City life experienced without earbuds is a good thing. Photo: Amir Hamja/The New York Times/Redux I have a fresh item on my curmudgeonly, ever-lengthening mental catalogue titled What’s Ruining New York Now? In addition to such ordinary and eccentric scourges as rats (actual and metaphorical),…

Nonfiction “Authority,” a new collection of reviews and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu, showcases her smarts, humor and contempt. Andrea Long ChuCredit...Beowulf Sheehan By Charles Finch is the author, most recently, of “What Just Happened,” a chronicle of 2020. April 8,…

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Americans and Europeans have been guided through our new century by what I will call the politics of inevitability – a sense that the future is just more of…

The Fraud is out now from Penguin Press. Illustration: Uli Knörzer This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Zadie Smith’s first book, White Teeth, was the English comic novel on bath salts. Published to universal…

A buzzy night spot was the party venue for a magazine that is “the last of its kind.” Holden Seidlitz, a New Yorker fact-checker, leafed through the magazine’s 100th anniversary issue, with the mascot Eustace Tilley on the cover.Credit...Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times A buzzy night spot was…

Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter Jan. 23, 2025 Credit...Pablo Delcan By Opinion Writer The novelist David Lodge, who died this month, had a great bit in his campus satire “Changing Places,” the first in a trilogy. English professors play the game “Humiliation,” which requires admitting that…

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Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter Jan. 23, 2025 Credit...Pablo Delcan By Opinion Writer The novelist David Lodge, who died this month, had a great bit in his campus satire “Changing Places,” the first in a trilogy. English professors play the game “Humiliation,” which requires admitting that…

My job as a book critic used to elicit envy at cocktail parties, with people fantasising about a life spent reading. Now it’s more likely to trigger sheepish admissions from partygoers about not reading as much as they’d like to — as if I’m going to spring a pop quiz on Moby-Dick. Long gone are the…

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Last November, Kanye West stopped by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design to deliver a three-minute manifesto on the state of architecture today. Standing atop a drafting table in the middle

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