What exactly was a witch? Any seventeenth-century New Englander could have told you. As workers of magic, witches and…
“Didion thinks that this is why the press latches on to stories like the Jogger’s. It’s not because those stories tell us who…
There are approximately seven billion inhabitants of earth. They conduct their lives in one or several of about seven thousand languages — multilingualism is a global norm. Linguists acknowledge that the data are inexact, but by the end of this century perhaps as many as fifty per cent of the…
Gender-reveal parties: a Horseman of the Apocalypse bearing cake, or just another thing you have to show up with a gift for?
“The hundred-per-cent-perfect-looking female is perfect in every way except that she constantly bonks her head on things. She trips and falls and spills soup on her affable date (Josh Lucas. Is that his name? I know it’s two first names. Josh George? Brad Mike? Fred Tom? Yes…
Alec Wilkinson at the New Yorker takes on the recent-ish tiny-house phenomenon, which is itself still…
A woman wrote in to The New Yorker demanding a refund because two issues in a row featured…
