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The Yoga Elite

Evan Larson

Yoga Above feels like a perfect reflection of Princeton’s unique character: the blending of college town taste with the style and exclusivity of affluence. The result is a donation yoga studio with deluxe décor and an amazing location that serves a clientele that is stunningly homogeneous.

Redwall Falls

Giri Nathan

Anyone who was recently a nine-year-old boy shed at least a mouse-sized tear last week, when Brian Jacques passed away at age 71. He was the author of the Redwall series, which was, in the pre-Potter era, the best set of chunky addictive novels a kid could get a hold of.

Prose Poem

Conor Gannon

Editor's Note: What follows is composed from features published in The New Yorker between September and December 2010. No alterations beyond rearrangement were made to the texts, excepting those that ensured gender, tense and number agreement.

The Cape

Zack Newick

Recently I went to a reading by the Russian-American writer Gary Shteyngart at Labyrinth. He
was reading from his new novel Super Sad True Love Story, a widely praised satirical novel
about the very near future. Shteyngart is a young writer. Born in 1972, he appeared this summer
in The ...

Chicago on TV

Tom Ledford

The Chicago of the last twenty years has tended to stay out of the limelight, unless it is cast as an oasis for bros through the filter of Vince Vaughn (The Dilemma), or functions as the setting for Gotham in The Dark Knight. This is where The Chicago Code steps in, and with the city’s future at the ballot next week, it is rather timely.

Limbo Kings

Dan Abromowitz

In classic Radiohead fashion, the quirky quartet have kept quite mum in the face of an absolute tsunami of questions about The King and his Limbs. To sort out the shit from shinola, I’m gonna get right into it and do my honest best to clear up some of the main questions surrounding the release.