1+ hour, 19+ min ago (305+ words) Early in Siesbye's life in Denmark, she maintained an epistolary friendship with Edip Cansever, among the foremost poets of modern Turkey. Cansever's letters to Siesbye, which were published in 2021, are moody, erotic, and playful'full of yearning and of reproach. A terrible longing takes over. Everywhere, you, all at once'and a slow anger begins. Toward whom? Toward longing, the melancholy of distances, the oppression of helplessness, toward it all' After an editor encouraged her to publish the letters,Siesbye agreed with some hesitation. They become less fervent, more brooding, around the time that she meets David. After the epistolary friendship ended, Cansever destroyed all of Siesbye's letters. And yet she also calls herself a worker. Is that, I asked her, not a contradiction? "Why should it be a contradiction? I've never called myself an artist. You need to be a really…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (117+ words) Joan Silber reads her story "Safety," from the December 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, the most recent of which are the novels "Mercy" and "Secrets of Happiness." Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (1954+ words) Jay Kelly" is a love letter to a certain kind of classic movie; it has a lush Hollywood score by Nicholas Britell, a big movie star, gorgeous locations. But you've said that, working on this movie, it began as an exercise to help you to fall in love with movies all over again. When did you fall out of love with them? I remember reading about the pajama parties on the set of Barbie." It must have been a very different vibe. I didn't go to those, but yeah. They were girls-only, I guess. But it must have been very different. I'm thinking of you filming that scene with the car in the river in White Noise." It was hard. Yeah, it was really difficult. And it's not my favorite kind of thing to be doing in movies. It's almost…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (58+ words) Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (81+ words) In a new standup special, and a d'but novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1551+ words) My cat, Harriet, is curled up on the TV console when I walk into the living room. She blinks at me, slowly. Cats blinking at you is supposed to be a sign of affection. I blink back. "Look at you on the . . ." I trail off. What is she sitting on? A cabinet? A shelf? It takes me about five seconds to remember the word. "Console," I finally say. I feel embarrassed. I'm conversing with my cat! But, more important, I couldn't recall the word "console." This has been going on for a couple of years. And I'm forgetting not just words but simple tasks. Sometimes I forget to lock my car. Sometimes I leave my keys in the front door. In the summer of 2023, I forgot my toiletry bag in an airport hotel in Rome. During that same trip to…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (58+ words) Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago (94+ words) McEwan spoke with David Remnick at a public event organized by the 92nd Street Y. New episodes of The New Yorker Radio Hour drop every Tuesday and Friday. Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago (79+ words) New episodes of The New Yorker Radio Hour drop every Tuesday and Friday. Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago (147+ words) Highlights of the city's holiday events. "It's a Wonderful Life!" "Advent Carolndar" and "Sugar & Booze: A Holiday Spectacular" "Peter and the Wolf" Jazz at Lincoln Center Inkoo Kang on shows to watch while navigating the holidays. "Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show" (2024, streaming on HBO Max) "Nuclear Family" (2021, streaming on HBO Max) When the director Ry Russo-Young was born to two mothers, in 1981, the idea of gay parents still seemed impossible to many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community. Russo-Young revisits her family's unique'and headline-making'history in this engrossing docuseries about her biological father, a gay sperm donor, suing for paternity rights, and the lawsuit that threatened her already vulnerable family. "The Other Two" (2019, streaming on HBO Max) "Ramy" (2019, streaming on Hulu) "Vida" (2018, streaming on Starz) P.S. Good stuff on the internet:...