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Is Technology Really Ruining Teens’ Lives?
In early 2021, the journalist Matt Richtel spoke to a father who was a few weeks into a nightmare. Tatnai Burnett was a doctor, his wife…
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What The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925
Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else,…
News
Sotomayor Rips SCOTUS for Causing Total “Chaos” in LGBTQ Books Case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor excoriated the nation’s highest judiciary Friday for ruling 6–3 to permit a group of Maryland parents to withdraw…
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Supreme Court Rules Homophobic Books Bans in Schools Are OK
Cue the book bans. The Supreme Court sided Friday with a group of Maryland parents in Mahmoud v. Taylor, ruling 6–3 to allow them to pull…
World
Are Young People Having Enough Sex?
The virgin allegations emerged about a decade ago. Young people “are so sexually inactive that it practically boggles the mind,” a writer…
World
So You Want to Be a Genius
Let’s say there’s another pandemic. This time, a lethal disease spreads through contact with other people’s fecal matter. Precision toilet…
Beauty
27 of the Best Beach Reads to Lose Yourself in This Summer
What makes a book one of the best beach reads of all time? Is it the brightly colors on the cover? A picture of a bathing-suit clad body,…
Beauty
Everything We Know So Far About HBO’s Controversial New Harry Potter Series
HBO’s forthcoming adaptation of the Harry Potter books has inspired discourse ever since it was first announced back in 2023—due in no…
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What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of…
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The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age
How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and…
Culture
Amazon cuts more jobs, this time in books division
Amazon has cut jobs in its books division, including at its Goodreads review site and Kindle units, the company said on Thursday. The…
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Beauty
In Her New Memoir, ‘How to Lose Your Mother,’ Molly Jong-Fast Charts a Bold New Path By Examining Old Family Ties
What was the spark behind you wanting to tell this story now? I wanted to write this book because I feel like this moment in midlife for…
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What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime
Late on a Sunday night in June of 2023, a woman named Carlishia Hood and her fourteen-year-old son, an honor student, pulled into Maxwell…
Beauty
HBO’s Controversial Harry Potter Series Has Found Its Harry, Ron, and Hermione—and They’re All Newcomers
HBO’s forthcoming adaptation of the Harry Potter books has sparked discourse since it was first announced back in 2023 (due in no small…
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William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism
National Review embraced Goldwater. Bozell ghostwrote his campaign book, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” a hit with college students.…
Beauty
Read an Exclusive Excerpt From Tommy Dorfman’s New Memoir, ‘Maybe This Will Save Me’
Back in the city, it went on like this—tiring, depressing, strange, numb—for a few weeks. In February, I was arrested for drug possession…
Beauty
Does Sarah Jessica Parker Really Read Two Books a Day?
A very chic, 2025-era update to those Get Caught Reading posters that used to adorn everyone’s local library dropped on social media this…
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How Barry Diller Stayed on Top
Throughout, Diller occasionally muses on the excellence of a script—“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was, he says, “perfect from the first…
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Robert Macfarlane on Books That Hold Water
The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his passion for each…
World
Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?
This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled “Why I…
World
Keith McNally’s Guide to Making a Scene
McNally seemed to enjoy occupying a place in New York’s cultural landscape; he describes McInerney asking for permission to use the…
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Writer-Director Durga Chew-Bose on Françoise Sagan’s ‘Bonjour Tristesse’—And 7 More Books That Inspired Her First Film
As for the film’s source material, Chew-Bose says that making Bonjour Tristesse significantly deepened her appreciation for Sagan’s very…
Beauty
Bridget Read’s New Book Provides a Clear-Eyed View of MLM-Scam Culture (and Its Many Victims)
How did you prepare to connect emotionally with the interview subjects in the book, some of whom lost everything? One thing I wanted to…