A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker’s Archives

A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker’s Archives

The archives of The New Yorker, housed at the New York Public Library, consist of more than 2,500 boxes of manuscripts, letters, page proofs, cartoons, art, photographs and memos. They are studded with the celebrated names — E.B. White, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Rachel Carson — that filled this most …

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How a Monument to Women Finally Won a Place on the National Mall

How a Monument to Women Finally Won a Place on the National Mall

The end of a presidency tends to bring a rush of last-minute monument making, and Joe Biden’s was no different. In his final week in office, he designated nearly 850,000 acres of federal land in California as two new national monuments. Biden, headlines noted, had protected more land than any …

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Alec Baldwin Sues New Mexico Prosecutors Over Dismissed ‘Rust’ Case

Alec Baldwin Sues New Mexico Prosecutors Over Dismissed ‘Rust’ Case

Alec Baldwin filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing New Mexico prosecutors and law enforcement officials of waging a “malicious prosecution” against him after the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the “Rust” film set. Their involuntary manslaughter case against Mr. Baldwin in the shooting death of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, …

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