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How to Survive the A.I. Revolution
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any…
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David Byrne Takes the Stairs
At the Pace gallery in Chelsea in early April, the artist and musician David Byrne was in a stairwell, lying…
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Play Laugh Lines No. 15: Taxes
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After Forty Years, Phish Isn’t Seeking Resolution
Since 1992, Gordon has kept a list in his journal titled “Bass Playing Thoughts.” Many entries read like koans: “A…
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“Fireflies,” by Maya C. Popa
“The new air is empty, and who knew / we’d miss even what afflicted us?” Source link
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Kurt Weill Kept Reinventing Himself
“Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny…
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“Midnight Nest,” by Arthur Sze
“Instead of parts / of a world, I carry worlds within this world.” Source link
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Starved in Jail | The New Yorker
Carlin Casey first considered the idea of human starvation when he was seven years old. Back then, in 1992, his…
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Does a Fetus Have Constitutional Rights?
In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions performed…
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Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” | The New Yorker
For the cover of the April 21, 2025, issue, the artist Frank Viva attempts to portray the feelings that grip…
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons April 21, 2025
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R. Crumb Looks Back | The New Yorker
The cartoonist Robert Crumb is described in a new biography as “misanthropic.” In his own work, he typically characterizes his…
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The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished
Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel. Wearing only a bathing suit,…
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Donald Trump’s Tariffs and the Price of Calm
I happened to be in northern Europe—Finland and Estonia—during the days of President Donald Trump’s operatic tariff gambit, from his…
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Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie”
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Michael Gandolfini Worries About Brawn and Bravado
On a recent afternoon, the actor Michael Gandolfini ascended an escalator to Whitehall Terminal to take the twelve-thirty ferry to…
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Restaurant Review: Gjelina Imports the Fantasy of L.A.
Is Gjelina, with its three locations, a chain now? It’s certainly more than just a restaurant. Lett left the Gjelina…
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Steve Martin on Marshall Brickman’s “Who’s Who in the Cast”
In 1976, when I read “Who’s Who in the Cast,” by Marshall Brickman, I was astounded. The piece, a “casual”—which…
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“Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” by Adam Levin.
“Terminator 2” was a good choice. Throughout the whole movie I forgot about the groping. Source link
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Jeff Bridges Is Digging It
The interior of Jeff Bridges’s garage, in Santa Barbara, California, has the ramshackle ease of an extravagant dorm room: a…
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Adam Levin on How to Exacerbate Trauma
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The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan
In the immediate aftermath of a sports fan’s heartbreak, there is that sliver of time during which all the emotion…
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Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul?
On the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler…
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So You Want to Be a Dissident?
Another key strategy, ironically, is compliance—as in compliance with as many laws as possible. Tax laws. Traffic laws. Sandor Lederer,…
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Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market
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What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week
Just after 1 p.m. this past Wednesday, President Trump posted a statement on Truth Social saying that he was pausing,…
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The Miraculous Fate of a Photographer of Miracles
Kate Friend set out to make a series about the places where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared.…
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Living Through the Market Crash? Ask a Centenarian
Charlie Duncan could very well be the oldest man in Georgia. “I’ll be one hundred and six in May,” he…
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Trump and the Courts Have Abandoned Deportees
“They’ve effectively disappeared.” A report on forty-eight people arrested by ICE in New Mexico, in early March—whose identities and whereabouts…
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Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?
