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Patricia Highsmith’s New York Years

Before she wrote nearly two dozen suspense novels about psychopaths, sad sacks, and untimely death, when she was a twentysomething party girl in...

What Is “Woke”?

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The Frictionless Charms of the Ferrante Cinematic Universe

Since the early twenty-tens, Elena Ferrante’s work has had a sirenic effect on adult women who identify as complicated and brainy. “The Lying...

A Children’s Classic with a Refreshing Lack of Lessons

“I went to sleep with gum in my mouth,” the book begins, and that would be a good opening sentence on its own––Kafka...

The Artist Whose Book Covers Distilled the Nineteen-Eighties

A suited man rides an escalator into the sky. At its top the escalator disappears into an enormous paper bag, which contains a...

What Are You Reading?

Hey, thanks for coming over to catch up. How are you? Actually, let me stop you right there, because I have a more...

The Vices and Virtues of the Problematic-Male Confessional

The problematic-male confessional has a long history that stretches as far back as the Book of Job, I guess, but it has largely...

The 2022 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature

This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2022 National Book Awards. This morning, we presented the ten contenders...

David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral

Before David Foster Wallace died by suicide at his California home, in 2008, he left a pile of papers, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders,...

Don’t Call Tony Fadell an Asshole—He Prefers ‘Mission Driven’

That touches on another distinction you make, between what you call a “caring CEO” and a micromanager. Where do you draw the line?You...

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