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The late Christopher Hitchens’s work was of a piece, good and bad. Credit: image via Getty Images To many of his contemporaries who approach writing as an act of creative exertion rather than just a vehicle for transmitting thoughts, an…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s commonplace to acknowledge Clint Eastwood as one of the most distinctive and original political filmmakers. What’s surprising about his new film, “Juror #2,” is that the politics it brings to…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutter, which sold to the Times in 2016, made money by driving its visitors to retail Web…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This summer, I bought my wife a vintage watch—a model called the Big Crown Pointer Date, made by the Swiss company Oris. The watch was manufactured in 1995, and is small,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Every autumn, I begin to crave generic seasonal comforts: the hues of turning leaves, the chill of sweater weather. I’m not really a pumpkin-spice person, but I’m a sucker for a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story How should the living treat the dead? More specifically, what should we do with their bodies, and why? The answers to these questions, like the mysteries of death itself, are at…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Sunday, November 3, 2024, more than fifty thousand people from all over the world will participate in the New York City Marathon—an event that many New Yorkers deem their favorite…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Eternal Father.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. Nasar Ghafoor looks healthy and vibrant, but he has mortality on his mind. Ghafoor started a…

The strange, enduring appeal of Alain Delon’s gangster films. Credit: image via Getty Images When Alain Delon died this August, I happened to be in France. I can’t say I was paying much attention to the news. How was he…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Vanessa Redgrave once compared Jesse Eisenberg to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, because of his “inquiring mind.” Seventeen minutes into my recent lunch with Eisenberg, in Chelsea, I had yet to…