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The range of responses of human observers in the aftermath of a whale’s death
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- The range of responses of human observers in the aftermath of a whale’s death
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “Requiem for a Whale,” is a new short documentary by Ido Weisman that captures the aftermath of a whale’s death—capturing the range of responses of human observers. For some, the decomposing animal becomes a backdrop for selfies, as the park authorities perform an autopsy and journalists report at the scene. Shot in two days in February, 2021, the film combines visual material from the period after the whale washed ashore with the voice-over conversations that were conducted later on. To Weisman, the whale is a message about our behavior as human beings. “That we need to be better, and more kind to this place,” he said. Watch the full film: https://youtu.be/CpKEfofn5Nw
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- What Whales Can Teach Us About Mortality | Requiem for a Whale | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- After a deceased fin whale washes ashore in Israel, onlookers process its life and death, in a short documentary by Ido Weisman.
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- How Does Extreme Heat Affect Your Body? | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The physician and New Yorker contributor Dhruv Khullar undergoes an experiment to test his body’s limits in high temperatures.
The story behind the film: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-a-heat-wave-does-to-your-body
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- A Grandma's Beloved Salt and Pepper Shaker Collection
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Margie Soudek came into her first set of salt and pepper shakers—a pair of ducks “dressed like ladies”—around 1946. Over the next seven decades, Soudek amassed more than 2,000 sets. In 2018, Soudek’s granddaughter, Meredith Moore, began filming the collection. Her short documentary “Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers” combines old family videos, visual effects, and screen recordings of her own computer to explore the ways that art-making and obsessiveness enhance our realities.
Watch the full film: https://youtu.be/4d5darTihOE
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- A Grandma’s Quirky Collection | Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Using special FX, the director Meredith Moore surrounds her grandmother with explosions, rainbows, and sparkling lights as she shares her extensive collection of salt and pepper shakers.
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- Film Critic Richard Brody on the Best Performances of the Twenty-First Century | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- The film critic discusses his five favorite American performances of the century.
00:00 Richard Brody's Top Film Performances
00:14 Mahershala Ali - "Moonlight"
01:20 Miranda July - "The Future"
03:44 Anna Paquin - "Margaret"
03:53 Helena Howard - "Madeline's Madeline"
05:40 Leonardo DiCaprio - "The Wolf of Wall Street"
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- A woman who serves as a digital friend to older people and lonely bachelors
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Sophy Romvari’s new short documentary captures Becca Willow Moss, a young multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, on calls with her clients, whom she describes as “lonely people deserving companionship.” Romvari follows Moss as she strips, sings, and performs, collapsing the boundary between two types of care—sex work and companionship. Watch the full short film: https://youtu.be/8fQE2wRuj04
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- Combatting Loneliness with Online Companionship | It’s What Each Person Needs | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Sophy Romvari’s documentary short spotlights a woman who serves as a digital friend to older people and lonely bachelors.
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- The search for a stolen video
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- When the filmmaker Hugh Clegg found that a video he had recorded of a friend and posted to YouTube had been reëdited and shared—widely—without giving him any credit, he launched a search for the person behind the anonymous account. His new short documentary, “It Feels Personal,” uses a stream of edited images, YouTube videos, and recordings of his video chats to take viewers along on the investigation. Watch the full film: https://youtu.be/GiruV5nKFt0
#film #NewYorker
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- How to Catch a TikTok Thief | It Feels Personal | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- When the filmmaker Hugh Clegg finds out that his video has been stolen and turned into a viral meme by an anonymous TikTok user, he embarks on an online quest to find the thief.
