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Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Patti Smith’s...
The Ghosts of Gracie Mansion Meet Mr. Mamdani
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Renoir’s Surprising Experiments in Perception
Also: a Quadrophenia ballet, the brave women of “Liberation,” the cultural business of affairs, and more. Source link
Rosalía Doesn’t Want to Take It Easy
Sometimes it seems as if everyone wants to be a pop girlie. Last year, Taylor Swift counted herself among the “tortured poets,” but nowadays she is a self-described “showgirl,”...
John Early Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Nate Bargatze Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedian and actor tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Andy Samberg Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The actor tackles The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. Source link
Florence Welch Learns How to Scream
The title track on “Everybody Scream,” the new album by Florence and the Machine, opens with a synth organ layered over an eerie choral harmony. In the video, directed...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The Administration, for its part, has denied causing widespread harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage harder to measure—halting data monitoring and dismissing the inspectors...
It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
There are many ways to be big on social media, but they are not created equal. Maybe an account belongs to a popular brand or to a famous person,...
Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright Talk with Amanda Petrusich
On October 26, 2025, the musicians Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Amanda Petrusich at the 26th annual...