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Spoiler alert: the climactic event of “Knock at the Cabin” is a book burning. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that, lest anyone deem Hollywood a solid front of liberal messaging, this new film by M.…

You may have seen the recent meme involving the phrase “the feminine urge to,” followed by some pithy example of melancholy or chaotic behavior. “The feminine urge to stop replying to texts and sit in solitude for months at a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2003, Ken Jennings was a twenty-nine-year-old software engineer, living in a suburb of Salt Lake City with his wife and young son, when his old college roommate suggested that they…

When we begin “The U.S. and the Holocaust”—a six-and-a-half-hour, three-part documentary about America’s actions during one of history’s greatest atrocities, the Nazis’ attempted extermination of the Jews—we find ourselves in 1933 Frankfurt, where a bourgeois German-Jewish family is going out…

In recent years, on Instagram and in fashion magazines, a girl-centric aesthetic has taken hold. Young photographers such as Petra Collins, Olivia Bee, and Mayan Toledano have been capturing the private rites and practices of adolescents—in school, at parties, on…

The Coney Island boardwalk is best known as a summer place, a spot for sunshine, swimming, or amusement-park rides. In his cover for the December 5, 2022, issue, Jorge Colombo captures the place in a different moment and mood, with…

Eustace Tilley, a monocled dandy, first appeared on the cover of The New Yorker’s inaugural issue, in 1925. He appeared on the cover for a second time one year later, in celebration that the magazine had survived. (It almost didn’t.)…

Jamie Lee Curtis is Hollywood royalty: her parents were Janet Leigh, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” and Tony Curtis, the matinée idol from “Sweet Smell of Success.” She belongs to a specific class of actors who use their easy…

When Matt Walsh reported that Vanderbilt Hospital was performing double mastectomies on minors, “critics” said his reporting was “going to get people hurt or even killed.” Others said he was “targeting” the clinic. And similar reporting yielded accusations that Walsh…

The Journal of Molecular Psychiatry has released a meta-analysis of several studies and literature reviews on the relationship between serotonin levels and depression. The researchers found “no convincing evidence that depression is associated with, or caused by, lower serotonin concentrations…