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The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound”
In “The History of Sound,” a new romantic drama set during and after the First World War, passion is an intensely private thing, and in…
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The Return of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Masterpiece, “The Brothers Size”
At the beginning of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s poetic drama “The Brothers Size,” now at the Shed, one of the play’s three actors pours white…
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“Cashing Out” Examines an Investment Strategy That Profited from AIDS Deaths
As grateful as I am to the director Matt Nadel for making “Cashing Out,” a vital and outstanding film about a terrible time, it also made…
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Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye
How did this happen? To begin with, Shore had an uncommonly encouraging and generous family. His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that…
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The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist
This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards, including Young People’s Literature, Translated…
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Why Christopher Marlowe Is Still Making Trouble
Do you know the one about the Jewish guy and the Muslim Turk? They gang up on this Christian friar and strangle him. Then they take him…
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Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair
In the lead-up to the Minnesota State Fair, a twelve-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, the event’s…
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What’s the Deal with U.F.O.s?
I ran these notions by Arlan Andrews, a retired mechanical engineer and author who is the founder and director of SIGMA, a think tank of…
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The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy
In postwar Italy, the decisive moment was most often one of contrasts—between the wrinkled faces of the agrarian past and the…
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Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
And when you saw it later, how’d you feel? Well, that’s something, going back to what we were talking about before: I think everybody uses…
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“Erupcja” Starts Charli XCX’s Acting Career on a High Note
One of the key works of the modern cinema, Roberto Rossellini’s “Voyage to Italy,” from 1954—starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as…
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Reëxamining the American Dream in “The Last Carnival”
Watch “The Last Carnival.” Away from the rides and games of a busy fairground is another world. A group of men, immigrants who work at the…
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Red, White, and Bruised
© 2025 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as…
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“The Paper” Is Old News
The new workplace sitcom from Greg Daniels, who co-created the U.S. version of “The Office,” borrows its predecessor’s mockumentary…
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Is Ghosting Inevitable?
Any new technology created for the purpose of human connection also creates an opportunity for novel forms of missed connection: the…
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Sabrina Carpenter’s Comedy of Errors
Earlier this summer, the pop star Sabrina Carpenter released “Manchild,” the first single from her seventh album, “Man’s Best Friend.”…
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Why Are Kids So Funny?
My daughter, Alice, is almost two, and quite funny. Although she can say short sentences—“I need cake!”—her humor isn’t particularly…
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The End of the Late-Night Band
There’s a moment from a 2012 episode of Conan O’Brien’s former TBS show that I think about often. O’Brien’s guest, the comedian Eric…
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The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time
Marcus Brown’s voice is a crooner’s voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some spot in his body deeper than his chest. Biologically…
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Pictures of Life on a Christian Commune
Kate Riley’s ambitious début novel, “Ruth,” opens in 1963, the year that its protagonist, Ruth Scholl, is born into a scrupulously managed…
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Local Gems: Cultural Institutions
On the occasion of our third centenary issue—this one culture-themed—we asked our writers to share one of their most treasured cultural…
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“Caught Stealing” Makes New York a Comedic Criminal Nightmare
From the start of Darren Aronofsky’s new film, “Caught Stealing,” it’s apparent that it hits the sweet spot of his cinematic artistry—the…
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Scenes from the “This Is Spinal Tap” Cutting-Room Floor
In 1982, I began shooting an almost entirely improvised film,“This Is Spinal Tap,” which also happened to be my first as a director. It…
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How to Survive Your Song Going Viral on TikTok
If you’ve heard the 2019 hit song “Tek It,” by the New York City-based band Cafuné, there’s a good chance it’s not the version that the…