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How Dare Celebrities Cheat?
It is not good to go back on a covenant, even one implicitly made and foggy regarding what would constitute a violation. Few monogamous couples, that is, get down...
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2024
The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick—my boss—likes to say that what we do at the magazine is “weird.” What he means is that it can be hard...
Why Can’t You Pack a Bag?
I had my worst-ever packing experience in the late nineties, when I was a teen-ager. My mother and I were returning from a trip to Ireland. Before leaving home,...
The Year in Brain Rot
Even as late as November, across the sports fields of our little New England town, you could still hear the call, as if from sparrows chatting in the branches...
Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery”
For the cover of the December 23, 2024, issue, Kate Beaton created an image that doubles as a simple game. (To play, see the word bank below. Print subscribers...
Up from Urkel, World-Famous Nerd
Toward the end of Jaleel White’s new memoir, “Growing Up Urkel,” the actor runs through a list of regrettable life experiences. There’s an agent he wishes he’d never worked...
What Professional Organizers Know About Our Lives
In 2012, when the anthropologist Carrie M. Lane would tell people that she was researching professional organizers, most pictured Sally Field as Norma Rae holding up a “Union” sign...
Sure, “Paradise Lost” Is Radical, but Did You Know It Was Sexy?
A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork. Source link
The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian
Greene’s nearly decade-long collaboration with Morgan was arguably the most important relationship of her life outside her family, and I think the curators have done a terrific job of...
The Best Pop Songs of 2024
Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify...
