Hilton Als’s Essential James Baldwin - Looking closely at a few of the legendary writer’s works. (www.newyorker.com)
The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide - How the war in Gaza is dividing scholars of Nazi Germany. (www.newyorker.com)
The Redemption of Chance the Rapper - His new album, “Star Line,” has the difficult task of reacquainting the world with the artist after several tumultuous years. (www.newyorker.com)
A Tale of Two Jurists in the Trump Era - James Boasberg, Emil Bove, and the state of the rule of law. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 20th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner - The two young champions, who met as teen-agers, are expected to face off at this year’s U.S. Open. A new book by Giri Nathan tracks their parallel ascent. (www.newyorker.com)
IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu - In the chimerical trend that is Labubumatchadubaichocolate, nothing is ever too extra. But those who embrace the aesthetic know that the only way out is further in. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Nineteen-Thirties Novel That’s Become a Surprise Hit in the U.K. - Set in a small village in the Bavarian Alps, Sally Carson’s “Crooked Cross” presents an eerily familiar portrait of the rise of fascism. (www.newyorker.com)
The Revised Laws of Robotics - A robot must not hurt another robot, outside of some sort of cool sporting event you can place bets on. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Donald Trump Police the United States? - In a trial over the legality of the President’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, there may be a definitive answer to where his power ends. (www.newyorker.com)
Showdown in the Oval - Donald keeps his eyes on the prize. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Suburban Divorcée,” by Cate Marvin - “Mowing the lawn, it’s revealed, is not the torture / it once appeared as the loved one tore through // the yard in heated fury.” (www.newyorker.com)
“O separation,” by Raymond Antrobus - “You mysterious cruel hand, / you cold dropped and not-yet-dropped rain.” (www.newyorker.com)
Bill Belichick Goes Back to School - Can the legendary former Patriots coach transform U.N.C. football? (www.newyorker.com)
The Ghouls of GHOST Are Dialling Back the Devil Stuff - Fresh from selling out Madison Square Garden, the dark priest of the Swedish metal band talked about his childhood TV dreams while backstage at “The Tonight Show.” (www.newyorker.com)
Pam Bondi’s Power Play - Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted—an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda. (www.newyorker.com)
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises - Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers. (www.newyorker.com)
The Met vs. the Met—Softball Edition - The Metropolitan Opera’s team was undefeated. So was the Metropolitan Museum’s. On a Central Park ball field, sound guys and lighting technicians faced off against art handlers and registrars. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Positive Obsession,” “Everything Evolves,” “Pariah,” and “Bonding.” (www.newyorker.com)
Some Funny Things About Getting Old - Everything’s shot. Why not laugh about it? (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Oyeyemi’s Novel of Cognitive Dissonance - Kinga, the protagonist of “A New New Me,” has an odd affliction: there are seven of her. (www.newyorker.com)
“And Just Like That . . . ,” the Lost Season - Plotlines we’ll never see: Carrie grapples with shoe tariffs, and Miranda moves into the sewers. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Jane Bua’s Talk of the Town story about a gathering of Naomis in Prospect Park and Merve Emre’s piece on the history of advice columns. (www.newyorker.com)
Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “Artist in Training” - Family time under the umbrella. (www.newyorker.com)
The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. Kuang - The author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell. (www.newyorker.com)
Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire? - To some, the fires lit in New York in the late seventies signalled rampant criminality; to others, rebellion. But maybe they were signs of something else entirely. (www.newyorker.com)
Big Business and Wall Street Need to Stand Up for Honest Data - In nominating an inexperienced MAGA partisan for commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Donald Trump is chipping away at an essential foundation of the American economy. (www.newyorker.com)
The Birds Flocking Back to the Fresh Kills Dump - New Yorkers stuck their garbage in Staten Island for fifty-three years. As the landfill becomes a park, foxes, deer, and grasshopper sparrows are moving in again. (www.newyorker.com)
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing - By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk. (www.newyorker.com)
Miriam Toews on Saying Yes to Life’s Possibilities - The author discusses her story “Something Has Come to Light.” (www.newyorker.com)
Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light” - The author reads her story from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Sends in the National Guard - Is the President’s takeover of D.C. a dry run for other cities? (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Gopnik on Joseph Mitchell’s “Joe Gould’s Secret” - Mitchell captured New York’s oddballs and renegades with an understated lyricism that transformed fact into literature. (www.newyorker.com)
