The New Yorker
Who Gets to Play in Women’s Leagues?
Before a blood test, I had never considered my own testosterone levels. Afterward, I couldn’t think in the same way about the rules governing trans and intersex athletes. S. C. Cornell writes on the sex line in sports.
The Lede
Reporting and analysis on the affairs of the day.
A Ruinous War and Peacemaking in Gaza
Ceasefires usually don’t end wars, but truces can reveal much about the combatants.
Columbia Suspended Pro-Palestine Student Groups. The Faculty Revolted
Like other universities, the school has cracked down on activism among students, citing fears of antisemitism. Some professors think it’s gone too far.
Shane MacGowan Leaves the Astral Plane
For decades, he flung himself around as though he were made of rubber. He was beloved and admired for his songwriting, his rotten teeth, and his tendency toward insubordination.
What Was the Point of George Santos?
Washington finally rediscovers how to give a grifting congressman the boot.
Why Washington Couldn’t Quit Kissinger
Despite his controversial record, the former Secretary of State never fell out of the good graces of the D.C. establishment.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI
The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans.
Comment
Opinions, arguments, and reflections on the news.
The Best Movies of 2023
The year’s wide variety of cinematic artistry reflects the many systems of production at work behind the scenes.
The Israel-Hamas War
What Would a Lasting Peace Between Israel and Palestine Really Look Like?
The need for a new paradigm after October 7th.
The Israel-Palestine Debate, on TikTok
Live-streamers have flooded the social-media platform to prove the righteousness of their side.
One Family’s Perilous Escape from Gaza City
When Israel invaded Kamal Al-Mashharawi’s neighborhood, he crowded into a basement with his family. “The world is closing in on us,” he wrote on WhatsApp.
The Making of the World’s Go-To Hostage Negotiator
How Qatar became one of the most prominent mediators of hostage situations.
The Dawn of the Celebrity Power Couple
From Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, the first rule of the A-list relationship is clear: It always involves more than two people.
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The Year in Review
The Enduring Strangeness of Nicolas Cage
The actor’s performance in “Dream Scenario” seems crafted to remind viewers that he’s more than a meme.
Dept. of Hoopla
Funny creatures, great and small.
Toxic Emotional-Support Animals
Scary spider, downer dog, and other critters that will trigger a downward spiral.
The Best Animals to Watch Your Baby, According to Hemingway
A talking parrot, a howling monkey, a polydactyl cat, and more.
Bradley Cooper on Lenny, Lenny’s Nose, and “The Hangover” Part 4
The “Maestro” actor and director discusses playing Leonard Bernstein, the feeling of conducting a live symphony orchestra, and the prospect of bringing back a star-making franchise.
The Critics
Grand Appetites and “Poor Things”
In Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, Emma Stone plays a young woman who was created by a scientist, and is forever tasting the world—eating, dancing, travelling, having sex—as if it were freshly made.
Maybe We Already Have Runaway Machines
A new book argues that the invention of states and corporations has something to teach us about A.I. But perhaps it’s the other way around.
A Fashion Designer’s Shrewd Eye for Curation
Grace Wales Bonner’s new MOMA show is a sophisticated meditation on and, especially, around Black expression.
The Past, Present, and Future of the Period Drama
“The Buccaneers,” a series based on an Edith Wharton novel, is the latest show to mix a historical setting and a modern sensibility. Are the updates revelatory?
Frederick Wiseman in Paradise
At ninety-three, the filmmaker has just released a new documentary about a French restaurant. In his work, institutions develop a soul, even an unconscious.
“Hell’s Kitchen” Brings Alicia Keys’s Musical Power to the Public
The R. & B. titan shares a fictionalized version of her coming of age.
She was a serious woman, a small woman with a heavy manner, though some later recalled a twinkle in her eye, and others a dry sense of humor.
I remember only that her presence was full of undescribed life and uncheapened by conclusions.Continue reading »
Goings On
What to see, eat, and do, in New York City and beyond.
Women Fashion Designers at the Met
Also in this week’s recommendations from our culture editors: “Squid Game: The Challenge,” music from Romy and Liz Phair, a documentary on China, and more.
My Favorite Restaurants in New York City
Hannah Goldfield presents twenty of her top restaurants, in no particular order.
What to See This Season
Our critics’ guide to what’s happening this winter in art, theatre, music, movies, and more.
How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution
The company’s C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip. Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?
Personal Histories
Piecing Together My Father’s Murder
I was too young to remember what happened to my dad, and no one explained it to me. So I tried to assemble the story myself.
When My Book Got Banned
I had envisioned book bans as modern morality plays—but the reality was far more complicated.
The Fall of My Teen-Age Self
This particular April, I’d sworn to my mother I wasn’t smoking. Therefore: stolen cigarettes. Therefore: windowsill.
A Friend Died, Her Novel Unfinished. Could I Realize Her Vision?
Attempting to complete a beloved colleague’s work meant reckoning anew with her absence.
What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister?
Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes.
Puzzles & Games
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The Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
Will the U.A.W. Strike Turn the Rust Belt Green?
Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty
Is Beekeeping Wrong?
Fiction from the Archives
Jhumpa Lahiri
Selected Stories
The Boundary
“After just a few hours, it’s as if they’d always lived here. The things they’ve brought for a week in the country are scattered all over the place.”Year’s End
“I didn’t know which was worse—the idea of my father’s remarrying for love or of his actively seeking out a stranger for companionship.”Gogol
“He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but, of all things, Russian.”The Third and Final Continent
“I had assumed Mrs. Croft was in her eighties, perhaps as old as ninety. I had never known a person who had lived for over a century.”
