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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard Kind is the Platonic ideal of the character actor. When he appears on screen—as Larry David’s cousin on Curb Your Enthusiasm or Rudy Giuliani on Scandal—you invariably think, “Oh, that’s…

What could be bad about idleness? Credit: Pheelings media/Shutterstock Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… It’s time to train people not to repeat the work of the past, but to create great things for the future. You see, this…

Political polarization is coming for the Roman Pontiff. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Discussions began immediately after it became known that the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church would be an American: which American exactly? Every word…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The photo shoot is a symbol of a lost time. Taken in 1991 during the second annual Great American Workout, a fitness event held on the South Lawn of the White…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The publication’s ongoing centennial celebration includes a film component: a series at Film Forum called “Stories from The New Yorker,” which featured films that were related to The New Yorker’s history,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ve lived in New York for twenty-two years, and I still have the strange feeling that I’m in a fantasy. Not a fantasy—the city can be nasty and gritty—but a blurry…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. “Only in New York” may…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2002, 35-year-old Luxembourg-based artist Michel Majerus was on a short flight from Berlin, where he lived, to his home country when a plane crashed, claiming his life and the lives…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sometimes there is a light at the end of the rabbit hole. When I recently saw Josef von Sternberg’s 1935 film The Devil Is a Woman, I was curious about its…

The wording is not quite true, or at least creates as much confusion as it does clarity. Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… When Vice President J.D. Vance stumbled upon an old video of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar apparently calling…