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Borgo Is Worth the Trip to Manhattan
If you’re in the bar, or in the main dining room just beyond it, you might miss the kitchen’s wood-burning oven. It’s used to cook, among other things, the...
The Animals That Made It All Worth It
Like many Internet users, I love nothing more than animal content. In the decade or so since I’ve joined Instagram, I’ve probably spent dozens of hours liking and commenting...
A Photographer’s Intimate Chronicle of Home Birth
A paradox of giving birth is that you are irrefutably there—no one has ever been more there!—and yet not there at all. In all but one of Shannon’s images...
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2024
I love how much we humans enjoy looking back at what we recently liked and revelling in our ongoing good judgment. (A very merry Spotify Wrapped season to you...
One Conductor’s Mission to Diversify Music in “The Orchestra Chuck Built”
Chuck Dickerson, the founder and director of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, is on a mission. “American orchestras are not a very diverse place,” he says....
The Best Movies of 2024
A year ago, I wasn’t sanguine about the state of ultra-low-budget filmmaking; this year, the D.I.Y. domain accounts for many of the best new releases. What I’m still not...
The Twenty-first Century’s Best Works of Native American History
As Ned Blackhawk points out in his National Book Award-winning “The Rediscovery of America,” most histories of the United States’ origin story are anchored by Europeans: “Puritans governing a...
Lucy Grealy Understood What It Meant To Be Seen
Lucy Grealy was an unsparing observer of human physiognomy. She was a poet, with the requisite eye for piercing detail, but her attention to personal appearance—and its effect on...
The Best Podcasts of 2024
What a year, eh? In podcasts, as everywhere else lately, volatility abounds—yet beauty and wonder abound, too. Ongoing budget cuts (and debatable decision-making) meant that we lost more terrific...
The Best Albums of 2024
There is perhaps no moment in history when being a music critic felt like a respectable, lucrative, or essential position, though there are certainly years when it maybe seemed...
