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Emily St. John Mandel’s Fluid New Novel
“Exit Party” is an elegant crime story with sci-fi shadings.
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The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, and Poetry.
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The Long Doomsday of A.I.
After industry-wide calls for A.I. regulation, what’s most concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed…
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“The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World
John Wilson’s first feature, a whimsical personal documentary, reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of concrete: the…
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The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy
Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out…
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My Weekend with an A.I. Agent
What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of…
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John Wilson’s Poetry of the Mundane
John Wilson, the director of “The History of Concrete,” discusses the value of comedy, NIMBYs, and making films out of both found moments…
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The Wealthiest—and Stealthiest—Class in America
America’s everywhere millionaires built fortunes from hot dogs, car dealerships, medical practices, and convenience stores. Then they…
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In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth, the Author of “Grit,” Does an About-Face
In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth challenges the conventional wisdom that says we shouldn’t run away from our problems.
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The Sisters Buying Homes Together
As marriage rates fall and housing prices climb, adult siblings are betting on the family they already have.
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What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers
A new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the…
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What the Met’s John Galliano Reversal Reveals
The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on…
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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place…
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“The Uprising” Is a Grim But Scattershot History Lesson
In “The Uprising,” Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and…
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Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game
In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.
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Can A.I. “Go Rogue”?
In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing…
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“My Brilliant Career” Is the Best Show of the Summer
“My Brilliant Career” is a fizzy and intelligent pop-feminist interpretation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian novel—and the sleeper hit…
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“Favorite Bodies,” by Lydia Davis
I told her that I’d been reading an article about morticians. One of the morticians interviewed had said something that was a revelation.
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In “The Sun Never Sets,” Joe Swanberg Strips Romance to Its Bones
Joe Swanberg’s first feature in six years, “The Sun Never Sets,” turns a love triangle in Anchorage into a philosophical experiment.
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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off…