The New Yorker: Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen

The New Yorker Interview

Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen

In the playwright’s début film, “Janet Planet,” Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter—and everyone else—over the course of a long, hot summer in the Berkshires.

ByHelen Shaw

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From the News Desk

A black-and-white photo collage of Diana Taurasi, on left, and Caitlin Clark, on right.

The Sporting Scene

Caitlin Clark’s New Reality

Clark isn’t yet the best player the W.N.B.A. has ever seen. What can she learn from the player who is?

ByLouisa Thomas

An illustration of cars in a traffic jam on a highway headed into Manhattan.

Here To There Dept.

A Journey to the Center of New York City’s Congestion Zone

After Governor Kathy Hochul’s flip-flop on congestion pricing, a cop reconsiders his retirement while inching his Lexus through snarled-up traffic on the F.D.R.

ByBen McGrath

An illustrated portrait of Senator Raphael Warnock.

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”

The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.”

WithDavid Remnick

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Dept. of Diversions

A photo of a vinyl of Charli XCX’s album “BRAT.”

Listening Booth

Charli XCX Toys with Stardom on “BRAT”

The artist has often treated pop music as a game—something to play with so she doesn’t get bored, and something that reliably creates winners and losers.

ByKelefa Sanneh

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Photo Booth

Lyle Ashton Harris’s Scrapbooks of the Self

The artist’s knotty, intimate archive is on display at the Queens Museum.

ByVince Aletti

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Culture Dept.

An illustration of an airplane flying over a city street.

Fiction

“Chicago on the Seine”

Occasionally, I had to send a body home. What I’d noticed was that death abroad was more common on package tours.

ByCamille Bordas

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This Week in Fiction

Camille Bordas on Giving Ghosts the Attention They Require

The author discusses her story “Chicago on the Seine.”

ByWilling Davidson

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Poems

“This Living”

“It’s going to happen any day now.”

ByAmber Tamblyn

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Poems

“The Age of Miracle Weapons”

“There was a protest outside Thomas Jefferson.”

ByD. Nurkse

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Fun & Games Dept.

An illustration of a giant hand picking up a person’s body from the head.

Shouts & Murmurs

God Explains the Rules of His New Board Game

First, choose a playing piece. One might be a “human being” named “Elon Musk,” which seems good, since it’s really powerful, but everyone thinks it’s an unfunny “fascist-adjacent dork.”

ByTeddy Wayne

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P.S. “It was almostuniversally felt that his malice was the underside of his love of sunshine and good people; his rage has as much excited life to it as his celebration of decency and loyalty,”David Denby writes, of Charles Dickens, whose works theNew Yorkerwriter had decided to reread after decades. Today, on the anniversary of Dickens’s death, why not follow Denby’s example? Immerse yourself in the novelist’s extravagant worlds, for “no one gives greater pleasure.” 📖