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It’s Mourning in America | The New Yorker
In my childhood home, a modest, low-slung rectangle in eastern Washington, my mother was a bedroom away from me when…
How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV
One spring day in 1992, Eric Nies, a twenty-year-old model from New Jersey, walked into a swanky SoHo loft that…
How the Fridge Changed Flavor
It was the most talked-about meal in the United States. In the weeks leading up to the luncheon, its organizers…
The Missionary in the Kitchen
At nineteen, I was practically Christian. No sex, no drugs, a lot of desperate hopes that didn’t seem so different…
How to Live Forever | The New Yorker
A friend of mine knew a wealthy man who had decided to live forever. That made him hard to be…
Swimming with My Daughters | The New Yorker
I went swimming with my two daughters when they were both expecting babies. The three of us had gone away…
The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment | The New Yorker
Shortly after I became pregnant with my second child, in the fall of 2022, I decided to try a modest…
How to Eat a Rattlesnake
My mother made a point of raising well-spoken Oklahomans. In her household, country participles like “brang” were tantamount to slurs.…