During the campaign, Mamdani liked to remind his audiences that New York is the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, and that …
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Anagrams hold a special place in the annals of wordplay. Although dismissed by some as “intellectually frivolous” (A. E. Housman) or a mere “trifle” (Ben Jonson), the art of …
A few weeks ago, I achieved at last a long-imagined pilgrimage to the home of the great Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, in Kraków. I have written often about …
The New Yorker had a century to prepare for its hundredth anniversary, and yet the final months before that milestone—this past February—were a scramble. The excitement of that …
In early October, Keith Wilson, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, visited 4310 South Macadam Avenue, an address that has thrust his city back into the national spotlight—and into …
