The New Yorker Magazine - May 20, 2024
The New Yorker Magazine - May 20, 2024
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In this issue
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on the press in Israel;
Slick Rick’s crown jewels; coaching Zendaya;
the art of party crashing; fame games.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Tabula Rasa - John McPhee
Wordle, wills, and working seizures.
A Campus in Crisis
Dissent and defiance at Columbia's pro-Palestine protests.
2 mins
Consolation
Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before.
10+ mins
THE INSTIGATOR
How Miranda July starts again.
10+ mins
A CRITIC AT LARGE - OFF THE LEASH
The wacky and wonderful world of the Westminster Dog Show.
10+ mins
LOADED
We used to think the rich had a social function. What are they good for now?
10+ mins
BLAME GAME
“Baby Reindeer” and Under the Bridge.”
5 mins
OUT OF THE DARKNESS
Zemlinsky, Schulhoff; and other neglected Jewish composers of Central Europe.
6 mins
BOOKS - FORGET IT
A neuropsychologist says that we're thinking about memory all wrong.
10 mins
A REPORTER AT LARGE - CONVICTION
Lucy Letby, the most notorious nurse in Britain, was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?
10+ mins
PERSONAL HISTORY - TABULA RASA
THE WORDLE PHILOSOPHY
10+ mins
NEIGHBORLY
My name is Margaret Jo Stinson, and I’d like to share my own perspective on this sort of thing.
3 mins
AMERICAN CHRONICLES - THE RIGHT TO HUG
Children are fighting to visit their parents in county jails.
10+ mins
STUNTED
\"The Fall Guy.\"
6 mins
MOTHERS OF US ALL
Paula Vogel's \"Mother Play,\" Shaina Taub's \"Suffs,\" and Amy Herzog's \"Mary Jane.\"
5 mins
PURE PLEASURE
The \"Radical Optimism\" of Dua Lipa.
5 mins
PARADISE LOST
The search for a home that never was in Claire Messud's new novel.
10 mins
ORIGIN STORY
What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?
10 mins
DEATH IN VENICE
At the Biennale, the past dignifies the weird, desperate present.
8 mins
WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I
\"You'll never get away with this!\" Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. \"You may destroy me, but you'll never destroy what I stand for!\"
10+ mins
STONES OF CONTENTION
The British Museum faces accusations of cultural theft-and actual theft.
10+ mins
ARROW RETRIEVER
I am an arrow retriever. After a batrows are costly and time-consuming to make. It seems like a terrible waste-and maybe even a sin―for an arrow to fall to the ground without hitting someone. Even if the arrow kills somebody, it can be reused to kill someone else. As Randolf the Scot famously said, \"Arrows don't grow on trees.\"
3 mins
READ THE LABEL
How psychiatric diagnoses create identities.
10+ mins
NEW TRICKS
An animal trainer to the stars prepares a Great Dane for his film début.
10+ mins
Beastly Matters
Where the logic behind the concern for animal welfare begins and ends.
10+ mins
TRIPLE FAULT
A meal is never just a meal in a Luca Guadagnino movie; each bite is a prelude to a kiss, every feast a form of foreplay.
6 mins
NIGHT MUSIC
“Stereophonic” and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” on Broadway.
5 mins
LITTLE OLD HER
Is Taylor Swift doing too much?
7 mins
PULSE
He footed off his shoes, the logs balanced on an arm, and tugged the door shut.
10+ mins
TOWER IN FLAMES
What kind of right is academic freedom?
10+ mins
THE BATTLE FOR ATTENTION
How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?
10+ mins
The New Yorker Magazine Description:
Publisher: Condé Nast
Category: Culture
Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
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