Wednesday, August 12, 2026

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The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist

This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards, beginning with Young People’s Literature and Translated Literature. Check back on Thursday and Friday for the Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction lists. Sign up...

Season 3, Episode 9: Patient #8

For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Marines in Haditha on November 19, 2005. But maybe everyone was wrong. Source link

Mark Ulriksen’s “Childless Cat Lady Inexplicably Enjoying Life”

For the cover of the September 16, 2024, Fall Books special issue, Mark Ulriksen painted a woman, alone, surrounded by cats and happily engrossed in reading—an example of the “childless cat ladies” decried by J. D. Vance, the...

A Picture-Book Guide to Maine

Northeast from Rockland on Highway 1, past the small city of Belfast and an artist co-op called the Lupine Cottage, is the Blue Hill peninsula. The area may be best known for being the setting of McCloskey’s “Blueberries...

The Messiness of Black Identity

“Black,” as in the capitalized identifier for the people, is everywhere. Is there not a strange air to its ubiquity? A feeling of religiosity? The writer publishing in the North American press can no longer be willful when...

Basil Twist’s “Dogugaeshi,” and More Exhilarating Theatre from Abroad

Helen ShawStaff writerCatching the fleeting international theatre offerings in New York can be like chasing after fireflies—the minute someone points out some wonderful work, the brief engagement is already dark and gone. These are the shows most worth...

“Happy New Year,” by Hiromi Kawakami

A long time ago, lots and lots of people lived on this island. Now there are only a few of us. Source link

Out of the Sky

In remote Kazakhstan, the photographer Andrew McConnell captured the places where astronauts return to Earth. Source link

Season 3, Episode 8: On Trial

The case against the squad leader, Frank Wuterich, finally goes to trial. Source link

The Supreme Contradictions of Simone Weil

The French philosopher Simone Weil was a soul at odds with herself and with a world of affliction. The causes she espoused as a social activist and the faith she professed as a mystic were urgent to her...
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Are Backing This Tasteful Shirt Trend

Back in 2006, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen started The Row with a simple mission: design the perfect white...
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