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Seldom does the theatre adequately address the topic of enemas. But Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid,” which Bill Irwin has adapted and is starring in on Broadway, will serve all your peristaltic needs: Irwin’s hypochondriacal title character encounters a…

It happened one day, let us say, in the nineteen-eighties. You were checking into a hotel in La Quinta, half an hour or so from Palm Springs. As you entered the lobby, you were met by an in-house greeter: a funny little guy in a loud shirt, with a jacket…

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

Neil and Brenda met just days after Neil invented his time machine, which proved to be a handy access pass. They watched the Beatles play at the Cavern Club. They figured out which religion’s version of God was the right one. They prevented the Hindenburg…

For the cover of the October 26, 2026, New Yorker Festival Issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen painted a joyous image of Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart, OG Anunoby, Jalen Brunson, and Karl-Anthony Towns, the New York Knicks’ starting lineup. This month, for the first…

On Amsterdam Avenue by the Metropolitan Opera House—a day before Mayor Mamdani announced his new free-opera-tickets initiative—two supernumerary performers in Puccini’s “La Bohème,” the Met’s most popular opera, disembarked from a horse trailer. Wanda, a…

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Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who filmed the attack, describes the significant increase in West Bank violence on the eve of the Israeli election.

“God does not and cannot exist,” Iris Murdoch once wrote, “but what led us to conceive of him does exist, and is constantly experienced and pictured.” You could hang that sentence—epigraph, baleful blessing—over Meghan O’Gieblyn’s memoir, “Will and Attention”…

People love talking about the tragic fates from which their rescue dogs were spared. Kill shelters, international conflicts, New Jersey—pups are rescued from all kinds of precarious situations. Yet a brief look back through dog history shows that most canines…

One morning earlier this month, deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, the couple at the center of a nationwide surrogacy scandal. Officers had staked out the pair’s ten-thousand-square-foot mansion…

Scratchers that aren’t total eyesores, toys your feline friend might play with at least once (before fixating on the packaging), books and accessories for cat-obsessed humans, and some ideas for dog people, too.

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Last week, a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association—using data from a sample of nearly five hundred military members—reported that approximately twenty-five per cent of participants had at least one measured testosterone…

Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” offers an amiable eighty-two minutes of condensed history, centered on the septuagenarian novelist Thomas Mann’s trip, in the summer of 1949, to Germany—West and East—in order to receive each country’s Goethe Prize on the…

In a world where state policy is shaped by A.I. hallucination, it’s cute to remember that consulting Wikipedia was once seen as irresponsible. Schools banned its use, and journalists were shamed for credulously repeating its hoaxes. “Reads like Wikipedia”…

In the final days of his final campaign, supporters of the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva turned to a British classic. David Bowie and Queen’s 1981 hit, “Under Pressure,” became the soundtrack of a viral video showing scenes from the eighty…

“I came to think of translating as a room,” Anne Carson wrote, in her illustrated book of poems “Nox,” “where one gropes for the light switch.” When the Swedish Academy awarded Carson the Nobel Prize in Literature this month, they continued a long tradition…