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A Network Executive Writes a Sitcom

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Shouts & Murmurs by Teddy Wayne: FRANKLIN is foiled by his battle-axe mother-in-law. (Studio audience gives standing ovation for the show’s brave pro-management...
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Play Name Drop, The New Yorker’s Trivia Game: Monday, June 5, 2023

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Economists Love Immigration. Why Do So Many Americans Hate It?

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On October 5, 1908, a hammy melodrama made its début in Washington, D.C.: Israel Zangwill’s “The Melting-Pot,” a four-act play that introduced the...
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“Nausicaä”

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Poetry by Frank X. Gaspar: “Maybe a spark jumped, but there is no name / for the god of fragments—there was just a...
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The Writer Who Insists He Knew Tennessee Williams

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Sometime in September, 1982, James Grissom, a twenty-year-old English student at Louisiana State University, receives a life-changing phone call from Tennessee Williams. It...
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The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, June 4, 2023

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Nikola Jokić Got Here Patiently

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Nikola Jokić was asleep when the Denver Nuggets drafted him with the forty-first pick in the 2014 N.B.A. draft. Famously, when the pick...
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Child Labor Is on the Rise

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You may think that child labor was abolished a century ago, at least in the United States. That was never quite true. The...
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How Richard Hell Found His Vocation

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In 1974, when he was in his early twenties and living in downtown Manhattan, Richard Hell, born Richard Meyers, founded the band Television...
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Reasons That My Gut Hates Me

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Sometimes I wonder when I stopped being a growing girl and turned into a decaying girl. You’d think it might have been when...
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