifespan," Oliver Burkeman begins his 2021 megabest seller, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, "is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short." In that relatively brief period, he does not want you to maximize your output at work or optimize your leisure activities for supreme enjoyment. He does not want you to wake up at 5 a.m. or block out your schedule in a strictly labeled timeline.
10+ min |
November 2024
The New Yorker
PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE
Hi, Billy's dad! Andrew, right? Thanks for meeting on such short notice. No, don't worry, this actually isn't about Billy.
2 min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
PURCHASING POWER
What do the biggest donors to Donald Trump's campaign expect to get in return?
10+ min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
CITY OF GOD
The Met’ revelatory show on Siena.
7 min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
WAR DOGS
The facility lies two miles away from the main terminals but within the grounds of the airport, at the end of a service road that skirts a pond where geese flock during their migrations.
10+ min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
CLOSED CHAMBERS
What can memoirs by Supreme Court Justices teach us?
10+ min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
FOREIGN INFLUENCERS
How the U.S.government decides when to alert the public about election meddling.
10+ min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
PIVOTAL, SEMINAL, RARE
He built an empire in high-end books. Then a rock star pressed charges.
10+ min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
ALPHA GIRLS
Inside the tight-knit world of Kamala Harris's sorority.
10+ min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
BUCKS WITHOUT BORDERS
In the geography of the rich and mobile, sovereignty is for sale.
10+ min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
AMERICAN REFRAINS
“Hold On to Me Darling,” Our Town,” and Sump’n Like Wings.”
5 min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
POP CULTURE
How dirty soda became a Utah delicacy.
6 min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
GIG ECONOMY
The decline of the working musician.
7 min |
October 28, 2024
The New Yorker
THE IMPRESARIO
Alvin Ailey’ crusade to build a home for himself and other Black dancers.
10+ min |
October 21, 2024
The New Yorker
MY CAMP
Human nature, yes. Nature nature, no. I know nothing about it.
10 min |
October 21, 2024
The New Yorker
AMERICAN ATTITUDE
The docuseries Mr. McMahon” explores the underbelly of the WWE.
5 min |
October 21, 2024
The New Yorker
COWBOY-DANCE FUTURE WORLD
It t is the year 2248. We live in what some would call a perfect world.
3 min |
October 21, 2024
The New Yorker
ORIGIN STORY
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the temptations of narrative.
10+ min |
October 21, 2024
The New Yorker
TWERKERS' COMP
Earlier this year, the Cannes Film Festival observed a heroic first: the director who won the Palme d'Or, the event's highest honor, dedicated the prize to \"all sex workers, past, present, and future.\"
6 min |