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Samantha Irby Knows How to Be Funny
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Samantha Irby’s latest essay collection, “Quietly Hostile,” cemented her place as one of the great professionally funny people working today. He...
Is “The Golden Bachelor” Too Good to Be True?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reality television is all about artifice, and contestants on “The Bachelor” often seem more interested in becoming influencers than in finding a s...
Why We Dine Out (or Don’t)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the years since the pandemic began, the experience of dining out has been utterly transformed. Coveted tables now disappear seconds after they’re...
Britney Spears Tells Her Horror Story
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The celebrity memoir has long been a place for public figures to set the record straight on the story of their lives. By any measure, Britney Spears’...
Martin Scorsese’s America
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout his career, Martin Scorsese has traced crime, greed, and corruption across American life. In his new film, he turns his gaze to the viole...
Are Straight Couples O.K.?
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout film history, heterosexual relationships have served as a battleground for questions of sex, power, and equality. From the 1949 screwball c...
Spies, Sex, and John le Carré
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1963, a British spy writing under the pen name John le Carré published a novel that shot to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. After the su...
Taylor Swift Is Everywhere All at Once
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Swift has long been the subject of adoration, scrutiny, and debate—but it wasn’t until this summer, as the Eras Tour filled football stadiu...
The Myth-Making of Elon Musk
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk’s presence in our lives is inescapable: his cars roam our streets, his satellites orbit our skies, and his purchase of X—formerly known ...
What Is Cringecore, and Why Is It Everywhere?
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural episode of The New Yorker’s new culture podcast, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz make sens...
Introducing: Critics at Large
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Critics at Large, a new weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss ...