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Critics at Large Live: The Year of the Flop
Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.2024 in ReviewNew Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and...
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...
Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth
Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box.Sam Gold has directed five Shakespeare tragedies, but his latest, “Romeo + Juliet,”...
Trump’s Horrific Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein Revealed in New Audio
Explosive new audio reveals that Donald Trump detailed how he really felt about his White House staff to Jeffrey Epstein, and Epstein touted old photos of Trump with half-naked...
Walmart Employee Was ‘Locked In’ Store’s Oven Before Death: Emergency Audio
More disturbing details have emerged after a 19-year-old Walmart employee was found dead in the store’s walk-in bakery oven over the weekend.In roughly 90 seconds of emergency call recordings...
Sebastian Stan’s Crash Course in Becoming Trump
The actor Sebastian Stan glanced approvingly at the neon signage and old-school menus at the Pearl Diner, in the financial district, the other day. He’s lived in and near...
Is Culture Dying?
My mother, who is Chinese, grew up in Malaysia and came to America for college, in the nineteen-seventies. She and my American dad divorced when I was small, and...
The Anguish of Looking at a Monet
In September, 1870, while Prussian soldiers were trying to starve Paris into surrender, Claude Monet was in Normandy with his wife, Camille, and their son, Jean, looking for a...
Other People’s Money Can Drive You Mad
After love, money is perhaps the novel’s favorite subject, especially the novel in its most hopelessly (or, depending on your taste, endearingly) bourgeois form. Whether handled with Trollope’s irony...
At Din Tai Fung, Soup Dumplings with a Side of Spectacle
Honestly, it’s not that hard of a sell. As at Americans’ favorite quasi-upscale chain, the Cheesecake Factory, Din Tai Fung’s success hinges on utterly reliable, totally consistent quality. On...