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An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting
Early in Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” from 2001, a young girl sits on the floor, considering how strange it is to have a body. She looks at her hand:...
The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. The waiting...
Finding a Home Among the Punks
Gail Butensky’s photographs of alternative and punk rockers, now on show at I.C.P., find poignancy in the scene’s dissonance. Source link
Independents’ Days: Standouts from Sundance 2025
I’ve never been to Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival takes place, but for years I’ve been going to Sundance in New York, thanks to press screenings...
Goings On Turns a Hundred
Shauna LyonEditor, Goings OnIn anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of The New Yorker, I’ve been looking back at old issues, starting with the inaugural edition, dated February 21, 1925,...
Abel Tesfaye Says Goodbye to the Weeknd
Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian singer who performs as the Weeknd, is perhaps his generation’s most committed self-mythologist. Early in his career, he obscured his identity while his moody, debased...
Giorgio Morandi Tried to Fit the World on a Table
As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit...
The Frustrated Promise of the Rape Kit
In 1975, a rape victims’ advocate named Linda Reinshagen shared a story with a reporter from the Chicago Tribune. A man on the South Side had pulled a woman...
Lessons for the End of the World
I’d like to think that Nikki Giovanni would have forgiven me for misleading the seemingly oblivious white proprietor of a small bookshop in the Northeast two years ago. There...
