I read Conversations with Friends alone and loved it; reading Normal People with friends was an unrelieved frustration. I'd picked it for a book club soon after finishing Sally Rooney's debut. The first hype bubble had already burst, but Conversations still felt worthy of what it had occasioned. It…

Ilustración: Juan Carlos Viéitez. Parece intuir hacia dónde va esta conversación que no hemos empezado, dice una mujer en un libro lleno de conversaciones en las que casi nadie dialoga o, con suerte, alguien debuta torpe un titubeo. Samanta Schweblin también dejó de hablar. Fue en su niñez, durante…

“That was there in the [19]30’s. That’s not invented by social media — you just see those reflexes mirrored in social media, they’re not created by social media,” the executive added. “It’s why tabloids do better than the [Financial Times], and it’s also a human thing. People respond to engaging…

Barcelona, along with Lisbon and Paris, added miles of bike lanes to the streets during the pandemic to encourage more commuters to cycle Meet the Urban Planner Behind Barcelona’s Bike Revolution Confidential tip?Send a tip to our reporters By This article is for subscribers only. This article is…

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Sara Garner had a nagging feeling something wasn’t quite right. A software engineer, she was revamping her personal site, but it just didn’t feel like her. Sure, it had the requisite links to her social media and her professional work, but it didn’t really reflect her personality. So she created a…

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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On April 3, the day The Outline was shut down and its editorial staff let go, my coworkers and I received hundreds of messages in public and private that went a long way toward making me feel better about suddenly losing my job during a pandemic. Weirdly, one of…

Photo: Matt Carr/Getty Images Joel Schumacher died on June 22, 2020. We are revisiting this interview, which was originally published in August of 2019, in commemoration of his life. Speed couldn’t kill Joel Schumacher, and neither could AIDS nor brutal Batman & Robin reviews, so his personal…

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A Critic at Large What you learn from the Very Short Introduction series. October 9, 2017 A yearning for mastery, or the illusion of it, has helped make a nerdy series from a nerdy publishing house impressively popular.Illustration by Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford In addition to all of your other…

Once, the pair tried an old Swedish fishing method that involved stringing lots of worms on a thread and then rolling them “into a quivering, stinking ball of slime and secretions and writhing bodies.” To catch the necessary worms, Svensson’s father attached electric cables to the prongs of a…

One of the first things I read about China’s coronavirus outbreak were the divorces: the many couples who supposedly emerged from quarantine no longer able to tolerate each other. These reports seemed apocryphal, or at best anecdotal­—based on interviews with clerks in a few regional registry…

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Shouts & Murmurs June 25, 2018 Photograph by Jochen Tack / Alamy Before I pioneered writing personal essays about quitting things, people simply quit things and maybe told their friends and family about it. They didn’t quit things as fodder for an overlong essay that seventy-four people will read on…

What I didn’t understand yet is that Lent concentrates guilt, then cathartically explodes it — it’s a kind of intermissionless Bergman matinee that leads you stumbling back across the parking lot beneath the newly blinding sun. By depriving you of just one vanity, just one of the many little…

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Jen Fein ruminates on everyday ephemera: allegedly bulletproof taxi partitions, for example, or the enigma of the “self-addressed envelope,” or bizarre form letters. In company, she is drawn as if by hypnosis to the flaw, and, implicitly, the void. Attuned to the wrong word, the malapropism, the…

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Bikeshedding is a metaphor to illustrate the strange tendency we have to spend excessive time on trivial matters, often glossing over important ones. Here’s why we do it, and how to stop. *** How can we stop wasting time on unimportant details? From meetings at work that drag on forever without…

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Columns “Sleep to Dream” is the first track on Fiona Apple's 1996 triple-platinum debut, Tidal, which turns 20 this weekend. It is also a fight song like no other—a demand to be taken seriously, by an artist who sometimes isn't. July 22, 2016 Graphic by Noelle Bullion “Now, when I listen to your…

The New Yorker Interview A conversation with the author and activist about class, reporting, the coronavirus, and socialism. March 21, 2020 Photograph by Jared Soares for The New Yorker Barbara Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, where her family had lived for generations, in 1941. Most of her…

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Lonely people feel the need for company, while solitary types seek to escape it. The neatest definition of loneliness, David Vincent writes in his superb new study, is “failed solitude”. Another difference between the two groups is that hermits, anglers,…

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My grandmother was a treasure. Outside of my parents, Ruth French (“Nana” to us) was the single most influential person in my life. She was a history teacher from rural Mississippi. She was widowed in middle age (I never met my grandfather; he died in a tractor accident when my Dad was still in…

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Despite barely campaigning in many of key states until the days immediately following his blowout victory in South Carolina, former Vice President Joe Biden won 11 state primaries on Super Tuesday. Most notably, Biden won the delegate-rich Texas and North Carolina, the latter of which being a state…

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Maisie Wilen dress. Photo: Lula Hyers Outfitted in grungy fishnets, an array of glittery hair clips, and a black satin slip dress layered atop a long-sleeved T-shirt, the dream…

I live in Bloomsbury, a London neighborhood whose name is synonymous with a long-gone, still-romanticized period of post-Victorian literary and sexual experimentation. Today, its reputation is built primarily around its convenient spread of transit links, which loop out in every direction, funneling…

My 12-year-old son indulges in a lot of unpleasant behaviors. During Fortnite mania a couple years ago, for example, he said my wife and I were “fucking [him] in the ass” because we made him stop playing to go to his cello recital. He negotiates relentlessly, often pursuing the kind of flawed…

Life and Letters The Hunger Artist Susan Sontag turns from austere criticism to lush historical fiction, confronting illness, politics, and the seductions of reality. This summary is AI-generated. Learn More » February 28, 2000 Sontag says of her fiction, “I discovered that I liked to tell stories…

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In 2016, Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman and interim CEO of Mozilla, sat down to update her manifesto. Well, technically, it's Mozilla's manifesto , but it's Baker's handiwork. Think of it as a sort of