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Elements

A Whale’s Afterlife

On the seafloor, scientists watch as a carcass becomes an oasis.

Dancing

What Went Wrong at New York City Ballet

Amid allegations of sexual harassment and violence, the company is reckoning with its tone on and off the stage.

Dept. of Design

Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life

The ride-sharing service has become a subsidized alternative to the transit systems that it claims to support.

The New Yorker Interview

Jane Curtin Is Playing It Straight

The actress on her sitcom years, the early, turbulent days of “S.N.L.,” and the shifting sands of the present.

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Spotlight
Sketchbook

The Rules, Guidelines, and Decrees of Patty’s Mother

If you run out of food at your dinner party, the world will end.

Profiles

From the Archive: Toni Morrison and the Ghosts in the House

“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it,” Morrison, who turns eighty-eight today, said.

Culture Desk

Heavy Metal Confronts Its Nazi Problem

In late January, fifteen bands performed at the Black Flags Over Brooklyn festival, which was organized as probably New York City’s first anti-Fascist extreme-metal show.

Our Columnists

A Weak President Declares a Fake National Emergency

Trump’s fictitious border crisis is a central element of the political narrative he has constructed for his white-nationalist base, and it’s one he can’t easily back away from.

Poems

From “Deaf Republic”

A poet writes deafness as a form of dissent against tyranny and violence.

Puzzles Dept.

The Weekly Crossword

Dirt-cake ingredient: ten letters.

The Latest

Where Are They Now? Your Fake I.D., Twenty Years On

Whatever happened to Charlie Marmalade, Wendy Jackets, and the other twenty-one-year-olds you used to party with?

2:00 P.M.

Updated Etiquette Posters from the M.T.A.

When more seats become available, do not continue to sit right next to someone.

February 17, 2019

Sunday Reading: The Art of the Profile

From The New Yorker’s archive, twelve noteworthy profiles to mark the magazine‘s ninety-fourth anniversary.

February 17, 2019

The Lovely Nineteen-Twenties Flapper Cartoons of Barbara Shermund

Throughout the Roaring Twenties, Shermund’s cartoons reflected what it was like to be a “new woman” navigating Manhattan, with sophisticated humor that spoke to the urban demimonde of the day.

February 17, 2019

Howard Schultz, Who Doesn’t See Color, Critiques Colorful Cultural Products

On the book “Green Eggs and Ham,” by Dr. Seuss: “I’ve never seen a colored egg.”

February 16, 2019
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Video

The Gender Politics of the Red Carpet

Can the influence of the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements change red-carpet culture at awards shows like the Oscars?

Cartoons from the Issue

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Photo Booth

A Gallerist’s Feminist Self-Portraits Find a Second Life

The #MeToo era has heightened our interest in seeing women control their own images, and the rediscovery of a beautiful young artist turning the lens on herself is an empowering narrative.

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From This Week’s Issue
Tables for Two

Barca Brings Manhattan-Style Dining to Staten Island

A new restaurant from Dave Pasternack, of the midtown seafood mecca Esca, offers fluke crudo, lobster spaghetti, and zuppa di pesce—and an uninterrupted view of Manhattan.

A Critic at Large

Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism

Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one.

Excursions

Inside Sean Lennon’s Seussian Music Studio

The artist discusses a new album, “South of Reality,” and outer space in the building where his parents, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, used to live and work.

Fiction

“The Confession”

“I cannot say why, but I had the painful impression that I was not the first, on that beautiful, sun-drenched day, to press her against the ground and possess her.”

Our Columnists

The Border Deal Is What a Defeat for Donald Trump Looks Like

By Tuesday evening, there were signs that even some of the most rabid supporters of the border wall had realized that further resistance was futile.

What Marjory Stoneman Douglas Knew About Justice

The namesake of the high school in Parkland, Florida, where seventeen students and staff members were shot dead in 2018, believed that any effort to make things better was worth it.

The Photographer Documenting Anti-gay Discrimination

Are Robin Hammond’s pictures so beautiful because they celebrate the human spirit, the will to be oneself and to love, whatever the circumstances and the laws?

It’s Too Late for the Grammys to Redeem Themselves

The sixty-first Grammy Awards made history. The question is whether the history-making was born out of panic or out of vision.

Jeff Bezos Chooses Soon-to-Be Bankrupt Mar-a-Lago as New Amazon Headquarters

The Amazon C.E.O. said that the company will start working around the clock to remove the property’s hideous décor.

“Birds of Passage” Chronicles an Indigenous Colombian Family’s Involvement in the Drug War

The thriller’s cultural richness is overwhelming, its sense of detail piercingly perceptive, and its sense of drama rigorously integrated with its documentary elements.

Podcasts

Jill Lepore on the Ambiguities of Socialism, and Teju Cole on Blackface

The historian walks us through the shift in America’s leftist politics, and the photographer contemplates the persistence of blackface in American culture.

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