Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even beyond. “We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Arlene Croce, who wrote the Dancing column in The New Yorker from 1973 to 1996, died on December 16th, at the age of ninety. She was a towering figure, a critic…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. 2024 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story RaMell Ross walks us through a pivotal scene in his début fiction feature, “Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of the novel by Colson Whitehead. Ross has spent years honing his skills as…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Before social networks became the de-facto place for logging mundane moments from our lives, Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch incorporated a feature that let users send footage they’d filmed directly to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story 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 to the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “A Complete Unknown,” the new film directed by James Mangold, a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) impulsively slips into a movie theatre with his girlfriend, Sylvie (Elle Fanning), to catch…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story 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, we’d overpacked…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The editor of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Taken together, three recent films provoke a profound questioning of how and why we guard the border walls separating documentaries from dramatic features. These movies sabotage genre purity; the modes which…