A Season of Unease at the Edinburgh Festival - In this year’s offerings, the mood ranged from baffled sorrow to laughter in extremis, reflecting our unsettled times. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Farley’s - Farley’s, in Bed-Stuy, lavishes attention on an unsung icon of Americana cooking. (www.newyorker.com)
“Something Has Come to Light,” by Miriam Toews - He asked me if I wanted to ride with him, and I said no. He repeated that back to me. He said, No? Or . . . yes? (www.newyorker.com)
The Texas Democrats’ Remote Resistance - After leaving the state to block the G.O.P. from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, Democratic lawmakers are keeping the pressure on from afar. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fiery Mania of Dijon’s “Baby” - The album’s frantic, unruly nature aims to communicate the madness of living with big feelings—emotions that are difficult to process and to hold to the light. (www.newyorker.com)
Always Inadequate - The force of low self-esteem can feel so enormous, so unexplainable, it seems almost mythic. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin - Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold. (www.newyorker.com)
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza - The reporter Mohammed R. Mhawish was targeted in an Israeli air strike. He lived, and escaped Gaza. He continues to report on the deprivation and challenges of people trapped in the war. (www.newyorker.com)
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington on a Reunion Making “Highest 2 Lowest” - The director and the actor discuss their latest collaboration, nineteen years after their previous film together. “Time flies,” Lee says. “I didn’t know it had been that long.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“And Just Like That . . . ,” Carrie Bradshaw Bids an Unsatisfying Farewell - The series sequel to “Sex and the City” ends with an abrupt, disappointing finale. (www.newyorker.com)
How an Asylum Seeker in U.S. Custody Ended Up in a Russian Prison - Eighteen months after an activist fled Russia to avoid persecution, an appeals court found that he lacked a “well-founded fear or clear probability of future persecution.” (www.newyorker.com)
Garrett Hongo Reads Charles Wright - The poet joins Kevin Young to read “T’ang Notebook,” by Charles Wright, and his own poem “On Emptiness.” (www.newyorker.com)
2025 Fall Culture Preview - What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this fall. (www.newyorker.com)
“Highest 2 Lowest” Marks a Conservative Pivot for Spike Lee - Denzel Washington stars as a music executive who takes police matters into his own hands, in this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping classic. (www.newyorker.com)
The Curious Symbolism of J. D. Vance’s English Getaway - The Vice-President built his political brand on bashing élites. Why does he vacation like one? (www.newyorker.com)
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Petition to the Supreme Court - The convicted sex offender is raising an important legal question—about whether an agreement by one federal prosecutor binds his colleagues across the country. (www.newyorker.com)
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I” Is a Staggering Portrait of Russian Journalists in Dissent - In Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, filmed before, during, and after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, several courageous Moscow reporters see their worst fears realized. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Roman Polanski’s Self-Centered “An Officer and a Spy” - This historical drama, about efforts to clear the wrongly convicted French captain Alfred Dreyfus, brings to mind the director’s own legal troubles. (www.newyorker.com)
“An Open Heart,” by Jamil Jan Kochai - Arman scoffed at the idea of a life beyond death, and Dad pointed out the irony of a ghost denying the afterlife. (www.newyorker.com)
Why I’m Actually Inviting You to My Party - This won’t be fun, but it will be expensive. (www.newyorker.com)
Les Américains à Paris - Americans have had a long cultural love affair with the French capital. What is it about Paris that draws us in? (www.newyorker.com)
What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE? - Whether or not Trump can fulfill his promise of deporting one million people in a year, the nation should be concerned about the harm done—and rights violated—en route to that goal. (www.newyorker.com)
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss - The Princeton classicist shares works that informed his thinking on identity and world-building, and his book “Classicism and Other Phobias.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Friedland’s Comedy of Discomforts - His rendition of the talk show is innately subversive, at direct odds with the squeaky-clean, white-bread humor that is typical of its cable counterpart. (www.newyorker.com)
Coming of Age in Panic Mode - Michael Clune follows up memoirs about drug addiction and computer games with “Pan,” a novel about a teen-ager with anxiety set in the nineties. (www.newyorker.com)
The Revenge of Millennial Cringe - The viral resurgence of the single “Home,” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, reflects a simultaneous disgust at and attraction to an era of unabashed sincerity. (www.newyorker.com)
What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 12th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Can President Trump Run a Mile? - By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at. (www.newyorker.com)