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Ryan Coogler on “Sinners” | The New Yorker
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 11
“Sure, the superintelligence has its flaws. But think about how much the technology will improve even just a year from…
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Elizabeth Warren Is Trying to Stop “The Dumbest Financial Crisis Ever”
When I caught up with Elizabeth Warren, the senior Democratic senator from Massachusetts, by telephone on Wednesday evening, it seemed…
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“The Shrouds” Is a Casket Case—and an Unsettling Vision of Techno-Paranoia
David Cronenberg’s new film, “The Shrouds,” contains the funniest and saddest blind-date sequence I’ve ever seen. Myrna (Jennifer Dale), a…
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The Pop Heartthrob Nick Jonas on Broadway
Our theatrical spring continues to be a bright one, with a bounty of audacious, boundary-breaking work emerging Off Broadway in…
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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
On March 12th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a press release about an “enhanced” operation that the agency had conducted…
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The Mini Crossword: Friday, April 11, 2025
Approximately ninety-five per cent of Justices in Supreme Court history: three letters. Source link
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“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism
You almost forget that Elisabeth Moss can smile. The lead actor on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” now in its sixth…
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Trump’s Do-Over Presidency | The New Yorker
Amid the chaos of a week when the world nearly witnessed its first global depression caused by the caprice of…
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Social Media Is Getting Better by Falling Apart
Posting online has gotten weird. Twitter is X; TikTok’s fate remains uncertain; and upstart platforms such as Bluesky are growing.…
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The Conservative Legal Advocates Working to Kill Trump’s Tariffs
Last summer, when the Supreme Court of the United States jolted the legal system by overruling the landmark Chevron decision,…
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The New Yorker Wins Three National Magazine Awards
“Incident,” a short documentary directed by Bill Morrison and produced by Jamie Kalven, received the National Magazine Award for video.…
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 10th
“It was at this point, gentlemen, that the President decided it was his plan all along to reverse course.” Source…
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The Mini Crossword: Thursday, April 10, 2025
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How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook
Jan-Werner Müller is a German historian and philosopher who has written a number of studies of right-wing populism. Müller’s central…
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Regrets, the YouTube Moms Have a Few
When Ryan O’Neal was making the promotional rounds for “Paper Moon,” in 1973, the actor informed the press that he…
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“The Studio” Pokes Fun at Hollywood’s Existential Struggle
The new Apple TV+ show follows a bumbling studio executive who’s caught between making great movies and making marketable ones.…
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Are You There, Zeus? It’s Me, Hermes
Hey Zeus, is this a good time to chat? I’ll be quick. Yes, of course you can lie down. And…
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Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism
The former senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the tumult that Donald Trump’s tariffs have inflicted…
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Will Donald Go Down with the Ship?
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Why Trump Backed Down on Tariffs
A week after so-called Liberation Day, Donald Trump put a ninety-day pause on the implementation of most of his tariffs.…
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Trump and the Favoritism Grift
It is surely a reflection of our scattered and distracted era that the country sailed, this year, into a widely…
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Merve Emre Ventures Into the Age Gap
In recent years, Merve Emre—a professor, literary critic, and contributing writer at this magazine—has tackled a range of culturally salient…
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TikTok and the Retreat from Technological Globalization
On January 18th, at around 10:30 P.M, the social platform TikTok went dark in the United States. It remained unavailable…
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“A Minecraft Movie” Is a Tale of Two Cinematic Universes
I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly…
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What Do Adopted Children Owe Their Birth Parents?
“I used to work for an adoption agency, a very long time ago,” Pauline Hillen says. “Nowadays, I help adoptees…
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Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?
The new essay collection “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age,” by Vauhini Vara, opens with a transcript. “If I paste…
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The Crossword: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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The Civilians on the Other Side of Signalgate
“They have hearts broken into pieces.” A report on the recent U.S. air strikes in Yemen, where more than fifty…
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What Pauline Kael Failed to See About Young Film Lovers
Pauline Kael’s most famous work for The New Yorker, her celebrated review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” from October, 1967, was…
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“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”
A few days into Donald Trump’s second term, Emily Williams, a public-health professor at the University of Washington, e-mailed a…
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Will A.I. Save the News?
