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Generosity Beats Transactions In Building Community
[ad_1] Community isn’t built on scorecards. It’s built on showing up. My take is simple: give without keeping tabs, and you’ll create a network that lasts. I’ve seen the stop-and-go...
The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon
[ad_1] In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the...
Christopher Guest Talks with Ariel Levy
[ad_1] On October 24, 2025, the actor and director Christopher Guest took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy, as part of The New...
Kenton Nelson’s “Early Morning”
[ad_1] For the cover of the November 24, 2025, issue, the artist Kenton Nelson painted a man waiting by a store window. “Walking through the city one early morning, looking...
Kristin Chenoweth’s Uneven Gilt Trip in “The Queen of Versailles”
[ad_1] There’s a clarity to the arc of Greenfield’s documentary: first the pride goeth, then a fall teacheth. It’s a shame that the musical gets bogged down by what happened...
A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Kids
[ad_1] In theory, buying gifts for children is a snap. If they’re old enough to talk, but not old enough to ignore you completely, they will likely tell you what...
Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot?
[ad_1] “Thank God it’s Friday.” “It’s hot outside.” “How’s it goin’?” “Can you believe this rain?” Malinowski described such utterances as forms of “phatic” communication. This somewhat awkward term, which...
The Joyful Mythology of “Nouvelle Vague”
[ad_1] That word, instantly identified with the French New Wave, is missing from “Nouvelle Vague,” an absence that comes off not as an accident but as a declaration by Linklater...
Malala’s Favorite Mother-Daughter Memoirs
[ad_1] When the Nobel Peace Prize–winning activist Malala Yousafzai was fifteen, she was shot by a member of the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education—an event that, as she writes...
