18:15 The sign on a branch of The People''s Bank of China, which is the central bank of the People''s Republic of China.It is responsible for carrying out monetary policy as determined by law. - MINING.COM (news.google.com)
18:00 Jacinda Ardern’s Overseas Experience - New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Gertrude Berg, the Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom - Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 The Meatpacking District Packs It In - As the market prepares to vacate the West Village, a veteran meatpacker recalls the area in the days of fat-slicked cobblestones, before the Whitney and the High Line. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 “The Terminal,” by Rick Barot - “They stand next to him, in a posture of awkward confession, carefully giving him the words.” (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Jenny Saville, the Body Artist - The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age - How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 How Many Naomis Does It Take to Deconstruct “Doppelganger”? - Inspired by Naomi Klein’s best-seller about the headache of being confused with Naomi Wolf, Naomi Becker decided to have a Prospect Park picnic for her fellow-Naomis. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 The Farmers Harmed by the Trump Administration - Four months ago, the government cut funding to agricultural labs. Kansas farmers and researchers say they can see the damage. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 A Palestinian Doctor in Israel Treats People on Both Sides - Lina Qasem Hassan treated victims of October 7th. She also publicly condemned the war in Gaza—a stance that imperilled her job. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Redditors: Immigrants Keep Kidnapping My Wife!! - What to do about the human-trafficking illegal who absconds with my wife once a week and then drops her at home at dawn? Help! (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 A First Kiss from America’s First Woman in Space - Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 How a Family Toy Business Is Fighting Donald Trump’s Tariffs - Despite securing an important court victory against the Administration, the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg knows that his battle with the White House is far from over. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 “Girl on Girl,” Reviewed - “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 How I Learned to Become an Intimacy Coördinator - At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer learned about Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Restaurant Review: What’s a Neighborhood Restaurant Without a Neighborhood? - Confidant is hoping to draw diners to the sprawling Brooklyn mall known as Industry City. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 The Victims of the Trump Administration’s China-Bashing - A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Taylor Swift’s Master Plan - In a bid to gain control over her own music, the singer-songwriter rerecorded most of her old studio albums. Then she bought the old ones back. What do we do with the Taylor’s Versions now? (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Julia Child - The outlines of her biography—the cookbooks, the TV stardom—are familiar to many of us. Tomkins captures what set her apart. (www.newyorker.com)