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Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro
[ad_1] Most of the book, though, is devoted to a “ludological biography” of the great man: a life in puzzle pieces, hitherto unassembled. Sondheim may not have considered his puzzles...
The Best Things I Ate in 2025
[ad_1] Trends in restaurants are like trends in art: cumulative, ambient, much more evident in retrospect than they are in the chaos of the present. If 2024 was the year...
How Nicolas Sarkozy Survived Twenty Days Behind Bars
[ad_1] Sarkozy is assigned prisoner number 320535. “Four days earlier, I had been Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of the Republic, being received by President Emmanuel Macron himself at the...
Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss
[ad_1] 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.Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s...
When You Want to Gift Something Truly Special
[ad_1] Here are a few extra-special gift ideas you can give this holiday season. 1. PeterGrimm Hats I’m not sure when I first came across Peter Grimm Hats, but the...
The Lovably Fragile Exes of “Is This Thing On?”
[ad_1] The invention, though, comes from real life. Alex’s experience is loosely modelled on that of John Bishop, a British pharmaceutical salesman who, with no standup experience, began performing at...
A Holiday Gift Guide: Puzzles and Games Galore
[ad_1] For the word gamer with old-school tastes and ample storage space, consider a Monogrammed Deluxe Scrabble set ($170), paired with a leather-bound Scrabble dictionary ($105) to help resolve disputes....
Nancy Shaver Is the Real Deal
[ad_1] The choreographer Marla Phelan is interested in the birth of stars—not Barbra Streisand or Lady Gaga but the cosmic kind. Working with the astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart, she has made...
How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
[ad_1] Employees told me that the new hires “don’t understand the basic vocabulary” of arts administration. They have questions. Things like, what is “capacity”? What is an “arena show”? What...
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2025
[ad_1] What’s in a like? That which we call a heart by any other name would be a retweet. (I am so sorry, mostly to my college Shakespeare professor, but...
