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The Soft Power of BTS
The mega-popular K-pop stars have been on hiatus for nearly four years. Their new album, “Arirang,” tests the group’s staying power in the global cultural marketplace. Source link
Liza Minnelli’s Uncharacteristic Pivot to Self-Disclosure
This sounds remarkably unlike something a real human might say, but then sounding like a human has never been Minnelli’s strength. In an early interview, she boasted about knowing...
Michael Ian Black Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The actor and comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Engels in the Outfield
A radical history of the Mets insists that baseball can still be the people’s game. Source link
How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins is notoriously blurry. Source link
New York’s Finest Sandwich
The alchemy of any given sandwich is both specific and forgiving. Its stacked ingredients merge and mingle—you can swap out this or that, as long as whatever replaces it...
My Parents Were Both Dying. Then I Found Out I Had Cancer
Everything took on a sickening poignancy: the boisterous din at our Saturday brunch place where, just a week before, my girlfriends and I had scrolled through the latest celebrity...
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Julio Torres...
An Elegy for the Kennedy Center
Tempting as it is to blame Trump for the Kennedy Center’s fate, he does not bear sole responsibility. The idea of a national arts center was always more of...
“Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography
When Blume started writing, the market category of young-adult (as opposed to children’s) literature was defined by politically motivated novels that took up social issues, such as drugs and...
