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The American Revolution Wasn’t the Main Event
[ad_1] America’s influence went beyond haberdashery. Several of the world’s leading revolutionaries had spent time in the country. The English-born Thomas Paine started his radical career writing “Common Sense” in...
The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory
[ad_1] Plenty of scholars and journalists have written histories of these contentious terms, “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Now Crenshaw has written something different: a history of herself. In “Backtalker:...
Barry Blitt’s “Red, White, and Kinda Blue”
[ad_1] For the cover of the May 11 & 18, 2026, special issue, themed around America’s 250th birthday, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays George Washington, the country’s first President, caught...
When Sexual Exploitation Is Fundamental to Police Corruption
[ad_1] None of this will be shocking to anyone who’s lived in an American city crippled by disinvestment and self-dealing—or even to anyone who’s watched a David Simon show on...
Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever
[ad_1] His work depended on access. He filmed in hospital rooms where patients and families faced incommensurable agonies with the aid of the medical staff (“Near Death”); he filmed in...
Bistrot Ha Is the Right Kind of Restaurant Evolution
[ad_1] A little more than a year ago, after running a successful pop-up called Ha’s Đặc Biệt, the chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha opened Ha’s Snack Bar, an...
A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds
[ad_1] Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me rethink all this. The work was made concurrently...
Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards
[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.Every year,...
The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
[ad_1] In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries. It finds...
Charli XCX Misses the Moment
[ad_1] Download a transcript.Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.Once the fervor around Charli XCX’s 2024 album “brat” had cooled,...
