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Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix”
For the cover of the January 12, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss used color and composition to contrast the warmth inside with the blistering cold outside. “While in...
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The latest and most vigorous addition to this genre is “Sex Beyond ‘Yes’: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone” (Norton), by Quill Kukla, a professor of philosophy and disability studies...
All Hail the Jamaican Patty
The leader of the fancy-patty movement, for me, though, is Bar Kabawa, the swanky, sexy East Village Daiquiri joint that’s attached to Kabawa, the chef Paul Carmichael’s marvellous Caribbean...
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. Source link
Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
Sensing that she was losing the argument, Lowell rushed at Colcord, winding up to throw a punch before stopping short a few feet away from him. “If you weren’t...
“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers
Goodness is not hard to find in “Young Mothers.” The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their charges, all...
January Festivals Bring the Weird, Wonderful Shows
Also: “Tartuffe” mania, the guitar stylings of William Tyler and Yasmin Williams, Justin Chang’s movies for a new year, and more. Source link
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How Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game
In the antique-jewelry scene, the reveal was the equivalent of a Super Bowl victory. “I think I cried,” Marion Fasel, the author of “The History of Diamond Engagement Rings,”...
Reading for the New Year
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in 2025 to identify the...
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
No matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how much worse it turned out...