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- Animating archives with emotion in the short film, "Love, Dad"
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- In an attempt to understand why her father left, a daughter writes what could not be said, in an autobiographical documentary film by Diana Cam Van Nguyen. Watch the film in its entirety: https://youtu.be/vxSMYQLtEKI
#NewYorker #LoveDad #film #animation
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- An A.I customer support agent impersonates an artificial dream girl
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- In short film “Rachels Don’t Run,” a call-center operator inserts herself into the relationship between a client and his A.I. girlfriend. Watch the full film, a portrait of the isolation and connection that can emerge in technology-mediated communications: https://youtu.be/Dz5z64dbqvU
#film #AI #NewYorker
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- Loneliness in an A.I.-Driven World | Rachels Don't Run | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- In Joanny Causse’s short film, a customer-support agent at an A.I. companionship service impersonates an artificial dream girl to chat with a caller for whom she’s developed feelings.
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- A Kenyan fisherman protects turtles from poaching
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- A conservationist named Runi, passes down the responsibility of wildlife protection to younger generations, in a short documentary by Toni Adero. Watch the film in its entirety here: https://youtu.be/EC8AWQc_Ts4
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- A disabled young man thrives alongside a family that doesn’t hold back their dark humor
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- In the short documentary “Tuesco,” the filmmaker Daniel Poler captures the naked, graceful simplicity at the root of something we all share: the body, its limits and desires, alone and with others.
#NewYorker #films #documentary
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- A Fisherman Fights Against Kenya’s Poachers | If Turtles Could Talk | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- A conservationist named Runi, passes down the responsibility of wildlife protection to younger generations, in a short documentary by Toni Adero.
Read more on the story behind the film: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/on-a-tropical-beach-conservationists-and-poachers-collide
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- Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography of the father of the atomic bomb, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Bird is credited as a writer of Nolan’s movie, and he spoke with David Remnick about the ambivalence that the scientist expressed publicly about the use of the bomb, which led to a McCarthyist show trial that destroyed his career and reputation. “What happened to him in 1954 sent a message to several generations of scientists, here in America but [also] abroad, that scientists should keep in their narrow lane. They shouldn’t become public intellectuals, and if they dared to do this, they could be tarred and feathered,” Bird notes. “The same thing that happened to Oppenheimer in a sense happened to Tony Fauci.”
Plus, Greta Gerwig talks about her pat...
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- Saving the desert tortoise from extinction
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- A conservation biologist and a Mojave native have come up with a novel approach to mitigate the problem: booby-trapping the desert to train the ravens to leave the tortoises alone.
#wildlife #documentary
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- Saving Desert Tortoises from Extinction | Eco-Hack! | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In an unconventional effort to save tortoises from extinction, a biologist wages a high-tech war against ravens in the Mojave, as shown in a documentary short by Josh Izenberg and Brett Marty.
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- A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amount of funding and is working behind the scenes to get on Presidential ballots across the country. The group has yet to announce a candidate, but “most likely we’ll have both a Republican and Democrat on the ticket,” Pat McCrory, the former governor of North Carolina and one of the leaders of No Labels, tells David Remnick. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are reportedly under consideration, but McCrory will not name names, nor offer any specifics on the group’s platform, including regarding critical issues such as abortion and gun rights. That opacity is by design, Sue Halpern (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/sue-halpern) , who has covered the group, says. “The one reason why I think they haven’t put forward a candidate is once they do that, then they are required to do all the things that political parties do,” she says. “At the moment, t...
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- A Wolf Returns After a Century-Long Hiatus | Naya | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In this short documentary by Sebastian Mulder, Naya—Belgium’s first wolf in more than a century—must navigate the wilderness while under human surveillance.
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- In Search of a Missing Puppy | Shadow of a Dog | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- When a foster dog named Chica goes missing in Brooklyn’s Evergreens Cemetery, the animal tracker Jim Tierney gets to work, in a short documentary by Sean Paulsen and Brad Wickham.
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- Refugees Fight Against Climate Change | The Fire Brigade | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- A group of Malian refugees trained themselves to battle relentless bushfires, protecting their camp, their livelihood, and Mauritanian locals in a short documentary by David Alexander.
