The deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, which fights for Ukraine, was either abducted or detained in Kyiv. The incident ended in a shootout between Ukraine’s security services. (news.google.com)
He Skipped Every Quarterly Tax Payment This Year. One December Withdrawal From His IRA Erased the Whole Penalty Because of How the IRS Counts Withholding (finance.yahoo.com)
“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma - Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Neocolonialism Will Backfire - The President is touting his big Venezuelan oil deal, but his interventions abroad are stirring anger and having unintended consequences. (www.newyorker.com)
Welcome to Career Day - I spend two-ish hours messing around with an A.I. chatbot, as per the company’s new mandate, teaching it how to do my job so that it can replace me. Any questions? (www.newyorker.com)
Reporting the Big World - Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore? (www.newyorker.com)
Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair - Olivia Rodrigo’s daylong, woman-led event felt at times like any other corporate music festival. But, if music is the measure, it was up to something stunning. (www.newyorker.com)
Five Great Campus Novels - Our critic’s picks for going back to school. Plus: an Edith Wharton novella for a last gasp of the season. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop - Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials? (www.newyorker.com)
“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows - This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about four middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a teeming panorama of social divisions and inequities. (www.newyorker.com)
Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. (www.newyorker.com)
Seven Steps to Financial Success, According to a Guy Who Won a Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Against the Circus - You can optimize your chances by insuring that you’re in the best possible position to get whacked in the face by wealth and prosperity. (www.newyorker.com)
George W. Bush’s Code of Silence - He lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump? (www.newyorker.com)
“The Disappearers,” Reviewed - Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack. (www.newyorker.com)
All Rise! Coyote Court Is Now in Session - In the new film “Coyote vs. Acme,” starring Will Forte, Wile E. Coyote demands justice from the company that keeps blowing him up. Here to weigh in is the personal-injury attorney Motorcycle Mike. (www.newyorker.com)
Smokejumpers Leap Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires - Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes. (www.newyorker.com)
Who’s Afraid of A.I. Music? - When the rapper Fenix Flexin débuted a new accent on his single “Rubberz,” he stumbled into a century-old fight over musical fraudulence. (www.newyorker.com)