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Is reading dying? This year, as screens and social-media apps continued to fragment our attention, it felt like we finally began to grasp…

What’s in a like? That which we call a heart by any other name would be a retweet. (I am so sorry, mostly to my college Shakespeare…

COBB: Well, I’ll ask you the question that I use when I conclude any interview with any subject, which is: Is there anything that we…

Film criticism at The New Yorker started with a bang: the first movie reviewed in the first issue, dated February 21, 1925, was the German…

Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else,…

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Before doing so, however, he sat around with the boys in the bar and thrashed out…