The Worst City to Find Love Is Wherever You, Yes You, Live - Several factors were examined to determine that you are the epicenter of a phenomenon that swallows up the possibility of romantic love like a black hole sucking in light. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Bonds Among Virtual-Reality Furries Saved a Life, in “The Reality of Hope” - A short film follows a friendship in the V.R.-furry community which turns into a radical act of generosity. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 11th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Visit from the V.R. Squad - Jon Griffith, a filmmaker on his third commission from Meta, has been strapping strangers into V.R. headsets in their living rooms and taking them up, up, and away. (www.newyorker.com)
Ripping Cards with Emma Roberts - The scream queen is a card-collecting obsessive, and her new favorite haunt is Tom Brady’s CardVault, in East Hampton. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin - An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Ava Kofman’s Profile of Curtis Yarvin, Malcolm Gladwell’s review of “Unforgiving Places,” and Hilton Als’s review of “Superfine,” at the Met. (www.newyorker.com)
“I Was a First Alto in the 1980s,” by Deborah Garrison - “I used to sit for hours / at an electric typewriter. / I remember well its hum.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? - An honest accounting of our Executive-in-Chief’s runaway self-enrichment. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? - As the stock prices of Big Tech companies continue to rise and eye-popping I.P.O.s reëmerge, echoes of the dot-com era are getting louder. (www.newyorker.com)
The One Race That Eric Adams Is Winning - The Mayor is lagging far behind Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo in the polls, but on social media he’s killing it. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Mac DeMarco the Last Indie Rock Star? - The musician’s overwhelming popularity can overshadow his ethos of self-reliance. On his new album, “Guitar,” he played every instrument and is releasing it on his own label. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Hasn’t Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches? - More than 1.2 billion people worldwide suffer from migraine and other debilitating conditions that are under-studied and often not taken seriously. (www.newyorker.com)
Ben Folds’s Latest Thing - After quitting his gig with the Kennedy Center in protest, the Gen X indie rocker is turning his talents toward MAGA trolls and Charlie Brown. (www.newyorker.com)
“Covid Snow,” by David Baker - “Six squirrels on the dead ash and the living pear.” (www.newyorker.com)
King Charles’s Crony Catches the Salmon of the Year - A Park Avenue finance guy goes fishing with a royal nanny and hooks a fifty-two-pounder. (www.newyorker.com)
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Summer Rays” - The art of wandering. (www.newyorker.com)
The Quest to Cure Progeria Is a Quest to Slow Aging - Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we grow old. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Shade,” “Empty Vessel,” “Culpability,” and “Lili Is Crying.” (www.newyorker.com)
When I’m Ninety-five: Beatles Lyrics Updated - Woke up, got out of bed / So glad I wasn’t dead. (www.newyorker.com)
What Is Benjamin Netanyahu Really After? - Amos Harel, a defense analyst at Haaretz, on what’s behind Netanyahu’s push to reoccupy Gaza City, and how the Israeli Prime Minister has changed since the war began. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Democrats Fight Back Against Trump’s Redistricting Scheme? - Fleeing lawmakers in Texas are unlikely to stop Republicans from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, but their effort has offered a rallying cry—and a reminder of the Democratic Party’s weaknesses. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Corn Woman, Her Husband, and Their Child,” by Annie Proulx - The Earliwoods didn’t recognize that they would be outsiders forever, people denigrated for being unable to hold on to a weathervane. (www.newyorker.com)
Annie Proulx on Stories as a Form of Invigorating Exploration - The author discusses her story “The Corn Woman, Her Husband, and Their Child.” (www.newyorker.com)
Ethel Cain’s Anti-Pop Stardom - Hayden Anhedönia’s Southern-gothic storytelling made her a sensation. But her new album, “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You,” underscores her unwillingness to be a celebrity. (www.newyorker.com)
Andrew Marantz on Janet Flanner’s “Führer” - Flanner’s tone was cool and ironic, above taking sides. But, in a Profile of Adolf Hitler, refusing to take sides can be a way to miss the story. (www.newyorker.com)
The Futility of Simulating Nature - In “The Anthropocene of Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle. (www.newyorker.com)
What It’s Like to Brainstorm with a Bot - At the frontiers of knowledge, researchers are discovering that A.I. doesn’t just take prompts—it gives them, too, sparking new forms of creativity and collaboration. (www.newyorker.com)
