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In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

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“A victory, basically, for Combs.” A reflection on the trial of Sean Combs, in which the rapper was acquitted of the most ...

So it was telling that the only victory on the floor that Democrats scored during the hours of drama this week leading up to ...

Every issue of the magazine dating back to its founding, in 1925, is available to subscribers at archives.newyorker.com. Every article since 2007, whether published in the magazine or only on the Web, ...

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