The New Yorker (Culture and Politics)

Articles

• Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 23rd

  23 janvier, par Ivan Ehlers — Cartoons / Daily Cartoon, Humor
  A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

• Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall

  23 janvier, par Jillian Steinhauer, Sheldon Pearce, Richard Brody, Jane Bua, Brian Seibert, Rachel Syme — Culture / Goings On
  Also: the many disciplines of Sudan Archives, a Max Ophüls retrospective, the facets of upstate cults, and more.

• Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”

  23 janvier, par Richard Brody — Magazine / The Current Cinema
  Two stunning new documentaries—one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia—examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination.

• National Security Begins Behind the Toaster

  23 janvier, par Patricia Marx — Humor / Shouts & Murmurs, Humor
  I’m not saying that the apartment’s a hotbed of narcotic activity, but does anybody need that many plastic baggies for sandwiches?

• How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?

  23 janvier, par Joshua Rothman — Culture / Open Questions, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Novels, Novelists, Abstract, Mysteries
  In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new cycle of novels, old mysteries reassert themselves.

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