Our Age of Zombie Culture - Zombies are the least eloquent monster. But they have a lot to say about us. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Brody Picks Three Favorite Clint Eastwood Films - The New Yorker critic explains which movies by the filmmaker he loves most—and why. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law - Jeannie Suk Gersen and Ruth Marcus, who write about the law for The New Yorker, address listeners’ pressing questions about the Trump Administration’s legal controversies. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Hollywood’s Conservative Pivot - After the success of “Yellowstone” and “The Chosen,” the industry is chasing other red-state hits—an uneasy context for the revival of the Texas-set “King of the Hill.” (www.newyorker.com)
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Trump-Era Labor Statistics - Feelings don’t care about Trump’s alternative facts. (www.newyorker.com)
“Weapons,” “Harvest,” and the Shackles of the Horror Genre - Zach Cregger’s and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s films show different ways of working within a genre whose stories are preordained by a need to scare. (www.newyorker.com)
What We Eat May Never Look the Same - R.F.K., Jr., and the MAHA movement are at war with synthetic food dyes. Scientists are racing to reinvent the culinary color wheel. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Brody’s Summertime Movie Picks - Plus: Lady Gaga and the Black Keys, Indian dance by the New York Harbor, the Time:Spans festival, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Nobody Wins on “Surrounded” - The viral YouTube debate show attempts to anthropomorphize the internet, turning incendiary discourse into live-action role-play. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air - The Mar-a-Lago-fication of the White House may be the least bad part of the President’s legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S. - After President Trump issued an executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, one family made the difficult choice to relocate to Mexico City. (www.newyorker.com)
What Happens to Public Media Now? - Republican-backed funding cuts go way beyond NPR and PBS. Radio and TV stations from Alaska to the Allegheny Mountains may never be the same. (www.newyorker.com)
“Thirty-Three,” by D. S. Waldman - Could be half my life, I said, could be all of it. Could be a third, Gabby said. (www.newyorker.com)
America!: Gardening with Stephen Miller - Those filthy, degenerate daisies have grown back. (www.newyorker.com)
A Brooklyn Renter’s Odyssey - Emily Hunt Kivel’s kooky début novel “Dwelling” sends a listless graphic designer on a hero’s journey. (www.newyorker.com)
How Zohran Mamdani Became the Main Character of New York City - The state assemblyman’s social-media storytelling has earned him an unexpected place in the popular imagination. How does his persona fit into the lineage of historical and fictional New York figures? (www.newyorker.com)
André Aciman on Reading—and Misreading—Emotions - The “Call Me by Your Name” author on novels about people misunderstanding the situations in which they find themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
The Piercing Immigrant Drama of “Souleymane’s Story” - In Boris Lojkine’s sharply observed Paris-set drama, a Guinean refugee struggles to survive—and to cling to the truth of who he is. (www.newyorker.com)
Remembering Wesley LePatner - I met Wesley in 1985, during the summer we both turned four. Until last Monday, our lives always seemed to run on parallel tracks. (www.newyorker.com)
The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D. - New safety rules require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites. This spells the end of the relative anonymity that we’ve come to expect online. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 6th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Cover Letter for a Job I Don’t Want but Will Be Offended Not to Get - My résumé reflects a pattern of, let’s call it, erratic brilliance punctuated by long stretches of disillusionment, which I’ve cleverly framed as “consulting.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Latest Phase in Trump’s War on Data - When the facts don’t fit the President’s narrative, he asks for new ones, as evidenced by his recent firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza - As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 5th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Israelis Are Starting to Talk About Famine in Gaza - After nearly two years of war, the public rhetoric has suddenly shifted. Will it lead to real changes on the ground? (www.newyorker.com)
Skateboarding Into Middle Age - As I approach forty, I have fewer and fewer memories of being a child. It is enough that the body remembers. (www.newyorker.com)
A Decisive Moment for Trump’s Immigration Crackdown - Public opinion is turning on the President’s policies, but it might not be enough to keep the country from entering a much darker phase. (www.newyorker.com)
King Princess’s Homecoming - Mikaela Straus grew up in a recording studio, mimicking the artists who passed through. For her new album, “Girl Violence,” she returned to find a sound that’s hers alone. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 4th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Books of 2025 So Far - Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. (www.newyorker.com)
The Pain of Perfectionism - It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews. but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn’t Happen - From a dying adviser to a clumsy editorial, the Revolution was a cascade of accidents and oversights. (www.newyorker.com)
“A Table,” by Hua Xi - “Is a table an argument or an understanding?” (www.newyorker.com)
