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It’s a cliché, but the world is an inherently a messy place. The crises of one year are rarely contained by the calendar, spilling over for months, years, and frequently decades. Which is why it’s a risky endeavor to try…
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In addition to the hundred-or-so poems that The New Yorker publishes both in print and on the Web each year, 2018 brought something new: our online-only multimedia poetry feature, which, so far, has showcased work by Ada Limón, Natalie Diaz,…
The red suit and fur-trimmed hat, the white beard, the sack of toys: these are the trappings of an icon who has been featured on New Yorker covers since the magazine’s inception, in 1925. Of the more than a hundred…
In April, The New Yorker launched its first-ever American-style crossword puzzle. (As David Remnick noted in his introduction of the puzzle, the magazine previously published, for a short time, a British-style cryptic crossword—a “fiendishly difficult” variant on the form.) Since…
The prime minister praised the Armed Forces in her Christmas speech for keeping the UK safe from Russia, defeating Daesh and “sending a message” to Syrian President Bashar Assad. UK Prime Minister Theresa May hailed the British Armed Forces in her…
