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This Sunday, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about the intricacies of translation. #NewYorkerArchive
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Claudia Roth Pierpont considers the history of English translations of Arabic novels, which offer “a marvellous array of answers to questions we did not know we wanted to ask.”
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This Sunday, revisit a selection of pieces about adolescence and teen-age yearning. #NewYorkerArchive
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Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” from 1978, is “a miniature masterpiece of storytelling that exhibits an intimate knowledge of the often narrow confines of girlhood,” @erinoverbey writes.
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@erinoverbey In “The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue,” Lillian Ross explores the world of private-school teens on the Upper East Side.
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Instead of a necktie, we’re bringing you a collection of memorable pieces—from David Sedaris, Zadie Smith, and others—about some Father’s Day honorees. #NewYorkerArchive
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The author Michael Chabon writes about his ongoing conversations with his father about childhood, adolescence, and memory.
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David Sedaris writes about his more-than-a-little-complicated relationship with his father and how it transformed as time ran out.
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To tune up for tonight’s broadcast of the #TonyAwards, we’ve curated a selection of pieces about nominated productions and the artists who created them. #NewYorkerArchive
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John Lahr profiles Sam Mendes, the film and stage director behind “The Lehman Trilogy,” nominated in eight categories.
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“Shange realized that she. . . . had something to say, not only about the fragility of her own existence but about the lives of the other colored girls she knew and loved and imagined.” Hilton Als explores the career of the playwright Ntozake Shange.
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Today we’re bringing you a selection of pieces that explore the progress of gay rights over the past several decades—and the challenges that may lie ahead. #NewYorkerArchive
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Michael Specter profiles the revolutionary playwright and activist Larry Kramer, who helped transform the public’s understanding of AIDS and the politics of treatment and research.
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.@mashagessen remembers Lorena Borjas, the Mexican American activist whose legacy was one of building community and of taking close, personal, physical care of people.
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To celebrate this week’s Travel Issue, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about fascinating journeys.
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In 2021, on the cusp of turning 80, the author Paul Theroux wrote about a life of constant searching.
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Revisit a report from Jennie Erin Smith on the remarkable history of tourism in the Darién Gap, a zone of rivers, mountains, and jungles in Panama and Colombia that is known for its seeming impassability.
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This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about legendary early encounters with Alfred Hitchcock, Simone de Beauvoir, J.F.K., Alexander McQueen, and others. #NewYorkerArchive
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In 1937, A. J. Liebling chronicled Orson Welles’s precocious beginnings as a Midwestern teen-ager who moved to Ireland and proceeded to bluff his way into theatrical circles in Dublin. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/XAnSjXJ
Revisit a Profile of Alfred Hitchcock from 1938—years before he directed some of his best-known films. #NewYorkerArchive
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This week, we bring you half a century of New Yorker Profiles, reporting, essays, fiction, and poetry about American dissent, from the #NewYorkerArchive. nyer.cm/mGMgNjk
In his introduction to this week’s issue, David Remnick reflects on the life and legacy of John Lewis, and the essential role dissent plays in America’s story and future. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
From 2002, @specterm profiles Larry Kramer, the activist who warned the U.S. about AIDS—and helped revolutionize American medicine. newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
