Some of the greatest minds in America have gathered in the pages of the country’s leading weekly to declare how little they understand things now, and how little they care to understand them moving forward
Is Masha Gessen’s performative anti-Zionism an exception to the magazine’s commitment to factual accuracy and independent style, or a reflection of broader decay?
Janet Malcolm’s successor at The New Yorker has a different take on the impossible profession
Why are millennials so afraid to get it on? Sex, power, gender, and swiping right, in Kristen Roupenian’s first collection of short stories.
Best known for his New Yorker covers, the artist, a Jewish refugee from Romania, was full of observational snark
A bit review in ‘The New Yorker’ provides an unfortunate master class in how to relativize and de-emphasize the Holocaust’s unparalleled horrors
‘The New Yorker’ offers a master class in how not to respond to cheap alt-right provocations
Tablet Annotates the News: How Syria’s Assad played the U.S. media
After interacting with Assad’s murderous regime, a group of Western journalists and editors decided to tell the dictator’s ‘side of the story.’ Sorry is the state of American journalism and policymaking.
Were the following statements made about the Girls creator or Iran’s Supreme Leader?
A tribute to the great Italian-Jewish memory artist, and enemy of Fascism, who died six years ago this week
The influential artist talks about his Jewish Museum retrospective, ‘Mad’ magazine, and how the Shoah trumps art all of the time
The late critic, my father, professor, and bon vivant is the unwitting star of a Berluti ad campaign
How a family collaboration 12 years ago became an indelible part of history
Rachel Kushner’s new novel The Flamethrowers is overly cool and stylish. So, why do the critics swoon for her?
Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and Mossad
The author, publishing a new novel this week, talks about conversion, suffering, and life in Vermont
After crafting dozens of fictional versions of exits and endings, the writer carefully manages his own
