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Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Size of Things,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. (www.newyorker.com)
All My Dentist’s Feedback So Far - Welcome to the lifelong struggle of dealing with our creator’s sickest joke—putting rotting bones in our eating holes. (www.newyorker.com)
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear - Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true. (www.newyorker.com)
Sketchbook: An Artist’s View of the Riches of New York City - I knew no one when I first came to New York, which meant it belonged only to me. Drawing it, I still feel as if I’m taking inventory of an infinite treasure vault. (www.newyorker.com)
“Jubilee,” by Jhumpa Lahiri - I was simply happy to inhabit my birthplace, my janmasthan: this almost unbearably meaningful fact that linked me to every red letter box and double-decker bus. (www.newyorker.com)
Curtain Up at the New Delacorte - Central Park’s beloved open-air stage has had some work done (eighty-five million dollars’ worth). Streep and Pacino may have moved on, but the raccoons stuck around. (www.newyorker.com)
Ready, Set, Libretto! Jesse Eisenberg Speed-Writes a Musical - The “Real Pain” director teamed up with the TV writer Meredith Scardino to compete in the 24 Hour Musicals, for charity. Their muse? A West Elm lamp. (www.newyorker.com)
The Argentinean Comic Strip That Galvanized a Generation - How the politically aware six-year-old heroine of “Mafalda” became an international phenomenon. (www.newyorker.com)
The Case for Zohranomics - As some Wall Street billionaires melt down over Zohran Mamdani’s policy platform, a prominent progressive economist argues that it meets the moment. (www.newyorker.com)
Ottessa Moshfegh on Harold Brodkey’s “The State of Grace” - The author on the New Yorker story that inspired her story “The Comedian.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Comedian,” by Ottessa Moshfegh - He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him. (www.newyorker.com)
The Met’s Renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Reviewed - A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all of it belongs in New York. (www.newyorker.com)
“How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence,” Reviewed - In recent years, an irresistibly intuitive hypothesis has both salved and fuelled parental anxieties: it’s the phones. (www.newyorker.com)
What The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925 - Touted in our first issue: a love-crazed soldier, scheming septuagenarians, an Anglo-French chastity plot, and a suspected nymphomaniac with a taste for fast cars. (www.newyorker.com)