I am a forty-five-year-old journalist who, for many years, didn’t read the news. In high school, I knew about events…
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An A.I.-Generated Article on How to Tell If the Article You’re Reading Is A.I.-Generated
Reading is one of the main ways to stay informed and entertained in an increasingly busy world to live in.…
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The Other Side of Signalgate
On the morning of March 14th, while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice-President J. D. Vance debated a possible…
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The Crossword: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center
On the evening of March 23rd, the Kennedy Center honored Conan O’Brien with the 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American…
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Inside the Lab Where Scientists Are Bringing Back Extinct Animals
“Within eighteen months of our putting the name ‘dire wolf’ down on a whiteboard, we birthed dire wolves!” A genetics…
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Send a Tip to The New Yorker
The New Yorker is dedicated to rigorous reporting, fairness, and accuracy. Delivering journalism that exposes wrongdoing is a core part…
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In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning
The scariest unknown for women with cancer, after the disease itself, can be their husbands—a staggering number of whom abandon…
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Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
Jay Graber, the C.E.O. of the upstart social-media platform Bluesky, arrived in San Francisco the Sunday after Donald Trump’s reëlection…
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“Cirrus,” by Rosanna Warren | The New Yorker
“I don’t have time,” I toldmyself, “to kill myself: I haveto write a paper on Rimbaud.” Which evenat the…
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James C. Scott’s “In Praise of Floods,” Reviewed
“In Praise of Floods” (Yale), a study of rivers by the late political scientist James C. Scott, arrives after a…
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Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.…
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“What I Meant to Say Was,” by Sophie Cabot Black
“Let the house burn again; / Already I outlive the New World.” Source link
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Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye | The New Yorker
Murata’s newest novel, “World 99,” revisits the Firestone premise: this time, cute, alpaca-like house pets are co-opted to give birth…
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It’s a Typical Small-Town Novel. Except for the Nazis
We know this kind of novel. Reliable as the seasons, its opening pages disclose a familiar reality. A hovering, Godlike…
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Protecting the National Airspace, Post-DOGE
The Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center is a five-thousand-acre campus in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, a…
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Play Laugh Lines No. 14: Doctors
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The Dire Wolf Is Back
Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have…
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Richard McGuire’s “Zooming In” | The New Yorker
For the cover of the April 14, 2025, Innovation & Tech Issue, the artist Richard McGuire offers an image that…
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The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a…
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Your Handy Road Map to Authoritarianism
Turn right at Toxic Masculinity and continue straight through Weakening Checks and Balances. Source link
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How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market
As President Donald Trump golfed in Florida over the weekend, his hefty new tariffs, which target everywhere from China to…
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons April 14, 2025
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Another Round with Peter Wolf
A framed gold record of the J. Geils Band’s 1980 album, “Love Stinks,” hangs in the back room of McSorley’s…
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Briefly Noted
“The Crossing,” “Powers of Reading,” “Dream State,” and “Tilt.” Source link
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The Brazilian Judge Taking On the Digital Far Right
The Brazilian Supreme Court, a wide, low, glass-faced building with swooping colonnades, sits near the national legislature and the Presidential…
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Seth Rogen Has Some Notes
Seth Rogen’s first exposure to Hollywood executives was at the age of seventeen, when he was starring on “Freaks and…
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The Crossword: Monday, April 7, 2025
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Return of the Plastic Straw
It is “the Policy of the United States to end the use of paper straws.” . . . [Justice] Department components shall take…
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At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
In the very first paragraph of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual for a second Trump Administration, battle lines…
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The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever
The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than…
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“From, To,” by David Bezmozgis
How little it takes for people to feel “unsafe”—that glib euphemistic construction. The opposite of safe is not unsafe, as…
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Margaret Atwood on Mavis Gallant’s “Orphans’ Progress”
In 1965, when I was twenty-five and starting out as a writer, I was reading The New Yorker, as all…
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Katie Kitamura Knows We’re Faking It
Before I became a journalist, I got a Ph.D. in Russian literature. I don’t miss academia, but I do miss…
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The Launch of the Torpedo Bat
The New York Yankees have always liked size: big stars, big contracts, big games, big bodies. A short porch in…
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David Bezmozgis Reads “From, To”
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David Bezmozgis on Ancestral and Adversarial Pain
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The Shameless Redemption Tour of Jonathan Majors
What decade is “Magazine Dreams,” a spiritually stifled drama about a bodybuilder driven to fits of chemically induced rage, set…
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Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs
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Capturing the Spirit of a City on Fire
Online, personal accounts of loss gave way to stories about helping those in distress. Friendly, who’d been feeling helpless as…
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Desperate for Botox | The New Yorker
I first got Botox about eight years ago, at a med spa on a busy, ugly stretch of Highway 49…
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A Win for Democracy in South Korea
South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of the country’s President, removing him from office. E. Tammy Kim, who covered…
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Why the Tech Giant Nvidia May Own the Future. Plus, Joshua Rothman on Taking A.I. Seriously
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The Writer Katie Kitamura on Autonomy, Interpretation, and “Audition”
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The Mini Crossword: Friday, April 4, 2025
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“Warfare” Offers a Hyperrealist Rebuke of the American War Movie
“Warfare” ends the way a lot of movies based on true events do: with a series of side-by-side photographs. Here…
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The Play Where Everyone Keeps Fainting
The last time Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy “Titus Andronicus” was staged at the Globe Theatre, in London, in 2014, members of…
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Retro Masculinity on Broadway, in “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Good Night, and Good Luck”
At the climax of David Mamet’s masterpiece “Glengarry Glen Ross”—now at the Palace, in its fourth Broadway production since 1984—a…
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The Evolution of Dance Theatre of Harlem
From the start, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s history has been a cycle of struggle and triumph. The dancer Arthur Mitchell…
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Neige Sinno Doesn’t Believe in Writing as Therapy
“Because for me too, when it comes down to it, the thing that’s most interesting is what’s going on in…
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Has Trump’s Legal Strategy Backfired?
