‘My sister was, like, you don’t have to fit in – you’re weird, and it’s okay that you’re weird’
The triple Grammy winner Cécile McLorin Salvant makes music that’s restlessly experimental and entirely her own
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Dua Lipa celebrates wedding on Denis O’Brien’s luxury yacht. Another victory for Ireland
Plus: Europe’s flag absent from the Dáil, Feargal Quinn makes The New Yorker, and a gunfluencer for whom the Provo aesthetic appeals
Peanut farmer-intellectual Jimmy Carter was just what Americans needed. They still need his ilk
There is a neat symmetry to Carter’s story and to his hometown’s quietly glowing presence in the US
In all topics, asking difficult questions is uncomfortable - but essential
Asking necessary questions is sometimes genuinely tough - it can look like prejudice or punching down at vulnerable people
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe: Mastery of timing makes this investigation a page-turner
New Yorker writer’s drive to get to the truth again brings impetus to ask ‘just one more thing’
An Asylum for My Affections. Sketches of Maeve Brennan: A thoughtful and authoritative anthology
Essays by Belinda McKeon, Niamh Campbell, Roddy Doyle and many others examine the life and work of the great Irish author
Performative readers could only dream of the reaction War and Peace got on the Belfast train
The internet would have us believe public transport is full of men ostentatiously reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Is this a joke?
What a surprise to learn this powerful wizard of the Dark Enlightenment is just another needy dork
Curtis Yarvin has, for about a decade and a half now, been a highly influential figure on Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic right
I re-read my teenage diaries. Here’s what I found
I stopped writing letters and diaries completely when I got an email address in 1997, but they have made a welcome return to my life in recent years
As it turns 100, meet the most reliable New Yorker you’ll ever encounter
The illustrious magazine remains rooted in the principles and traditions of print journalism. There is surely a lesson there
Lame criticism’s happy talk is the enemy of truth
While intellectuals can be kind and nice, their job is to expose mediocrity
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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