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“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem
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Published: April 28, 2026 13:56
Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of a new collection of short stories entitled “Fat Swim.” Her work questions body image and the suppression of fatness in contemporary culture; Eisenberg recently paid for a billboard over a busy highway in Philadelphia…
Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers
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Published: April 24, 2026 17:40
One of Donald Trump’s few critics within his party is the libertarian-leaning senator Rand Paul, from Kentucky. Paul was recently the sole Republican to vote in favor of restricting the President’s power to make war in Iran. He also opposed Trump on tariff…
Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death
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Published: April 21, 2026 10:00
When Patrick Radden Keefe was living in London while shooting the TV adaptation of his book “Say Nothing,” he heard about a teen-ager who fell from a luxurious apartment tower in mysterious circumstances. As he looked into it, he learned that the boy, Zac…
A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
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Published: April 17, 2026 17:40
Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. He grew up in a Zionist home and served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, but he has long been concerned about Israel’s use of military power. In a new…
Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon
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Published: April 14, 2026 10:00
Anna Wintour graces the cover of Vogue’s May issue alongside her theatrical double: Meryl Streep in the role of Miranda Priestly, from “The Devil Wears Prada,” whose much-anticipated sequel comes out on May 1st. Wintour and David Remnick spoke last fall on…
Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
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Published: April 10, 2026 17:40
At the end of February, OpenAI’s C.E.O., Sam Altman, made headlines by swiftly cutting a deal with the Pentagon for his company to replace Anthropic, which had balked at the Trump Administration’s bid to use its A.I. technology to power autonomous weapons…
Pick Three: Spring Sports News
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Published: April 7, 2026 10:00
The New Yorker staff writer Louisa Thomas, who writes the Sporting Scene column, talks with David Remnick about the biggest basketball stories this season: how LeBron James embraced a new late-career persona as a great supporting player for the Los Angeles…
How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine
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Published: April 3, 2026 17:40
In 2021, when Olga Rudenko and other journalists launched the English-language news outlet the Kyiv Independent, they were committed to making a publication that wouldn’t face political pressure from an owner. A few months later, Russia launched a…
A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
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Published: March 31, 2026 10:00
Thousands of federal prosecutors have been fired or have resigned from their roles since Pam Bondi took over as Attorney General. She has made no secret of weaponizing the Justice Department to pursue Donald Trump’s vendettas. One of those prosecutors is…
John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling
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Published: March 27, 2026 18:07
The new play “Giant,” on Broadway, dramatizes the scandal around Roald Dahl, the beloved children’s-book author who, in the nineteen-eighties, began making antisemitic statements and invoking stereotypes about Jewish influence. John Lithgow portrays Dahl…