Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” from 2001, a young girl sits on the floor, considering how strange it is to have a body. She looks at her hand: Isn’t it…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work from bold new filmmakers into a fickle, yet potentially receptive, movie-loving…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Somebody asked me, ‘When you write a pan of a movie, are you recommending that I not see it?’ ” the film critic Richard Brody recalled. “I said, ‘No, I’m recommending…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story How do you build a crossword? In this hour-long seminar, the puzzle constructors Natan Last and Robyn Weintraub provide a hands-on guide, detailing how to curate word lists, use software to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or photography typical of magazine covers. What gives the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from their time in Paris during the First…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The Lundy Brothers Restaurant, better known as Lundy’s,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the early nineteen-eighties, Gail Butensky, then an undergraduate at Northwestern University, in Chicago, started taking photographs of punk bands for the Daily Northwestern. “I had pretty wimpy taste in high…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. The waiting room is…