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Category: Long-Form Worth Your Time
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Long & Good July 20, 2026: Min Jin Lee, New Yorker Newyorker
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: Min Jin Lee discusses her story ‘Testing’ and forthcoming novel ‘American Hagwon,’ which examine the Suneung exam; and This matters for Long-Form Worth Your Time because it gives a concrete current…
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Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: The New Yorker traces how digital culture and cosmetic surgery have converged to produce a new, uncanny ideal: faces; and A structural failure at the Pfizer building conversion—buckling steel columns…
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Humor, Cartoons, and Short Takes on, Daily Cartoon Wednesday July 1st, and more.
Humor, Cartoons, and Short Takes on American Life this week: Visual commentary on current affairs suggests underlying narrative tensions; and The New Yorker’s July 3rd Daily Cartoon bundle offers a mix of humor and cultural commentary…
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American Culture, Celebrity, and the, How Lizzo Became One Pop Culture s Great, and more.
American Culture, Celebrity, and the Arts this week: Lizzo’s fifth studio album, Bitch, sold just 2,650 copies in its first week and missed the Billboard 200 entirely, a; and The New Yorker’s 250th-anniversary issue asks sixteen writers…
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Trump, the Supreme Court, and the, Donald Trump Celebrates America, and more.
Trump, the Supreme Court, and the Future of American Politics this week: The New Yorker reports on the transformation of America’s 250th anniversary into a Trump-branded spectacle, with the; and The Atlantic’s analysis of Trump’s July 4…
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Prepare for Airplane Purgatory
Recent reports indicate soaring chances of passengers becoming stranded for extended periods on grounded airplanes across the United States.
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Prepare for Airplane Purgatory
Recent reports indicate soaring chances of passengers becoming stranded for extended periods on grounded airplanes across the United States.
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Curiosities and Recommendations, This Illinois Tower Was, and more.
Curiosities and Recommendations this week: A retired couple in Windsor, Illinois, built a 31-foot-tall brick ‘goat tower’—a spiral-ramped structure for Alpine; and Freakonomics Radio’s latest episode bundle examines a series of seemingly…
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Culture, Arts, and Entertainment, Couture Reviewed Angelina Jolie, and more.
Culture, Arts, and Entertainment this week: The New Yorker reviews ‘Couture,’ a 2026 drama set in the Parisian fashion world starring Angelina Jolie; and In a New Yorker interview, Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai frames his literary…
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Politics and Power in America, Can J D Vance Serve Both God Donald, and more.
Politics and Power in America this week: The New Yorker profiles Vice-President J.D.