CULTURE
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The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling”
Decades later, in the eighties, we meet Erika’s niece Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky), a bespectacled, dark-haired teen-ager, growing up in what…
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The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails
On Sunday, the anti-trafficking organization World Without Exploitation released a P.S.A. featuring eleven of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. Each of the…
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Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
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“Death by Lightning” Dramatizes the Assassination America Forgot
History is littered with examples of the havoc wreaked by politicians’ will to power. No wonder, then, that voters cling…
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The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing
Are thrill-seeking kids like birds, deterred by metaphorical spikes on the roof? In late October, the M.T.A. did install barriers—vertical…
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The Administration, for its part, has denied causing widespread harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage…
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What Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for Mayor Reveals About Being Muslim in America
In the autumn of 2008, Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, broke from the Republican…
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Defeating the Far-Right “Blob Man”
The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to…
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George Saunders and Zadie Smith Talk with Deborah Treisman
On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor,…
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