The silent film star Patsy Ruth Miller offers portraits of such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin (highly unflattering), Buster Keaton (endearing), and “Rudy” Valentino.

John Seabrook on learning how to drink, and how to stop.

For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor.

Haruki Murakami reflects on his T-shirt collection, including one he loves to wear in the U.S. “Americans sometimes call out, ‘Love the shirt!’ The ones who do this usually have that ‘I love ketchup’ look about them,” he writes.

In a single day at Les Halles, in New York City, Anthony Bourdain once nourished himself with three double espressos, two beers, three cranberry juices, eight aspirins, a hunk of merguez sausage, and an “Industrial”—a beer stein filled with a Margarita.

Was the American Revolution such a good idea?

The Kerner Report, from 1967, named white racism—no euphemisms—as the root cause of unrest in the United States. It called for sweeping changes and investments in jobs, housing, policing, and more. Then it was shelved.

The effects of climate change are already here. On a new episode of #NewYorkerRadio , a climate activist suggests that the environmental movement rethink its roots in nonviolence and instead embrace “intelligent sabotage.” Listen here.

Umberto Eco’s enduringly popular manual “How to Write a Thesis” is more than a guide for undergraduates; the book is a celebration of the magical process of self-realization.

This week’s cover, “American Vernacular,” by @KentonNelson . #NewYorkerCovers