I got to work with the amazing and wonderful (and newly-minted Pulitzer Prize winner!) Justin Chang on this very cool The New Yorker video where he takes us inside the World Premiére of “Furiosa” at #Cannes ! Enjoy!

Cunts.

We’ve lost one of the greats. Alice Munro. I was among the privileged at The New Yorker who got to work with her, which really amounted to spending extra time—happy hours in fact—in among her sentences. What a subtle brilliant talent

On May 7th, the engineer, producer, and musician Steve Albini died at his home in Chicago, where he has run a recording studio, Electrical Audio, since 1997. It’s almost impossible to quantify his impact on underground music. nyer.cm/HGkkzon

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Cover • The New Yorker

Today ,February 13th.
I was detained and beaten violently by an Israeli soldier in Hebron. I was showing the famous American writer lawrence wright The New Yorker Lawrence Wright the Israeli occupation and apartheid in my home town #Hebron .

The Lucy Letby The New Yorker story that is blocked online in the UK is available in print. I picked up a copy in WH Smith

I’ve been haunted by the Lucy Letby case for many years. No one has ever been able to present a credible motive. This New Yorker story might explain why. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

What is it like to attend a black-tie gala première at the Cannes Film Festival? Join Justin Chang, a film critic for The New Yorker, as he brings us along to the first screening of George Miller’s highly-anticipated prequel, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.”

Little know fact:
The idea of the white cowboy originated in the cinematic days of John Wayne and was maintained because of the lack of diverse casting in Hollywood. Actual cowboys were majority Black and Mexican

.The New Yorker cover does not disappoint

Listo chicos, mi plan maquiavelico de invasion cultural al pueblo norteamericano empezó a funcionar, ya captamos al primer newyorker a nuestra secta SNM.

On L. Frank Baum’s birthday, revisit John Updike on the author of the classic children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” “As a writer,” Updike writes, “Baum rarely knew when to quit, unfurling marvel after marvel.” nyer.cm/m4ce5pM

Greta Gerwig to write and direct at least 2 ‘THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA’ films for Netflix.

(Source: The New Yorker)

This is true.

Any society that allows for a lot of billionaires amidst poverty of the scale that India has is a failed society.

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This is as good a time as any to confess that my nom de plume is “Katie McQuade.” (Really, this letter in the The New Yorker could be summed up: “Sure, there’s some toxicity in any fandom. But the #SPNFamily has also proven to be a force for good in the world.')

アリス・マンローが亡くなった。最近続く作家の訃報に心が追いついていけない。寂しくて悲しいですね。

A cartoon by Daniel Kanhai. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/5acvdgw