CULTURE
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Ellen Willis’s Review of Elvis in Las Vegas
I have very little interest in Elvis Presley’s music, and I have even less interest in the mythology of Elvis…
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The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency
On Wednesday, more than twenty thousand pages of documents from Epstein’s files were released—not from the much-anticipated Justice Department trove…
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Did Democrats Win the Shutdown After All?
The shutdown is not yet over: once the bill is through the Senate, it must pass the House—where Democratic leaders…
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The Washington Roundtable Answers Your Questions
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Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani” | The New Yorker
For the cover of the November 17, 2025, issue, the artist Edel Rodriguez chose to portray Zohran Mamdani, New York…
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Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace
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How Bad Is It?: Why an Antifascism Scholar Fled the Country
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a…
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Rebecca West’s “The Crown Versus William Joyce”
The badge of maturity, for a literary genre, is the anxiety of influence—the compulsion felt by an aspiring writer to…
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“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…
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 20th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link
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