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- A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Women’s Clinic—the only abortion provider in the state. The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision had just come down, and the clinic was scrambling to move across state lines, to the adjacent city of Moorhead, Minnesota. This spring, Witt returned to talk with Tammi Kromenaker, the clinic’s director. Kromenaker says the clinic’s new home has had some notable upsides—a parking lot that shields patients from protestors, for example—but North Dakota patients are increasingly fearful as they reach out for care, afraid even to cross the state line for an abortion. Plus, The New Yorker’s Alex Ross discusses John Williams, who has written scores for generations of blockbusters, including “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” and many films of Steven Spielberg. Ross considers him the last practitioner of Hollywood’s grand orchestral tradition, and his retirement will mark the e...
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- Unrest on a Private Beach | The Pass | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In Pepi Ginsberg’s short film, Ben becomes subject to the unwanted attentions of a mysterious man while taking a swim, making him afraid to get out of the water.
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- A Stock-Car Succession Story | Supernova | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Pierrick’s and his son’s passion for dirt-track racing leads to some friendly competition, in a short documentary by Damien and Marc Bettinelli.
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- Richard Brody’s Best Films of 2023 (So Far) | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- At the midway point of the year, the film critic discusses his top three films of the year.
00:00 Richard Brody's Top 3 Films
00:14 Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
01:26 A Thousand and One
03:01 Showing Up
04:19 Final Thoughts
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- My Father’s Secret Ballet Career | Dad Can Dance | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- For 45 years, almost nobody in the world knew that David Ross had been a dancer. In this heartfelt short documentary, his son asks why.
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- Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, says that AI is a powerful tool that will streamline human work and quicken the pace of scientific advancement But ChatGPT has both enthralled and terrified us, and even some of AI’s pioneers are freaked out by it – by how quickly the technology has advanced. David Remnick talks with Altman, and with computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, who won the prestigious Turing Award for his work in 2018, but recently signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on some AI research until regulation can be implemented. The stakes, Bengio says, are high. “I believe there is a non-negligible risk that this kind of technology, in the short term, could disrupt democracies.”
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- Secret Love Revealed | Foreign Uncle | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- On a trip to China, Sining tells his family that his American boyfriend, Patrick, is just a good friend, in Sining Xiang’s short film.
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- E. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan on Defamatory Trump, and Dexter Filkins on Ron DeSantis
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Earlier this month, E Jean Carroll won an unprecedented legal victory: in a civil suit, Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse against her in the mid-nineteen-nineties, and for defamation in later accusing her of a hoax. But no sooner was that decision announced than Trump reiterated his defamatory insults against her in a controversial CNN interview. Carroll has now filed an amended complaint, in a separate suit, based on Trump’s continued barrage. But can anything make him stop? “The one thing he understands is money,” Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, tells David Remnick. “At some point he’ll understand that every time he does it, it’s going to cost him a few million dollars. And that may make a difference.” Carroll acknowledges that Trump will keep attacking her to get a laugh—“a lot of people don’t like women,” she says simply—but she is undaunted, telling Remnick, “I hate to be all positive about this, but I think we’ve made a difference, I...
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- The Chronicles of a New York Locksmith | Keys to the City | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Leading up to his retirement, a New York craftsman trains his young protégé, in a short documentary by Ian Moubayed.
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- Behind the Scenes with Tom Hanks | New Yorker Radio Hour
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Tom Hanks has been a constant presence on the American movie screen for forty years. He has played a mermaid’s boyfriend, an astronaut, a soldier on D Day, an F.B.I. agent, an AIDS patient, a castaway, and a strange, innocent character running across America—among dozens of other roles. Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor two years in a row. Now in his sixties, Hanks has added another line to his résumé: novelist. “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece”—an overstuffed, often funny, work of fiction—captures what he’s learned from forty years in the business. Hanks describes the process of moviemaking as equal parts chaos and monotony. “If anybody who we call a noncombatant, or a civilian, wants to visit the making of a motion picture, they will be bored out of their skull,” he tells David Remnick, insisting that it’s impossible to know on set whether a production will be a masterpiece or a flop. “You do not know if it is going to work out....
