In 1956, Captain Howard Finney, the head of the N.Y.P.D. bomb squad, dumped a satchel of evidence on a psychiatrist’s desk. For sixteen years, the police had been hunting a serial bomber who preyed on New York City. The nearly Read More …
Playing the central mom on “Motherland” (a British sitcom getting its U.S. première on Thursday, on Sundance Now), Anna Maxwell Martin demonstrates a great comedic range of flustered motion. Sometimes the character, an event planner named Julia, herds her two Read More …
The preteen brainiacs competing on “Genius Junior,” on NBC, give every indication of fine emotional health, God bless them, and knock on wood. The mind teems with potent visions of fictional counterparts who were less adept at handling the quiz-show Read More …
Girl culture didn’t exactly have a banner year in 2004. Britney Spears, the era’s reigning queen of pop, married Kevin Federline. (It was her second wedding that year.) Paris Hilton gallivanted with Nicole Richie on “The Simple Life.” Barbie came Read More …
“What sort of comedian can’t even make the lesbians laugh?” the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby asks in her new Netflix standup special, “Nanette.” “Every comedian ever,” she answers, grinning conspiratorially, her eyebrows darting behind horn-rim glasses. “The only people who Read More …
It’s Saturday in New York, in early summer, and outside it’s deadly hot—the kind of day that makes you want to hide in your apartment and drink ice-cold lemonade, with the A.C. blasting. But, in one of the ballet studios Read More …
Since the massacre in Parkland, Florida, gun-control activists have pressured Apple, Amazon, and other streaming platforms to drop NRATV, and thereby join other companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association. The N.R.A.’s twenty-four-hour digital channel is a Read More …
When we last left off in the Saga of Drake, a few weeks ago, our hero had been surprisingly and fiercely challenged. A few ill-timed demonstrations of ego on his part—in particular, the heat-seeking tracks “Duppy Freestyle” and “I’m Upset”—had Read More …
The cover for the magazine’s Innovators Issue, “Smart Design,” is by the Dutch artist Joost Swarte. Swarte, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, is something of a polymath, whose work spans graphic design, cartooning, and architecture. We recently sat Read More …
Eleanor Davis, who lives and works in Athens, Georgia, doesn’t have many books to her name, but she’s widely hailed as one of the most interesting young cartoonists working today. (I published her first book, “Stinky,” ten years ago, while Read More …