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Sunday Reading: Cooking at Home

Everyone has an idea of home cooking, and everyone’s idea is different. Like Proust’s madeleine, the radical simplicity of home cooking has a way of evoking powerful feelings and recollections. Some of us conjure images of days spent in the kitchen with our families, whereas others contemplate the improvisation of new meals or recipes...

Sunday Reading: In Appreciation of New York City

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, New York City has undergone a series of dramatic changes. Many of the museums, cultural institutions, and other landmarks that make this city such an exhilarating place to live have been forced to shut down. It can be easy to find ourselves wondering whether city life will ever return...

Sunday Reading: The Crisis in Public Health Care

The deadly spread of COVID-19 in the past few weeks has highlighted terrible gaps in our national public-health infrastructure. Many lower- and middle-income families have been struggling with modest or insufficient health plans for years, and towns and cities have been left reeling from budget cuts at hospitals and health clinics. This week, we’re...

Sunday Reading: Adventurous Spirits | The New Yorker

This past month has been an incredibly difficult one. Many in the country and the world are currently sheltering in place, and it seems like an eternity has passed since we’ve had the ability to travel, even locally, or to take part in physical pursuits of any sort outdoors. We are, in so many...

Sunday Reading: The Heroic Work of Doctors and Health Workers

Photograph by David Ryder / ReutersThese past weeks have been incredibly difficult for everyone as we’ve watched the novel coronavirus trace a deadly path across the globe. What inspiration there is to be had comes from the heroic efforts of the medical personnel and other health workers in every nation, men and women who...

Sunday Reading: An Appetite for Great Chefs

Photograph from Bettmann / GettyA. J. Liebling once wrote that “the primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.” The same might be said of the qualities that make someone a really great chef. A good appetite and a boundless inventiveness when it comes to satisfying the palate are often integral to...

Sunday Reading: The Coronavirus and Combatting Global Pandemics

Two years ago, under a directive from the Trump Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled back from thirty-nine of the forty-nine countries where it had been working to prevent global disease outbreaks. Since then, the World Health Organization has documented an increase in localized outbreaks of several diseases, including Ebola, yellow...

Sunday Reading: On the Nature of Grief

Grief is a universal and inevitable emotion in any life, and yet it is mysterious and various in its forms. This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces on the nature of loss. In “Story’s End,” Meghan O’Rourke reflects on her relationship with her mother and recounts how she gathered stories of her...

Sunday Reading: The Art of the Profile

From The New Yorker’s archive: twelve classic profiles to mark the magazine’s ninety-fifth anniversary, including pieces by Joseph Mitchell, Susan Orlean, Lillian Ross, Janet Malcolm, Truman Capote, Mark Singer, Hilton Als, Brendan Gill, Jervis Anderson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., George W. S. Trow, and S. N. Behrman.Source link

Sunday Reading: At the Movies, 2020 Oscars Edition

In 2000, Mark Singer profiled the legendary director Martin Scorsese for The New Yorker. In “The Man Who Forgets Nothing,” Singer notes that one of the filmmaker’s great talents is his ability to devise cinematic solutions “to the paradox that truth and beauty and depravity must share the same frame.” For this year’s Oscars,...