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The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece
For decades, I’ve cherished the 1933 comedy-drama “Man’s Castle” as a gem of classic Hollywood, and...
Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation
Alex Eisler, a sophomore at Brown University who studies applied math and computer science, regularly uses...
What Phones Are Doing to Reading
For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started...
Jonathan Haidt blames teenage depression, anxiety on smartphones, social media
Jonathan Haidt is a sixty-year-old social psychologist who believes that your child’s smartphone is a threat...
How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?
Digitizing the real world involves the tedium of real-world processes. Three-dimensional models are created using lidar...
The Heart of Low
Last winter, I flew to Minneapolis to hear a funk quartet play at a bar. The...
Are Flying Cars Here?
At Wisk’s offices, Schrinner told me that air taxis could one day connect remote Indigenous communities...
The Archeologists of Athens (2023)
In Don DeLillo’s 1982 novel “The Names,” an American businessman living in Athens can’t quite bring...
The dumbphone boom is real
Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter...
How Chinese Students Experience America
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The Brazilian Special-Forces Unit Fighting to Save the Amazon
As we watched the fire spread, a small plane buzzed away over the trees. It belonged...
The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife
Link URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-trad-wife Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~life.women/1fbh/the_rise_and_fall_of_the_trad_wife_alena_kate_pettitt_helped_lead_an_online_movement_promoting Votes: 26 Comments: 9
Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?
The exact causes of the Gen Z mental-health emergency will be parsed for years to come,...
Houdini and the Art of Escape (2020)
In 1908, Harry Houdini—“The World’s Handcuff King and Prison Breaker”—needed a new act. He was thirty-four...
The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools
The law, authored by a Democrat, applies to two or more people working together to steal...
A Pill to Make Exercise Obsolete
Link URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/a-pill-to-make-exercise-obsolete Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~health/1f2c/a_pill_to_make_exercise_obsolete_2017 Votes: 8 Comments: 11
How Foreign Policy Became a Campaign Issue for 2024
Presidential elections rarely hinge on issues of foreign policy, yet candidates delight in them. The lure...