New York's currently: not Maine, but not that bad either Pentagon assessment says Iraqis aren't ready to fight the insurgents on their own. Briton, nabbed in Pakistan, reportedly called the four London bombers just before the attacks. Still more foreign diplomats attacked as Algerians are kidnapped
As it begins, you’re pretty sure you’ve heard this one before. Wait, no, maybe this time it’s different. Maybe this time it’ll have an extra nugget of sage advice. Maybe? A catalog of favorite themes.
Summer tends to be a time for self-centered pursuits—picnics, suntans, and murder mysteries among them. The perfect way to balance out your me-time? Head to your local Red Cross blood center before you hit the beach. They’re always a little short on donors this time of
The New Yorker‘s caption contest is challenging, but The Perry Bible Fellowship proves that some of the finer cartoons need no captions. Right here is where I’d say something about how “comics, they’re no longer for ingrown man-children!” And I’d be right. These are more
New York's currently: a large-scale, public heat rash In a move to push the Court to the right, Bush nominates John G. Roberts to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor. Roberts, though solidly conservative, is still the kind of guy Democrats say they don't totally
It can take six weeks to write six minutes of fiction, and that’s not so bad. A conversation with the author of “Saturday” about taking the time to do your thing, the changing face of literary culture, and how everybody really can write a novel.
I’ve never been much of an Annie Lennox fan. I just wasn’t old enough, or gay enough, to really dig the whole diva thing. Which is why her performance at Live 8 was so startling to me. Just listen to that voice—deep, bruised, ravishing. Her naked, stripped-
New York's currently: some sort of weather experiment In June, Britain lowered its terror threat level, citing that "at present there is not a group with both the current intent and the capability to attack the U.K." Bush agrees to share nuclear technology with India,
No matter how many ferns we arrange or seedlings we covet, many of us have a very complicated relationship with the landscape. This week: A London bumblebee needs no help, thank you.
It’s Elisabeth Eckleman’s first year of college, and she has a lot of tough choices to make. In this installment, Elisabeth takes her T.A., Raj, to a costume party, where he refuses to dance. You decide what happens next.
