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Can you make a longer word with each new letter? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Play Shuffalo: Saturday, October 17, 2026
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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Unlike Nathan Fielder’s past work, “You Can See Everything” isn’t very funny, according to Naomi Fry. Instead, it’s a haunting exploration of the limits of other people’s knowability. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
We Can Never Understand Elizabeth Holmes, or Nathan Fielder
Unlike Nathan Fielder’s past work, “You Can See Everything” isn’t very funny, according to Naomi Fry. Instead, it’s a haunting exploration of the limits of other people’s knowability.
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Play Catalogues: Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Alex Gibney, the director of the new documentary “Musk,” on how the richest man in the world consolidated his power—and now wields it with abandon. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Midterms, and He Doesn’t Care Who Knows It
Alex Gibney, the director of the new documentary “Musk,” on how the richest man in the world consolidated his power—and now wields it with abandon.
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The former White House communications director reflects on his record for occupational brevity being broken. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Anthony Scaramucci Says the Universe Did Katie Zacharia a Favor
Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director, reflects on his record for occupational brevity being broken.
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From the daily newsletter: Naomi Fry and Richard Brody discuss “You Can See Everything,” a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes that is filled with twists and turns. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Nathan Fielder’s Mind-Boggling Documentary
From the daily newsletter: Naomi Fry and Richard Brody discuss “You Can See Everything,” a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes that is filled with twists and turns.
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Removing human drivers isn’t only a cost-cutting strategy; Waymo riders prefer the solitude, the New Yorker staff writer Molly Fischer says. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
Molly Fischer on Waymo, the Driverless Taxi Coming to a City Near You
Removing human drivers isn’t only a cost-cutting strategy; Waymo riders prefer the solitude, the New Yorker staff writer Molly Fischer says.
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Rich Baris, a pollster supportive of the MAGA “big tent,” talks about how the President lost control of his movement, and why that spells disaster for Republicans. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
Has MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump?
Rich Baris, a pollster supportive of the MAGA “big tent,” talks about how the President lost control of his movement, and why that spells disaster for Republicans.
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She was a novelist, sculptor, painter, playwright, Emmy-winning comedy writer, and professional wrestler. Her work is taking off, again, across New York. www.newyorker.com/books/second...
The Rosalyn Drexler Renaissance
Rosalyn Drexler was a novelist, a sculptor, a painter, a playwright, an Emmy-winning comedy writer, and a professional wrestler. Her work is taking off, again, across New York’s art, fashion, and book worlds.
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“Trump’s October preëlection surprise is that he’s finally decided to begin openly helping Vladimir Putin in Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine,” Susan B. Glasser writes. Read her latest column: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/y76eLM
It’s been so long since you’ve made a phone call that you’re just checking to see if you still can, and other reasons you might call instead of text, courtesy of New Yorker Humor. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/V1RuQI
Sitting still is often at odds with human nature. Is that a bad thing? www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Why Is It So Hard to Sit Still?
As humans, we fight our nervous energy—but maybe it’s because we misunderstand what it’s conveying.
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“Once Upon a Time in Harlem,” which Richard Brody described as “one of the greatest cinematic works of creative nonfiction” he’s ever seen, opens today. Revisit Brody’s review from before the film was completed. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9SCGOk
“Once Upon a Time in Harlem” Is a Film for the Ages
William Greaves’s great historical documentary, centered on a 1972 reunion of Harlem Renaissance luminaries, is still awaiting completion.
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The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Facing the Death Penalty
The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one.
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Can you make a longer word with each new letter? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Play Shuffalo: Friday, October 16, 2026
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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Sex-shaming pervades the story of Jane Doe and the “Cornell Seven.” That sort of thinking feeds into rape culture, Anahid Nersessian writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eUK6kR
As humans, we fight our nervous energy—but maybe it’s because we misunderstand what it’s conveying. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Why Is It So Hard to Sit Still?
As humans, we fight our nervous energy—but maybe it’s because we misunderstand what it’s conveying.
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Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Play Laugh Lines: Friday, October 16, 2026
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
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One of the biggest failures of the post-#MeToo moment is our collective inability to provide a confident, humane account of sex as a basic good. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Toxic Logic Behind the Shaming of Cornell’s Jane Doe
One of the biggest failures of the post-#MeToo moment is our collective inability to provide a confident, humane account of sex as a basic good.
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Britishism that’s loosely akin to “Right?”: five letters. www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
The Mini Crossword: Friday, October 16, 2026
Britishism that’s loosely akin to “Right?”: five letters.
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Conan O’Brien, Min Jin Lee, Lorna Simpson, and more, plus what to do in Chelsea and the East Village. www.newyorker.com/culture/goin...
The New Yorker Festival
Conan O’Brien, Min Jin Lee, Lorna Simpson, and more, plus what to do in Chelsea and the East Village.
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Rosalyn Drexler was a novelist, a sculptor, a painter, a playwright, an Emmy-winning comedy writer, and a professional wrestler. Her work is taking off, again, across New York’s art, fashion, and book worlds. www.newyorker.com/books/second...
The Rosalyn Drexler Renaissance
Rosalyn Drexler was a novelist, a sculptor, a painter, a playwright, an Emmy-winning comedy writer, and a professional wrestler. Her work is taking off, again, across New York’s art, fashion, and book worlds.
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In a world where the most powerful institutions seem to prefer that we be anodyne and dumb, Fontaines D.C., a young quintet from Dublin, brings a raucous intelligence to its songs. www.newyorker.com/culture/pop-...
Fontaines D.C., the Irish Punks Who Know Their Yeats
In a world where the most powerful institutions seem to prefer that we be anodyne and dumb, Fontaines D.C., a young quintet from Dublin, brings a raucous intelligence to its songs.
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Can you sort the items into the correct order? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Play Catalogues: Friday, October 16, 2026
Can you sort the items into the correct order?
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No one thinks Russian diesel can save the Republicans, so why is the President doing it? www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Trump’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin
No one thinks Russian diesel can save the Republicans, so why is the President doing it?
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From the daily newsletter: The director excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Lee Chang-dong’s Misfit Cinema
From the daily newsletter: The director excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms.
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