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Miranda July Turns the Lights On

A few years ago, the artist and director began writing a novel, “All Fours,” about how middle age changes sex, marriage, and ambition. Then the novel changed her. Alexandra Schwartz reports on the aftermath.

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Above the Fold

Essential reading for today.

Biden’s Public Ultimatum to Bibi

A hostage and ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is “not dead,” a senior U.S. official says, but only if Netanyahu holds off on invading Rafah.

The Radical Case for Free Speech

We need to build a broad moral consensus around the universal right to dissent, rooted in widely held beliefs about American liberty.

What’s Holding Up Trump’s Florida Case?

Judge Aileen Cannon has said, in effect, that the case has become too complicated to proceed sooner. Unfortunately, that may be true.

A TikTok Ban Won’t Fix Social Media

You can take the platform away from American users, but it is far too late to contain the habits that it has unleashed.

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The Political Scene

The Workingman and the Company Store

Can a progressive campaign break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics?

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The Political Scene

The American Student Protests in Israeli Media

The Israeli right is using the demonstrations roiling American campuses to its own ends, and the schism between Israel and young Jews in America is widening. 

What Is Hope Hicks Crying About?

During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the former White House aide was inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears.

Is 2024 Doomed to Repeat 1968 or 2020—or Both?

Trump has now made clear that he won’t concede if he loses the election. Believe him.

How Much Aid Is Actually Reaching Gazans?

The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it.

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The Political Scene

Can Suing People for Lying Save Democracy?

The lawyers at Protect Democracy have brought defamation suits against Rudy Giuliani, Kari Lake, and Project Veritas, hoping to limit the spread of disinformation. Others worry that their efforts could impinge on freedom of speech.

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Campus Protests

The Cloud of Misrepresentation Surrounding the Student Activists

They’ve been accused of racism, derided as brainwashed and ignorant. What explains the power of their movement? They want an end to the breathtaking violence in Gaza.

Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at Harvard

Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached campuses with such fury. The New Yorker Radio Hour examines the reverberations at one university in Boston.

Occupy Columbia

Scenes of dissent and defiance on the campus where scores of students were arrested for participating in pro-Palestine protests.

Shibboleth

On the weaponization of words in the campus protests over the war in Gaza.

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Elements

The Peculiar Delights of the Enormous Cicada Emergence

As loud as leaf blowers, as miraculous as math, the insects are set to overtake the landscape.

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The Critics

The Front Row

How Does “Challengers” Make a Love Triangle Feel So Empty?

The fussy structure of Luca Guadagnino’s film dissipates the erotic charge on which the drama relies.

Pop Music

Dua Lipa Devotes Herself to Pleasure with “Radical Optimism”

In an era of postmodern, self-referential music, there’s something refreshing about the artist’s new album.

Critics at Large

Our Collective Obsession with True Crime

Today’s audiences have a seemingly insatiable appetite for stories about people who do—or experience—terrible things. Is there a right way to turn real-life tragedy into mass entertainment?

Books

Claire Messud’s New Novel Maps the Search for a Home That Never Was

“This Strange Eventful History” traces three generations of an itinerant French family with roots in colonial Algeria.

Postscript

The Indestructible Art of Frank Stella

The artist, who has died at eighty-seven, rattled standards of modernist abstraction rather as Bob Dylan did those of folk music.

On Television

“The Contestant” Is More Than a Cautionary Tale

The documentary charts the rise of an early reality-TV star and the ethically queasy choices that cemented his fame—but it’s elevated by its interest in what came afterward.

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What We’re Reading This Week

A detailed history of humanity’s prehistoric roots; a thoughtful study of four of Shakespeare’s female contemporaries; a novel that follows a family of globetrotters and interlopers searching for perfect love; and more.

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Goings On

Recommendations from our writers on what to read, eat, watch, listen to, and more.

Summer in the City

Our culture writers and editors share the upcoming season’s performances and happenings—many al fresco—that they’re most looking forward to.

“I Saw the TV Glow” Is a Profound Vision of the Trans Experience

Richard Brody reviews Jane Schoenbrun’s new feature, in which two teens search for their true selves through their shared obsession with a horror TV series.

A Martini Tour of New York City

Martinis often appear in art as symbols of joy and closure. Gary Shteyngart dedicates himself to the cult of the cocktail, in a month of vermouth-rinsing and fat-washing.

The Power Lunch Is Back (Again)

Helen Rosner visits Four Twenty Five, a luxe new dining room from the mega-restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten, aimed at the expense-account crowd.

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Onward and Upward with the Arts

New Tricks

The A-list animal trainer Bill Berloni has worked with pigs, geese, and butterflies. He recently prepared Bing for a starring role in the adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s “The Friend.”

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Ideas

The Secret Society Chasing Our Fading Attention

As ads and apps reduce our ability to focus, an order purportedly reaching back centuries seeks to reset the world by understanding what happens between a person and a work of art.

The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment

An attempt to hide personal news from online ad trackers makes clear how much surveillance we are engaged in, as both subjects and objects, and how insidious the problem is becoming.

Is Hunterbrook Media a News Outlet or a Hedge Fund?

The hybrid media-finance company wants to monetize investigative journalism in the public interest. Is it a visionary game changer or a cynical ploy?

How ECMO Is Redefining Death

A medical technology can keep people alive when they otherwise would have died. Where will it lead?

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Letter from the U.K.

An Inside Job at the British Museum

While facing renewed accusations of cultural theft, the institution announced that it had been the victim of plain old-fashioned theft—by someone on the staff.

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Persons of Interest

Jerry Seinfeld’s Theory of Comedy

Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads

Padma Lakshmi Walks Into a Bar

Who’s Afraid of Judith Butler?

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Our Local Correspondents

Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns?

Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles.

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Puzzles & Games

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The Crossword

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The Mini

A bite-size crossword, for a quick diversion.

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Name Drop

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

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In Case You Missed It

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A new book looks at a clandestine movement to proselytize in Muslim countries.
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According to the C.D.C., the risk to public health remains low. But the country’s initial approach has had an unsettling resonance with the first months of COVID.
What George Kelly’s Mistrial Says About How We See the Border
The Arizona rancher was accused of killing a migrant. A tragedy, and a possible murder, quickly became a political cause.
The Haiti That Still Dreams
The country is being defined by disaster. What would it mean to tell a new story?
The New Yorker Documentary

“Cherry”

A young actor, Marie-Lise Chouinard, faces her terminal-cancer diagnosis with grace and comedy, in Laurence Gagné-Frégeau’s short documentary.

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The Talk of the Town

The Art World

Maurizio Cattelan’s Armed Art Helpers

Master Class

The Grand Master of Slime

Upgrade Dept.

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Sketchpad

What Sleepy Trump Dreams About At Trial

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“You’ll never get away with this!” Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. “You may destroy me, but you’ll never destroy what I stand for!”

Death Skull let out a hysterical cackle, which echoed piercingly from the stone walls of his lair.

“Why so combative?” he said, emerging from the shadows. “At the end of the day, we’re not so different, you and I.”Continue reading »

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