The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases - With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself. (www.newyorker.com)
Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty” - The art and politics of representation. (www.newyorker.com)
New Coins in the Crypto Reserve - Forget gold. Time to stock up on Eggcoin (very valuable) and Scamcoin (not a scam). (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Sarah Beckwith’s essay about being raped, Lauren Collins’s article about El Mordjene, and Paige Williams’s piece about Green-Wood Cemetery. (www.newyorker.com)
A Vaccination Parable - You’ve got to read the literature! (www.newyorker.com)
There Is More to French Opera Than “Carmen” and “Faust” - The Bru Zane label is recording dozens of forgotten works that testify to a Romantic golden age. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Make a Movie House with John Wilson - The Ridgewood, Queens, filmmaker, known for his HBO series “How To,” has opened Low Cinema—a neighborhood movie joint, for lovers of odd programming and second-run flicks. (www.newyorker.com)
Sign Here! The World’s Greatest Autograph Collection Is Rediscovered - In the early nineteen-hundreds, Josip Mikulec walked the globe, collecting famous signatures (Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Admiral Tōgō). Now the mayor of his Croatian home town has purchased the three-thousand-page tome. (www.newyorker.com)
ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation - Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It - As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits? (www.newyorker.com)
The Governors Island Ferry Goes Electric - This month, the old diesel-powered Governors Island ferry will be retired, and the Harbor Charger—New York’s first hybrid-electric ferry—will (quietly) hit the water. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “The Sisters,” “Necessary Fiction,” “Make It Ours,” and “Exophony.” (www.newyorker.com)
How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility - Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a marvel of twentieth-century literature. (www.newyorker.com)
The Engines and Empires of New York City Gambling - As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (I),” by Bob Hicok - “My ambition to be done with ambition / suffered a setback at my father’s funeral.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Pancakes at Hellbender, S&P Lunch, and Pitt’s - A masa-based version at Hellbender, a riff on soufflé at Pitt’s, and a modern-classic stack at S&P Lunch. (www.newyorker.com)
Kiran Desai on Life with Her Characters - The author discusses her story “An Unashamed Proposal.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Politics of Fear - As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail. (www.newyorker.com)
Kiran Desai Reads “An Unashamed Proposal” - The author reads her story from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” - His monumental report changed history, journalism, and me. (www.newyorker.com)
“An Unashamed Proposal,” by Kiran Desai - Look, Sunny said, however progressive my mother is, she is an Indian woman from another generation. Do you really think I can tell her that we sleep in the same bed? (www.newyorker.com)
Watching the “King of the Hill” Revival from Texas - In the age of MAGA, the show’s small-town values are both a relief and slightly outdated. In the end, will we and the animated characters all live like city people? (www.newyorker.com)
The Banal Provocation of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans - The American Eagle campaign, with its presentation of Americana as a zombie slop of mustangs, denim, and good genes, is lowest-common-denominator stuff. (www.newyorker.com)
At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine - A new photo book by Eddy van Wessel, with nearly two hundred images taken over the course of three years, offers a visual history of the war’s devastation. (www.newyorker.com)
Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype - In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the material. (www.newyorker.com)
Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies - The White House promised that tariffs would make America boom. But job growth has stalled and the President has been reduced to firing an official scorekeeper. (www.newyorker.com)
Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together” - The celebrated writer discusses how she found her unique voice, and a new collection of her writings that begins with her first published piece in The New Yorker. (www.newyorker.com)
John Brennan, Former C.I.A. Director, on Being Targeted by Trump - Brennan’s agency was lambasted by the President as part of what he called the “Russia hoax.” Why is the Administration going Brennan now? (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: MATATIOTEFA - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
When the Federal Government Eats Itself - After six months of DOGE, vital institutions are in disarray as the civil service braces for new cuts. (www.newyorker.com)
The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde - Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ambitious Film Deconstructions of Stan Douglas - Also: the nostalgia of Vacation sunscreen, the heartwrenching songs of Stevie Nicks, Tiler Peck’s Jerome Robbins festival, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. (www.newyorker.com)
