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“Resident Evil” Is Fun, but Soulless. What Else Could It Be?
Zach Cregger’s new “Resident Evil” movie is a great video-game adaptation. Does that make it a great film?
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“NAZA” Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza
In this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers…
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Even Ed Sheeran’s Apology Took Both Sides
After allowing Macklemore to be removed from his tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, the pop star took the stage in Philadelphia alone, said…
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Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur
The TV writer-actor on the sandwich generation, finding love onscreen, and growing older with her shows.
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Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward.
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our…
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A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good
Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism.
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What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom
Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech…
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The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, and Nonfiction.
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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 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 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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Bob Mackie Was Serious About Sequins
Bob Mackie, who died on Monday, at 87, dressed Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John flamboyantly.
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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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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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After Louvre Jewel Heist, Robberies Continue at French Museums
A spate of robberies, many in small towns, has raised questions about how to secure the country’s treasures.