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“Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre
The first episode of the new Apple TV+ drama “Your Friends and Neighbors” takes pains to explain how one can rake in…
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Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape
A woman is running. In the path, a man appears as if from nowhere. He is masked and he holds a knife. What are her choices? On one side is…
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The Self-Taught Cook Who Mastered the Flour Tortilla
As a kid growing up in Hermosillo, the biggest city in the arid northern Mexican state of Sonora, Ruben Leal took the region’s signature…
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Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests
“The new wine has burst the old bottles,” the playwright August Strindberg wrote, in a bullish preface to his 1888 play “Miss Julie,”…
Culture
The Dissonant Howl of “Salome”
The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward,…
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The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Before doing so, however, he sat around with the boys in the bar and thrashed out…
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Why I Broke Up with New York
All this may seem to imply some deeper judgment about the city—that I think it’s wanton and unregulated, a “Where’s Waldo?” of Boschian…
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Why I Can’t Quit the New York Post
Worse, I’m not sure I want to. If I’m away and something big happens, I usually ask a friend if he can stop by a newsstand so I don’t miss…
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Keith McNally’s Guide to Making a Scene
McNally seemed to enjoy occupying a place in New York’s cultural landscape; he describes McInerney asking for permission to use the…
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How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He’s Born?
When the writer Amanda Hess was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with her first child, her doctor, looking at an ultrasound, “saw something he…
Culture
London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory
Long before Richard II ran afoul of mutinous nobles, and almost two centuries before Shakespeare wrote Richard’s portrait in majestic…
Politics
Does a Fetus Have Constitutional Rights?
In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions performed annually…
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The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung…
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The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.…
Culture
“Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” Downtown
Last season, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had a Broadway hit at Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre with his Tony Award-winning…
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A Visit to Madam Bedi: A Personal History by Tara Westover
My friend Sukrit invited me to India. His mother lived in Delhi. He said I should get out of England and give my eyes something new to…
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Yukio Mishima’s Death Cult
I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long…
Politics
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year
The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books of 2024. The…
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“Black Doves” Offers a Sentimental Spin on the Spy Genre
In the new mystery thriller “Black Doves,” the purview of secret agents can include school plays, bedtime stories, and holiday…
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Sure, “Paradise Lost” Is Radical, but Did You Know It Was Sexy?
A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork. Source link