CULTURE
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Eric Adams’s Kettle-Cooked Administration | The New Yorker
The Eric Adams era in New York City began with questions about whether the avowedly vegan mayor was ordering the…
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Showdown in the Oval | The New Yorker
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Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin
Nothing says standing up to Russian aggression quite like welcoming the aggressor on a red carpet and applauding him. On…
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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread…
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Our Age of Zombie Culture
It’s not alive, but it’s not dead, either. It consumes a vast amount of resources. It’s mindless: what presents as…
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André Aciman on Reading—and Misreading—Emotions
Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “Room on the Sea,” picks apart the intricacies of…
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Kiran Desai on Life with Her Characters
This week’s story, “An Unashamed Proposal,” is about a young Indian man named Sunny, who is living with his American…
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On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel
On Monday, during a visit to one of his two Trump-branded golf courses in Scotland, Donald Trump sat alongside the…
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How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited…
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Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight
In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in,…
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