London Falling is well worth reading – but could have matched this star reporter’s masterpieces if it had ranged more widely.
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From Australia and around the world, here are the podcast gems of 2025.
If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks, it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.
In a world of head-spinning media noise, The New Yorker covers speak volumes.
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The magazine, founder Harold Ross famously declared, would not be ‘edited for the old lady in Dubuque.’ A century later, it stands as a testament to his bold, uncompromising vision.
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Whereas ‘the camera sees everything, but captures nothing,’ courtroom artists can channel the emotional highs and lows of a trial through a single image.
The strange story of the author one of 2018’s bestselling novels reveals a lot about some careers at the top end of publishing.
Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person short story in the New Yorker about the perils of dating in the digital world is flawed – and brilliant as a result.
When Gay Talese signed a confidentiality agreement with a motel-owning voyeur, he got access to the voyeur’s journals and secret viewing perch. But he also allowed the spying to continue for over a decade.
Some might say we’re in the age of the ‘priceless’ child, but The New Yorker certainly doesn’t think so.
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Over the past decade we have witnessed the rise and rise of long form television – from The Sopranos to The Wire, Game of Thrones to Orange Is the New Black – and no one has been watching this transformation…
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