Stacks of Cash - Presidential libraries preserve the records—and burnish the legacies—of America’s heads of state. Are they also corruption rackets? (www.newyorker.com)
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma - In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency. (www.newyorker.com)
On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel - Is the President flip-flopping on Israel''s war, or just muddling through? (www.newyorker.com)
Searching for the Children of the Disappeared - A new book examines the extraordinary decades-long campaign by Argentinean women to find their grandchildren. (www.newyorker.com)
Date Ideas for Couples in Long-Term Relationships - Go about your normal evening, but with a candle lit. (www.newyorker.com)
“Split Brain,” by Weike Wang - Right thinks we are a good person. Left does not. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 31st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Late Night’s Last Laugh - The cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” raised eyebrows, but the genre is not what it was in Johnny Carson’s heyday. What does it still have to offer us? (www.newyorker.com)
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians - The former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr., says the Administration’s attacks on late-night comedy are a game of “stupid whack-a-mole.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Enduring Power of “The Rules of the Game” - Jean Renoir’s tragic farce, from 1939, scathingly denounced French society’s frivolity amid threats of war and fascism. (www.newyorker.com)
Getting in Marc Maron’s Head - The podcast host recommends three recent favorites—about the gentrification of punk, what makes a great actor, and the corrosive influence of social-media platforms. (www.newyorker.com)
Epstein Island Revealed - A not-so-fine mess. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Israeli Right Explains the Aid Disaster It Created - The fiercest defenders of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza continue to insist that Palestinians aren’t starving. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Brazil’s Underdog Era Coming to an End? - President Donald Trump has announced a fifty-per-cent tariff on the country’s products, as retaliation for the prosecution of his political ally, Jair Bolsonaro. So far, Brazil has refused to roll over. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Worlds in Rooms - Bodies on display, in exhibitions of the work of Sanya Kantarovsky, Lisa Yuskavage, and Johannes Vermeer. (www.newyorker.com)
Should Police Officers Be More Like U.F.C. Fighters? - Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, has said that he wants to get mixed-martial-arts fighters to train his field agents. But a version of this is already happening, with law-enforcement agencies embracing Brazilian jiu-jitsu. (www.newyorker.com)
F.A.Q. About the W.N.B.A. - As a man, I’ve noticed that some of the women in the W.N.B.A. are getting a lot of attention. But the thing is, I want attention. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 29th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire - The late songwriter’s targets are mostly forgotten—so why do new generations keep discovering him? (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Birthday Parade Was a Hollywood Job - When the reality-TV President needed to outfit his martial procession, organizers turned to props once used by Mel Gibson, Paul Giamatti, and a Dodge car commercial. (www.newyorker.com)
Mexico’s Molar City Could Transform My Smile. Did I Want It To? - More than a thousand dentists have set up shop in Los Algodones. Their patients are mostly Americans who can’t afford the U.S.’s dental care. (www.newyorker.com)
The Joy of Cooking (for Gertrude Stein) - To launch her new biography of the often impenetrable author, Francesca Wade presided over a literary feast devised by Alice B. Toklas. (www.newyorker.com)
L.A.’s Food Culture, Transformed by Immigration Raids - The city is defined by street carts and family-run restaurants. ICE’s vicious campaign has prompted many venders and patrons to stay home. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s War with Jerome Powell and the Fed Is Far from Over - The President’s campaign to bend the independent central bank to his will is straight out of the playbook of populist strongmen and will likely go on for years. (www.newyorker.com)
Dolce & Gabbana’s Spartacus Moment - Fresh from trussing Lauren Sánchez for her Venetian wedding, the designing duo hit Rome for their annual Alta Moda couture extravaganza. (www.newyorker.com)
From “I, Tonya” to Chris Farley, Pound by Pound - Need a meaty, cloddish, yet affable Everyman who can act? Paul Walter Hauser knows how to own the body type. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens - It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer. (www.newyorker.com)
Was the Renaissance Real? - We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, is little more than myth. (www.newyorker.com)
“Emma” Unrated - In which Jane Austen’s Miss Emma Woodhouse is bestirred by “Jackass” ’s Mr. Knoxville upon his presentation of a “Fire-Hose Rodeo.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Preservation,” by Sylvie Baumgartel - “The Dissected Graces in Florence.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Bob Marley, Live, 1980,” by Kwame Dawes - “In Kingston after the storm, the yard / cools, the grass slippery underfoot, / leaves dripping—the air heavy with fatigue.” (www.newyorker.com)
