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What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means
Nothing to see here! CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show,” an institution so basic to the texture of our rapidly thinning common entertainment culture that it feels like a...
The First Time America Went Beard Crazy
A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In...
Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “Journeys”
“We are appalled by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the current American Administration,” said Sergio García Sánchez, the Spanish artist who drew the cover for the July 28, 2025, issue,...
Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?
Hurwitz, however, is undaunted by such matters. For one thing, he is not troubled by the notion that children will be lost to classical forever if they are not...
The Price of Occupation
On January 26, 2023, Israeli soldiers, hidden in the cargo hold of a dairy truck, rode into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, where the Magnum photographer...
How Rembrandt Saw Esther
Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of...
“Eddington” Is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire
“Eddington” is a slog, but a slog with ambitions—and its director and screenwriter, Ari Aster, is savvy enough to cultivate an air of mystery about what those ambitions are....
“Double Time for Pat Hobby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here.“Double Time for Pat Hobby” was...
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of stealing from the world.” All four of...
What Will Become of the C.I.A.?
In December, 1988, as the Soviet Union was beginning to come apart, Senator Bill Bradley, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, convened a closed-door hearing with...
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