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Welcome to the lifelong struggle of dealing with our creator’s sickest joke—putting rotting bones in our eating holes.

As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were ...

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Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

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She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane (Norton). Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be ...

The recent reopening of the Metropolitan Museum’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing—a spectacular treasury of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas—was fortuitously timed. The renovation, which cost ...

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Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else, that “Judgment will be passed upon new books of consequence.” ...

To celebrate its centenary, The New Yorker invited fiction writers to contribute stories inspired by works from the archive, then to explain why those works inspired them. Sign up to receive the ...