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- Fifteen Essential Cookbooksby The New Yorker
The kitchen guides that New Yorker writers and editors can’t do without.
- When Preachers Were Rock Starsby Louis Menand
A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.
- When the World Goes Quietby Katy Waldman
“The Hearing Test” probes the inner life of a narrator stricken by sudden deafness.
- Percival Everett’s Philosophical Reply to “Huckleberry Finn”by Lauren Michele Jackson
In his new novel, “James,” Everett explores how an emblem of American slavery can write himself into being.
- How Lucy Sante Became the Person She Fearedby Emily Witt
In her memoir of transitioning in her sixties, the writer assesses the cost of suppressing her identity for decades.
- What Turned Crossword Constructing Into a Boys’ Club?by Anna Shechtman
For decades, the pursuit was identified with first-wave feminists and bored housewives. How did it come to be defined by a pervasive gender gap?
- The Bartender and the Lost Literary Masterpieceby Simon Parkin
How a Manchester native rescued “Caliban Shrieks,” Jack Hilton’s working-class opus.
- New Yorker Writers’ and Editors’ Favorite Bookstores in New York Cityby The New Yorker
Where we shop for books in the Big Apple.
- Diary of an Abominationby Emil Ferris
In an illustrated depiction of a young girl’s self-discovery, monstrosity is only skin-deep.
- “Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?”by Jonathan Blitzer
Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras.