The Best Books of 2023 | The New Yorker
WEBDec 20, 2023 · by Lorrie Moore (Knopf) Fiction. In the nineteenth century, Libby, the proprietress of a rooming house, writes to her dead sister about her new gentleman lodger, who, we come to learn, is a ...
The Untold History of the Biden Family | The New Yorker
WEBAug 15, 2022 · Biden, Sr., needed to find a new job. Frank had joined the Army, and, with him away and Joseph Harry dead, there was only one person in the family Biden, Sr., could turn to. One of the most ...
How Kristen Stewart Became Her Generation’s Most Interesting …
WEBNov 15, 2021 · Stewart would put on a chiffon gown or a suit; Larraín would pick a hallway or a ballroom for her to move in, and play music through a large speaker: LCD Soundsystem, or Bach, or Sinéad O ...
“No Time to Die,” Reviewed | The New Yorker
WEBOct 8, 2021 · Anthony Lane reviews Cary Joji Fukunaga’s “No Time to Die,” the latest installment of the James Bond franchise, starring Daniel Craig, in his final appearance as Bond, and also Rami Malek ...
Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets | The New Yorker
WEBNovember 22, 2021. The ancient city was two miles in circumference. A third of it is still unexcavated. Illustration by Daniele Castellano. The journey from Naples to the ruins of Pompeii takes ...
America Was Eager for Chinese Immigrants. What Happened?
WEBAug 23, 2021 · At first, the reception for the Chinese in America was generally positive. In the summer of 1850, city leaders in San Francisco held a ceremony to welcome them. A small group of Chinese immigrants ...
When Constitutions Took Over the World | The New Yorker
WEBMar 22, 2021 · During the brutal world wars of the eighteenth century, millions of men carried millions of weapons, sailed hundreds of thousands of ships, and marched with thousands of armies. If most of those ...
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain | The New Yorker
WEBOct 23, 2017 · Patrick Radden Keefe on how the Sackler family and its firm, Purdue Pharma, ruthlessly marketed painkillers to generate billions of dollars—and millions of opioid addicts.
Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? | The New Yorker
WEBAug 16, 2021 · By this definition, to be a rational person you have to know things, you have to want things, and you have to use what you know to get what you want. Intentions matter: a person isn’t rational ...
The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker
WEBMar 29, 2019 · The Day the Dinosaurs Died. A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth. By Douglas Preston. March 29, 2019. A field assistant ...
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