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3 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Casey N. Cep |Jia Tolentino |Julian Lucas |Margaret Talbot
Summer is here, and with it summer reading. Every week, the New Yorker’s editors and critics select the best new books we’ve read in 2025 so far. This year, we’ve also asked the magazine’s writers to suggest favorite mega-reads—sizable, sprawling novels, biographies, and works of history that will keep you absorbed and entertained until the end of the season. Their selections are below. “He had to go fast, like an American, or he was all torpor.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Casey N. Cep
Abelard and Heloise, Vladimir and Véra, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria: to these historic his and hers, I would add Carl and Dolly. That’s Dean and Parton, the Tennessee couple whose nearly sixty-year marriage ended in March, when Dean died, at the age of eighty-two. The country-music star released a statement announcing her husband’s death (twenty-eight words) and then a song celebrating his life (three minutes and twenty-eight seconds).
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2 months ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Casey N. Cep
Share Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel.
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2 months ago |
newyorker.com | Casey N. Cep
Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel. Wearing only a bathing suit, a dressing gown, and a swim cap, McPherson—the founder of one of America’s first megachurches and just about the most famous woman in the country—had a street waffle for lunch, then settled in the shade of an umbrella just north of Venice Beach to work on a sermon.
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Dec 28, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Casey N. Cep
These sorts of ceremonial designations began more than a century ago, as an attempt, ironically, to identify what’s distinctive about each state. Every state has a flag, of course, and also a motto. My home state, Maryland, manages to have the best of the former (despite the occasional cringing by tasteless outsiders) and the worst of the latter (“fatti maschii, parole femine,” or “manly deeds, womanly words”).
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