On TikTok, an Album Containing Old Wartime Photos Causes Havoc

An antique dealer in Minnesota believed that he had found rare photographic evidence documenting the Nanjing Massacre. | Continue reading


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The Troublesome Legacy of the Early Romantics

Express yourself! That credo was forged by a group of brilliant, oversexed German visionaries in the late eighteenth century. But did they really think it through? | Continue reading


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How to Recover from a Happy Childhood

Like many children, I didn’t really understand what my parents were like. But I collected clues. | Continue reading


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Solomun, the D.J. Who Keeps Ibiza Dancing

He leads a manic, exhausting life—but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended. | Continue reading


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Hilary Mantel’s Life with Ghosts

The author, who has died at the age of seventy, saw little distinction between the living and the dead. | Continue reading


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Shane Gillis’s Fall and Rise

For a provocative comic, losing the job of a lifetime was the beginning of a second act. | Continue reading


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Living with Our Pandemic Trade-Offs

After two and a half years of COVID, we seem to have arrived at another judgment: the value of normalcy exceeds that of caution. | Continue reading


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Peak Cuteness, and Other Revelations from the Science of Puppies

A new book explores how dogs and people grow up together. | Continue reading


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The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books

charming New Yorker profile of the series' legacy, barely touching on its recent litigation and takedowns # | Continue reading


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Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport

In the Panhandle, where swarms of lionfish gobble up native species, a tournament offers cash prizes to divers skilled at spearing one predator after another. | Continue reading


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The Recipe Convention That Dooms Home Cooks

Countless cookbooks instruct readers to “season to taste,” but few of us know what we’re tasting for. | Continue reading


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Grow Your Own Sports Bra!

At the Biofabricate Summit in Brooklyn, envoys from Balenciaga, Nike, and Tesla survey the Namibian-mushroom bricks and the plant-waste hoodies worn by the likes of Justin Bieber and Harry Styles. | Continue reading


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Pro-choice forces fought misdirection and marshalled enormous turnout. Can their success be replicated? | Continue reading


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A Buffalo Photographer’s Dignified Look at the Passage of Time

In three decades, Milton Rogovin and his wife, Anne, captured changes in one upstate neighborhood, while also reaching deep into grand abstractions of nature and time. | Continue reading


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Google’s Caste-Bias Problem

A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect? | Continue reading


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The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

William MacAskill’s movement set out to help the global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway A.I. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way? | Continue reading


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Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals

How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief. In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations thrown by Emmanuel Macron, the new Fre … | Continue reading


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A Trip to the Boundary Waters

A chronicler of urban Chicago seeks solace in Minnesota. Plus, Susan Orlean on Ivana Trump, and Jane Mayer on Ohio’s lurch to the right. How does a swing state go hard red? | Continue reading


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Choco Tacos and Remembrance of Junk Foods Past

Perhaps, during these feel-bad times, losing a simple delight feels especially unsettling. | Continue reading


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State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy

Even in moderate places like Ohio, gerrymandering has let unchecked Republicans pass extremist laws that could never make it through Congress. As the Supreme Court anticipated when it overturned Roe v. Wade, the battle over abortion rights is now being waged state by state.(newyo … | Continue reading


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Learning to Live with a Broken Heartbeat

The palpitations came and went like the weather. No one could tell me why. | Continue reading


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What We Gain from a Good Bookstore

It’s a place whose real boundaries and character are much more than its physical dimensions. | Continue reading


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A Mormon Housewife Turned a Fake Diary into an Enormous Best-Seller

Beatrice Sparks always insisted that there was a real teen-ager behind “Go Ask Alice,” but would never say who it was. | Continue reading


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Congress Looks Set to Finally Pass Historic Climate Legislation

The bill, now supported by Joe Manchin, reflects the growing strength of the environmental movement, but also the lingering influence of the fossil-fuel industry. | Continue reading


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Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future?

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Winning a London Garden Allotment

In the U.K., waiting lists for a plot of rented land have allegedly reached forty years. Imagine my surprise when I reached the top. | Continue reading


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David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral

In a late work, Wallace captured the appeal—and the impossibility—of the literature that he hoped to create. | Continue reading


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TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms. | Continue reading


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The aging student debtors of America

In an era of declining wages and rising debt, Americans are not aging out of their student loans—they are aging into them. | Continue reading


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The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety

Interacting online today means being besieged by system-generated recommendations. Do we want what the machines tell us we want? | Continue reading


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Selling Vertically-Farmed “Omakase” Strawberries, for the Price of a Full Meal

The founder of Oishii, whose haute-cuisine strawberries have sold for as much as ten dollars a pop, offers a tour of one of his V.C.-backed vertical farms, modelled on the foothills of Japan and built in New Jersey. | Continue reading


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Hawley Concerned That Being a Coward Is Overshadowing His Work as a Fascist

WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report)-Senator Josh Hawley is "deeply concerned" that his newfound national reputation for cowardice is overshadowing his commitment to end democracy. "People see one video of me fleeing like a terrified bunny, and they think that's all there is to me," … | Continue reading


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Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future?

Two tech-minded brothers are testing the market on themselves. | Continue reading


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Alan Dershowitz's Martha's Vineyard Cancellation

Alan Dershowitz became one of the most famous lawyers in America by representing high-profile clients such as Jeffrey Epstein, Mike Tyson, and O. J. Simpson, and enmeshing himself in political debates on subjects such as torture and the Israeli occupation. (He has defended both.) … | Continue reading


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The First Images from the James Webb Telescope Are Breathtaking–and Significant

Reminiscent of Vermeer, but carrying news of the origins of the universe, the photos are just the beginning. | Continue reading


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The Haves and the Have-Yachts

Luxury ships attract outrage and political scrutiny. The ultra-rich are buying them in record numbers. | Continue reading


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Birds of Tomorrow (2021)

The Freon-rumped eider, the solar hummingbot, and other avian creatures to come. | Continue reading


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VW Bus Took the Sixties on the Road. Now It’s Getting a 21st Century Makeover

Once, it sparked dreams of community and counterculture. What’s gained—and lost—when flower power is electrified? | Continue reading


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How Not to Fight Inflation

Do the failures of Abenomics in Japan hold lessons for the United States? | Continue reading


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The Bizarre Bird That’s Breaking the Tree of Life

Darwin thought that family trees could explain evolution. The hoatzin suggests otherwise. | Continue reading


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The Secret Art of the Family Photo

They’re the pictures that mean the most to us. What makes them good? | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 2 years ago

The Rapture of Listening to a Fake Baseball Game

Nine innings of made-up balls, strikes, and ads is enough to put you to sleep—or bring you to life. | Continue reading


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Modern Art and the Esteem Machine

Picasso was a joke. Then he was a god. How did his art finally take off in America? | Continue reading


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Prenups aren’t just for rich people anymore

Younger Americans, especially, have found their own use for prenuptial agreements: protecting their spouses from the worst impulses of the American debt-collection system. | Continue reading


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Why Do We Obey Rules?

Some last and some don’t, yet we cling to them in times of change. | Continue reading


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The Runner (2001)

From 2001, David Samuels on a twenty-nine-year-old drifter, petty thief, and con artist who transformed himself into a Princeton track star. | Continue reading


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Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five

I was never a good math student, but I was determined to penetrate the mysteries of mathematics. | Continue reading


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Swamps Can Protect Against Climate Change, If We Only Let Them

Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we’ve drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps? | Continue reading


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