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Play Shuffalo: Monday, April 6, 2026
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (8+ words) Play Shuffalo: Monday, April 6, 2026The New Yorker...
Getting Older with Clare Barron and Anne Kauffman
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (106+ words) Her next project will also be with Kauffman. The new play is about, as Barron put it, "a thirty-year affair," and "the myth of the soulmate." "It's about marriage, and it's about love, and it's about art," Kauffman said. "In…...
Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons”
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (145+ words) For the cover of the April 13, 2026, Future Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann depicted an army of machines filling the horizon, one of whom cradles a human in its hand; that person is happily reaching toward a screen. "A.I. seems to evoke…...
In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (39+ words) Calvin Tomkins's final piece for The New Yorker, on turning one hundred. The man who broke into jail. How much spring break can anyone stand? "The Giving Tree" is sadder than I remembered. Comma Queen: Affect vs. Effect...
“Theodore Roosevelt Taylor”
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (147+ words) Poetry by Tyehimba Jess: "In short, he slid metal on string till the devil / got tickled and laughed up the Blues." April 12, 1915December 17, 1975 Hound Dog once confessed: I can't play shit, but I sure make it sound good. Others just said…...
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2+ hour, 44+ min ago (13+ words) We Are All Constantly Mutating'and That's a Good Thing'The New Yorker...
Do the Circulation-Desk Shuffle
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (279+ words) Watching the rehearsal were two librarians in headphones: Meredith Mann, a curator of manuscripts, who had on a tartan skirt, and Kate Cordes, a director of reference and outreach, who was dressed all in black. Both had helped Saenz de…...
Catherine Lacey’s Escape from the Self
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (383+ words) Rate Your Happiness," your story in this week's issue, opens with the protagonist, Louise, having a health emergency while on a flight from New York City to San Francisco. Why did you choose to introduce the character mid-crisis? I think,…...
He Wrote a Book About Interviewing. Here’s His Interview.
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1613+ words) I want to be able to speak freely, and I want you to be able to speak freely, and in order to do that I think you should have more freedom than usual to take stuff off the record. My…...
“Rate Your Happiness,” by Catherine Lacey
22+ hour, 44+ min ago (1923+ words) Read an interview with the author for the story behind the story. "Are there any medical professionals on the plane?" Louise was out for no more than two minutes, and by the time she came to she'd been propped up…...