CULTURE
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David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze | The New Yorker
Sophisti-pop In 2005, when the singer Niia Bertino was seventeen, she was recognized as one of the top high-school jazz…
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How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply?
The U.S. has only eight THAAD batteries worldwide. At least one of them has been damaged by Iranian strikes in…
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Mad About the Mandolin | The New Yorker
Calace, I discovered, was a Neapolitan workshop that had been making mandolins since 1825, and Raffaele Calace, the grandson of…
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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology
Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century,…
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Restaurant Review: Kelang | The New Yorker
The best thing on the menu at Kelang, a Malaysian restaurant in Greenpoint that opened in December, is a puffy…
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Donald Trump’s Case for War Fails to Mention How to Win It
During the past month, Trump has variously claimed that the war was about regime change, that it was about obliterating…
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He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb
So I was surprised when, in early 2024, Chalker sent me an e-mail introducing himself. He had read an article…
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Dear Pepper: Are You There Husband? It’s Me, Wife
I’m going to say something validating or painful—I’m not sure which one. Your life sounds unpleasant, and I️ (again, a…
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CNN’s “Podcast Look” and the Slow Death of Cable News
Last week, CNN rolled out some experiments in form and in manufactured authenticity. Anderson Cooper wore his sleeves rolled up…
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The Style Is the Substance in Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs Documentary
In the show notes handed to audience members at Marc Jacobs’s Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, at New York’s Park Avenue Armory…
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