News
Cindy Sherman’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley
For a hundred years of New Yorker history (except once, in 2000, for our seventy-fifth anniversary), our covers have featured drawings,…
Swedan Margen
Swedan Margen contributes to L'Officiel Lifestyle with a focus on business and entrepreneurship.
Swedan covers business developments, emerging companies, entrepreneurial stories, and trends influencing industries and the broader economy.
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Fashion
Fashion models reckon with AI models and digital clones after controversial ad appears in Vogue
Fashion model Hannah James faced a dilemma as she weighed whether to digitally clone herself. On one hand, the 25-year-old worries digital…
Culture
What The New Yorker Was Watching in 1925
Film criticism at The New Yorker started with a bang: the first movie reviewed in the first issue, dated February 21, 1925, was the German…
News
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out.” The mere sentence radiates gentle inspiration—watercolors, billowy pants with elephants printed…
Celebrity
The Celebrity Picture Book Boom
There are no guilty pleasures in childhood. It is only as an adult that I feel a certain sheepishness when recalling one of my favorite…
News
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
When I was growing up, a critic was a jerk, a crank, a spoilsport. I figured that was the whole idea. My favorite characters on “The…
Business
Asia’s US$306 billion of global bond sales are about to go higher
More Asian borrowers are considering bond offerings, extending a stretch of sales that has already jumped to the most since 2021 at US$306…
Business
BlackRock paused fundraising for latest Asia private credit fund
BlackRock paused fundraising earlier this year for its latest Asian private credit strategy amid its merger with HPS Investment Partners,…
News
Modern Radicals Diminish Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message
The iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech urged us to fight against, not double down on, racial resentment. Source link
Business
Bank of Japan’s Ueda expects tightening job market to push up wages
Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Kazuo Ueda said that wage hikes are spreading beyond large firms and likely to keep accelerating due to a…
News
Abrego Garcia, free again, faces new Monday arrest deadline
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, released from jail Friday, now faces a new Monday deadline to check in with ICE, where the government has told him…
News
Ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie warns Ghislaine Maxwell is looking for a pardon
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is cautioning against trusting anything Ghislaine Maxwell has to say about her time as sex…
Business
Spotify flags price rises as it introduces new services: FT
Spotify will raise prices as it invests in new features and targets one billion users, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (Aug 24)…
Business
Resources That Serve New and Expectant Mothers Deserve Our Support
A compassionate community of providers, maternity homes, pregnancy centers, financial aid providers, and nonprofit organizations exists to…
News
New York City, Taco Town
Santo Taco, one of the newest of the newcomers, opened this spring, in a sliver-slim SoHo space that previously housed La Esquina’s…
News
The Creator of “Subway Takes” One Hundred Per Cent Disagrees
“Subway Takes” is the TikTok version of the “Tonight Show”: wholesome, relatable comedy, even if some episodes do acknowledge the…
News
Hospitality lags while industrial S-Reits defy tariff concerns in H1 results
While the hospitality sector “disappointed” in the latest half-year results for Singapore real estate investment trusts (S-Reits), the…
Business
Wave of director acquisitions as local rally takes a breather
Over the five trading sessions from Aug 15 to 21, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks, with net institutional outflow of…
Business
Databricks to buy Sequoia-backed Tecton in AI agent push
Databricks will acquire machine learning startup Tecton to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) agent offerings, the latest in a string…
Politics
Trump announces U.S. stake in Intel
President Trump announced Friday that the government had reached a deal to secure a 10% stake in technology company Intel. Source link
Politics
Texas Gov. Abbott celebrates passage of 'One Big Beautiful' redistricting map
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to sign the new congressional map after it was approved just hours earlier by the state Senate. Source link
Politics
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from custody
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant the government says is a dangerous MS-13 migrant smuggler and whom Democrats say is a wronged…
News
We Shouldn’t Be Designing Babies
Coming off the jeans vs. genes non-scandal, the push for comprehensive embryo screening should make alarm bells go off. Source link
Culture
A Visit to the Milwaukee Art Museum
Fabulous building, good art, and an idiotic hit job on American treasures over slavery, equality, and Columbus Source link