Philip Roth, the Incomparable American Novelist, Has Died at Eighty-Five
In addition to his novels, Philip Roth leaves behind a corpus of essays, criticism, and other artifacts.Photograph by Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Philip Roth, the American literary icon whose novel “American Pastoral” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1998, has died, at the age of eighty-five, according to friends close to him. His great subjects, as Claudia Roth Pierpont wrote in this magazine,
The World Is Running Out of Sand
A report said that sand and gravel mining “greatly exceeds natural renewal rates.”Illustration by Javier Jaén The final event of last year’s beach-volleyball world tour was held in Toronto, in September, in a parking lot at the edge of Lake Ontario. There’s a broad public beach nearby, but few actual beaches meet the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball’s strict standards for sand, so the tourn
Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies | The New Yorker
Illustration by Adam Maida; Source Photographs by Lenny/IPA/REX/Shutterstock (Argento); Paul Sancya / AP (McGowan); Charles Eshelman / FilmMagic / Getty (Sciorra); Jim Spellman / WireImage / Getty (Weinstein) In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect informat
The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency
Nick Patterson, a former colleague of Mercer’s, said, “In my view, Trump wouldn’t be President if not for Bob.”Illustration by Oliver Munday / Animation by James Iacobelli / Photograph by Andrew Toth / Getty Last month, when President Donald Trump toured a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, he saw a familiar face in the crowd that greeted him: Patrick Caddell, a former Demo
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Olympics Closing Ceremony
“The polluted water has mutated these turtles! This isn’t part of the ceremony, people!”
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent, outside of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / Getty When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. A
The End of Twitter
Twitter might rebound in the wake of Jack Dorsey’s reappointment as C.E.O., but the service is still in trouble.Photograph by Richard Drew / AP It wasn’t that long ago that I—and many other people I know—would have argued that Twitter was more than just another social network. I would have told you that Twitter was more like a utility, a service so fundamental that I could imagine a scenario in wh
The Commercial Zen of Muji
On its Facebook page, Muji describes its aim as creating “products that are really necessary in everyday life in the shapes that are really necessary.”Photograph by Todd Heisler / The New York Times / Redux Last month, Muji, the Japanese life-style brand that sells household goods and clothing, opened an eleven-thousand-square-foot flagship store on Fifth Avenue, across the street from the New Yor
North Korea’s Abduction Project
Kaoru Hasuike and Yukiko Okudo were kidnapped from Japan by North Korean operatives in 1978.Kyodo / Courtesy Farrar, Straus & Giroux On the evening of July 31, 1978, Kaoru Hasuike and his girlfriend, Yukiko Okudo, rode bikes to the summer fireworks festival at the Kashiwazaki town beach. They whisked down the winding lanes of their coastal farming village, a hundred and forty miles north of Tokyo.
Shigeru Mizuki’s War-Haunted Art and Life
In works like “Kitaro,” the iconic manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, who died last month, resurrected Japan’s folk creatures as pop culture for the masses.Kitaro (Drawn & Quarterly) by Shigeru Mizuki / Copyright Shigeru Mizuki / Mizuki Productions “In our military, soldiers and socks were consumables; a soldier ranked no higher than a cat,” the Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki recalled in the after
Japan’s Cute Army
The unlikely association of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces with adorable anime characters could reflect a deep-seated discomfort with the nation’s military history.Photograph from Monsieur Ashiya/ Flickr Surrounded on all sides by ocean, postwar Japan has long been able to rely upon the United States military for strategic protection. But tense territorial disputes with neighboring countries, the cap
Why French Law Treats Dieudonné and Charlie Hebdo Differently
The French comedian Dieudonné responded in characteristic style—provocatively—to last week’s terror attacks.PHOTOGRAPH BY GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS On the same day that the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo immediately sold out an initial run of five million copies of its latest issue—which featured a cover image of the prophet Muhammad—French police arrested the comedian and activist Dieudonn
Why Smart People Are Stupid
Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of material. Here’s a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? The vast majority of people respond quickly and confid
Why We Don’t Believe In Science
Editors’ Note: Portions of this post appeared in similar form in a December, 2009, piece by Jonah Lehrer for Wired magazine. We regret the duplication of material. Last week, Gallup announced the results of their latest survey on Americans and evolution. The numbers were a stark blow to high-school science teachers everywhere: forty-six per cent of adults said they believed that “God created human
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