The Curious Power of Punctuation(newyorker.com)

39 points by pepys 1 month ago | 12 comments

A New Yorker critical essay by Louis Menand on the history of punctuation and how it shapes reading, including what changes when machines write sentences.

The Startling Candor of Helen Garner(newyorker.com)

16 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 5 comments

The impossibility of translating Franz Kafka (1999)(newyorker.com)

60 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 37 comments

We Don’t Need a New Twitter(newyorker.com)

30 points by furrowedbrow 3 years ago | 35 comments

You Can't Opt-Out of A.I. Online(newyorker.com)

53 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 57 comments

The Magazine for Mercenaries Enters Polite Society(newyorker.com)

26 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 13 comments