Remember when Donald Trump told people that they’d get tired of winning once he was in office? If you are…
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Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy
By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable.…
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Trump’s Trade War Begins | The New Yorker
Donald Trump’s trade war is on. The global markets are rattled. John Cassidy on how, after running on a campaign…
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The Dreamlike Journeys of “Việt and Nam” and “Grand Tour”
Every good film is, to some degree, a transporting experience—a dissolution of boundaries between here and there, then and now.…
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Corrections and Clarifications to Everything I’ve Ever Said
When I was sixteen, my friend Miriam texted me to say that she’d failed our English exam and I replied,…
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The Mini Crossword: Thursday, April 3, 2025
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A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice
Last Friday could have passed for a lovely spring day on the Connecticut campus of Wesleyan University. Students with books…
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Gossip, Then and Now | The New Yorker
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The Truth About Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”
After weeks of nervous anticipation in the financial markets and in the capitals of America’s trading partners, Donald Trump’s “Liberation…
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How Tesla Dealerships Became the Epicenter of the Trump Resistance
Sarah Larson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Tesla Takedown movement, protesting Elon Musk and Donald Trump, along with the…
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This Year’s Theatre Season Is Nuts
In today’s newsletter: why this season is bringing an artistic and audience frenzy not seen in years. Plus: In Jacobs-Jenkins’s…
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Fredrik Backman on the Art of Scandinavian Storytelling
Swedish, the native language of the novelist Fredrik Backman, is spoken by only about ten million people, so the writer…
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 2nd
“Wow—I’d just assumed your profile picture was A.I.-generated.” Source link
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You Love the Office | The New Yorker
Congratulations, Floor B13! It’s officially time for you all to come back into the office. It’s been years since all…
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What Marine Le Pen’s Conviction Means for French Democracy
On Monday, a criminal court in France found Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, and barred her from running for…
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The Crossword: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Bruce Wayne and Bruce Banner, for two: nine letters. Source link
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The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
If asked to come up with a quintessentially “human” work of art, one could do worse than to name a…
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The Makeup Artist Deported by Trump
Andry José Hernández Romero was among more than two hundred immigrants on the planes that the Trump Administration sent to…
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The “Snow White” Controversy, Like Our Zeitgeist, Is Both Stupid and Sinister
Why has Disney’s new live-action remake of “Snow White” flopped at the box office? Is it because the dull trailer…
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“Fiume o Morte!” Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue
Many filmmakers display undue faith in their ability to depict ways of life far outside their own experience. This blithe…
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The Fired Student-Debt Relievers at the Department of Education
Like many employees of Ed and the F.S.A., Gittleman had her critiques of the system. “A society should not be…
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How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy
Albert Mohler, the longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is one of the best-known evangelicals in the United…
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Are We Taking A.I. Seriously Enough?
My in-laws own a little two-bedroom beach bungalow. It’s part of a condo development that hasn’t changed much in fifty…
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America!: Wake Up, This Decade Has Just Been an Elaborate April Fools’!
Since 2015, you’ve been part of a cinéma-vérité project directed by Jordan Peele, and you’re playing Hapless Liberal No. 61.…
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David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Lu, Reshaping,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2021.…
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The Crossword: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 1st
“I’ve decided to focus less on cardio and more on strength to get out of bed in the morning.” Source…
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The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act
Throughout the fall and winter, Alexis Romero de Hernández struggled to accept a grim new routine. She lived in a…
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Fighting Elon Musk, One Tesla Dealership at a Time
On Saturday, as Elon Musk was making headlines for his continued efforts at DOGE and dodging a lawsuit for offering…
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Can John Thune Protect the Senate from Irrelevance?
In today’s newsletter: the Trump Administration is threatening to push the Senate from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. The Senate Majority Leader…
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Li’l Kayla Endures It All
“Precious Rubbish,” a début graphic novel by Kayla E., a book designer turned cartoonist, delivers an unflinching look at the…
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons April 7, 2025
Drawings from the April 7, 2025, magazine. Source link
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