Nobody is funnier on black biracial matters than Danzy Senna, whose “Colored Television”—about a novelist in Hollywood who fails to cash in on her identity—is out today. I profiled her for The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/person…

This summer, scrutiny of the figure of the “trad wife” hit a fever pitch. On a new episode of our Critics at Large podcast, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss standout practitioners of the “trad” life style. Listen here. nyer.cm/tSkiOjI

Chuffed as hell that Jonathan Blitzer's EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE is long listed for the Baillie Gifford prize for excellence in non-fiction writing. thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/year-by-year/2…

hearing reports that my husband listened to the Critics at Large tradwife episode while unloading the dishwasher and cooking the baby's breakfast (I was sleeping)

AGREE

This week, Critics at Large goes where we have never dared go before: THE ROONEYVERSE open.spotify.com/episode/5AtGZo…

only something so insane can unite us all, it's a beautiful day in America

(actually I'm in England and I need everyone to wake up NOW)

"all praise be to Allah in every situation!!!" the death penalty is an affront against heaven

For this week's Talk of the Town, I wrote about Adam Dressner, who quit corporate law to become an artist and hasn't looked back. His show "Hello Stranger" is at Grand Central through Thursday 9/26. Go catch a train and check it out. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

and a very happy indictment day to you and you and you and you

I kind of feel like they should give Bob Caro the Nobel

Me on "the real Europe" the long-con of fiction in this week's The New Yorker magazine newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

I interviewed Rachel Bloom—her special, "Death, Let Me Do My Special," is out tomorrow—about the big stuff: birth, death, dogs, and cum trees. newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

.Alexandra Schwartz tags along as the artist Adam Dressner takes his self-made painting cart into the park to make some art—and a stranger's day.

In this sick and depraved world it is my duty to let you know that there are still tickets available to see us CRITICS AT LARGE talk to JULIO TORRES this SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 at the NEW YORKER FESTIVAL so please do come nyer.cm/zCmbo30

let me understand—you're telling me the guy who did phone hacking *wasn't* a great choice to run The Washington Post?

"The Brutalist" is out today—in the New Yorker, I profile the film's director, Brady Corbet newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

The photographer Kathy Shorr’s new book, “Limousine,” features images of those she drove as a chauffeur in the ’80s. The book “offers a delightful time-capsule view of a bygone era in fashion,” @alex_lily writes. “And of a bygone New York, too.” nyer.cm/sOwfOey