The New Yorker - July 29, 2024

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the R.N.C.; an Olympian forebear; ear moments; Tilted Axes; a lawyer turned comedian.

OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS
Old Money - Lauren Collins
The mystery of a French shipwreck’s stolen gold.

A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Brink of War - Dexter Filkins
Hezbollah and Israel’s border conflict.

GOINGS ON

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

1 min

How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap

When I was growing up, in the early two-thousands, I knew of only one way that a mere mortal could be pictured in a bikini for paying subscribers.

2 mins

DEAD RECKONING

At the Sphere, a fan wrestles with what the Grateful Dead have left behind.

10+ mins

WRITING PROMPTS

Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller.

3 mins

A YOUNG ARTIST

An Italian widow is still discovering the joy of painting at ninety-three.

10+ mins

Old Money - How treasure from an eighteen-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple

How treasure from an eighteenth-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple.

10+ mins

THE BRINK OF WAR

Will Hezbollah's border fight with Israel lead to a wider conflict?

10+ mins

Abject Naturalism + Sarah Braunstein

The baby's father left before the Cesarean incision had fully healed, when it was still a raised red line, tender to the touch, glistening with Vitamin E oil. Perfidy!

10+ mins

What Happened To The Yuppie?– In 1979, an article by Blake Fleetwood in the Times Magazine reported a surprising phenomenon: young people were moving to big cities

Tom McGrath's "Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation" (Grand Central) is an entertaining recap of that period. McGrath doesn't offer a novel sociological interpretation of the yuppies. What he has to say about them would have been conventional even during their time.

10+ mins

OVERCORRECTION

On the abolition of prisons.

10+ mins

BEACH BOYS

Eating and drinking through Provincetown.

7 mins

BIZARRE REALITY

Julio Torres's \"Fantasmas\" finds truth in fantasy.

5 mins

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