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The Best Theatre of 2025
In September, the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returned to his career-making breakthrough from 2007, a mythopoeic tale about Oshoosi Size (Alani iLongwe), a gifted singer who has returned home...
Teen Rebellion Immortalized, Through the Eyes of Chris Steele-Perkins
The British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins died, in September, at the age of seventy-eight, after a groundbreaking and globe-spanning career, leaving behind a catalogue that ranges from images of war-torn...
How Nicolas Sarkozy Survived Twenty Days Behind Bars
Sarkozy is assigned prisoner number 320535. “Four days earlier, I had been Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of the Republic, being received by President Emmanuel Macron himself at the...
The Edge of Adolescence
Nineties teen counterculture, a trip to Universal Studios, and the modern American dream of perpetual childhood. Source link
Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s...
Is A.I. Actually a Bubble?
Luckily for managers, building human capital takes a long time. Or, at least, it used to: artificial intelligence is, among other things, a technology that speeds up learning and...
A Holiday Gift Guide: Puzzles and Games Galore
For the word gamer with old-school tastes and ample storage space, consider a Monogrammed Deluxe Scrabble set ($170), paired with a leather-bound Scrabble dictionary ($105) to help resolve disputes....
Nancy Shaver Is the Real Deal
The choreographer Marla Phelan is interested in the birth of stars—not Barbra Streisand or Lady Gaga but the cosmic kind. Working with the astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart, she has made...
Bi Gan’s Dream Factory
Every night during the shoot, Bi and his assistant directors convened in a conference room, where they and assorted crew members discussed everything from research on opium production to...
The Lovably Fragile Exes of “Is This Thing On?”
The invention, though, comes from real life. Alex’s experience is loosely modelled on that of John Bishop, a British pharmaceutical salesman who, with no standup experience, began performing at...
