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I once heard a woman say that immediately upon finding out, she’d felt the dawning of a strange inner power. It seemed as though she could undertake any t…

Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtow…

About three-quarters of the way through Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s latest novel, “The Big Green Tent,” set in the Soviet Union after the Second World War, a cha…

Kalief Browder spent more than a thousand days confined on Rikers Island. Photograph by Zach Gross In the early hours of Saturday, May 15, 2010, ten days …

This is no game. You might think this is a game, but, trust me, this is no game. This is not something where rock beats scissors or paper covers rock or r…

Oklahoma Scoops Talk story about J. D. Cash, a reporter for the McCurtain Daily Gazette, which has been scooping the media establishment with stories on …

On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth an…

Asked how high he got in Scientology’s levels of study, Haggis said, “All the way to the top.” Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark On August 19, 2009, Tommy Dav…

In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private …

At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone. What she had in mind was a vacation, pure and simple. Take a breather, do some inner accounting, shed…

He was called Daniel, but he would have liked to be called Sinbad, because he had read about Sinbad’s adventures in the big red leather-bound book he alwa…

People will say that I left my wife and I suppose, as a factual matter, I did, but where was the intentionality? I had no thought of deserting her. It was…

Wise Surfboards, the only surf shop in San Francisco, is a bright, high-ceilinged place flanked by a Mexican restaurant and a Christian day-care center ou…

In January, during the longest government shutdown in America’s history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventua…

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Y_our story in this week’s issue, “ Major Maybe ,” is set in New York—in a brownstone on West Twentieth Street—in the nineteen-eighties. Did you live in t…

In today’s political culture, people running for President may announce their candidacy on the steps of their home-town city hall or on “The View,” but th…

For decades, the actress Annabella Sciorra was silent about her alleged rape by Harvey Weinstein. Photograph by Isabel Magowan for The New Yorker In March…

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For more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives in America. As the chairman and C.E.O. of CBS Corporation, h…

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