Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking ...
With wearable technology, data will become the new astrology. We will use it to divine our personal futures and deconstruct our present. It will alter the "human ideal" and change the meaning of what we think of as "success."
The New Yorker dedicated the cover of its latest edition to the Boston Marathon bombings. The cover illustration, revealed on Friday, depicts runn...
Fifty years. Nine hundred artists. Two thousand grants. At its most succinct, this is the story of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), the unique and timeless organization established by Jasper Johns and John Cage in 1963.
You might think Henry Blodget would be thrilled that an exhaustive profile in this week's New Yorker touts his Business Insider for building an audien...
The controversy and shortcomings of Zero Dark Thirty has opened a critical conversation and debate. Hopefully it will lead to brave new Hollywood storytelling about these years when America went in search of monsters to destroy, and ended up slaying things once held dear.
In his later years, you could find Dan Kiley with his wild hair and pants hiked up to his waist always brimming with opinions and ideas - or as the ce...
It's not easy being a professional artist, a fact made clear to us this week by New Yorker cartoonist Corey Pandolph's situation. As a freelance illus...
A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named A...
(Apologies to Roger Angell and Ian Frazier) Our weary planet's never-ending Trip around the Sun, now trending Toward its yearly consummation Beckons ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The New Yorker magazine has been ordered to turn over audio of interview sessions it conducted with former Penn State President Gra...
Over the last few months, I've participated in several conferences all exploring the same issue--how business can help improve our public education system.
The following is excerpted from New Yorker writer David Denby's Do The Movies Have A Future? (published by Simon & Schuster.) The following was writte...
Does Romney really think that the Wall Street billionaires and multimillionaires, Pentagon contractors, chambers of commerce and other big and small businesspeople who so lavishly supported him and other politicians paid all that money out of love and admiration for him and the rest?
Anthony Bourdain is more mainstream than ever these days, having parlayed his wildly successful Travel Channel program "No Reservations" into a forthc...
It is a finely hewn, graphic, and potent account of the emotional, moral and spiritual impacts of war, and one marine's passionate search for meaning and forgiveness. The story also poignantly conveys the anguish of the family and the farther reaches of human forgiveness.
By Lois Beckett ProPublica If you're a registered voter and surf the web, one of the sites you visit has almost certainly placed a tiny piece of...
The New Yorker announced its endorsement for President Barack Obama ahead of the 2012 general election. The magazine's editors opened their article...
The latest cover of the New Yorker hits Mitt Romney for flip-flopping. The image, entitled “Skin Deep,” was done by Barry Blitt. It shows Mitt...
Millions would not think of missing the Kardashian wedding or Real Housewives of New York reunion. But there is an even bigger reality to get engaged in.
The problem is if everything is contemptuous and nothing is sincere or serious, the message becomes monotonous.
I sat with my mother on my bed as the movie ended. We pretended that we weren't both heartbroken at the thought of her only daughter moving away from home and simply focused on how great I would look in my new trench coat traipsing around New York City à la Anne Hathaway.
While we're all busy reeling from the regrettable decision to upgrade to iO6 and unleash the notoriously awful Apple Maps in our lives, MAD Magazine (...
Just about everyone will tell you it takes X amount of time to truly become a New Yorker. There are a few sayings or occurrences I have found draw each and everyone of us closer to becoming the true New Yorker we are really meant to be.
I've gained a new appreciation for lowbrow in middle age. I'm still enough of a snob to gravitate toward "brilliant" lowbrow as opposed to "despicable" in New York magazine's approval matrix, but give me one more decade. My tastes should be off the chart.
