Writer
When a Writer Takes to the Stage
Writers who contemplate going onstage tend to fall into two camps: those who know better and those who should but don’t. Of the second kind, The New Yorker has,...
A Writer Whose Novels Explored the Edges of Normalcy
Minnie Mouse and Orpheus meet at a singles mixer on an ocean liner, en route from New Zealand to England. Orpheus, who is really a man named Toby Withers...
An Argentinean Writer and the Movement for Women’s Rights
Argentina was already a leader in gender-equality legislation—it was the first nation in Latin America to pass same-sex-marriage laws, and the first in the world to identify trans rights...
Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, the ‘Princess of Black Poetry,’ dies at 81
Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess of Black Poetry,” has...
France alarmed by disappearance of writer in Algeria
France's Emmanuel Macron has joined calls for information about Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, who has gone missing after he flew to Algiers last Saturday.An outspoken critic of the Algerian...
Writer Olivia Nuzzi and magazine “part ways” after RFK Jr. claims
Olivia Nuzzi, a political correspondent for New York Magazine, has now parted ways with the publication after claims surfaced that she had a personal digital relationship with RFK, Jr....
Growing Up with the Writer Ved Mehta
My parents’ apartment had never looked better than on the day it was photographed to sell. As I walked through the rooms, the only thing that seemed out of...
What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?
Last spring, a graduate student in social anthropology—let’s call him Chris—sat down at his laptop and asked ChatGPT for help with a writing assignment. He pasted a few thousand...
Macron urges Algeria to free writer jailed for Morocco comments