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Wild Cherry Is Ready for Its Closeup
This could have easily been chaos, but it reads as mere idiosyncrasy, thanks to the sheer force of Wild Cherry’s appeal as a place to…
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Gus Kenworthy Lived an Olympic Version of “Heated Rivalry”
Ahead of a comeback in Milan, the Olympic freestyle skier and actor discusses alley-oops, auditions, and coming out of the closet as a…
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The Cruelty and Theatre of the Trump Press Conference
Playacting for journalists standing in an unruly huddle just off camera, Trump asked questions of the oilmen, wondering how soon they…
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The Country That Made Its Own Canon
When the list was released in the fall, the selections seemed to confirm detractors’ fears. This vision of Sweden was antiquated,…
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William Eggleston’s Lonely South
Eggleston, however, used color in a different way: he employed the bright shock effect of advertising—Drink Coca-Cola! Drive this…
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Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
Rev displays the rhetorical power, leavened with humor and warmth, of a skilled public speaker, but many others are charismatic, too.…
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Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall
In recent years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the art of Francisco Goya. The…
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How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?
I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me when I was a kid that Santa and God…
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The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked
Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”) Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”) Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)…
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“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with…
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Donald Trump, Drama Queen
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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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A Début Novel About the Quest for Eternal Youth
Cash’s dialogue is the novel’s greatest trick. It’s blunt, even a little wooden, yet she wields it with a quicksilver touch, creating…
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An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West”
Lala Abaddon doesn’t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American…
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Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent…
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Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation”
For the cover of the January 26, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine depicted a scene that New Yorkers often encounter in the depths…
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When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills
Bernie Sanders was just a skinny, gap-toothed kid from Brooklyn in the autumn of 1953, when Vermont opened an information bureau at 1268…
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The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting
In 1883, Schjerfbeck travelled to Brittany, where her first coup of ingenuity arrived, with paintings like “Clothes Drying” (1883) and…
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What Makes a Good Mother?
It is only in the modern era that women’s own experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering begins to be widely recorded, and here,…
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How to Kill a Fish
A full week later, when I unwrapped the bonito fillets that Yamasaki had sent me home with, I was amazed to find the skin undiminished,…
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Helen, Help Me: On the Phenomenology of Cheeseburgers
A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. Source link
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Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies
The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing…
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Acts of Self-Destruction
Friedkin’s film sucked much of the humor and twisted romance from the play, I realized, treating it as straight horror. Although I have…