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THE SPHERE AND OUR “IMMERSION” COMPLEX

The concept has become ubiquitous in art and entertainment. But is it about
capturing our attention—or deceiving it? Jackson Arn reports from Las Vegas.


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THE LEDE

Reporting and analysis on the affairs of the day.


THE LEFT COMES FOR BIDEN ON ISRAEL



As the Israel-Hamas war divides the Democrats, what does it mean that young
activists are protesting the President, not Xi Jinping or Donald Trump?

By Susan B. Glasser


HOW QATAR BECAME THE WORLD’S GO-TO HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR



The Gulf state is trying to help Hamas and Israel come to a deal.

By Joel Simon


“THE CROWN” PRESENTS THE LAST DAYS OF PRINCESS DIANA



The people’s princess remains irresistible in both fiction and memory.

By Rebecca Mead


HOW TO DEFINE GENOCIDE



A historian of the Holocaust examines Israel’s rhetoric and actions in Gaza.

By Isaac Chotiner

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Books


WHAT THE DOOMSAYERS GET WRONG ABOUT DEEPFAKES

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak
havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

By Daniel Immerwahr


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COMMENT

Opinions, arguments, and reflections on the news.

By Robin Wright


WHAT COMES AFTER PANDA DIPLOMACY?

By Jay Caspian Kang


RASHIDA TLAIB AND THE FREE-SPEECH CRISIS

By Eric Lach


WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE IS ERIC ADAMS IN?

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Dispatch


CROSSING THE TAIWAN STRAIT WITH THE U.S. NAVY

In disputed waters, Chinese and American vessels vie for dominance.

By Dexter Filkins


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THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR


HOSTAGE-TAKING AND THE USE OF CHILDREN AND THE VULNERABLE IN WAR



The war in Gaza has the feel of history sliding backward.

By Steve Coll


HOW GAZA AND THE BRITISH RIGHT SPLIT LONDON ON ARMISTICE DAY



Duelling protests, a country divided over Israel and Palestine, and the return
of David Cameron.

By Sam Knight


THE LONG WAIT OF THE HOSTAGES’ FAMILIES



The relatives of those held by Hamas “live with a timer now that’s always on.”

By Ruth Margalit


THE ESCALATING VIOLENCE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND LEBANON



There’s a sense of history repeating itself along the border, where tens of
thousands have been displaced and the civilian death toll is climbing.

By Rania Abouzeid


THE EXTREME AMBITIONS OF WEST BANK SETTLERS



A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for
the Jewish state.

By Isaac Chotiner

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Annals of Law Enforcement


DOES A.I. LEAD POLICE TO IGNORE CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE?

Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a
police investigation.

By Eyal Press


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DEPT. OF CHATBOTS


YOUR A.I. COMPANION WILL SUPPORT YOU NO MATTER WHAT



New chatbots offer friendship, intimacy, and unconditional encouragement. Do
they mitigate isolation or exacerbate it?

By Kyle Chayka


HOW WILL A.I. LEARN NEXT?



As chatbots threaten their own best sources of data, they will have to find new
kinds of knowledge.

By James Somers


“IT’S NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO FEEL OR BE CREEPY”: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHATGPT



The large language model discusses bullshit, rogue A.I., and the nature of
beauty.

By Andrew Marantz


WHAT KIND OF MIND DOES CHATGPT HAVE?



Large language models seem startlingly intelligent. But what’s really happening
under the hood?

By Cal Newport

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Onward and Upward with Technology


HOLLY HERNDON’S INFINITE ART

The artist and musician uses machine learning to make strange, playful work. She
also advocates for artists’ autonomy in a world shaped by A.I.

By Anna Wiener


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THE CRITICS

Musical Events


SECRETS OF THE EAST GERMAN OBOE UNDERGROUND



Oboists rarely strike out on their own. James Austin Smith’s recent program at
Brooklyn’s National Sawdust was a true solo mission.

By Alex Ross

Critics at Large


IS “THE GOLDEN BACHELOR” TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?



This episode of the podcast, the hosts asks whether the “Bachelor” spinoff’s
vision of older love is radical or regressive.

With Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz

The Front Row


“MAY DECEMBER” KNOWS WHAT IT THINKS, AND THAT’S A PROBLEM



Todd Haynes’s film, starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman as duelling
narcissists, misses dramas that don’t fit its schematic.

By Richard Brody

On Television


“THE CURSE” HOLDS A MIRROR UP TO MARRIAGE



The new Showtime series, starring Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone, works best as
the study of an unhappy couple.

By Inkoo Kang

Cultural Comment


SYMPATHY FOR THE SCHOOLGIRL



Sofia Coppola’s film “Priscilla” explores a vexed archetype.

By Molly Fischer

Books


THE WAR ON CHARLIE CHAPLIN



He was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved stars. Then his adopted
country turned against him.

By Louis Menand

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Profiles


WHY THE GODFATHER OF A.I. FEARS WHAT HE’S BUILT

Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries
that artificial brains are better than ours.

By Joshua Rothman


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Sketchbook


IS MY TODDLER A STOCHASTIC PARROT?