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- The Cost of a Fortune | The Diamond | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The discovery of a massive gemstone in the woods prompts Stefan to forge an unlikely friendship in Vedran Rupic’s absurdist short film.
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- A Parcel Shop Bonds an Immigrant Community | 1 Kilo - 3 Euros | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- In Berlin hides a small parcel shop run by a woman named Maka, where Georgians come to ship their packages and get a taste of home, as seen in this short documentary by Ani Mrelashvili.
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- Michael Schulman on the Writers’ Strike, and Samantha Irby with Doreen St. Félix
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The last time the Writers Guild of America hit the picket line was fifteen years ago, with a strike that lasted a hundred days and cost the city of Los Angeles hundreds of millions of dollars. This year’s strike has the potential to drag on even longer. At the core of the dispute is the question of who deserves to profit from the revenue generated by streaming services. “[Studios] tell us that they can’t afford the cost of us,” Laura Jacqmin, a veteran TV writer and a W.G.A. strike captain tells the staff writer Michael Schulman (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/why-are-tv-writers-so-miserable). “And simultaneously they’re on their public earnings calls, trumpeting bright financial futures to their shareholders.”
Plus, the comedian and essayist Samantha Irby talks with the staff writer and critic Doreen St. Félix. Irby is beloved by fans for her particularly unvarnished truth-telling. She recently started writing for telev...
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- The Internet’s Guide to Starting a Farm | Chicken Stories | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- A group of friends use Siri to guide them as they band together to start a farm, in a short documentary by Jonathan Pickett.
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- Have State Legislatures Gone Rogue? And Joshua Yaffa on Evan Gershkovich
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Just a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee legislature (https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/behind-the-expulsions-of-two-state-representatives-in-tennessee) captured headlines across the country. Their offense wasn’t corruption or criminal activity— instead, they had joined a protest at the statehouse in favor of gun control, shortly after the Nashville shooting (https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/after-the-nashville-school-shooting-a-faithless-remedy-for-gun-violence) at a Christian school. Earlier this week, Representative Zooey Zephyr, of Montana, was barred from the House chamber after making a speech against a trans health-care ban. In the past few years, in Arizona, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, legislatures have worked to strip powers from state officials who happen to be Democrats in order to put those powers in Republican hands. Jacob Grumbach, a political-science professor and the author of “Laboratories Against Democr...
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- King Charles III Takes the Throne
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On May 6th, King Charles will become the oldest person to ascend the throne of the United Kingdom. He is a bit of an odd duck to be the king, Rebecca Mead (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/rebecca-mead) thinks. Charles has “long made clear that he considers his birthright a burden,” she writes. In fact, many things are a burden: during the ceremonies following the death of Queen Elizabeth, the new king “got into not one but two altercations with malfunctioning pens. . . . As his biographer Catherine Mayer puts it, ‘The world is against him—even inanimate objects are against him. That is absolutely central to his personality.’ ” Mead—a subject of the king, as well as a staff writer—talks with David Remnick about Charles III’s coronation, the problem of Harry and Meghan, and the future of the British monarchy itself.
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- How a Bulgarian Village Dances Evil Spirits Away | Kukeri | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Once a year, the Bulgarian tradition of Kukeri unites a small village as residents wear intricate masks and costumes and dance at night. Killian Lassablière chronicles the practice in his short documentary.
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- The Fall of Tucker Carlson, and the Making of Candace Owens
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Once a Beltway neoconservative, Tucker Carlson came to embody the angry, forgotten white man—railing at “the élites” and propagating racist conspiracy theories and the lie of the stolen election. “Unlike a lot of his colleagues at Fox News, he made news, he set the agenda,” Kelefa Sanneh, who wrote about Carlson in 2017 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/tucker-carlsons-fighting-words), says. “People were wondering, What is Tucker going to be saying tonight?” Sanneh joins Andrew Marantz (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/andrew-marantz) and David Remnick to discuss Carlson’s demise, and what comes next. And Clare Malone reports on Candace Owens (https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-gospel-of-candace-owens), the powerful right-wing influencer and provocateur who’s set her sights on the future of right-wing media—and on a younger and more female audience than that of Fox News.
