I finally had an occasion, the only acceptable one perhaps, to wear my "I Love Dick" hat. I interviewed Chris Kraus. We talked her new true crime novel "The Four Spent the Day Together," methamphetamine, and the "Chris Kraus is a landlord" tweet. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Susan Orlean’s profile of an orchid poacher, published in this magazine in 1995, inspired Charlie Kaufman’s movie “Adaptation.” Jennifer Wilson reflects on Orlean’s stormy, sensual prose. #NewYorker100

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

❤️ @jenniferwilson.bsky.social "someone had waded through swamps, deciphered Latin, and gained the trust of egomaniacal horticulturalists, all for my passing delight" www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

Jennifer Wilson, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what happens when home DNA kits produce unexpected results and why some call for paternity testing at birth.

Through Friday, we’ll be sharing the National Book Awards longlists for Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Stay tuned for more announcements of this year’s honorees.

Do reviews draw readers? Boost subscriptions? Sell ads? And if the answer is ‘no,’ what then? Charlotte Klein explores the precarious state of cultural criticism.

when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives august 27— september 21 at MoMA. co-curated by maya s. cade and k. austin collins www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

"Evil is not eternal, and truth will surely win." On dissidence, despair, and defiant hope in Julia Loktev's extraordinary five-part documentary, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The city that gave the world Siskel & Ebert no longer has a full-time print film critic.

Millions of Americans use commercial DNA tests. What happens when you find out that your parents aren't who you thought?

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor at The New Yorker since 2003, will be doing an AMA on Reddit on r/writing at 2 P.M. E.T. today. Submit your question and tune in here: nyer.cm/jLD45iz

Thank you @slate.com and @maryharris.bsky.social for having me on to discuss my @newyorker.com story on intimacy coordinators, what I learned training to become one, and why I will be keeping my day job. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Best first line of the day goes to Jennifer Wilson in @newyorker.com: “Earlier this year— Valentine's Day weekend— to be precise I found myself sitting on the floor of a loft in downtown Los Angeles with eight other adults, learning how to fake an orgasm.”

I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Earlier this year, The New Yorker sent me to Los Angeles to train to become an intimacy coordinator, the new shepherds of the sex scene in a post #MeToo Hollywood. Was this job legit, or a cynical HR move? I investigated... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We all know that @newyorker.com only did a big story on the lives on Hollywood intimacy coordinators so they could blow past their annual dieresis quota early in the year (62 ö’s in there!) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

There has not so far been a Brownmiller revival this decade to go with the Dworkin one, much as some have tried to rehabilitate Brownmiller too; but since there will now be obituaries, please know that she was an unrepentant apologist for the lynching of Emmett Till even after the Bryant recantation

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

In “Spotlight: Snitch City,” the Boston Globe skillfully reveals how police abused confidential informants in a Massachusetts port town. Sarah Larson reviews the six-episode series.

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Katie Kitamura's new novel “Audition” is one we desperately need right now: a close study of the characters that gender compels us to play and the terrifying thrill of going off-script. We discussed this, the fiction that is "agency," and Czech Cubism: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Poet Hanif Abdurraqib on Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, 23, who was killed in a targeted airstike by the Israeli military in Gaza this week.

Come work with us! CAT is seeking a full-time Communications Director to oversee communications, marketing, engagement, and public relations strategies. Read more and apply: www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

One year ago... "Part of the reason for the hasty planning was that the organizers had hoped a hearts-and-minds Eid wouldn’t be necessary by Ramadan. 'Surely this will be over by then,' Zara Rahim, another host, recalled thinking, about the war in Gaza." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"Both options, renting and buying in New York City, felt unsustainable to me. Why couldn’t there be some secret third thing?" @jenniferwilson.bsky.social @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“He had a face you could not help but project all of your fantasies onto—when I showed his picture to a friend, she said, ‘Ooh, he looks like he reads.’ ” @jenniferwilson.bsky.social, heir to Dorothy Parker, investigates the breakup industry: