The Best TV Shows in a Bad Year
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When Reading Books Means Business
Every year, the New Yorker’s Money Issue examines a few of the most weird, riveting, and, often, troubling…
Taylor Swift Sounds Stuck | The New Yorker
Taylor Swift might not be capable of making a bad record, but “The Life of a Showgirl” is…
“The United States Is In a Speech War”
At the end of another tumultuous week, we’re discussing the indictment against Trump’s longtime political foil James Comey,…
The Mother as Antihero | The New Yorker
Sasha Bonét’s matrilineal memoir, “The Waterbearers,” traces the lives of her mother and grandmother: powerful, complicated women whose…
There’s No Easy End to the War in Ukraine
It wasn’t a “worst-case scenario,” Joshua Yaffa says of yesterday’s White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr…
André Aciman on Reading—and Misreading—Emotions
Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “Room on the Sea,” picks apart the…
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it,…
Amy Bloom’s Favorite Family Novels
Amy Bloom’s latest novel, “I’ll Be Right Here,” tells the story of a single family across more than…
Why Young People Are Hooking Up Less Than Ever
“Casual sex can be arranged as efficiently as a burrito delivery from DoorDash.” So why aren’t young people…