The New Yorker
SCREEN GRAB
How CoComelon conquered children's television.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
GREAT MIGRATIONS
\"Home\" and \"What Became of Us.\"
5 min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
SICK, SAD WORLD
What COVID did to fiction.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
CHICAGO ON THE SEINE CAMILLE BORDAS
I used to tell myself stories on the job, to make it feel exciting—spy stories, exfiltration stories, war stories. I used to come up with poignant little details that turned the repatriation cases I worked on into “Saving Private Ryan,” into “Johnny Got His Gun.”
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
A SEMBLANCE OF PEACE
How life in a co-living community changed after October 7th.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
Archaeology
Making a Roman Emperor
A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family's rise to power in the late second century A.D.
10 min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
The Assyrian Renaissance
Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world's grandest imperial capitals
10+ min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
Java's Megalithic Mountain
Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors
8 min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
RISE AND FALL OF TIWANAKU
New dating techniques are unraveling the mystery of a sacred Andean city
10 min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
THE SONG IN THE STONE
Located in a desert gorge in southern Peru, Toro Muerto is one of the richest rock art sites in South America. It includes at least 2,600 boulders bearing petroglyphs, many featuring figures known as danzantes who appear to be dancing.
1 min |
July/August 2024
Vanity Fair US
Ayo Edebiri – Funny Girl
The Bear made Ayo Edebiri a Hollywood darling. Now she's making Hollywood worth our attention.
10+ min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
Magical Thinking
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ's One Hundred Years of Solitude has never been faithfully adapted for the screen partly because he wouldn't allow it in his lifetime. With a Netflix series now in the works, VF tracks the long journey of a masterpiece
10+ min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
Beyond a BOUNDARY
With sped-up matches and a bevy of big-money backers, cricket is pitching an American resurgence
6 min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
JUSTICE Without Borders
Inside the effort to prosecute Russians for Ukraine war crimes in Argentina
6 min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
The Writing on THE WALL
The promise of poststrike opportunities kept TV writers from losing hope last year. Now a new season of bleak financial realities is testing their resolve all over again.
5 min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
VANITIES
NICHOLAS GALITZINE kicks into high gear
2 min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
TAKE NO PRISONERS
The State Department's hostage point man, Roger Carstens, works to free US citizens from captivity, whether they're being held by Vladimir Putin or Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. ADAM CIRALSKY embeds with America's top negotiators through 15 months of rescue efforts with the highest of stakes: liberty or death
10+ min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
THE HIT MAN
Between Anyone but You and the upcoming Twisters, GLEN POWELL has seen all kinds of action on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's hottest young stars
6 min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
Shots in the Dark
The Ozempic weight-loss miracle has a dark side: As desperate patients contend with shortages and skyhigh prices, a world of criminals and con artists are filling the void with lifethreatening counterfeits. KATHERINE EBAN investigates our alarmingly active pharmaceutical underground
10+ min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
Bibbidi Bobbidi WHO?
Disney is on the hunt for a new CEO to replace the legendary Bob Iger when he retires (again) at the end of 2026. Inside a $200 billion kingdom looking for a new king or, for the first time ever, a queen
10+ min |
June 2024
The New Yorker
THE LONG RIDE
The surf legend Jock Sutherland's unlikely life.
10+ min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
RED LINE
With the election approaching, the U.S. and Mexico wrangle over border policy.
10+ min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
ARE WE DOOMED?
A course at the University of Chicago thinks it through.
10+ min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
SUBCONSCIOUSLY YOURS
Does every generation get the Freud it deserves?
9 min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
Beyond Imagining
Bessie, Lotte, Ruth, Farah, and Bridget, who had been lunching together for half a century, joined in later years by Ilka, Hope, and, occasionally, Lucinella, had agreed without the need for discussion that they were not going to pass, pass away, and under no circumstances on.
10+ min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
BY A WHISKER
Louis Wain and the reinvention of the cat.
10+ min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
INSIDE JOB-"Hit Man"
Years before Hannah Arendt coined, in the pages of this magazine, the phrase \"the banality of evil,\" popular films and fiction were embodying that idea in the character of the hit man. In classic crime movies such as \"This Gun for Hire\" (1942) and \"Murder by Contract\" (1958), hit men figure much as Nazis do in political movies, as symbols of abstract evil.
6 min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
WHATEVER YOU SAY
Rereading Jenny Holzer, at the Guggenheim.
6 min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
STATES OF PLAY
Can advocates use state supreme courts to preserve-and perhaps expand-constitutional rights?
10+ min |
June 10, 2024
The New Yorker
God Explains the Rules of His New Board Game
Guys, want to play this new board game? It’s called Life. No, it’s not “one of God’s impossible-to-understand games that take three hours to learn.” It’ll be fun, I promise!
3 min |