Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism
The New Yorkerby Merve Emre3d ago
Twice in the last five years, the Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to a woman who takes eros seriously: Annie Ernaux, in 2022, and, now, Anne Carson.
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top 76%“Degenerates” Is Funny, Pervy, and Startling
The New Yorkerby Emily Nussbaum3d ago
Else Went’s electrifying new play, “Degenerates,” at Playwrights Horizons, begins in darkness, with the audience eavesdropping on an anguished call to a suicide hotline.
“The Social Reckoning” Feels Much Smaller Than Its Predecessor
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody3d ago
Film what you know, they say, and what Aaron Sorkin knows, above all, is show business. That’s why “Being the Ricardos,” his 2021 bio-pic about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, is one of the most...
What to Read if You Loved “East of Eden”
The New Yorkerby Inkoo Kang4d ago
Of the sixteen novels that John Steinbeck published before his death, in 1968, “East of Eden” was his favorite.
Back to School, in Gaza
The New Yorkerby Mosab Abu Toha4d ago
When I was growing up, in northern Gaza, my parents took my siblings and me to a stationery store about a week before each school year started.
Will Netanyahu Escape His Reckoning?
The New Yorkerby David Remnick4d ago
In his desperate attempt to hold on to power as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to cast a spell on the electorate with a stark and profoundly cynical message: Forget the...
Millions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent on Law Enforcement
The New Yorkerby Oliver Whang4d ago
The Walter Smittle III Regional Responder Training Center sits at the end of a gravel road on a ridge just south of Ripley, West Virginia, in Jackson County.
The Fighting in Ethiopia Is Part of a Far Bigger Conflict
The New Yorkerby Ishaan Tharoor4d ago
If talk of a collapsing “international order” can feel like a distant abstraction, look to the Horn of Africa for a sense of its reality on the ground.
How “Edinburgh” Reimagines Time to Tell a Story of Trauma
The New Yorkerby Garth Greenwell5d ago
“Edinburgh” is the kind of book that readers talk about in whispers and pass from hand to hand. I mean this literally, at least in my case: I found it, only a year or two after it came out, because...
I’m Starting to Suspect That the F.D.A. Is Just Trying to Get Me to Cook
The New Yorkerby Greg Mania5d ago
At first, I took the alerts seriously. When the Food and Drug Administration announced that a multistate cyclospora outbreak was linked to a certain batch of iceberg lettuce from Mexico, I...
MacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut
The New Yorkerby Rhoda Feng6d ago
After MacKenzie Scott quietly published her third novel—“Last Days in Two Nations,” a work of dystopian fiction set in a near-future America—in installments on Substack, in August, there was much...
Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?
The New Yorkerby Hermione Hoby6d ago
A hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf published her second most famous essay. “On Being Ill,” from 1926, cedes first place in the Woolf nonfiction canon to the feminist cornerstone “A Room of One’s...
How to Fight Your Landlord, the Heel
The New Yorkerby Dan Greene6d ago
Pro-wrestling narratives are often driven by the villain, or heel—what Roland Barthes called “the bastard.” This figure “takes refuge behind the law when he considers that it is in his favor,”...
How Lists Became Our Greatest Defense Against Endless Slop
The New Yorkerby Brady Brickner-Wood6d ago
In the early twenty-tens, we distracted ourselves with lists—so many lists!—including a type newly native to the internet: the listicle.
Year of the Horse
The New Yorkerby Michael Schulman6d ago
Romanch Mahajan, an eighteen-year-old from Pathankot, India, visited New York City with his family in June to celebrate his high-school graduation.
The Battle for the Post-Trump Right
The New Yorkerby Emma Green6d ago
A group of neatly dressed young people gathered in the auditorium of the Heritage Foundation headquarters this summer to observe the cherished rituals of the D.C. internship.
Ernie Bushmiller’s Sunday Morning, Live
The New Yorkerby Emma Allen6d ago
Usually, an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” is a validation of cultural relevance, even coolness.
Ellen Allien’s Hill of Sound
The New Yorkerby Nick Paumgarten6d ago
Ellen Allien is an electronic musician, d.j., and producer who has adopted the mantle “the matriarch of Berlin techno.” In 1992, she was one of the first women to play a set at Bunker, known as the...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker6d ago
The Vanishing Family, by Robert Kolker (Doubleday). Unlike Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia often begins in midlife.
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
The New Yorkerby Gideon Lewis-Kraus6d ago
A run-in with human snacks transformed Kobuk the Destroyer’s mother into a “problem bear.” A native of the Alaskan wilderness, the grizzly was possibly ruined by a dumpster or a cache of campsite...