The New Yorker

Lena Dunham is, “in many ways, the consummate city kid, not least because she created one of the great New York TV shows of all time, the HBO comedy series ‘Girls,’ ” Rachel Syme writes. But since 2021, Dunham has been spending most of her time in London with her husband, the musician Luis Felber, enjoying a relatively low-key expat existence. She didn’t flee New York, exactly; it was work that first brought her to the U.K. But being in London ultimately offered Dunham the freedom of a place where “you don’t feel that you are being in any way hemmed in by other people’s perceptions,” she said. In a new interview with Syme, Dunham opens up about a variety of new projects, including a semi-autobiographical comedy series, “Too Much,” that stars Megan Stalter and will début in 2025, and a memoir, which she has been quietly working on for six years. Read their full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gCAGxx63

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Following his performance in the first Presidential debate, Joe Biden is fighting back against his critics. But is it enough for him to hold the nomination? That question will define the summer, and could determine the election, writes Benjamin Wallace-Wells. https://lnkd.in/gnMQWBpB

A cartoon by Sofia Warren. #NewYorkerCartoons See more from this week’s issue: https://lnkd.in/gX7FYUUG

In 1995, Ira Glass co-founded the weekly public-radio show and podcast “This American Life.” The show has had the same essential format for 28 years and more than 800 episodes. “It was instrumental in creating a genre of audio journalism that has flourished in recent decades,” Sarah Larson writes. “This American Life” has trained a generation of talented people, and Glass’s three-act structures, chatty cadences, and mixture of analysis and whimsy are now so familiar as to seem unremarkable. “At the time, I was trying to think about, like, How can you make a compelling story about everyday life? And so I put that into place in interviews,” Glass said. “I still use that. That’s the structure of the show. It was just completely fundamental.” Read Larson’s full interview with Glass: https://lnkd.in/gMac4q6M

A cartoon by Frank Cotham. #NewYorkerCartoons See more from this week’s issue: https://lnkd.in/guEiUewu

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A cartoon by Sam Gross. #NewYorkerCartoons See more from this week’s issue: https://lnkd.in/gUFy3uX2

Our third annual Interviews Issue features wide-ranging conversations with people of note on politics, culture, and craft. Read the first two interviews, with Nicolas Cage and Ira Glass, and check back for new conversations each day this week: https://lnkd.in/gKmFfrgH

This week’s Fiction Issue features an excerpt drawn from Sally Rooney’s upcoming novel, “Intermezzo.” Read it in full: https://lnkd.in/g5dqdWyP