The Great Masking Cycle
People might think you’re selfish, so you wear a mask, meaning people might think you’re a zealot, so you don’t wear a mask, meaning people might think you’re selfish, so you wear a mask, meaning . . .
New Yorker Favorites
A Harvard undergrad took her roommate’s life, then her own. She left behind her diary.
Ricky Jay’s magical secrets.
A thirty-one-year-old who still goes on spring break.
How the greatest American actor lost his way.
What should happen when patients reject their diagnosis?
The reason an Addams Family painting wound up hidden in a university library.
Fiction by Kristen Roupenian: “Cat Person”
Liana Finck, a New Yorker cartoonist, is the author of, most recently, “You Broke It!”
