THE NEWYORKER DAILY: Saturday 17 February 2024

Saturday, February 17, 2024

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Editor’s Pick

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The Weekend Essay

All Good Sex Is Body Horror

The work of the director David Cronenberg proposes that transformation can attend disgust and that our desires might be elevated only when we are torn apart.

By Becca Rothfeld

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Culture Dept.

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Page-Turner

Our Favorite Bookstores in New York City

Where we shop for books in the Big Apple.

By The New Yorker

Listening Booth

What Jennifer Lopez Has to Say About Bennifer

Lopez’s new album and accompanying film promise an “odyssey” into her heart, but the love story featured is only coyly, obliquely her own.

By Lauren Michele Jackson

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Annals of Artificial Intelligence

When A.I. Can Make a Movie, What Does “Video” Even Mean?

Sora, the new text-to-video system from OpenAI, doesn’t make recordings—it renders ideas.

By Joshua Rothman

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Fun & Games Dept.

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Shouts & Murmurs

Love Poems for Married People

“Did I say orgy? / Sorry, my mind wandered. / I meant yard work.”

By John Kenney

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17 February 2024