Life Inside a Singular Artists’ Enclave in Brooklyn, in “The Candy Factory” - Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt’s documentary short follows a creative community held together by collaboration and the efforts of a woman who is part landlady, part fairy godmother. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Moderation,” “Via Ápia,” “Misbehaving at the Crossroads,” and “The Key to Everything.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Nick Paumgarten’s piece about the vintage-guitar collection that was recently donated to the Met and Rivka Galchen’s article about the development of non-opioid painkillers. (www.newyorker.com)
Israel’s Zones of Denial - Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming? (www.newyorker.com)
“No Tax on Tips” Is an Industry Plant - Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage. (www.newyorker.com)
What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap - Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions. Have we been focussing on the wrong things? (www.newyorker.com)
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Chiaroscuro at the Met” - The art of shade. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Bridge Stood Fast,” by Anne Enright - These are the things that change a child, he thought, but what can you do? (www.newyorker.com)
Anne Enright on Fathers and Daughters - The author discusses her story “The Bridge Stood Fast.” (www.newyorker.com)
Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast” - The author reads her story from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
A Young Parisian Chef’s Nouvelle Stodginess - At Le Chêne, in the West Village, a “Top Chef France” alumna cooks up chilly Gallic chicness. (www.newyorker.com)
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable - The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy. (www.newyorker.com)
Bill McKibben on Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” - Her reporting was quickly attacked by the industry she called into question, setting the playbook for companies that profited from tobacco, opioids, and fossil fuels. (www.newyorker.com)
What to Do When the Supreme Court Is Wrong - The blows have been coming weekly, as Trump tries to ransack the Constitution. Yet recent Court history shows that what feels like the end can be a beginning. (www.newyorker.com)
Notes on Bed Rest - I spent months limiting my movement, to protect a high-risk pregnancy. How did it change me? (www.newyorker.com)
A Sensualist’s History of Gay Marriage and Immigration - In a new book, “Deep House,” the author Jeremy Atherton Lin combines memoir and cultural history to expose the varied border crossings involved in same-sex love past and present. (www.newyorker.com)
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies - Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback. (www.newyorker.com)
Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE - For those in Silicon Valley who play by the President’s rules, it’s “open season.” (www.newyorker.com)
“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President - The new season première goes after Trump as never before—and solves a problem that’s plagued comedians since his first term in office. (www.newyorker.com)
Ozzy Osbourne Tried to Raise Hell - The Black Sabbath front man set out to capture the sound of evil. Somehow, he became widely loved. (www.newyorker.com)
Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles - Elected in part on a promise to address the housing crisis, Bass faces a different crisis: a federal “seizure” of Los Angeles, and an Administration fixated on mass deportation. (www.newyorker.com)
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare - Rapid changes in technology are rendering American supremacy in highly advanced, expensive weapons a thing of the past. Can the military adapt in time for the next conflict? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom - An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings. (www.newyorker.com)
Tennessee Williams in Williamstown - Jeremy O. Harris, at his first Williamstown Theatre Festival as creative director, turns up the heat under rare works by the great Southern playwright. (www.newyorker.com)
Summer Is the Time for Off Broadway Comedy - Also: Superheroic sentimentality in “The Fantastic Four,” the popular crowd goes down in “Heathers: The Musical,” the arcane mythology of Lord Huron, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Extravagant Eye of Charles Frederick Worth - A blockbuster show in Paris celebrates the designer whose over-the-top aesthetic embodied his money-mad era—and speaks to our own. (www.newyorker.com)
Are the Democrats Getting Better at the Internet? - There’s never been an inherent reason why the Party’s positioning requires so much of its online content to suck. (www.newyorker.com)
The Semi-Fictional Book That Transformed the Culinary World - “The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth” inspired culinary luminaries like Alice Waters and Samin Nosrat. Does it matter that it’s largely made up? (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Redefines the Washington Scandal - In a Presidency where everything is an outrage, what does it say that MAGA’s revolt over the Jeffrey Epstein files is the one crisis that really might hurt him? (www.newyorker.com)
The Political Motives Behind the Gaza Aid Catastrophe - As Palestinians continue to die of severe hunger, a former Israeli official explains what the latest plan is really meant to achieve. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
