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THE GREAT INDOORS
The New Yorker

THE GREAT INDOORS

How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.

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September 11, 2023
SIBERIAN WOOD
The New Yorker

SIBERIAN WOOD

The thing about horseradish vodka is that it makes you forget that you’re drinking vodka.

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10+ mins  |
September 11, 2023
TALK TO ME
The New Yorker

TALK TO ME

Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?

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10+ mins  |
September 11, 2023
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
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THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.

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September 11, 2023
CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS
The New Yorker

CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS

SHOUTS & MURMURS

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September 11, 2023
Animal Magnetism
The New Yorker

Animal Magnetism

Disney takes the high road to profit.

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6 mins  |
September 04, 2023
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
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Elon Musk's Shadow Rule

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

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August 28, 2023
FARM TO FABLE
The New Yorker

FARM TO FABLE

George Orwell's animal allegory.

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September 04, 2023
BARK
The New Yorker

BARK

Do dogs have history?

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September 04, 2023
THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI
The New Yorker

THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI

When the elephant disappeared from our town's elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at six thirteen.

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September 04, 2023
LITTLE WING
The New Yorker

LITTLE WING

When homing pigeons leave home.

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September 04, 2023
THE SQUID HUNTER
The New Yorker

THE SQUID HUNTER

Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?

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September 04, 2023
PETS ALLOWED
The New Yorker

PETS ALLOWED

Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?

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September 04, 2023
BUZZED
The New Yorker

BUZZED

To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.

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September 04, 2023
HARBORING RATS
The New Yorker

HARBORING RATS

Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.

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September 04, 2023
BUTTERFLIES
The New Yorker

BUTTERFLIES

The childhood of a lepidopterist.

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September 04, 2023
A Neighborhood, Authored
The New Yorker

A Neighborhood, Authored

Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”

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10+ mins  |
August 28, 2023
Presence of Mind
The New Yorker

Presence of Mind

How the critic Jacqueline Rose learned to read the world

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10+ mins  |
August 21, 2023
American Dirt
The New Yorker

American Dirt

Monster trucks, the stars a the modern thrill show, sell more tickets than Taylor Swift

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10+ mins  |
August 21, 2023
Alfresco
The New Yorker

Alfresco

At Santa Fe Opera, a new orchestration of Monteverdi's "Orfeo."

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August 21, 2023
ALTERED STATES
The New Yorker

ALTERED STATES

“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”

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6 mins  |
August 28, 2023
BLANK SPACE
The New Yorker

BLANK SPACE

The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”

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7 mins  |
August 28, 2023
THE BIGGEST LOSERS
The New Yorker

THE BIGGEST LOSERS

How the Bible turned a history of defeat into triumph.

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August 28, 2023
MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL
The New Yorker

MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL

Does the end of Mostly Mozart signal a rising disdain for classical music at Lincoln Center?

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6 mins  |
August 28, 2023
THE AUTOPSY
The New Yorker

THE AUTOPSY

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

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10+ mins  |
August 28, 2023
THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI
The New Yorker

THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI

“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”

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3 mins  |
August 28, 2023
THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND
The New Yorker

THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND

Is beekeeping wrong?

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10+ mins  |
August 28, 2023
MAN OF STEEL
The New Yorker

MAN OF STEEL

Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.

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10+ mins  |
August 28, 2023
MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies
The New Yorker

MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies

Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.

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August 28, 2023
ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha
The New Yorker

ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha

“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.

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August 28, 2023