| | | | This particular April, I’d sworn to my mother I wasn’t smoking. Therefore: stolen cigarettes. Therefore: windowsill. By Zadie Smith  Photograph by Yuki Sugiura; Source photograph by Daisy Houghton Many interesting things have happened to adult me, but in the opinion of teen-age me there is only one real event in our lives and it occurred on the sixteenth of April, 1993, when I fell thirty feet from my bedroom window. Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | | | | Editor’s Pick |  Cultural Comment The Intimate Reality of the J.F.K. AssassinationA visit to Dealey Plaza, after years of thinking and reading about the Kennedy assassination, came as a shock. By Adam Gopnik | | | | | | Read more: In the days after Kennedy’s death, the New Yorker writers Donald Malcolm, Lillian Ross, and E. B. White reflected on the shock of the tragedy: “Speech, when it returned, was not at first commensurate with national disaster, being little more than the incoherent responses of private pain common to all who have lost a father, a brother, or a son.” | | | | From the News Desk | Annals of Artificial Intelligence Chaos in the Cradle of A.I.The Sam Altman saga at OpenAI underscores an unsettling truth: nobody knows what A.I. safety really means. By Joshua Rothman | | | | | | | John Cassidy | |  Source photograph by Tomas Cuesta / Getty Commentators have noted the similarities between Argentina’s newly elected President, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump. But, as John Cassidy writes in his latest column, “Milei’s free-market fundamentalism places him more in the ultra-Reaganite camp than in MAGA nation.” Read more » | | | | Culture Dept. |  Listening Booth André 3000 Disrupts Our Sense of Time André Benjamin’s début solo album of deeply soothing instrumental music asks for little beyond our attention. By Hua Hsu |  The Current Cinema Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” Cannot Quite Vanquish Its Subject Joaquin Phoenix summons a man prowling the battlements of his own brain, but is Napoleon’s life just too big for any one movie? By Anthony Lane | | | | | Dept. of Diversions |  Cultural Comment The Droll Capitalist Parable of Cabbage Patch KidsA new documentary, “Billion Dollar Babies,” shows how a product of Appalachian folk art drew the blueprint for all holiday toy crazes to come. By Jessica Winter | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Daily Shouts Read This Before Entering My Airbnb I will lovingly monitor your arrival and departure times via security camera, and charge twenty dollars for every minute you are late checking out. By Julia Young |  Crossword A Lightly Challenging Puzzle Claude who painted “Impression, Sunrise” and “Water Lilies”: five letters. By Aimee Lucido | |  Daily Cartoon Wednesday, November 22nd By Ali Solomon |  Daily Cartoon Just When He Thought He Was Out By Anjali Chandrashekar | | | | |  | Trivia Break: Which comedian played Ernestine, a phone operator, and Edith Ann, a precocious five-and-a-half-year-old, on “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In”? Play our Make Me Laugh quiz pack » | | | | | P.S. David Letterman returned to the “Late Show” for the first time since his retirement from the program, in 2015, even taking a moment during his interview with the current host, Stephen Colbert, to sit behind the desk. “All of us imprinted like ducklings on his persona,” Emily Nussbaum once noted of Letterman, “the nice guy with the mean streak, making the world safe for smart comedy.” | | | | | | | |
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