What Barbara Kingsolver Is Reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s books have been everywhere since the nineties: your neighbor’s bookshelf, your college lounge, your grandmother’s coffee…
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When Reading Books Means Business
Every year, the New Yorker’s Money Issue examines a few of the most weird, riveting, and, often, troubling…
Yo-Yo Ma on What Our Descendants Will Inherit
Earlier this month, the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma turned seventy—an occasion that led him to reflect on not…
Exploring the Intricacies of Memory with Ada Limón
The poet Ada Limón—whose latest collection, “Startlement,” went on sale this week—recently bought and moved back into her…
The Mother as Antihero | The New Yorker
Sasha Bonét’s matrilineal memoir, “The Waterbearers,” traces the lives of her mother and grandmother: powerful, complicated women whose…
Great Gay Novels Recommended by the Director of “The History of Sound”
In Oliver Hermanus’s new film, “The History of Sound,” two young men at the New England Conservatory of…
What My A.I. Boyfriends Think of Me
In today’s edition: Susan B. Glasser on the President’s response to the killing of Charlie Kirk. And Patricia…
André Holland on Stories of Community
It’s about to be a very busy season for the actor André Holland. His latest film, “Love, Brooklyn,”…
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
When the Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta was going up for a promotion to full professor, in early…
André Aciman on Reading—and Misreading—Emotions
Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “Room on the Sea,” picks apart the…
Getting in Marc Maron’s Head
In its nearly sixteen years on the air, “WTF with Marc Maron” has recorded more than fifteen hundred…