Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Ravi Desai

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Nowadays, a secondhand, first-edition copy can sell for hundreds of dollars; in August, the book will be reissued by D.A.P. as “Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” in an expanded, handsome hardback form, with a price tag to...

“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President

There’s a legal strategy known as the small-penis rule, wherein an author who writes a character based on a real person can potentially evade a libel suit by giving said character a small penis—the logic being that, in...

Sniffies Translates Cruising for the Digital Age

In the literature about cruising from the late twentieth century, what stands out is the physical choreography of it. David Wojnarowicz, in his 1991 memoir, “Close to the Knives,” describes walking through abandoned warehouses on Manhattan’s west-side waterfront...

Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate

The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S., and fatally high heat across Europe. This series of events points to the increasing ferocity of extreme weather—the...

Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight

In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in, a shock hit New York. Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of shows including the Pulitzer Prize winners “Sunday in...

What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means

Nothing to see here! CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show,” an institution so basic to the texture of our rapidly thinning common entertainment culture that it feels like a quasi-public utility, as profligately available as water or electricity,...

Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?

Hurwitz, however, is undaunted by such matters. For one thing, he is not troubled by the notion that children will be lost to classical forever if they are not turned on to it early. “To hell with young...

How Rembrandt Saw Esther | The New Yorker

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a dim-witted ruler with a trophy wife—all of these...

The Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.“I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple...

Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith

Delaney’s style or, more accurately, styles, developed in the course of a long apprenticeship that can read like a novelization of the desperate life of an artist—van Gogh as reimagined by Irving Stone. Like the real van Gogh,...

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