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The Noises That We Try Not to Hear
As the world gets louder, we combat sound with more sound, searching for an illusion of control.
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The Bittersweet Poetry of “Lima :: Limón”
Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s latest poems probe the richness of contradiction, mixing violence and pleasure, damage and repair.
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The Invisible City Beneath Paris
Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.
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Sunday Reading: Banking Scandals
From The New Yorker’s archive, stories about white-collar malfeasance and financial schemes.
Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity
The author discusses “Canvas,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine.
Sunday Reading: School Drama
From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces about the dynamic lives of students.
Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho
The novel—about desire and consciousness and loss of self—is not an easy one to understand. But once you’re in, you’re in, deep in the rhythms of the narrator’s thoughts.
The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop
Two recent collections make the surprising case that Christgau, who is known for his capsule reviews, has done his best work in his essays.
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Ingeborg Bachmann’s Portrait of Female Consciousness
The novel “Malina” is not an easy one to understand. But once you’re in, you’re in, deep in the rhythms of the narrator’s thoughts.
If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything
Martin Hägglund argues that rigorous secularism leads to socialism.
A Début Novel Remixes the Trope of the Missing Girl
In Julia Phillips’s “Disappearing Earth,” a chorus of characters offer clashing perspectives on a local abduction and much else.
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Conclusive Evidence
The sharpest review of “Speak, Memory,” the author’s memoir, was written by Nabokov himself in 1950, but never published.
A Consciousness of Reality
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Podcasts
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Canvas”
The author reads her story from the June 3, 2019, issue of the magazine.