The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

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Welcome to the lifelong struggle of dealing with our creator’s sickest joke—putting rotting bones in our eating holes.

As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were ...

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The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

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She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane (Norton). Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be ...