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The President with No Shortage of Half-Baked Ideas
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How to Figure Out Your Life
The English writer Oliver Burkeman’s “Meditations for Mortals” introduces itself as a kind of handbook on how to cultivate more joy by…
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The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”
The second sentence is “Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.” Even to my…
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The Forecast Wars on Weather Twitter
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. What you expected from this past weekend’s…
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In “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Character Development Returns to Westeros
“A new ‘Game of Thrones’ series!” you might be thinking. “Time to unroll my map of Westeros.” Well, unroll away—but “A Knight of the Seven…
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The Beckhams’ Very Public Family Meltdown
This past week, after the semi-famous Brooklyn Beckham confirmed, via Instagram, a long-simmering rift with his very famous parents,…
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Alex Honnold and Netflix Team Up for a Corporatized “Free Solo”
In Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s Oscar-winning 2018 documentary, “Free Solo,” the world-class rock climber Alex Honnold…
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“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
In 2023, the writer Patricia Lockwood chafed at Wallace’s supposed sainthood in a long piece for the London Review of Books. The essay, in…
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Easter Island and the Allure of “Lost Civilizations”
She also formed a bond with a Rapanui prophetess named Angata, the leader of an uprising against the sheep-ranching operation then…
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Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis
“They killed another guy,” someone announced, in my group chat. That message was followed quickly by a link to a video, shot from behind a…
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Wild Cherry Is Ready for Its Closeup
This could have easily been chaos, but it reads as mere idiosyncrasy, thanks to the sheer force of Wild Cherry’s appeal as a place to…
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The Country That Made Its Own Canon
When the list was released in the fall, the selections seemed to confirm detractors’ fears. This vision of Sweden was antiquated,…
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Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall
In recent years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the art of Francisco Goya. The…
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“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with…
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Donald Trump, Drama Queen
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Reading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any…
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A Début Novel About the Quest for Eternal Youth
Cash’s dialogue is the novel’s greatest trick. It’s blunt, even a little wooden, yet she wields it with a quicksilver touch, creating…
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An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West”
Lala Abaddon doesn’t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American…
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Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation”
For the cover of the January 26, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine depicted a scene that New Yorkers often encounter in the depths…
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The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting
In 1883, Schjerfbeck travelled to Brittany, where her first coup of ingenuity arrived, with paintings like “Clothes Drying” (1883) and…
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How to Kill a Fish
A full week later, when I unwrapped the bonito fillets that Yamasaki had sent me home with, I was amazed to find the skin undiminished,…
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Helen, Help Me: On the Phenomenology of Cheeseburgers
A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. Source link
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Acts of Self-Destruction
Friedkin’s film sucked much of the humor and twisted romance from the play, I realized, treating it as straight horror. Although I have…