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“Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X
Schlossberg was not by any means alone in shading the Murphy show while it was in production. C.B.K., as she is called, is the love object of a posthumous...
Losing Faith in Atheism
If I was still in search of beliefs, many atheists would object, I hadn’t really gotten over my religious upbringing. A good atheist deals not in faith but in...
A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds
Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me rethink all this. The work was made concurrently...
“Crime 101” Is an Enjoyably Moody Exercise in Michael Mann Lite
Those qualities bind him, in a spiritual sense, to Lou, who can’t suppress a quiet admiration for the criminal he’s pursuing, and also to Sharon, the insurance broker, who...
Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Every year,...
Whodunnit: The Upstate Murder-Mystery Weekend
Cupid gets his main-character moment this weekend. We asked New Yorker staffers to help build a playlist befitting his romantic mission.For a classic piece of nineties Brit pop, Oasis’s...
The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries. It finds...
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A Terrifying Scam and the System That Made It Possible
Burch tracks these cases, and has conducted her own research on plaintiffs’ experiences. Her findings are sobering: plaintiffs almost never feel that justice has been served, even when they...
Charli XCX Misses the Moment
Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.Once the fervor around Charli XCX’s 2024 album “brat” had cooled,...
The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that many were what might be termed anti-Westerns. “Most Westerns...
