Alexandra Schwartz
@Alex_Lily
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Staff writer @newyorker. Divides her time between the bed and the couch.
New York
Joined September 2009
The photographer Kathy Shorr’s new book, “Limousine,” features images of those she drove as a chauffeur in the ’80s. The book “offers a delightful time-capsule view of a bygone era in fashion,” @alex_lily writes. “And of a bygone New York, too.”
newyorker.com
In the eighties, the photographer Kathy Shorr became a chauffeur, capturing working-class New Yorkers on their way to new lives.
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"The Brutalist" is out today��in the New Yorker, I profile the film's director, Brady Corbet https://t.co/X4jG41LWhi
newyorker.com
“The Brutalist,” the director’s nearly four-hour study of immigration, identity, and marriage, flowed from his own struggle to create art without compromise. “You really have to dare to suck to...
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let me understand—you're telling me the guy who did phone hacking *wasn't* a great choice to run The Washington Post?
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In this sick and depraved world it is my duty to let you know that there are still tickets available to see us CRITICS AT LARGE talk to JULIO TORRES this SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 at the NEW YORKER FESTIVAL so please do come https://t.co/KQiM3mB9iq
festival.newyorker.com
Information about tickets, the schedule, and the lineup for the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, which returns Oct. 24-26, 2025 to New York City, with live conversations, performances, screenings,...
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.@Alex_Lily tags along as the artist Adam Dressner takes his self-made painting cart into the park to make some art—and a stranger's day.
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I interviewed Rachel Bloom—her special, "Death, Let Me Do My Special," is out tomorrow—about the big stuff: birth, death, dogs, and cum trees. https://t.co/a5kuXH1uiV
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Me on "the real Europe" the long-con of fiction in this week's @NewYorker magazine https://t.co/gUCczXrZBH
newyorker.com
In her new spy novel, “Creation Lake,” Kushner attempts to expose the tradecraft of fiction itself.
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and a very happy indictment day to you and you and you and you
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"all praise be to Allah in every situation!!!" the death penalty is an affront against heaven
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For this week's Talk of the Town, I wrote about Adam Dressner, who quit corporate law to become an artist and hasn't looked back. His show "Hello Stranger" is at Grand Central through Thursday 9/26. Go catch a train and check it out. https://t.co/QP1KE4ctTM
newyorker.com
Adam Dressner, who quit corporate law to become an artist—now with a solo show, “Hello Stranger”—heads to Washington Square Park to scout for subjects.
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(actually I'm in England and I need everyone to wake up NOW)
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only something so insane can unite us all, it's a beautiful day in America
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This week, Critics at Large goes where we have never dared go before: THE ROONEYVERSE https://t.co/O5KsUN2NMP
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Critics at Large | The New Yorker · Episode
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one bad thing about the internet is that it makes lots of interesting things feel sort of "normal." but it is not normal at all that via the new @NewYorker saturday "critic's notebook" column, you can read a new essay by @dstfelix or @frynaomifry every week. that's crazy!
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hearing reports that my husband listened to the Critics at Large tradwife episode while unloading the dishwasher and cooking the baby's breakfast (I was sleeping)
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Chuffed as hell that @JonathanBlitzer's EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE is long listed for the Baillie Gifford prize for excellence in non-fiction writing. https://t.co/mho3xnyFmf
thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk
The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers.
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This summer, scrutiny of the figure of the “trad wife” hit a fever pitch. On a new episode of our Critics at Large podcast, @vcunningham, @frynaomifry, and @Alex_Lily discuss standout practitioners of the “trad” life style. Listen here.
newyorker.com
A new crop of influencers showcasing regressive gender roles has soared in popularity in recent months. Is this life style a harmless personal choice or an existential threat to feminism?
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Nobody is funnier on black biracial matters than Danzy Senna, whose “Colored Television”—about a novelist in Hollywood who fails to cash in on her identity—is out today. I profiled her for @NewYorker
newyorker.com
For decades, the novelist has found humor in the ever-changing ways that biracial people are questioned, fetishized, or ignored in America.
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