There’s a moment towards the end of Adelle Waldman’s new novel, Help Wanted, where a smart-but-insecure young woman named Nicole, who’s a worker in a big-box store, approaches her manager to ask him what he thinks about her ambition to go to college. The manager, nicknamed “Big Will,” is a good guy, but he’s distracted….
A new, seven-part series on Apple TV+ unfolds like a period-piece Columbo. First John Wilkes Booth plans and commits the murder, then the lead investigator deciphers clues to catch the elusive killer. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. On Friday, Apple TV+ presents the first two episodes of a new seven-part historical miniseries. It’s…
(bell ringing) [Narrator] Every year, Forbes magazine publishes a list of 30 people under 30. 30 outstanding individuals. This is a different group. The 30 over 30, people who happen to be over 30 years old. All these people are alive. They made it onto this list for no particular reason. Today I did the…
[heels click] [Female Candidate Voiceover] My fellow Americans. My name is something that doesn’t remind you of a mean math teacher you once had. And today, I’m announcing, in a voice with a pitch and volume you find pleasing that I am running for President of the United States. I want to start off by…
[light music] We’re popping off. We’re making this all Fraggle Rock. We’re making it craggly, put little rocks on the outside. Oh! Okay. [bouncy music] Hello. My name is Zoe Si. I’m a New Yorker cartoonist. My work been featured in the New Yorker since 2020. And with me today is Ayo Edebiri, comedian and…
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This might sound silly, but I keep mine in the bathroom! It just felt a little pretentious putting it on the living-room mantle. Like, “Ooh, look at me, I’m a big-shot Oscar winner and don’t you forget it!” I suppose the back of the toilet is a bit irreverent. . . . But you’ve got to keep your…
Melanie Ann Donoghue, thirty-two, of Westchester County, New York, was wed on Saturday to Wordle. The bride, a project manager at a pharmaceutical-advertising agency, met Wordle, a New York Times digital game, in 2022. “All my friends were telling me he was great,” she said. “They’d been trying to get me into him for a…
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In 2010, a huge earthquake hit Haiti, killing more than two hundred thousand people and devastating the capital city, Port-au-Prince. When I arrived two days later, from the Dominican Republic, I drove down a rubble-strewn downtown street and saw a large group of people a few blocks away, moving quickly in my direction. As they…