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Observations of seven days in the capital of Thailand Loading Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Bangkok is chaos. The whole city smells of sewage. Incense burns non-stop to mask the smells of hot cement soaked with urine, cigarettes, and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Check out “Calls”. New Yorker Documentary Watch the latest movie or share your own. Over the course of 18 minutes, Calls, a documentary directed by Lindsay Dryden, follows a series of…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk posted a message on X stating that “all federal employees will soon be receiving an email asking them to tell us what they did last week.”…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the March 3, 2025 cover, Barry Blitt depicted Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison being thrown out of office—a dramatic depiction of the disarray and mass layoffs of federal…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “The Last of the Nightingales.” For Bernie Krause, the sign of a healthy ecosystem is the sound it makes. The musician and Hollywood sound engineer is a pioneer of soundscape…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The guys over at 15 Orient have been hitting a lot of home runs lately. Pardon the sports idiom: if you think of the art world as a competitive marketplace devoted…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Somebody asked me, ‘When you write a pan of a movie, are you recommending that I not see it?’ ” the film critic Richard Brody recalled. “I said, ‘No, I’m recommending…

It’s not just the arts venue’s seasonal programming that wants revamping. Credit: RozenskyP/Shutterstock Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… All sensible and right-minded people can agree that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in need of…

Music City charts a middle way that is palatable to broad swathes of normal Americans. Credit: Photo Spirit/Shutterstock Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… To the shock of many, country is the most popular music genre in America…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or photography typical of magazine covers. What gives the…