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Abdul El-Sayed defeated the Democratic establishment in Michigan’s Senate primary. Now he has to take that fight to the Republicans. www.newyorker.com/news/electio...
The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.
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Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
Ryan Murphy “Glee”-ifies Bret Easton Ellis’s Thriller “The Shards”
Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.
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Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment. www.newyorker.com/news/electio...
The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.
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The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.” www.newyorker.com/books/what-w...
Four Histories of Race in America
The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.”
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From the pop singer Gracie Abrams to the Gen Z rock band Geese, the internet levies the titles “nepo baby” and “industry plant” on artists they believe to be the carefully arranged product of corporate influence—regardless of the music’s merit. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Stella Lefty and the Rise of Nepo-Baby Musicians and “Industry Plants”
From the pop singer Gracie Abrams to the Gen Z rock band Geese, the internet levies the titles “nepo baby” and “industry plant” on artists they believe to be the carefully arranged product of corporate influence—regardless of the music’s merit.
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A recent book traces the history of silence, covering everything from the Anti-Noise League to Anne Brontë’s “Agnes Grey.” “The whole book is noisy with noiselessness,” Anthony Lane writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
How golden is silence, actually? The secret history of shutting up.
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Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark write about the many lessons that the “American scoundrel” Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.
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The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Makes an Adaptation Good?
The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema.
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This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir? www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era
This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?
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Resident of the Lone Star State: five letters. www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
The Crossword: Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Resident of the Lone Star State: five letters.
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Can you sort the items into the correct order? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Play Catalogues: Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Can you sort the items into the correct order?
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Can you make a longer word with each new letter? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Play Shuffalo: Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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A couple—an experienced mountaineer and his girlfriend, a novice—set out to climb Austria’s tallest mountain. She died near the summit. Was it a case of “alpine divorce”? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Did a Climber Leave His Girlfriend to Die at the Top of a Mountain?
An Austrian court pieces together the mysterious circumstances of a couple’s disastrous hike.
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In his diary, Anthony Fauci seems to be “an immunologist with seemingly no antibodies against the charms of stardom,” Molly Fischer writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand.
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Young American voters, who may fall squarely into the middle class, may resist the label. “No term in American politics is quite as slippery or misshapen,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Why the Democratic Establishment Can’t Win Over Young Voters
A new bloc of young, college-educated voters has emerged in the U.S.’s political landscape, Jay Caspian Kang observes. They don’t have much faith in the Democratic establishment.
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From the daily newsletter: our books editor chose her favorite reads of the year so far. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Three of the Best Books of the Year
From the daily newsletter: our books editor chose her favorite reads of the year so far.
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Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Should We Do More to Fight Looks-Based Discrimination?
Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.
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It is unfair, perhaps, to chide the author of “Silence: A Literary History” for her omissions. Still, in 696 pages, certain absences feel glaring. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
How golden is silence, actually? The secret history of shutting up.
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Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party. See live results here. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ncbEl3
Michigan Primary-Election Map: Live Results
A closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party.
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Two distinct blocs of young, educated, blue voters have emerged in America’s post-pandemic electorate. Neither is willing to believe in the promises of the Democratic establishment. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Why the Democratic Establishment Can’t Win Over Young Voters
A new bloc of young, college-educated voters has emerged in the U.S.’s political landscape, Jay Caspian Kang observes. They don’t have much faith in the Democratic establishment.
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Unlike the unremittingly bleak and occasionally self-serious “I Who Have Never Known Men,” “The Broom Closet,” a newly published story by Jacqueline Harpman, is arch, light-fingered, and very funny, Katy Waldman writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/s6YdPm
An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star
Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.
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Anthony Fauci’s surreally mortifying diary reminded Molly Fischer of her own, “filled with compliments hoarded and recorded, with small, keenly felt vanities.” www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand.
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A new book about the literary history of silence traces the art of shutting up from the empty halls of “Beowulf” to COVID lockdowns and beyond. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
How golden is silence, actually? The secret history of shutting up.
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Florentina Holzinger’s extreme use of the body has caused viewers to puke, faint, and leave her shows. At the Venice Biennale, though, her vision has made her a star. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/z7dd2v
Florentina Holzinger’s Naked Ambition
The artist Florentina Holzinger’s extreme use of the body has caused viewers to puke, faint, and leave her shows. At the Venice Biennale, though, her vision has made her a star.
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Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand.
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Top officials from the Biden Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
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In a Kvetchbook by Barry Blitt, Donald Trump watches as the world burns.
Donald Trump’s father reared him to have cutthroat ambition. But Roy Cohn taught him tactics, Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark write. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.
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