Heidi Blake An investigative journalist and contributing writer to The New Yorker.

The latest reanimation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, is a labyrinthine tour of a ...

The tour kicks off in my home town of Philadelphia, where I will be yelling “Time’s up!” at various A.T.M.s.

St. Vincent, the stage name of Annie Clark, is a musician, a producer, and a director, known internationally for her ...

When I interviewed the N.B.A. agent Daniel Hazan last year, he warned that the legalization of sports gambling was a disaster ...

Popular parental advice to teens throughout history. What I imagine strangers think when they see me reading a book in public ...

On October 26, 2025, the actor Sarah Jessica Parker took the stage with the New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme for a ...

TO the casual observer, what has been going on for the past fortnight or so has looked very much like the start of one of those comfortable, old-fashioned, peacetime football seasons. Gone is the ...

Hurstpier point’s private chapel at Valmouth to be properly married by Cardinal Pirelli (a character borrowed outright by a sinking Mr. Wilson from another Firbank novel, “Concerning the ...

To join a local tennis club (that at St. Briac is especially good) costs you about $4 a month, and the privileges of splendid golf links amount to a like sum. Casinos, of course, are the same the ...

After it was all over, Ducky Pond broke training for the first time this fall when he got back into the Yale dressing room. The first thing he said was, “I never was so glad to get a tie game.” Then ...

Published in the print edition of the October 2, 1926, issue. As part of an effort to make The New Yorker’s archive more accessible to readers, this story was digitized by an automated process and may ...