Sunday Reading: The Electrifying Critical Mind of Pauline Kael
Next week marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the film critic Pauline Kael. Her arrival at The New Yorker, in the late nineteen-sixties, heralded a revolution in cinematic taste—one that was often messy yet exhilarating. Kael articulated a provocative new vision of American cinema in which the most invigorating films blurred the boundaries…
The Six Remotes in Your Dad’s Entertainment Center
Lil Beep • Description: A small clicker that beeps at random intervals, like a dying smoke alarm or a needy app. Only has five buttons, none of which seem to do anything. It’s not an Amazon Fire Stick, but that won’t stop your dad from shouting at it. • Functionality: Might control the thermostat, but…
The Right to a Stable Climate Is the Constitutional Question of the Twenty-first Century
On June 4th, in a packed courtroom in Portland, Oregon, Judge Andrew Hurwitz, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, posed an unusual hypothetical question. “Assume that we have rogue raiders come across the Canadian border of the Northwest. They are kidnapping children of a certain age and murdering them,” he…
How Families Separated at the Border Could Make the Government Pay
If you’ve ever borrowed a ruffled cocktail dress or a sequinned jumpsuit from the fashion startup Rent the Runway, Suny Rodríguez might have helped with your order. She works at the company’s so-called Dream Fulfillment Center, a glorified warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey, where she sorts clothing for distribution. But, beginning in 2016, she also…
The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch
During the 2013 season, Marshawn Lynch, who was then the star running back of the Seattle Seahawks, stopped speaking on the record to the media. Most professional athletes treat their media obligations as a compulsory nuisance; some convey their annoyance by being terse or snarky. Lynch, who is known for his bruising play and his…
The Invention of the “Beach Read”
Summer reading—so much expectation and anxiety and judgment is compressed within those two words! June hardly has a chance to throw on a bikini and step onto the deck before morning shows, magazines, and Web sites descend with their “Beach Reads” and “Summer Reading Lists” and “Summer Fiction Top Tens.” Bookstores set up displays with…
Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 14th
Buy New Yorker Cartoons » Click Here: toulon rugby shop melbourne
The 2019 World Cup Has Become a Referendum on Women’s Sports
The biggest story coming out of the United States’ 13–0 rout of Thailand in its first game of the World Cup was not the beautiful shot that Alex Morgan curled past the Thai keeper in the eighty-seventh minute, after controlling a high-bouncing ball, or Tobin Heath’s technical brilliance as she blew by the defense, or…
“The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism
During the financial crisis of 1873, an Austrian immigrant to Wisconsin named John Michael Kohler bought the Sheboygan Union Iron & Steel Foundry from his father-in-law and created the Kohler Company. The company hit it big with bathtubs, and, in 1899, Kohler bought land west of Sheboygan, which sits an hour up the coast of…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 13th
Buy New Yorker Cartoons » Click Here: Sports Water Bottle Accessories