Category Culture

Questioning a Custom in the Age of Anxiety

Kahn said that he still doubts whether he made the correct choice—even whether there was such a thing—but he doesn’t regret it, either. Alex Kahn was raised Jewish—he celebrated his bar mitzvah and went to shul with his family a…

Pretending to Be Famous in The Sims

Often, the appeal in playing The Sims is watching humanoids navigate barely exaggerated scenarios inspired by your own life: finding a job, finding love, and, with luck, living to see old age. Major game-play additions—“expansion packs”—can propel the game ever…

On Outscoring My Father

My father died, of cancer, when he was fifty-two. He wasn’t, as far as I know, into sports or exercise of any kind. He was trim, about six feet. He smoked, he drank coffee, he combed his thick black hair…

“Nope” Is One of the Great Movies About Moviemaking

The essence of the cinema is the symbol—the filming of action that stands for something else, that gets its identity from what’s offscreen. There’s plenty of action in Jordan Peele’s new film, “Nope,” and it’s imaginative and exciting if viewed purely…

Nicole Rifkin’s “Sun-Dappled”

Although summer is a good time to escape the city, not everyone gets a chance to do it. In her new cover, Nicole Rifkin shows how clever New Yorkers find shade—and a hint of nature—in the thick city heat. We…

New Items Are on Sale All Week in The New Yorker Store

Just in time for the holidays, The New Yorker Store is offering new items and discounted prices. Between Monday and Thursday, select products are on sale for twenty per cent off; on Black Friday, shoppers receive a thirty-per-cent discount sitewide.…