CULTURE

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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Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight

Forget everything that you learned in seventh-grade math class. Here’s how to accurately determine the actual probability of your friend…

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“My Balenciaga,” by Han Ong

It could have been an experiment by the master. An early draft. A failed caprice. Source link

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Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”

Martinez was charged with assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law-enforcement officer. She faced twenty years in prison. By…

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The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson

Early on, there are slow-moving but tense confrontations between Dodd and Freddie in which Hoffman and Phoenix appear to be…

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