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The New Yorkerby Zachary Fine7d ago
Is Arthur Jafa a rearguard artist or an avant-garde one in disguise? It’s hard to say. “I Am Tony,” a major retrospective at the New Museum, doesn’t frame him one way or the other, but it does make...
The New Yorkerby Judith Thurman7d ago
When my cousin Danny introduced me to his new wife, almost forty years ago, Laura was in her early thirties, a radiant beauty of Taíno heritage with a lithe figure and a model’s cheekbones.
The New Yorkerby Nell Freudenberger7d ago
I have been working in Maternal Intelligence for the past eighteen years, because of a profound belief that, with care and attention, human offspring can grow to accomplish important things—such as...
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner8d ago
Gertrude Aronow, the grandmother of the restaurateur Nate Adler, was, by Adler’s account, an eccentric woman of uncommon charisma, the sort of person who made any room feel like a party.
The New Yorkerby Nicholas Lemann8d ago
It wasn’t so long ago that Silicon Valley was, to use its own language, a major node in the Democratic Party’s network.
The New Yorkerby Jonathan Blitzer8d ago
It has taken the Trump Administration less than two years to make violent encounters with federal immigration agents a regular fact of American life.
The New Yorkerby Deborah Treisman8d ago
In your story “A Very Safe Place,” a boy and his father, in Singapore, find a man on the beach who has clearly swum to the island in the hope of establishing a better life.
The New Yorkerby Rachel Heng8d ago
Shawn and his father found the man on the easternmost coast of their island shortly after dusk, when the sky was drained of almost all its orange light and the waves had grown dark, topped with an...
The New Yorkerby Doreen St. Félix8d ago
Doctors in Tennessee are attempting to save the life of a woman whom the state just tried to kill.
The New Yorkerby Alexandra Schwartz9d ago
Cathy Ames, the villain of John Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden,” is not what E. M. Forster, or anyone else, would call a round character, the kind who grows and changes over the course of a story.
The New Yorkerby Sam Knight9d ago
When Barbara Trapido was in her late twenties, a friend told her that she was lazy: she told such good stories, but she never wrote them down. Trapido did not think that she was lazy.
The New Yorkerby Zach Helfand9d ago
A lot of people recently have been wondering whether our technology will murder us all. But it’s not all bad.
The New Yorkerby Gioncarlo Valentine9d ago
When I look at Gerald Cyrus’s jazz photographs, I can hear the music. I can smell the stale-moldy-acid-floral scent of beer, of cigarettes on breath, of the air strained by sweat and White Diamonds...
The New Yorkerby Naomi Fry9d ago
Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve adored a good makeover montage. There was Disney’s Cinderella, transformed, by a pixie-dust-wielding fairy godmother, from a rags-wearing drudge into a...
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody9d ago
The New York Film Festival is a feast of many parts, but its divisions are mainly symbolic. Such major festivals as those in Cannes, Berlin, and Venice are competitive; they offer prizes and make a...
The New Yorkerby Joshua Rothman10d ago
Suppose that your company wants to launch a new product. A substantial budget is available to fund a prototype. You think you have a good idea; so do Frank and Jill, your workplace frenemies.
The New Yorkerby Vince Aletti, Mengfei Chen, Brian Seibert, Sheldon Pearce, Emily Nussbaum, Zoë Hopkins, Richard Brody, Hilton Als10d ago
As one of the most arresting, provocative, and unpredictable photographers around, Justine Kurland, at fifty-six, deserves to have her mid-career retrospective in a museum.
The New Yorkerby Jesús Rodríguez10d ago
One Saturday morning in late August, Ricardo Alfaro, an immigrant from El Salvador, approached a low-slung white house in Holland, Michigan.
The New Yorkerby Ruby Cramer10d ago
On an afternoon in August, in a small, cluttered office in Brooklyn, two women gathered a stack of flyers, printed in English and Creole. “PREPARE. DON’T PANIC,” the pages read.
The New Yorkerby Isaac Chotiner10d ago
The war against Iran, launched earlier this year by the United States and Israel, has caused a spike in energy prices around the world, and this strain on the global economy was exacerbated by Iran...
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