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- The Perils of a Group Text with Twentysomethings | Auntie | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In Fawzia Mirza’s short film, a mixer for South Asian lawyers leads to an embarrassing epiphany for a woman when she’s labelled an “auntie.”
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- Inside Louisiana’s Sinking Communities | Belle River | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- As a result of climate change, one Louisiana town faces extinction. A short documentary, directed by Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, and Yannick Nolin, tells the story.
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- The Bipartisan Effort to Rein in Presidential Military Power
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Just three days after 9/11, Congress authorized a major expansion of executive power: the President could now wage war against terrorism without prior approval. The resolution was called the Authorization for Use of Military Force, and it passed almost unanimously. Its reauthorization, in 2002, brought our country to war with Iraq, and has been used to deploy American forces all over the world. More than twenty years later, the mood in the country has changed dramatically, and lawmakers in both parties are pushing to roll back the President’s discretion to use force. A bill to revoke the A.U.M.F. passed the Senate 66–30 a few weeks ago, and it is expected to pass the House as well. David Remnick talks with the senators who led that effort—Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, and Todd Young, a Republican from Indiana—and with Representative Barbara Lee of California, who, in 2001, cast the sole dissenting vote in all of Congress.
Plus, David Remnick rem...
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- Jane Mayer on Justice Clarence Thomas, and the Music Critic Hanif Abdurraqib on Concert Merch
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The cascade of revelations published by ProPublica concerning Justice Clarence Thomas—the island-hopping yachting adventures underwritten by a right-wing billionaire patron, the undisclosed real estate transactions—raises questions about his proximity to power and money. “I think it stretches common sense,” Jane Mayer (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jane-mayer) tells David Remnick, “to think that a judge could be independent when he takes that much money from one person.” Mayer notes that other Justices, including the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have accepted large gifts from politically connected donors. A deepening public distrust in the integrity of the Supreme Court, Mayer thinks, is dangerous for democracy. “The glue that holds us together is the rule of law in this country,” she says. “People have to believe when they go in front of a court, and in particular the Supreme Court, . . . that it’s justice that’s going to prevail.”
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- The Bond Between a Veteran and Her Service Dog | Thank You for Your Service | The New Yorker
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- After suffering mental and physical trauma in combat, a veteran finds healing in her bond with her trained service dog, Orbit, in Nic Kuklinski’s short documentary “Thank You for Your Service.”
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- What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A ban of the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is now gaining real traction in Washington. Lawmakers of both parties fear the app could be manipulated by Chinese authorities to gain insight into American users and become an effective tool for propaganda against the United States. “Tiktok arrived in Americans’ lives in about 2018 . . . and in some ways it coincided with the same period of collapse in the U.S.-China relationship,” the staff writer Evan Osnos (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/evan-osnos) tells David Remnick. “If you’re a member of Congress, you look at TikTok and you say, ‘This is the clearest emblem of my concern about China, and this is something I can talk about and touch.’ ” Remnick also talks with the journalist Chris Stokel-Walker—who has written extensively about TikTok and argued against a ban—regarding the global political backlash against the app. “I think we should be suspicious of all social...
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- Life and Love in an Underwater City | Reckless | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In Pella Kågerman’s short film, a broken relationship’s path to reconciliation is imperilled by an underwater city on the verge of collapse.
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- The Story of a Butt Lift | You'll Be Happier | The New Yorker Documentary
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery is the Brazilian butt-lift—Daniel Lombroso's short film follows a patient as she goes under the knife.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/going-public-with-plastic-surgery-in-youll-be-happier
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- Title
- The Pursuit of Independence—and a Hundred-Dollar Bill | Act Of God | | The New Yorker Screening Room
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Stuart, a disabled man who pushes away his caretakers, comes to understand the value of accepting help, in “Act of God,” a short film by Spencer Cook and Parker Smith.
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