The New Yorker Media Bias

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Bridging the Generation Gap at the Oscars

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On April 14, 1969, Gregory Peck strode across a deserted hall of Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion like a weary cowboy crossing a prairie. He had become the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences two years earlier, and his job was to introduce the Forty-first Academy Awards. On camera, Peck descended a mirrored staircase in the atrium, looked around, with his thick eyebrows furrowed, and announced in his deep voice, “It’s kind of lonesome out here. The audience is already on the inside.”
The New Yorker     Jan 11, 2023

Wedding Speech for My Podcast Co-host

Hello, my name is Genevieve, and although many of you might not recognize me I’m sure you recognize my voice, as I am the co-host of the socialist, stoner, dating-advice, pop-culture-commentary, beauty-tips, and humor podcast “High, Help, Hooray,” alongside our beautiful bride, Daphne.
The New Yorker     Jan 11, 2023

Field Notes on the Infinite-Monkey Theorem

12/3/22, 7:30 A.M.Day 1 of being embedded with the elusive writer monkeys. It’s magnificent. Monkeys and typewriters as far as the eye can see. What strikes me immediately, though, is the absence of any and all writing. Before arriving, I’d steeled myself for a deafening cacophony of tapping keys, margin bells, and the mechanical slides of carriage-return levers. But so far the only thing I’ve seen typed is “Title TK TK TK,” written by Monkey No. 3566, who then took a break to lie on the rug and listen to a podcast. Will one of these monkeys independently re-create the works of William Shakespeare?
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons January 16, 2023

New cartoons from the magazine.
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

McCarthy Asks Whatever Joker Hid His Gavel to Give It Back

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“O.K., guys, you’ve had your fun,” the new House Speaker said, his voice barely audible over the derisive hoots of his fellow-Republicans.
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

What If Wishes Could Be Bought and Sold?

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Aziza is in mourning. Her husband, a close childhood friend and an early love, has just died, and she’s been feeling terribly alone. Shy and unassertive, she’s often been overlooked by others and kept to herself. Her heart has been broken before—she lost both her parents in quick succession when she was young—but she fears her husband’s death has made her unhappiness irreversible.
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

How Much More Netflix Can the World Absorb?

Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s global head of television, follows a similar routine whether she’s visiting Mumbai or Berlin or Seoul or Stockholm or any of the company’s twenty-six foreign outposts. A black car brings her from the airport to a luxury hotel, perhaps the Four Seasons. She checks in and furiously answers e-mails from Los Angeles until it’s time for a breakfast or a dinner or a midday meal with executives and creators. She wears her favorite “travel blazer,” a designer jacket bejewelled on the breast pocket with the words “Art is truth.” And, though she often stays “in country” for only a day or two at a time, she likes to schedule a “slate meeting” so that ...
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

Off the Grid in the Big City

Kudos to you! You’ve decided to do your part in saving the planet by going off the grid. Not keen on relocating to Maine or Montana? Manhattan works just fine. Josh Spodek went off the grid in May in his studio apartment in the West Village. He just disconnected the circuit breaker, and now his carbon footprint is about that of three average-sized house cats. Good news! Spodek has invited you over to show you the ropes. He’s the lean guy with the spiky brown hair and brown hiking shirt. Hungry? There’s some leftovers from yesterday’s solar-powered no-packaging vegan stew, which has been sitting out overnight, and which Spodek has sniffed, declaring, “I don’t think you’ll die.” ...
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

Can UPS Still Deliver a Middle-Class Life?

For nearly twenty years, Antoine Andrews has been driving a UPS route in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge. When he rings the bell of a house one afternoon, the customer greets him with a fist bump: “What’s up, bro?” When he drops off a package at Walgreens, he recognizes an elderly man in the checkout line. The man once worked in a neighborhood bar, and when Andrews used to walk in with a delivery the man always offered him a beer—“On the house!”—which Andrews would decline. As he walks out of Walgreens, he taps the man on the shoulder and says, “Nice to see you!” All day long, Andrews waves to people he knows, and they ...
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking?

I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” or possibly “The Waves.” I raised my hand to say something and suddenly realized that I had no idea what I planned to say. For a moment, I panicked. Then the teacher called on me, I opened my mouth, and words emerged. Where had they come from? Evidently, I’d had a thought—that was why I’d raised my hand. But I hadn’t known what the thought would be until I spoke it.
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

What the January 6th Report Is Missing

The Government Publishing Office’s eight-hundred-and-forty-five-page report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is divided into eight chapters, makes eleven recommendations, attaches four appendices, and includes four thousand two hundred and eight-five endnotes. Its executive summary, which at nearly two hundred pages can hardly be called a summary, provides a numbered list of seventeen key findings, the first eleven of which have, as the subject of the predicate, the forty-fifth President of the United States:
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023

Han Ong on Fiction and the News

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Your story “Hammer Attack” is set in New York, during the early months of the COVID pandemic, at a time when there were several unprovoked violent attacks on Asians and Asian Americans, most likely triggered by political attempts to blame COVID on the Chinese. What prompted you to revisit that time in fiction?
The New Yorker     Jan 10, 2023