The Great American Eclipse of 2017
In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, there was a magnificent event—and then it was all over.
Edward Steed has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 2013.
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The Total Solar Eclipse Comes to “Eclipseville,” Kentucky
I stared through my glasses at the last sliver of the sun, a neon-yellow comma, a pause before the big show. Then totality began.
By Carolyn Kormann
Annals of Technology
The Total Solar Eclipse We Deserve
Think of Monday’s event as a celestially imposed national moment of silence, a two-minute-long reprieve for reflection and grace.
By Alan Burdick
Dept. of Superlatives
The New Yorkers Tied for the Total-Solar-Eclipse Record
Reflections from the men who have seen thirty-three apiece.
By Jason Kersten
Cultural Comment
Stormy Daniels’s American Dream
Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to portray the scrappy adult-film actress as a lying profiteer. Instead, she emerged as an intelligent, credible witness who is also very good at making money.
By Naomi Fry