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Dishwasher-loading techniques throughout history.
Interior monologues from the twenty-four minutes my phone was dead.
Now that I’m getting older, I forget things.
New York vs. non-New York real-estate options.
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Ali Fitzgerald, an artist and a writer, first contributed to The New Yorker in 2016. She writes the comic column “America!” and is the author of the graphic novel "Squeak Chatter Bark.”
Shouts & Murmurs
Skateboarding Into Middle Age
As I approach forty, I have fewer and fewer memories of being a child. It is enough that the body remembers.
By Navied Mahdavian
Poems
“Suburban Divorcée”
“Mowing the lawn, it’s revealed, is not the torture / it once appeared as the loved one tore through // the yard in heated fury.”
By Cate Marvin
Humor
Bonus Daily Cartoon: MATATIOTEFA
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
By Adam Douglas Thompson
Poems
“I Was a First Alto in the 1980s”
“I used to sit for hours / at an electric typewriter. / I remember well its hum.”
By Deborah Garrison
Sketchpad
“And Just Like That . . . ,” the Lost Season
Plotlines we’ll never see: Carrie grapples with shoe tariffs, and Miranda moves into the sewers.
By Emily Flake
Shouts & Murmurs
Why I’m Actually Inviting You to My Party
This won’t be fun, but it will be expensive.
By Jennie Egerdie
The New Yorker Documentary
Life Inside a Singular Artists’ Enclave in Brooklyn, in “The Candy Factory”
Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt’s documentary short follows a creative community held together by collaboration and the efforts of a woman who is part landlady, part fairy godmother.
Laugh Lines
Laugh Lines No. 31: Public Transit
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
By The New Yorker
Shouts & Murmurs
Date Ideas for Couples in Long-Term Relationships
Go about your normal evening, but with a candle lit.
By McKayley Gourley