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What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom
Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech…
The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, and Nonfiction.
Emily St. John Mandel’s Fluid New Novel
“Exit Party” is an elegant crime story with sci-fi shadings.
The Long Doomsday of A.I.
After industry-wide calls for A.I. regulation, what’s most concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed…
The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy
Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out…
My Weekend with an A.I. Agent
What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of…
Bob Mackie Was Serious About Sequins
Bob Mackie, who died on Monday, at 87, dressed Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John flamboyantly.
John Wilson’s Poetry of the Mundane
John Wilson, the director of “The History of Concrete,” discusses the value of comedy, NIMBYs, and making films out of both found moments…
The Wealthiest—and Stealthiest—Class in America
America’s everywhere millionaires built fortunes from hot dogs, car dealerships, medical practices, and convenience stores. Then they…
The Sisters Buying Homes Together
As marriage rates fall and housing prices climb, adult siblings are betting on the family they already have.
What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers
A new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the…
What the Met’s John Galliano Reversal Reveals
The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on…
Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place…
After Louvre Jewel Heist, Robberies Continue at French Museums
A spate of robberies, many in small towns, has raised questions about how to secure the country’s treasures.
“The Uprising” Is a Grim But Scattershot History Lesson
In “The Uprising,” Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and…
Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game
In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.
Can A.I. “Go Rogue”?
In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing…
The Sartorial Riches of the Silent-Film Era
What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.
“My Brilliant Career” Is the Best Show of the Summer
“My Brilliant Career” is a fizzy and intelligent pop-feminist interpretation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian novel—and the sleeper hit…
“Favorite Bodies,” by Lydia Davis
I told her that I’d been reading an article about morticians. One of the morticians interviewed had said something that was a revelation.
In “The Sun Never Sets,” Joe Swanberg Strips Romance to Its Bones
Joe Swanberg’s first feature in six years, “The Sun Never Sets,” turns a love triangle in Anchorage into a philosophical experiment.
