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Who’s Your Favorite American?
Nessmuk is my all-time favorite American, at least for the moment. You can learn more about him at the Adirondack Experience, a museum in…
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Eight Great American Novels
You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what…
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The Book Yiyun Li Recommends Most
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li notes at the opening of her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” mimicking the words used…
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Books to Bring on Vacation
There’s a lot to look forward to on this summer’s reading list: Rachel Aviv on the mother-daughter dynamic, the return of Colson…
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How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?
Fosdick’s sermon on that fateful spring day had been advertised in the city’s newspapers: “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” From the…
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Welcome to What We’re Reading
What was the last good thing you read? I get asked this a lot when people learn that I edit book reviews for a living. It can be…
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A World Cup Final and a Teen’s Quest for Belonging in “Amarela”
André Hayato Saito’s short drama “Amarela” centers on a Japanese Brazilian teen-ager, Erika, who is eager to watch the Brazilian national…
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Mark Ulriksen’s “Kings of New York”
For the cover of the June 1, 2026, issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen wanted to celebrate the Knicks, one of the city’s beloved basketball…
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Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich
“Billionaireism,” as defined by the writer and internet critic Cory Doctorow, describes “both the pathology that affects you when you are…
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Kanye West Makes a Record for the A.I. Era
Over the years, Ye has amassed perhaps the most obsessive fan base in all of hip-hop, and some of them have carefully charted the…
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How Michael Pollan Expanded His Consciousness
The science and nature writer Michael Pollan’s latest book, “A World Appears,” tackles one of humanity’s most enduring and intimate…
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Lauren Groff on Masters of Short Fiction
Lauren Groff is perhaps most known for her best-selling third novel, “Fates and Furies,” which President Barack Obama named his favorite…
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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…
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Stewart Brand on How Progress Happens
In 1968, Stewart Brand, a young hippie who had studied biology at Stanford, co-created the Whole Earth Catalog, a “do-everything-yourself…
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How to Figure Out Your Life
The English writer Oliver Burkeman’s “Meditations for Mortals” introduces itself as a kind of handbook on how to cultivate more joy by…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any…
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Reading for the New Year: Part Three
To start the New Year, New Yorker writers have been looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they…