‘The New Yorker’ turns 100: Here’s how it started with a poker game
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The Wartime Organization That Brought Hollywood Stars Like Marilyn Monroe and Nancy Sinatra to the Front Lines to Entertain the Troops
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The New Yorker turns 100 − how a poker game pipe dream became a publishing powerhouse
The magazine, founder Harold Ross famously declared, would not be ‘edited for the old lady in Dubuque.’ A century later, it ...
The Toxic Male Is Ready for His Close-Up
Between the first presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the arrival of the #MeToo movement in 2017, progressive activists ...
The Best Classic Books to Have on Your Bookshelf
From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...
All 49 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and TV series, ranked by critics
Brave New World" has struggled a bit with critics. Here's how it stacks up to the rest of the MCU.
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The 50 best movies on Netflix right now (February 2025)
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