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AFTER LONG SILENCE
The New Yorker

AFTER LONG SILENCE

Carolina Uccellis inventive 1835 opera, Anna di Resburgo,” is returned to life.

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6 mins  |
August 12, 2024
THE DEVIL TAKE IT
The New Yorker

THE DEVIL TAKE IT

The Faustian bargain has quite a history—and future.

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10+ mins  |
August 12, 2024
IN DEEP
The New Yorker

IN DEEP

“Lady in the Lake,” on Apple TV+.

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5 mins  |
August 12, 2024
THE TAIL END
The New Yorker

THE TAIL END

Bidding farewell to a cat

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10+ mins  |
August 12, 2024
Forbidden Desires - Debussy, Strauss, and a new opera about John Singer Sargent, in Des Moines.
The New Yorker

Forbidden Desires - Debussy, Strauss, and a new opera about John Singer Sargent, in Des Moines.

Debussy, Strauss, and a new opera about John Singer Sargent, in Des Moines.

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6 mins  |
August 05, 2024
My New Thing
The New Yorker

My New Thing

My new thing is journaling. It was bullet journals, but now it’s journal bullets, which is where I make a quick note anytime I see a magazine. No, the other kind of magazine.

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2 mins  |
August 05, 2024
OUT THERE
The New Yorker

OUT THERE

In midlife, Gillian Anderson is proving that she’s not so buttoned-up.

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10+ mins  |
August 05, 2024
STATE OF PLAY
The New Yorker

STATE OF PLAY

Politics and the real” at the Festival d‘Avignon.

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5 mins  |
August 05, 2024
BORN AGAIN
The New Yorker

BORN AGAIN

The past and future of Christian fundamentalism.

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10+ mins  |
August 05, 2024
PLAYING THE NUMBERS
The New Yorker

PLAYING THE NUMBERS

My mother, the gambler.

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10+ mins  |
August 05, 2024
UNCONVENTIONAL
The New Yorker

UNCONVENTIONAL

No fear and loathing in Milwaukee, just confidence.

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10+ mins  |
August 05, 2024
BLOOD RELATIVES
The New Yorker

BLOOD RELATIVES

Did the U.K.’ most infamous family massacre end in a miscarriage of justice?

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10+ mins  |
August 05, 2024
attila
The New Yorker

attila

Martha got the knife away from her mother and shut her in the garage. The garage was not for cars; it had been converted by the house’s previous owners into what the broker called a “mother-in-law apartment.”

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10+ mins  |
August 05, 2024
THE FIN AND THE FURY
The New Yorker

THE FIN AND THE FURY

Beware of sharkless waters.

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10+ mins  |
August 05, 2024
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
The New Yorker

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.

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10+ mins  |
July 29, 2024
Old Money - How treasure from an eighteen-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple
The New Yorker

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.

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July 29, 2024
Writing for a Warming World - Imagining the overwhelming, the ubiquitous, the world-shattering.
Writer’s Digest

Writing for a Warming World - Imagining the overwhelming, the ubiquitous, the world-shattering.

Climate change is one of those topics that can throw novelists—and everyone else—into a fearful and cowering silence. When the earth is losing its familiar shapes and consolations, changing drastically and in unpredictable ways beneath our feet, how can we summon our creative resources to engage in the imaginative world-building required to write a novel that takes on these threats in compelling ways? And how to avoid writing fiction that addresses irreversible climate change without letting our prose get too preachy, overly prescriptive, saturated with despair?

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8 mins  |
July - August 2024
A YOUNG ARTIST
The New Yorker

A YOUNG ARTIST

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

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10+ mins  |
July 29, 2024
BIZARRE REALITY
The New Yorker

BIZARRE REALITY

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

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5 mins  |
July 29, 2024
How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap
The New Yorker

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.

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2 mins  |
July 29, 2024
GOINGS ON
The New Yorker

GOINGS ON

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

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1 min  |
July 29, 2024
THE BRINK OF WAR
The New Yorker

THE BRINK OF WAR

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

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10+ mins  |
July 29, 2024
Abject Naturalism + Sarah Braunstein
The New Yorker

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!

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10+ mins  |
July 29, 2024
HEAVY WEATHER
The New Yorker

HEAVY WEATHER

Some first-generation disaster films were real-life disasters for their actors. D. W. Griffith's 1920 melodrama \"Way Down East,\" featuring the climactic rescue of a woman being carried off on an ice floe in raging currents, was filmed in a real river after a real blizzard.

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6 mins  |
July 29, 2024
WRITING PROMPTS
The New Yorker

WRITING PROMPTS

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

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3 mins  |
July 29, 2024
DEAD RECKONING
The New Yorker

DEAD RECKONING

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

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10+ mins  |
July 29, 2024
OVERCORRECTION
The New Yorker

OVERCORRECTION

On the abolition of prisons.

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10+ mins  |
July 29, 2024
BEACH BOYS
The New Yorker

BEACH BOYS

Eating and drinking through Provincetown.

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7 mins  |
July 29, 2024
HEAR NO EVIL
The New Yorker

HEAR NO EVIL

An artist uses audio analysis to investigate violence.

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10+ mins  |
July 22, 2024
PARADISE BRONX
The New Yorker

PARADISE BRONX

The borough’ history has always been shaped by its in-between-ness.

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10+ mins  |
July 22, 2024