The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models
while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.

By Angie Wang


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PERSONS OF INTEREST


ROBERT JAY LIFTON ON MAINTAINING HOPE IN AN AGE OF CATASTROPHE

By Masha Gessen


BARBRA STREISAND’S MOTHER OF ALL MEMOIRS

By Rachel Syme


CHERELLE PARKER DEFIES THE PROGRESSIVE AGENDA

By Eliza Griswold


DEION SANDERS AND THE PAST AND FUTURE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL

By Zach Helfand

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The New Yorker Documentary


“NINA & IRENA”

Amid rising antisemitism, the filmmaker Daniel Lombroso turns the focus to his
grandmother, who breaks her silence about surviving the Holocaust.


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THE HISTORICAL RECORD


WHAT REALLY STARTED THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE?



The famous disaster razed a metropolis and spread a pack of colorful lies. To
sift through the ashes today is to encounter some uncomfortable truths.

By Margaret Talbot


THE REAL STORY BEHIND PATRICE LUMUMBA’S ASSASSINATION



The Belgians wanted to protect their mining money. The Americans feared a Soviet
foothold. A new book sorts through the fate of the leader of the fight for
Congolese independence.

By Isaac Chotiner


WHAT THE TOKYO TRIAL REVEALS ABOUT EMPIRE, MEMORY, AND JUDGMENT



The Allied tribunal in postwar Tokyo was modelled on the one in Nuremberg. That
was the first mistake.

By Ian Buruma


THE CIVIL-RIGHTS SHOWDOWN NOBODY REMEMBERS



Clinton High was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order. Why
did reluctant acceptance turn to violence?

By Louis Menand

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FACING THE RIVALS

I was eager to escape my parents. Then they befriended a couple from Belgium,
who seemed eager to replace me.

By Lucy Sante


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PUZZLES & GAMES

Take a break and play.


NAME DROP

A quiz that tests your knowledge of notable people.


Play a quiz at random


THE CROSSWORD

A puzzle that ranges in difficulty, with themes on Fridays.


Solve the latest puzzle


THE CRYPTIC

A puzzle for lovers of wily wordplay.


Solve this week’s puzzle


CAPTION CONTEST

We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.


Enter this week’s contest
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Annals of Inquiry


THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIFTEEN HUNDRED NECKTIE KNOTS

For tie aficionados, knots are an art form—and a surprisingly difficult math
problem.

By Matthew Hutson


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LISTEN TO THE NEW YORKER

Dept. of Science



REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR

“Life on Our Planet,” a new Netflix nature documentary, renews our fascination
with our most feared and loved precursors.

By Rivka Galchen

Annals of Disaster



WHY MAUI BURNED

Lahaina’s wildfire was the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. Now the
community is grappling with the botched response as it tries to rebuild.

By Carolyn Kormann

The World of Business



WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THE STUFF WE RETURN?

Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a
booming new industry.

By David Owen

Annals of Inquiry



THEY STUDIED DISHONESTY. WAS THEIR WORK A LIE?

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend
the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus


FICTION


“ACCORDING TO ALICE”



By Sheila Heti

Illustration by Janet Hansen
My name is Alice and I was born from an egg that fell out of Mommy’s butt. My
mommy’s name is Alice. My mommy’s mommy was also named Alice. Her mommy’s
mommy’s mommy was named Alice, too. And all the way back, all the mommy’s
mommies were Alice. The name Alice means “the one who creates all things.” The
first Alice was created by a mommy who was very powerful and magical.Continue
reading »
This Week in Fiction

Sheila Heti on the Fluidity of the A.I. “Self”
The Writer’s Voice

The Author Reads “According to Alice”

All fiction »


THE TALK OF THE TOWN

L.A. Postcard



A DELEGATION OF SURVIVORS FROM ISRAEL AND FAMILIES OF HOSTAGES

By Dana Goodyear

High Note Dept.



DRESSING MALCOLM X (AND A CHORUS OF TIME TRAVELLERS)

By Natalie Meade

The Pictures



LENNY BERNSTEIN’S OFFSPRING LIKE THE NOSE

By Michael Schulman

In Uniform



STAN HERMAN, THE PEOPLE’S DESIGNER

By Bob Morris

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DAILY CARTOON

“Jen, you came the closest without going over.”
Cartoon by Ellis Rosen


This week’s cartoons »


SHOUTS & MURMURS

Cartoons, comics, and other funny stuff. Sign up for the Humor newsletter.

Daily Shouts



MORE ACCURATE NAMES FOR THE BODILY SYSTEMS AS I’VE GOT OLDER

Daily Shouts



A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE GUY WHO HARASSED YOU ON A DATING APP

Daily Shouts



WHAT TYPE OF PERFECTIONIST ARE YOU?

Daily Shouts



MEET THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

Satire from The Borowitz Report



CLARENCE THOMAS COLLAPSES FROM EXHAUSTION AFTER FIRST FULL DAY OF REGULATING
HIMSELF

Blitt’s Kvetchbook



TAKING IT TO THE STREETS

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