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The Year of the Female Creep
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A new literary character has logged on. It’s unclear how long she’s been here; her arrival itself went unnoticed. Instead of speaking, she lurks. Her profile picture is the default “girl”…
The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Four years ago, on the threshold of a critical election year that would decide whether Donald Trump won another term in the White House, I asked a German friend, Constanze Stelzenmüller,…
The Year of the Orca
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the night of May 4th, the skipper Werner Schaufelberger was sailing the Swiss yacht Champagne toward a Spanish port town on the Strait of Gibraltar when he heard a loud…
A Sense of Mystery and Wonder in a New “Color Purple”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The prime success of the new movie version of “The Color Purple” is its tone: it plays like legend, filtered through the pleasure and the pain of the telling. It’s a…
An Exhausting Year in (and Out of) the Office
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s been almost four years since the coronavirus pandemic inaugurated a period of sustained upheaval for knowledge workers. The first wave of change came in early 2021, with the Great Resignation—a…
How Lea Ypi Defines Freedom
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In February, 2020, the Albanian-British philosopher Lea Ypi found herself in a closet trying to write a book about freedom. Ypi, who is a professor of political theory at the London…
January Is Experimental-Theatre Month
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’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 in-box. New Year’s…
What’s the Story with Sustainable Sushi?
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. Bar Miller, a three-month-old omakase counter in the…
Bianca Bagnarelli’s “Deadline”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Bianca Bagnarelli has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2016, but the image she drew for the January 1 & 8, 2024, issue, capturing the stormy feelings many of us…
