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Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris
All these years later, I could still see their room so clearly: its dark, almost black wood panelling, their checkerboard-tiled floor. It…
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A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out
The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation.…
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R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Meet-Cute”
For the cover of the April 20, 2026, issue, the cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson, a new father, tackled an issue that people in his age…
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St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?
This revisionist view of Paul has reached a climax with Nina E. Livesey’s recent book, “The Letters of Paul in Their Roman Literary…
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Zara Larsson Gets Her Flowers
“Midnight Sun” is more adult, more sexed, and more camp than Larsson’s past music, which tended toward the subgenre known as tropical…
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“Blue Heron” Is an Exalted Drama of Troubled Childhood
The movie’s fluid observational construction conjures drama by compounding micro-incidents; its narrative emerges from the shaping of…
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Elle Fanning Gets Maternal
The Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, “Margo’s Got…
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Mad About the Mandolin
Calace, I discovered, was a Neapolitan workshop that had been making mandolins since 1825, and Raffaele Calace, the grandson of the…
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“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source
The rules of this netherworld announce themselves, early on, via a nondescript wall sign. “Do not overlook any anomalies,” it says. “If…
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Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order
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“Big Mistakes” Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays
At the start of the new comedic thriller “Big Mistakes,” the lives of Nicky Dardano (Dan Levy), a quasi-closeted pastor, and his sister…
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It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
© 2026 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as…
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A Reading List from the Director of the Noguchi Museum
In 1986, Amy Hau started working with the Japanese American artist, designer, and architect Isamu Noguchi as an assistant at his studio…
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The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents
The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot. Source…
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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology
Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century, skilled weavers and…
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“The Drama” Is One Long Troll
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems…
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The Scandal of the Sharenting Economy
“Like, Follow, Subscribe” is decently reported, if clunkily written; it lacks the legal and philosophical acumen of Leah A. Plunkett’s…
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Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free?
Twenty years ago, Hatmaker was much like Waters: a young pastor’s wife raising three little kids while writing her first books on Biblical…
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We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing
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In Film, Sometimes the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen
Directing movies is also a matter of production—of the interpersonal, the administrative, and the technical practicalities that go into…
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In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family
Witchcraft was traditionally a form of occult knowledge: esoteric, hidden, available only to initiates. Now, though, with the widespread…
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Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons”
For the cover of the April 13, 2026, Future Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann depicted an army of machines filling the horizon, one of…
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A Malaysian Menu Laced with the Flavors of Brooklyn
The best thing on the menu at Kelang, a Malaysian restaurant in Greenpoint that opened in December, is a puffy paratha on a bed of spiced…
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He Wrote a Book About Interviewing. Here’s His Interview.
I want to be able to speak freely, and I want you to be able to speak freely, and in order to do that I think you should have more freedom…