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The Surprising Endurance of Martha Stewart’s “Entertaining”
To most readers, this will seem like fantasy. To Stewart, it was a snapshot of real life. She grew up in a large, middle class Polish American family in...
The Eighteen Letters Project
I realized that I didn’t want to just print out the letters and hand Hudson a stack of paper. I needed to find a bindery. The woman I ended...
Laurie Metcalf’s Stunning Return to Broadway in “Little Bear Ridge Road”
Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” directed by Joe Mantello at the Booth, on Broadway, is a small, quiet drama set in a large, quiet corner of the country....
Emma Thompson Talks with Helen Shaw
On October 26, 2025, the actor and writer Emma Thompson joined the staff writer Helen Shaw for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of...
“Fire of Wind” Is a Bold and Inspired Début
There is a sense of replay in the heightened and artificial diction with which Mateus has her cast bear witness, and this sense is enhanced by the painterly compositions...
ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon
Last week, as ICE raids ramped up in New York, city residents set about resisting in the ways they had available: confronting agents directly on sidewalks, haranguing them as...
Nicholas Thompson and the Art of the Run
In Nicholas Thompson’s book, “The Running Ground,” which came out this week, he writes that “Over the years, the sport has shifted my imagination and my sense of self.”...
When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically, in “The Ban”
In Dublin in 1981, at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis—an annual convention for what was widely regarded as the Irish Republican Army’s political wing—Danny Morrison, who had become Sinn...
In Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a Vast Vision Gets Netflixed Down to Size
The first time we encounter the Creature, though, we see almost nothing of him at all: he is a faceless wraith, in a dark cloak and a vengeful mood,...
Sarah Jessica Parker Talks with Rachel Syme
On October 26, 2025, the actor Sarah Jessica Parker took the stage with the New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme for a conversation at the 26th annual New Yorker...
