The New Yorker

EVERYWHERE AN OINK OINK: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

January 18, 2024

Herre is a brief excerpt from an article by Dwight Garner for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here * * * David Mamet, a.k.a. ‘Embittered Dave,’ Would Like…

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The Splendor of Wordless Picture Books

January 12, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from a delightful article written by Jessica Winter and published by The New Yorker. Please click here to read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information. Credit: Art work by Balint Zsako…

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Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?

January 8, 2024

Years ago, Warren Buffett suggested that bad habits tend to be too light to notice until they are too heavy to break. I agree. Here is a brief excerpt from a classic New Yorker article by Jerome Groopman that appeared…

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How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe

December 5, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Robert Jay Lifton by Masha Gessen for The New Yorker. To  read the complete interview, check out other material, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * The psychoanalyst and…

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A Nation of Eyewitnesses to J.F.K.’s Assassination: How it feels—and what it means—to watch a President slain on TV.

November 29, 2023

Here is a classic New Yorker article written by John Updike and featured in the November 29, 1963, issue. * * * It was as if we slept from Friday to Monday and dreamed an oppressive, unsearchably significant dream, which,…

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Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built

November 21, 2023

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Joshua Rothman for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration by Daniel Liévano * * * Geoffrey Hinton has…

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The Transition: LBJ and the Events in Dallas

November 20, 2023

Friday, November 22, 1963, began for Lyndon Johnson in Fort Worth, with the headline he saw on the front page of the Dallas Morning News: “yarborough snubs lbj.” Johnson, accompanying President Kennedy on a tour of Texas, had been given an…

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Barbra Streisand, Rising Star

November 17, 2023

Here is a brief  ‘Talk of the Town” commentary by Geoffrey T. Hellman that appeared in the May 12, 1962, issue of The New Yorker. To read the complete issue and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * *…

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What Are You Afraid Of?

November 9, 2023

Here is a “classic” New Yorker article written by Mark Singer and published in the August 30, 1998, issue. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. ***** Terror is Stephen King’s medium,…

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“The Pigeon Tunnel” Is Both Delightful and Wildly Frustrating

October 30, 2023

Here is a brief excerpt from Richard Brody’s review of Errol Morris’s documentary about  John le Carré. It appeared in The New Yorker, published in the October 24, 2023, issue. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain…

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