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The Last Gun I Shot The New Yorker Source link
Nine years ago, two friends got into a fight. Alimamy Tarawallie had invited a group of men to his apartment, in the Fort Totten neighborhood of Washington, D.C., to watch the World Cup semifinals. Tarawallie was rooting for Brazil, his favorite team, which got walloped by Germany, 7–1. He was feeling glum. A friend, Winston […]
The first time I left Jamaica, I was seventeen. I’d graduated from high school two years before, and while trying to get myself to college I’d been scouted as a model. And so I found myself at the Wilhelmina Models office in Miami, surrounded by South Beach’s finest glass windows with all my glass hopes, […]
New York, Mar 31 (PTI) Scandals and allegations have been commonplace for Donald Trump for most of the over seven decades that he has walked this planet but handing him the ignominy of becoming the first US President to be indicted on criminal charges is fellow New Yorker and first Black Manhattan District Attorney Alvin […]
At Alcova, an apple atop a swooning tower of red and green fruit wore a lacy Gohar World vegetable bonnet—which, as its name suggests, is a bonnet for produce. As with many of the pieces in the collection, it is defiantly inessential. No one needs a Battenburg-lace apron for a wine bottle, or a wrought-iron […]
The cage was small, even for a cage, and Brittney Griner ducked her head as she entered it. By then, a month into her trial in Khimki, outside of Moscow, for charges of drug possession, she knew the drill. She pursed her lips as she offered her long inked arms to the guard, who unlocked […]
New Zealand tearaway Lockie Ferguson has had a rollercoaster ride since last October, when he was sidelined from the 2021 T20 World Cup. The 31-year-old has since worked his way back from the calf injury and has played key roles in the Ford Trophy title triumph with Auckland and then the IPL title win with […]
“Arrivals,” by Bryan Washington The New Yorker Source link
At forty-four, the writer and performer Danai Gurira has had an unusually broad career. In 2005, she and Nikkole Salter débuted their two-woman play, “In the Continuum,” about the toll of the AIDS crisis on Black women in Africa and the U.S., and in 2016 Lupita Nyong’o starred in a Broadway production of Gurira’s play […]
Earlier this month, New York’s Metropolitan Opera cut ties with Anna Netrebko, the Russian soprano, after she refused to comply with the Met’s demand that she criticize Vladimir Putin amid his invasion of Ukraine. Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, expressed his support for the people of Ukraine, and stated, “While we believe strongly in […]
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