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fromThe New Yorker
2 days agoRemembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile
Calvin Tomkins, a prolific writer for The New Yorker, passed away at 100, celebrated for his engaging profiles of modern artists and cultural figures.
If your household is anything like mine, you might frequently run into the same issue: There's too much to watch out there, and keeping track of all the things you want to stream one day has become a nightmare. It's not that there aren't any tools for this. There are! And plenty of them! And they're all easy to use! Which is kind of the problem.
On October 26, 2025, the New Yorker staff writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman joined the executive editor Daniel Zalewski onstage at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations, screenings, performances, and more. The Festival, which is the magazine's signature event, was held in New York City and brought together leading voices in literature, film, comedy, television, politics, and medicine.
"The Rust safety model is unpopular with the committee. Further work on my end won't change that. Profiles won the argument "The Safety and Security working group voted to prioritize Profiles over Safe C++. Ask the Profiles people for an update. Safe C++ is not being continued," said Sean Baxter in June this year.