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What George Miller Has Learned in Forty-five Years of Making “Mad Max” Movies

In a series of conversations with Burkhard Bilger, the director of “Furiosa” explains why silent films have the best action, audiences are seldom wrong, and his wife is always right.

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Above the Fold

Essential reading for today.

The Kafkaesque Journey of the Oakland A’s

As the team’s current owner tries to move the franchise to Las Vegas, its situation has become hopeless and absurd.

Donald Trump’s Abortion Problem at the Polls

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, G.O.P. efforts to ban abortion have backfired with voters in many states—and they could do so again in November.

Donald Trump and Michael Cohen Deserve Each Other

At the former President’s hush-money trial, Trump’s ex-lawyer is using his old boss’s playbook to help the prosecution.

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee

How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

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The Weekend Essay

How to Live Forever

The simplest, most foolproof way to extend life is to do so backward, by adding years in reverse.

May 18, 2024

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The two sisters were growing old now, but they went on gazing toward Palm Springs from this windblown prairie town as though to Mecca. Each was a widow, Mildred thrice over—her last husband had died after decades of work as a brakeman for the Burlington Northern—and now the sisters, if not on public assistance, were close to it, and, despite their uncertain compatibility, forced to live together in the same house.Continue reading »

The Political Scene

The Fantasy of a 2024 Election Game Changer

With a general-election debate and the ex-President’s criminal verdict looming, can anything move the immovable American electorate?

It’s a Climate Election Now

Trump’s reported billion-dollar offer to fossil-fuel executives shows that this is the key year to save the planet.

Stormy Daniels’s American Dream

Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to portray the scrappy adult-film actress as a lying profiteer. Instead, she emerged as an intelligent, credible witness who is also very good at making money.

The Biden Administration’s Have-It-Both-Ways Report on Gaza

A new assessment, produced by the State Department, found that Israel has likely violated international law—though it doesn’t find a reason to cut off military aid.

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A Reporter at Large

Did She Do It?

Lucy Letby, a British nurse, was found guilty of killing seven babies. Colleagues reportedly called her an “angel of death,” and the Prime Minister condemned her. But, in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence were ignored.

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The Critics

On Television

Jerrod Carmichael Finds the Outer Limits of Confessional Comedy

Through an uncanny hybrid of access journalism and fourth-wall breaking, the comedian created an HBO series that was impossible to look away from.

The Theatre

The Chilling Truth Pictured in “Here There Are Blueberries”

Moisés Kaufman’s play dramatizes the discovery of a photo album of Nazis at leisure at Auschwitz, and the reckoning it provoked.

Pop Music

The Anxious Love Songs of Billie Eilish

Much of the artist’s new album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” is about wanting a relationship but failing, in some fundamental way, to sustain closeness with another person.

Cultural Comment

“The Idea of You” and the Notion of the Hot Mom

Anne Hathaway, as Solène, is a vision of relatability, self-sufficiency, and poise, in a film that proves the rom-com isn’t dead.

The Current Cinema

The Madly Captivating Urban Sprawl of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis”

After a thirteen-year absence, a great American director returns with an ambitious vision of a city—and a world—in need of renewal.

Cultural Comment

Ilana Glazer’s “Babes” Joins a Lineage of Pregnancy Comedies

In the past decade, pregnancy has proved to be the ideal vehicle for raunch—and for observations on class and social mores.

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What We’re Reading This Week

A novel of earth-shaking attraction and the crises of middle age; a history of female pianists and the cost of pursuing art; a convivial exploration of dog-show culture; 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.

Hong Sangsoo’s Stories of Artists in Crisis

Richard Brody on the South Korean director’s new film, plus DanceAfrica at BAM, plus three comedy recommendations from Emma Allen, and more.

Two New True-Crime Shows That Are Stranger Than Fiction

Inkoo Kang on “Baby Reindeer” and “Under the Bridge,” and how the shows grabbed with the relationship between victim and perpetrator.

The Glittering Pleasure of a Perfect Raw Bar

Penny, in the East Village, has a polished, understated swagger that somehow makes the oysters taste even better.

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Dispatch

The Precarious Future of Big Sur’s Highway 1

How climate change is threatening one of the country’s most famous roadways.

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Tabula Rasa

John McPhee’s series of essays on the writing life.

Volume One

On travel, Thornton Wilder, and old-person projects.

January 6, 2020

Volume Two

An anti-cautionary tale for young writers.

April 12, 2021

Volume Three

Why write a whole book about oranges?

January 31, 2022

Volume Four

On Wordle, proofreading, and notes to future editors.

May 13, 2024

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A Critic at Large

The Wacky and Wonderful World of the Westminster Dog Show

A canine campaign can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention all the brushing, trimming, blow-drying, and styling products. Did you think it was easy being top dog?

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Ideas

Who Wins and Who Loses When We Share a Meme

Two new books by art-world authors explore online shareability and come to different conclusions about what creators stand to gain.

Class Consciousness for Billionaires

We used to think the rich had a social function. What are they good for now?

Blurring the Line Between Money and Media

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

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.

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American Chronicles

Losing the “Right to Hug”

Hundreds of counties around the country have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits.

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Persons of Interest

Miranda July Turns the Lights On

Can Zach Shrewsbury Break the Coal Industry’s Hold on West Virginia Politics?

Jerry Seinfeld’s Theory of Comedy

Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads

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The Mini

A bite-size crossword, for a quick diversion.

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Name Drop

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The View from Palestinian America

Six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure.

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In Case You Missed It

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.
The Other Side of the River
Millions of Palestinians live in Jordan, where rage about the suffering in Gaza has reached a boiling point. Can the country’s leaders, who have a long-standing peace agreement with Israel, keep things under control?
The Beautiful Rawness of Steve Albini
The producer was uncompromising in his opposition to the commercialization of music. That might seem today like a Gen X relic—or it might seem kind of awesome.
Should We Be Worried About Bird Flu?
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.

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Fiction from the Archives

Alice Munro

Selected Stories

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The Canadian writer Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, published more than sixty stories in The New Yorker. In the astute and masterly stories featured here—she has written more than a dozen collections—Munro, whom James Wood calls “our Chekhov,” captures the hopes, betrayals, triumphs, losses, and revelations of life.

Selected Stories

The Bear Came Over the Mountain

“He wanted never to be away from her. She had the spark of life.”

Dimension

“None of the people she worked with knew what had happened. Or, if they did, they didn’t let on.”

Passion

“In Maury’s car, or out on the grass under the stars, she was willing. And Maury was ready, but not willing.”

The Albanian Virgin

“I had made a desperate change in my life, and in spite of the regrets I suffered every day, I was proud of that.”