New Yorker Favorites
The day the dinosaurs died.
What if you started itching—and couldn’t stop?
How a notorious gangster was exposed by his own sister.
Woodstock was overrated.
Diana Nyad’s hundred-and-eleven-mile swim.
Photo Booth: Deana Lawson’s hyper-staged portraits of Black love.
Fiction by Roald Dahl: “The Landlady”
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Liana Finck, a New Yorker cartoonist, is the author of, most recently, “You Broke It!”
Daily Humor
The Daily Cartoon, Shouts, and other funny stuff from our Dept. of Hoopla.
Shouts & Murmurs
What No One Tells You About Parenting
When you feed a child food, that child’s body converts the food into excrement (turn your child upside down to confirm this).
By Joanna Bradley
Cultural Comment
Ilana Glazer’s “Babes” Joins a Lineage of Pregnancy Comedies
In the past decade, pregnancy has proved to be the ideal vehicle for raunch—and for observations on class and social mores.
By Carrie Battan
Shouts & Murmurs
Mom: The Symposium
Topics will include the almost British accent she uses when ordering takeout and that faraway look she gets when listening to the Grateful Dead’s “Eyes of the World.”
By Sarah Schmelling
Books
Briefly Noted
“Knife,” “A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages,” “Neighbors and Other Stories,” and “Butter.”