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Rachel Aviv on Writing About Moms
The people closest to us can sometimes be the hardest to see clearly—and mothers might be the blurriest. “The mother-daughter…
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The Book Yiyun Li Recommends Most
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li notes at the opening of her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” mimicking the words used…
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Books to Bring on Vacation
There’s a lot to look forward to on this summer’s reading list: Rachel Aviv on the mother-daughter dynamic, the return of Colson…
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A World Cup Final and a Teen’s Quest for Belonging in “Amarela”
André Hayato Saito’s short drama “Amarela” centers on a Japanese Brazilian teen-ager, Erika, who is eager to watch the Brazilian national…
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Mark Ulriksen’s “Kings of New York”
For the cover of the June 1, 2026, issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen wanted to celebrate the Knicks, one of the city’s beloved basketball…
Culture
The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that…
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Stewart Brand on How Progress Happens
In 1968, Stewart Brand, a young hippie who had studied biology at Stanford, co-created the Whole Earth Catalog, a “do-everything-yourself…
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How to Figure Out Your Life
The English writer Oliver Burkeman’s “Meditations for Mortals” introduces itself as a kind of handbook on how to cultivate more joy by…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Three
To start the New Year, New Yorker writers have been looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Two
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
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Reading for the New Year
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
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“The Ice-Skater,” by Kanak Kapur
The man from Kabul had warned about the number of men assigned to each room. “I won’t lie to you,” he had said. “You’ll be uncomfortable.…
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Thelma Golden on the Literature of Harlem
When the Studio Museum in Harlem opened, in 1986, it occupied a rented loft. Last month, it reopened, after a seven-year hiatus—this time,…
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The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025
Is reading dying? This year, as screens and social-media apps continued to fragment our attention, it felt like we finally began to grasp…
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What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia
“Pastoralia,” the title story in this collection, is about two people who work in a theme park, pretending to be cavemen. Like in…
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Olga Tokarczuk Recommends Visionary Science Fiction
The Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction is known for its interest in the porosity of boundaries—between nations, between…
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A Chef’s Guide to Sumptuous Writing
From 1999 to 2020, Prune, a thirty-seat restaurant in the East Village, was a New York City institution. Its creator was Gabrielle…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Dignity
When the Albanian political philosopher Lea Ypi was growing up, her grandmother, Leman Ypi, would tell her that during her honeymoon—which…
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Malala’s Favorite Mother-Daughter Memoirs
When the Nobel Peace Prize–winning activist Malala Yousafzai was fifteen, she was shot by a member of the Taliban for advocating for…
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Salman Rushdie’s Literary Inspirations
Salman Rushdie prefers not to immerse himself in other people’s writing when he is working on his own. “When I’m writing fiction, I tend…
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Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani”
For the cover of the November 17, 2025, issue, the artist Edel Rodriguez chose to portray Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s incoming mayor,…
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Winter Culture Previews
Lorde, Clipse, Sudan Archives There’s a little something for everyone sprinkled across this winter’s slate of shows in contemporary music.…
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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…