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Zoe Kravitz opted to maintain her engagement ring beneath wraps whereas attending the 2026 Met Gala on Monday evening, notably with out her fiancé, Harry Kinds, by her facet. The …

In late 1969, Jane Kramer was again in Manhattan after a spell in Morocco together with her husband, an anthropologist. In her absence, the sparks of second-wave feminism had ignited, …

In 1972, on “The Tonight Present,” Johnny Carson requested Truman Capote about capital punishment. Capote had written, in unsettling element, concerning the hanging of two killers, Dale Hickock and Perry …

There’s one thing uncanny about this nonetheless and gorgeous portrait of a twenty-one-year-old Taylor Swift, shot by Katy Grannan for Lizzie Widdicombe’s Profile of the singer, in 2011. Swift was …

Through the 1959 session of the Louisiana state legislature, Governor Earl Lengthy, the much less well-known youthful brother of Senator Huey Lengthy, “went off his rocker,” because the tickled author …

The New Yorker doesn’t simply let go of the previous stuff. Just lately, our copy division retired the hyphen we’d saved in “in-box” for longer than anybody ought to hold …

I first encountered Mary McCarthy not via her novels or criticism however via her political reporting. A former editor really helpful that I learn “The Masks of State: Watergate Portraits” …

On August 9, 1947, The New Yorker devoted practically a full web page to one of many nice poems of the 20th century. “On the Fishhouses,” by Elizabeth Bishop, represented, …

As ladies, we might discover it tough to image our moms—particularly if they’re stern Caribbean moms—as something apart from the poised girls they’re so decided to mould us into. We …

“Although I had at all times needed to be an opium addict, I can’t declare that as the rationale I went to China.” Thus begins “The Huge Smoke,” Emily Hahn’s …