The Heretical Energy of “Is God Is”

June 1, 2026 · New Yorker

Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel
The author discusses his story “A Talent for Seeming.”
“The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,” by Jamil Jan Kochai
Fifty years and I dream of him still, fifty years and every story, every joke, every bit of news or gossip leads back to
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Anthropic PBC pulled ahead of OpenAI with its confidential IPO filing Monday, as the free-spending artificial intelligen
Josh O’Connor, Tom Francis, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Thea Sharrock and Edward Enninful to Present at Inaugural Power of Women London
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