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The Alabamian writer Rick Bragg has published multiple acclaimed memoirs about his humble roots and is at work on another, which may be his last. His writing has also been dogged by controversy.

“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”

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Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s interrogation of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder, is a compelling spectacle of manipulation, suspicion, and apparent sincerity.

We received tragic news this week from Winona, Mississippi. Curtis Flowers was found dead in his home at age fifty-six. Listen to all of Season 2 of In the Dark wherever you get your podcasts. 查看原文：Season 2 Update: Curtis Flowers Has Died - The New Yorker

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Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. In California, progressives have crafted a ballot initiative that calls for a wealth tax—a one-time, five-per-cent…

Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime. Season 2 of In the Dark examines the case against Flowers, who spent more than twenty years fighting for his life, as a white prosecutor tried just as hard to execute…

A growing movement has mobilized France’s youth against diminished school conditions and accumulating problems—and provided, for its detractors, a pretext for blaming the country’s ills on febrile adolescents.

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Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable weighs in on how Donald Trump’s rampant corruption will play out at the polls. Although conventional wisdom…

For those who appreciate “locksport,” a well-crafted lock may be more interesting than whatever it locks up.

Richard Avedon was twenty-one years old, fresh out of the Merchant Marine, with only a handful of portraits of fellow-soldiers to show, when Alexey Brodovitch, the already legendary (and famously difficult) art director of Harper’s Bazaar, hired him, in 1944.…

In the midterm elections of 1922, voters in Missouri were invited to weigh in directly on a wide range of issues. Mostly, they were in a rejectionist frame of mind. An amendment to hike politicians’ pay was defeated. (Plus ça change.)So, too, was a law that…

“Misty Green,” Chris Rock’s ferociously smart and darkly entrancing new movie, unfolds as a series of rude awakenings. One takes place in a hospital after a drunk-driving accident; another at a far-flung desert resort, in an ugly morning-after haze. But most…

If I went back in time and told my college self that, by middle age, we would consume comedy primarily in the form of podcasts, there would be a lot of questions, even after I explained what a podcast was. “So, basically, talk radio? Have we become politically…

The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, faced an icy Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing last month, in which both parties pressed him on a string of blunders—taxpayer-funded travel, mishandling of the Epstein files, loosened hiring rules involving bestiality…

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim,” Oscar Wilde proclaims, in the preface to his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Early in that story, the character Basil Hallward, the painter of the titular picture, echoes this sentiment when explaining…