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Catherine Lacey Reads “Rate Your Happiness”

21+ hour, 2+ min ago  (110+ words) Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Catherine Lacey reads her story "Rate Your Happiness," from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels "Pew" and "Biography of X,…...

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newyorker.com > magazine > 03/30/2026 > steve-zahns-father-daughter-dance

Steve Zahn’s Father-Daughter Dance

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (499+ words) As its name promises, Broadway Dance Center is situated in the heart of the theatre district (and also next door to Flashdancers Gentlemen's Club). But a class there the other day could have been happening in any dance studio'mirrored wall,…...

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newyorker.com > sports > sporting-scene > lebron-james-is-making-his-last-great-adjustment

LeBron James Is Making His Last Great Adjustment

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (1180+ words) LeBron James Is Making His Last Great Adjustment'The New Yorker James turned forty-one at the end of that month, an age at which many people start to notice the normal degeneration of their tendons and joints. Time comes for us…...

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newyorker.com > humor > shouts-murmurs > probability-calculator-chances-that-your-friend-bails-tonight

Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (597+ words) Forget everything that you learned in seventh-grade math class. Here's how to accurately determine the actual probability of your friend showing up to those plans later based on the theoretical probability that they just texted to you. "I'm 99% sure I…...

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newyorker.com > culture > the-food-scene > the-eighty-six-wants-you-to-want-in

The Eighty-Six Wants You to Want In

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (84+ words) Helen Rosner reviews the steak house the Eighty-Six, in the former Chumley's space in the West Village, from the team behind Corner Store. Helen, Help Me!E-mail your questions about dining, eating, and anything food-related, and Helen may respond in…...

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newyorker.com > news > fault-lines > how-should-we-remember-the-hippies

How Should We Remember the Hippies?

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1252+ words) The hippies have become a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they found something that we seem to have lost, Jay Caspian Kang writes. Reading accounts of that life this past week got…...

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newyorker.com > culture > the-food-scene > the-real-cost-of-a-meal-at-noma

Noma’s Food Is Art. Its Head Chef and Co-Owner Is a Problem

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (62+ words) Helen, Help Me!E-mail your questions about dining, eating, and anything food-related, and Helen may respond in a future newsletter. My friend, Stalin's daughter. Sylvia Frumkin checked herself in to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. From there, her fate was out…...

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newyorker.com > magazine > 03/23/2026 > you-got-older-theatre-review-what-we-did-before-our-moth-days

Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (46+ words) My friend, Stalin's daughter. Sylvia Frumkin checked herself in to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. From there, her fate was out of her control. Ryan Coogler's road to "Sinners." How an Ivy League school turned against a student. Can the golden…...

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newyorker.com > sports > sporting-scene > luke-kornet-has-something-to-say

Luke Kornet Has Something to Say

4+ week, 21+ hour ago  (106+ words) Kornet didn't plan to write about the Hawks' Magic City event when he first heard about it. But days passed, and no one else expressed public disapproval. Privately, he found many people across the league who felt as he did,…...

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newyorker.com > culture > the-new-yorker-documentary > has-taking-the-perfect-photo-ruined-tourism-in-the-spectacle

Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism in “The Spectacle”?

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (54+ words) View the latest or submit your own film. My friend, Stalin's daughter. Sylvia Frumkin checked herself in to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. From there, her fate was out of her control. Ryan Coogler's road to "Sinners." How an Ivy League…...