The New Yorker turns 100: Here’s how it started with a poker game
To start The New Yorker, Ross’ poker partner Fleischmann was willing to stake him US$25,000—roughly $450,000 in today’s ...
Rupert Everett on Why He Started Writing, Being Dazzled by Julie Andrews, and What He Thinks of the Kardashians
In advance of his new collection of short stories, ‘The American No,’ Everett opens up about finding the humor in rejection, ...
Why Watch Dial Typography Is More Important Than You Think
On tiny objects like watches, every detail matters. So why does it feel like so many fancy Swiss brands just scrolled through ...
Is it too late to start your life anew?
Arabbi in ancient times once offered these rules of thumb for thinking about the ages of life. One’s 20s, he wrote, were for ...
Grub Street7h
Kyle Chayka Is Eating Through His Jet Lag
Back home in Washington, D.C., The New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka and his wife, Jess, cook “constantly and elaborately,” he ...
Christianity Today7h
Don’t Write Your Own Marriage Vows
Custom wedding vows are popular. But Christian marriage is about more than personal identity, ephemeral affection, and jokes ...
HERALDED HAMBURGERS: Staff tries different versions of the all-American staple
Once again, we venture out into the Central Arkansas restaurant landscape to pit our palates and stomachs against the array ...
New York Magazine22h
Turns Out, With Beef Tallow, the Beefier the Better
Beef tallow’s quick trajectory into the beauty conversation reminds me a bit of snail mucin, another animal by-product that ...
Observer22h
Curator Hilton Als and the Language of Silence
Agnes Martin and Vija Celmins are two master painters of silence. Brice Marden ’s letter drawing, Sarah Charlesworth’s painting of a book with blank pages and Claes Oldenburg’s notebook page in the ...