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Sohrab Hura's Frozen Vision of Kashmir
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (289+ words) In "Snow," the photographer evokes the paralysis of a region defined at once by beauty and bloodshed, Samanth Subramanian writes. His method had been improvisatory. He'd go to Srinagar or Pahalgam, catch a bus out, disembark in the countryside, and…...
Our Land" Is a Blistering Denunciation of Colonialist Oppression
13+ hour, 59+ min ago (648+ words) In the Argentinean filmmaker's new documentary, "Our Land," and a recently restored masterpiece, "The Headless Woman," an elusiveness of form becomes the most direct way to the truth. What a surprise, then, that "Our Land," Martel's fifth and latest feature,…...
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (163+ words) On the Fiction Podcast, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Evolution," by Joan Silber, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to discuss "Evolution," by Joan Silber, which was…...
The Restorative Practice of Paper Shredding
19+ hour ago (255+ words) Finishing School is a column in which Mary Norris, The New Yorker's Comma Queen, asks the eternal questions'Are you supposed to take the toothpick out of the sandwich or eat around it? Can a person be cool and old-fashioned at…...
Heated Rivalry" and Its Wine-Mom Fans Reunite
19+ hour, 17+ min ago (1307+ words) The New Yorker What's the only thing that could make "Heated Rivalry" gayer? That's right: turning it into a musical. Doing the honors is Dylan Marc Aurele, a composer, writer, and parodist extraordinaire, whose previous projects include spoofs of the…...
The Unmaking of the E. P. A.
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (265+ words) The Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970, at a time when the country's pollution problems were pressingly obvious. Smog choked Los Angeles. Raw sewage poured into the Hudson and Chicago Rivers. Cleveland's Cuyahoga River kept catching on fire. By 1975, Congress…...
Charles and Donald See Eye to Eye
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (51+ words) Potential slogans for J. D. Vance's 2028 Presidential campaign. Starter packs for things you will start but never finish. Mom and Dad: the performance review. A day in my highly optimized, convenient life. When to go to the hospital for childbirth. I, a…...
Apocalypse No: "The Life of Chuck" Stumbles at the Finish Line
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (602+ words) It's impossible to discuss "The Life of Chuck" without revealing the ending, because that's where the movie starts. It's built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which it's based. A title. .. Amid the chaos, Marty notices something strange:…...
In Trump's America, It Takes a King to Praise Democracy
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (168+ words) Two hundred and fifty years into the American experiment, it turns out that it takes a King to tell us how to run our Republic. Did it matter that Donald Trump did not get the joke? Charles's rousing case for…...
What the U. S. -Iran War Means for China
1+ week, 1+ day ago (718+ words) What would you say is the conventional wisdom of how China views this conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel? And in what ways do you think that conventional wisdom is right or wrong? It is bimodal at…...