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Is reading dying? This year, as screens and social-media apps continued to fragment our attention, it felt like we finally began to grasp…

21.12.2025 by Swedan Margen

What’s in a like? That which we call a heart by any other name would be a retweet. (I am so sorry, mostly to my college Shakespeare…

10.12.2025 by Swedan Margen

COBB: Well, I’ll ask you the question that I use when I conclude any interview with any subject, which is: Is there anything that we…

05.12.2025 by Swedan Margen

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…

25.08.2025 by Swedan Margen

Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else,…

30.06.2025 by Swedan Margen

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…

05.05.2025 by Swedan Margen

The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick—my boss—likes to say that what we do at the magazine is “weird.” What he means is that it can…

17.12.2024 by Swedan Margen

I love how much we humans enjoy looking back at what we recently liked and revelling in our ongoing good judgment. (A very merry Spotify…

06.12.2024 by Swedan Margen