Joost Swarte’s “Sunny-Side Up”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the July 21, 2025, issue, the artist Joost Swarte portrays how New Yorkers have been feeling in the midst of a heat wave. “The part of a…
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Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security state prison. There are sixteen students in the…
What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If a recent crop of commercials touting the benefits of artificial intelligence is any indication, lots of Americans these days feel unduly burdened by the demands of everyday cognition. Apparently, it’s…
Earth’s Poet of Scale
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has grown tenfold. This “great acceleration,” to use the title of the (exquisitely…
Conor McPherson’s Reliable Treasure
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Conor McPherson’s small 1997 masterwork “The…
An Adolescent Crush That Never Let Up
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story John Updike’s professional relationship with The New Yorker began in 1954, when he was twenty-two and the magazine published his poem “Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums,” but his personal fascination began…
Remembrance of Scents Past
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past August, in a windowless room of the British Library, in London, Tasha Marks was enacting her own form of time travel. Marks is a scent designer who works with…
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is…
Richard Price’s Street Life
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I arrived at the novelist Richard Price’s five-story, nineteenth-century brownstone, in East Harlem, in December, the doorbell was broken. Price and his wife, the writer Lorraine Adams, had left the…
Restaurant Review: JR & Son
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 inbox. Memory is a powerful attractant, even if the…
