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Ice Cream Is Good for You
The New Yorker

Ice Cream Is Good for You

According to nutritionists, wine will either extend your life or shorten it

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3 mins  |
July 31, 2023
The Ice-Cream Truck
The New Yorker

The Ice-Cream Truck

Not a lot of good sounds could be heard on our street. Police sirens and ambulances.

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3 mins  |
July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Becoming Tennessee
The New Yorker

Becoming Tennessee

A portrait of the playwright as a young artist.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
THIS MORTAL COIL
The New Yorker

THIS MORTAL COIL

Ato Blankson-Wood stars in \"Hamlet\" in the Park.

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5 mins  |
July 24, 2023
THE PRICE IS RIGHT
The New Yorker

THE PRICE IS RIGHT

The rise and fall of neoliberalism.

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10+ mins  |
July 24, 2023
BEAR SEASON
The New Yorker

BEAR SEASON

Where the wild things

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10+ mins  |
July 24, 2023
THE CURRENT CINEMA: THE HUNT IS ON
The New Yorker

THE CURRENT CINEMA: THE HUNT IS ON

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tomtom, a pounding of the drums tells us that another installment of “Mission: Impossible” is under way.

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9 mins  |
July 24, 2023
The Maths Tutor
The New Yorker

The Maths Tutor

In her thirties, Lorraine was unfaithful once or twice; she didn’t tell her husband. Quentin owed her, she reckoned, in that long accounting of pluses and minuses which is marriage.

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July 24, 2023
A LAND HELD HOSTAGE
The New Yorker

A LAND HELD HOSTAGE

Overrun by gangs and neglected by rich allies, Haiti tries to save itself.

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10+ mins  |
July 24, 2023
SUBTLE REVOLUTION
The New Yorker

SUBTLE REVOLUTION

In the treatment of M.S., small steps add up to a new approach to disease.

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10+ mins  |
July 24, 2023
FUTURE INDIANA JONES SEQUELS
The New Yorker

FUTURE INDIANA JONES SEQUELS

SHOUTS & MURMURS

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July 24, 2023
THE POLITICAL SCENE: THE NEW BLUE WALL
The New Yorker

THE POLITICAL SCENE: THE NEW BLUE WALL

How Gretchen Whitmer made Michigan a Democratic stronghold.

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July 24, 2023
Galaxy Brain
The New Yorker

Galaxy Brain

How Samuel R. Delany reimagined science fiction.

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10+ mins  |
July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Measure for Measure
The New Yorker

Measure for Measure

On the frontiers of penile enhancement, competition for patients grows cutthroat.

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10+ mins  |
July 03, 2023
Last Gasps
The New Yorker

Last Gasps

\"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\" and \"Biosphere.\"

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Lives of the Artists
The New Yorker

Lives of the Artists

Gabriela Lena Frank's \"El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,\" in San Francisco.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Tell No Tales
The New Yorker

Tell No Tales

Storytelling has been sold as the solution to everything. But it comes at a cost.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Roberta at the Morrison
The New Yorker

Roberta at the Morrison

One day in 2010, I dropped in to the Morrison Center, in Union Square. The office was high-ceilinged and light-filled, and its I.V. room contained potted ferns and many recliners.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Colorín Colorado
The New Yorker

Colorín Colorado

SHOULD THEY HEAR THIS? - The day they came for the interview, I woke up too early, thinking about Bernard Loiseau. This happens when I'm nervous-not thinking about Loiseau, specifically, but thinking in my sleep, waking up mid-thought.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
A Lesson for the Sub
The New Yorker

A Lesson for the Sub

During my mid-twenties, I hit what you might call a bottom. Since college, I'd partaken too liberally in wine and song, although in this case the wine was cheap beer and street drugs and the song was my self-sabotaging punk band.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
P's Parties
The New Yorker

P's Parties

I should note straightaway that P's parties took place every year at her house, on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, during the mild winters we typically enjoy in this city.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Toy Story
The New Yorker

Toy Story

Barbie's now a movie star. Can Mattel gin up plots for Hot Wheels and UNO?

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Night of the Happy Bodies
The New Yorker

Night of the Happy Bodies

I like parties where you sit around and talk to people. But I love parties where you dance and make noise with people. This may seem strange for a writer, but I can find spoken words overly complex and unwieldy, especially in the fast-moving currents of a party.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
The Kitchen God
The New Yorker

The Kitchen God

I tried peeling the kitchen wall with my fingernails, but that didn't work, so I pressed hard with my fingers and a flake of the \"stucco,\" which is what I call it, fell off.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Killing Dickens
The New Yorker

Killing Dickens

Why I wrote a historical novel.

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10+ mins  |
July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The New Yorker

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

COMMENT: AFTER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION- Any proper obituary for affirmative action (1961-2023) in higher education would be obliged to note that it had been in decline for years before it met its ultimate demise last week. The policy had weathered successive legal challenges dating back to the nineteen-seventies. It was often difficult to tell whether the effect of these suits was to inspire more nuanced and legally sustainable approaches for insuring diversity or to better define the target opponents were aiming at. As with other untimely passings, the scale of what has been lost is difficult to assess in the moment. But not entirely impossible.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The New Yorker

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Boasting Thurston Moore as a record-label honcho and having shared bills with Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, Big Joanie feels like an honorary member of an indie world of yore.

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July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
Cold Case
The New Yorker

Cold Case

The final season of "Happy Valley."

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6 mins  |
July 03, 2023
Role of a Lifetime
The New Yorker

Role of a Lifetime

Why Sarah Jessica Parker keeps playing Carrie Bradshaw.

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10+ mins  |
June 26, 2023
WITCH HUNT
The New Yorker

WITCH HUNT

Juliet Stevenson stars in \"The Doctor.\"

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5 mins  |
July 03, 2023