07:55 The 2016 trend on social media is giving me absolute chills. But could it be the cure for this new-year funk? Eleanor Burnard (www.theguardian.com)
01-19 Editorial Expression of Concern: En passant neurotrophic action of an intermediate axonal target in the developing mammalian CNS (www.nature.com)
01-19 Faulty Gas Valve? Call the Famous Stove Lady! - Carlita Belgrove is the go-to stove whisperer, restoring the appliances of N.Y.C. élites and Hollywood actors. On a trip to the Hamptons, can she save her client’s Magic Chef? (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News - The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 From Selma to Minneapolis - On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills - Early in his life, Sanders left the streets of Brooklyn for the woodlands of Vermont. What did the man bring to the state—and what did the state bring to the man? (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 For This Palisades Toymaker, Fire Safety Is No Game - Jeremy Padawer, whose company owns Squishmallows, is one of thousands devastated by last year’s fire. At a rally for the anniversary, he’s more passionate than ever about reform. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 Ask Xander & Mariluisa - Relationship advice from the internet: on Friday Afternoon Sex Clubs, adoption, and synchronized waterskiing. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 Mark Strong, on the Clock - On a break from playing Oedipus in the new Broadway production, the British actor stops by Federal Hall to chat politics, family dynamics, and being mistaken for Stanley Tucci. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees - LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck,” Reviewed - At the Met, the Finnish artist’s spare, melancholic work has the strange effect of jolting your senses. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 How to Kill a Fish - The Japanese chef Junya Yamasaki mastered a butchery technique that results in tastier seafood—and he’s taught some Southern California fishermen how to do it, too. (www.newyorker.com)
01-18 Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies - The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing to the role of a woman possessed by faith. (www.newyorker.com)
01-18 Vinson Cunningham on Barry Blitt’s Obama “Fist Bump” Cover - Here’s one big risk a public satirist of racism takes: by displaying tropes and crude imagery, he reveals just how well he knows and can deploy them himself. (www.newyorker.com)