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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You have something important to do—something vital. It’s not an item on a list but a burdensome project, urgent and complicated. Your home office must be transformed into a nursery for…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Whenever I hear the Arabic word mukhayyam, or camp, my mind leaps to Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza. I was born in Al-Shati refugee camp, a few miles away, but…

Deion Sanders’s Colorado failed to live up to the hype—again. Credit: Ringo Chiu/Shutterstock After all the talk about finishing the season strong, Colorado’s gridiron heroes looked like they didn’t want to be anywhere near the Alamo Bowl on Saturday night.…

Season’s greetings, whether you like it or not. Credit: Pixel-Shot My wife says that I am getting crankier about the so-called holidays, and as usual she is right. For years I used to complain about seeing Christmas lights before Advent.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. December’s so dramatic.…

Christopher Walken and Donald Trump are both back in the headlines. Credit: Tinseltown/Shutterstock Big news out of Tinseltown: Christopher Walken has been cast, alongside Sam Rockwell, in Martin McDonagh’s next movie, called Wild Horse. Something about men on an island;…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Robert Eggers’s remake of the German director F. W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire classic, “Nosferatu,” may be presumptuous, but it’s not cynical. Murnau’s film, a silent, is an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past year, we…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With the frantic pace of modern life, it’s easy for the days to turn into weeks to turn into months without notice. But as the final moments of a year usher…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Isabella Rossellini’s first exposure to the public glare was at five days old. Her father, the Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini, and her mother, the Swedish movie icon Ingrid Bergman, had…