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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of Arizona freshman…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Madame Bovary, c’est moi. The phrase, often attributed to Gustave Flaubert, may be better known than any line in his novels. But many scholars consider the remark to be apocryphal. It…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hilton AlsStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. It’s hard…

Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.’s own rural manor house, opens again for the winter season. Credit: image via Shutterstock For the last few weeks, most people in Washington, D.C. have been feverishly counting down the days until the presidential election. Not…

The fast food chain is in the news as a proxy for “regular” America, but in the global era, it has become all things to all peoples. The late M. Stanton Evans used to say that when he went to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the morning of Wednesday, November 6th, Donald J. Trump was elected, for the second time, as President of the United States. For the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “People Like Us.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. Sonia Bermúdez divides her time between two cemeteries. In the town of Riohacha, Colombia, she…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A road movie with a twist, “A Real Pain”—which Jesse Eisenberg wrote, directed, and stars in—builds the eventful but thin foreground of its journey on a deep foundation of memory and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In my youth, in the nineteen-nineties, my record-store experiences were governed by what was, or wasn’t, in my pockets. I was a frequent attendee at the bargain bin, because I had…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story As the 2024 Presidential race nears its end, the country seems more and more divided, with democracy hanging in the balance. For the cover of the November 11, 2024, issue, the…