New Yorker writers name their favorite short books. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
What We’re Reading This Summer: Pocket Reads
New Yorker writers name their favorite short books.
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Jennifer Wilson
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Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or pitches@defector.com
Didn't get this into the great @kqedforum.bsky.social I was just on with @jenniferwilson.bsky.social but the prospecting craze is also a symptom of financial nihilism: rising cost of living makes traditional forms of saving seem quixotic—all that is left are moonshots www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Are We in a New Gold Rush? | KQED
We talk to New Yorker staff writer Jennifer Wilson and experts – and a gold prospector – about the legacy and future of this precious metal.
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Soaring gold prices, viral panning influencers, macho gold-mining reality shows, and Trump’s gold obsession have ignited a craze for prospecting not seen since 1849. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Americans Caught Gold Fever Again
Soaring gold prices, viral panning influencers, macho gold-mining reality shows, and Trump’s gold obsession have ignited a craze for prospecting not seen since 1849.
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The category is...Talk of the Town! I spoke to the queer ballroom legend Junior LaBeija, of the Royal House of LaBeija, about playing Gus the Theatre Cat in the unmissable "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" on Broadway. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Junior LaBeija, Master of Ceremonies
As the ballroom legend makes their Broadway début in “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” they reflect on accessorizing with raw chicken and dressing like Al Capone.
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Arsenio Hall’s show became the epicenter of early-90s cool, with the decade’s biggest names, from Tom Cruise to Bill Clinton, stopping by to earn street cred. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
His show became the epicenter of early-nineties cool, with the decade’s biggest names, from Tom Cruise to Bill Clinton, stopping by to earn street cred.
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ICYMI, @jenniferwilson.bsky.social on her reporting on prenuptial agreements moving beyond protecting wealth: www.wnyc.org/story/millen...
Millennials and Their Prenups | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
Jennifer Wilson, staff writer at The New Yorker covering books and culture, discusses her latest reporting on how prenuptial agreements are being embraced by millennials — including m...
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Holy shit, a trend story that includes evidence of an actual trend www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
omg what an honor! um i'd like to thank the academy, james frey, my parents for ruining my personality (just kidding mom and dad it's not your fault!) lithub.com/the-most-sca...
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…
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Mental imagery is associated with a bewildering variety of human traits and capacities: a propensity to hold grudges; a vulnerability to trauma; emotional awareness; ways of making art; memory of one’s life. What happens if you can’t see it? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HgpLlB
My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV
But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.
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Sanna Marin, the 30-something Prime Minister of Finland, became the subject of intense media scrutiny when videos of her clubbing went viral. The Finnish press were “smelling blood,” she said. Her new memoir is an effort to set the record straight.
The Prime Minister Who Tried to Have a Life Outside the Office
As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast.
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Can world leaders have work-life balance? I traveled to Helsinki over the summer to find out. For this week's issue, I profiled Sanna Marin, the former "party girl" prime minister of Finland. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Prime Minister Who Tried to Have a Life Outside the Office
As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast.
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I profiled Sir Tim, the mild-mannered Pandora who invented the Web, and asked about his plans to save us from Big Tech. (They involve a trustworthy chatbot named “Charlie.”) Read to find out what went wrong between dot-com utopianism and “MechaHitler” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
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In the 2010s, “I Love Dick,” Chris Kraus’s memoir of erotic obsession, became a viral phenomenon after it was discovered by writers like Tavi Gevinson, Lena Dunham, and Sheila Heti. Now the author has returned with another genre-defying book.
Chris Kraus Reinvents the True-Crime Novel
Her début, “I Love Dick,” was an epistolary memoir of erotic obsession that redefined the form. In “The Four Spent the Day Together,” she turns another genre on its head.
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Susan Orlean’s profile of an orchid poacher, published in this magazine in 1995, inspired Charlie Kaufman’s movie “Adaptation.” Jennifer Wilson reflects on Orlean’s stormy, sensual prose. #NewYorker100
Jennifer Wilson on Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever”
The writer worried that the story was “too niche, too odd,” the crime of flower theft “too minor.” To think, I had loved it for precisely those qualities.
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Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah
❤️ @jenniferwilson.bsky.social "someone had waded through swamps, deciphered Latin, and gained the trust of egomaniacal horticulturalists, all for my passing delight" www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
Jennifer Wilson on Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever”
The writer worried that the story was “too niche, too odd,” the crime of flower theft “too minor.” To think, I had loved it for precisely those qualities.
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Jennifer Wilson, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what happens when home DNA kits produce unexpected results and why some call for paternity testing at birth.
Surprise! Your dad is not your father - Think
Jennifer Wilson, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what happens when home DNA kits produce unexpected results and why some call for paternity testing at birth.
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Through Friday, we’ll be sharing the National Book Awards longlists for Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Stay tuned for more announcements of this year’s honorees.
The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist
Through Friday, The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
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Do reviews draw readers? Boost subscriptions? Sell ads? And if the answer is ‘no,’ what then? Charlotte Klein explores the precarious state of cultural criticism.
Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
Do reviews draw readers? Boost subscriptions? Sell ads? And if the answer is ‘no,’ what then? Charlotte Klein explores the precarious state of cultural criticism.
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when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives august 27— september 21 at MoMA. co-curated by maya s. cade and k. austin collins www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
maya cade@mayascade.bsky.social · last yr.something you may not know about me is that i am a hurricane katrina survivor. this year is the 20th anniversary of the hurricane and i am honored to be co-curating a film program at MoMA that takes a look at new orleans before, during, & after the storm. learn more: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
"Evil is not eternal, and truth will surely win." On dissidence, despair, and defiant hope in Julia Loktev's extraordinary five-part documentary, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I” Is a Staggering Portrait of Russian Journalists in Dissent
In Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, filmed before, during, and after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, several courageous Moscow reporters see their worst fears realized.
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The city that gave the world Siskel & Ebert no longer has a full-time print film critic.
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 12mo agoChicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips announces he has taken a buyout and the Trib is eliminating his post. Unless I am missing someone I believe this leaves the nation's third-largest city without a single full-time film writing gig.
Millions of Americans use commercial DNA tests. What happens when you find out that your parents aren't who you thought?
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises
Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answe...
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It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
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Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor at The New Yorker since 2003, will be doing an AMA on Reddit on r/writing at 2 P.M. E.T. today. Submit your question and tune in here: nyer.cm/jLD45iz
Thank you @slate.com and @maryharris.bsky.social for having me on to discuss my @newyorker.com story on intimacy coordinators, what I learned training to become one, and why I will be keeping my day job. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
Violence in movies has coordinators—why not sex on TV?
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Best first line of the day goes to Jennifer Wilson in @newyorker.com: “Earlier this year— Valentine's Day weekend— to be precise I found myself sitting on the floor of a loft in downtown Los Angeles with eight other adults, learning how to fake an orgasm.”
