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The World Keeps Getting Richer. Some People Are Worried
In April, 1968, a consequential meeting took place in the Villa Farnesina, a stately Roman home built for Pope Julius…
We Must Defend the Bust
Who’ll take pity on the breast man? If such a creature still exists, that is. The targets of his fixation…
Garth Risk Hallberg Takes On the Life-and-Times Novel
The Great American Novel is a long-dead cultural aspiration, extinguished by a healthy realization that the country is too big…
Can Forgetting Help You Remember?
Four times a year, I attend the Yizkor service at synagogue. Yizkor in Hebrew denotes “remembrance,” and the official name…
Class Consciousness for Billionaires | The New Yorker
Around the start of the twenty-first century, the Oxford sociologist Jonathan Gershuny noticed a change in the way the privileged…
What the Origins of Humanity Can and Can’t Tell Us
In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a…
“This Strange Eventful History,” Reviewed
What becomes of an attaché when the country he is attached to vanishes? In “This Strange Eventful History,” by Claire…
How Far Should We Carry the Logic of the Animal-Rights Movement?
Despite these decades of foment, the publication of “Animal Liberation,” roughly a century later, came as a shock. In fearsomely…
Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
Knife, by Salman Rushdie (Random House). In August, 2022, more than thirty years after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a…