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Helen, Help Me: How Do I Get Beyond Tripadvisor?

Our food critic advises a reader on where to find out-of-town restaurant recommendations, and answers another about a salad-dressing shortcut. Source link

What Hollywood Is Missing About A.I.

In 2025, A.I. seems to pop up on TV nearly as often as it does in real life. On the hospital-mockumentary sitcom “St. Denis Medical,” a curmudgeonly physician resents the unerring faith that a patient has in his...

George Santos Gets Out of Jail Free

His dramatic escape, in his own words. Source link

“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” Tamps the Boss Down

A crisis point comes during a cross-country road trip, during which Bruce’s driver, Matt (Harrison Sloan Gilbertson), has to help a distressed Bruce stay on his feet at a county fair. But that scene, too, is brisk, generic,...

The Muscular Compassion of “Paper Girl”

In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization. Source link

Should We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread?

The inevitable progress of technology, in other words, makes the technological sublime elusive. And it’s also true that technologies tend to shrink themselves, taking on unassuming guises. (“Technologies tend toward ubiquity and cheapness,” Kelly writes.) My son and...

Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift” | The New Yorker

For the cover of the October 27, 2025, Money Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann set out to visualize how the preposterously rich pay a disproportionately small share of taxes. In conversation, Niemann expressed another grievance, one born out...

Restaurant Review: Johnny’s | The New Yorker

The food, too, does some artful recontextualizing. Kam lu wantan, for instance, is a classic chifa dish of deep-fried wontons that are tossed in a sweet-and-sour sauce with meat and vegetables. At Johnny’s, they arrive with all of...

A Bona-Fide Disco Album That Feels Urgently of the Moment

Many of the paired dances of the twentieth century—the foxtrot, the waltz, the Lindy Hop—reflected the binary gender dynamics of the day: men led and women followed, on the dance floor as at home. There were exceptions, such...

Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”

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.Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today,...
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Are Backing This Tasteful Shirt Trend

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