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Zach Helfand

Zach Helfand

Editor, at The New Yorker

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The Guy on Trial for the Same Thing as Trump

The courthouse had two active falsifying cases the other day, before Judges Gregory Carro and Juan Merchan. Carro presided over courtroom 1300, part 32, on the thirteenth floor, off a corridor that looked as if the Penn Station basement had decided it was too bright. A window was open in the back, through which resounded loud hammering from construction next door. The court was called to order, and defendants began coming forward for pretrial hearings. One looked dazed. One was missing a leg. So…
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Deaccessioning the Delights of Robert Gottlieb

The eminent editor’s wife and daughter sift through a lifetime’s worth of collectibles: quirky plastic purses, a porcelain Miss Piggy, and many, many books.
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The Doctor Tom Brady and Leonardo DiCaprio Call When They Get Hurt

ElAttrache sees patients in a multi-story office building near LAX. After business hours, by phone, a stream of athletes and the otherwise famous or wealthy seek ElAttrache’s advice for free. He treats shoulders, elbows, knees, Achilles tendons, and the big muscles. Most surgeons are known for one specialty operation; ElAttrache’s fellow-surgeons consider him among the best in the world at many. “There’s very few of the upper-level-athlete injuries that we’re not going to be somehow involved in,…
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Ear Injuries Through History

Trump is fortunate in one respect: if you’re going to be shot, the ear is not the worst place. (“It felt like the world’s largest mosquito,” he told Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) If offered a choice, few people would sacrifice a kneecap or a finger. A missing nose is too gruesome. A bloody toe is unimpressive. It’s true that ears can be messy. “They bleed more than any other part of the body, for whatever reason—the doctors told me that,” Trump said in his R.N.C. speech. “So we learned something.” But…
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Kamala Harris and the Understudy Effect

Julie Benko, who hit it big after going on in place of Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” has a lot of advice for the Vice-President, now that she’s done with waiting in the wings.
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The Beautiful Mystery of Rooting for Aaron Rodgers

Fandom is an exercise in imagination. What happens when you know too much?
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You’re Invited to a Dada Dinner!

For the opening of his show “Searchers III,” the artist Hadi Falapishi throws a dinner at the Breakers, the Vanderbilts’ mansion, where your face serves as a plate.
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Can America Handle a Petless Presidency?

In an election season dominated by dead dogs, childless cat ladies, pets for dinner, and dumped bear cubs, the ferret lobby has some advice.
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What Does Your Doorman Say About You?

According to a new memoir by Stephen Bruno, who stands sentry at a building on Park Avenue, there are just three topics of conversation among doormen: baseball, women, and Puerto Rico.
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With a Clip-Clip Here: Sewing Up Oz for “Wicked”

Paul Tazewell, a former wizard himself, commanded a staff of a hundred and forty people to dream up and sew the costumes that Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and company wore over the rainbow.
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Should Aaron Judge Get a Chinstrap?

After the Yankees reversed their longtime beard ban, facial-hair experts, including ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons, weighed in.