In Defense of the Traditional Review - Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Grass at Airports,” by Fabio Morábito - In parks and gardens abundant in plants and flowers, the grass is nothing more than a backdrop. Only at airports, with no masters to serve and no adversaries to overcome, can it reach its fullest glory. (www.newyorker.com)
Sniffies Translates Cruising for the Digital Age - Open it up, log on anonymously, and you’ll get a real-time sexual map of your neighborhood. (www.newyorker.com)
Why I Left the City and Moved My Family Into an Inflatable Bounce House - Buy a house in this market? Do I look like a complete chucklehead? (www.newyorker.com)
How The Epstein Conspiracy Took Over Politics - The willingness of both political parties to use rhetoric of paranoia about the Jeffrey Epstein files illustrates how intertwined our politics have become with conspiracy theories. (www.newyorker.com)
Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate - Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Rivka Galchen on narratives of our era of strange, changing weather. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fight for Mexican Los Angeles - The city’s Mexican consul is trying to protect local immigrants, but there are limits to what he can accomplish. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 23rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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Sasha Debevec-McKenney Reads Gabrielle Calvocoressi - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and her own poem “Kaepernick.” (www.newyorker.com)
Coldplaygate Is a Reminder That There’s No Escaping Going Viral - A C.E.O.’s affair, caught on jumbotron and spread across social media, demonstrates that mass attention on today’s internet tends to be deeply undesirable. (www.newyorker.com)
It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam - This vision test is far from routine—don’t forget that racism starts in the retinas. (www.newyorker.com)
“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man - Richard Brody reviews “Clint: The Man and the Movies,” Shawn Levy’s new biography of the actor Clint Eastwood. (www.newyorker.com)
Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight - After years of progress in diversity, many companies’ upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. The backslide has prompted an outcry. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 22nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel - In “Work: A Story of Experience,” Alcott fictionalizes her own stints as a servant, a seamstress, a governess, and a lady’s companion—and asks whether a wage counts as freedom for women. (www.newyorker.com)
A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students - In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism. (www.newyorker.com)
What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means - CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have set an end date for one of the last public pipelines to some version of the truth. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 21st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The First Time America Went Beard Crazy - A sweeping new history explores facial hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion. (www.newyorker.com)
“Yes, And” for Downsized Federal Workers - A Washington, D.C., improv theatre invited recently laid-off civil servants to a free workshop. The goals: stay adaptable, and maybe even laugh. (www.newyorker.com)
Sketchpad by Barry Blitt: Fragrances of Presidents Past - Now that Trump has released his new scent, Victory 45-47 (249), it’s time to sniff the competition. (www.newyorker.com)
Super-Fun Romantic Sexy Beach Read - A little Proust, a little cancer, but in a light and sexy way. Isn’t melancholy the new quirky? (www.newyorker.com)
The Sleazy, Unsettling Sounds of Mk.gee - The artist, on tour this summer, makes songs underpinned by feelings of dread and longing. (www.newyorker.com)
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field - Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do.” (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Strangers,” “The Place of Tides,” “The Girls Who Grew Big,” and “The Scrapbook.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Astounding Stories,” by Robert Pinsky - “Fear of the foreign and the fear of being foreign.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Michael Pollan’s piece about priests taking psychedelics and Daniel Immerwahr’s essay about the decline of trust in experts. (www.newyorker.com)
Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t - Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? (www.newyorker.com)
The Case for Lunch - Notes on an underappreciated meal. (www.newyorker.com)
“Rift,” by Arthur Sze - “How is it you shed earlier selves and are more yourself with each shedding?” (www.newyorker.com)
Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “Journeys” - Crossing the border. (www.newyorker.com)
In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods? - The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief - How Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, plans to transform government into a money-making enterprise. (www.newyorker.com)
Dining Sheds, Repotted - Architects recycle a Brooklyn library’s al-fresco COVID reading room for a public garden. (www.newyorker.com)
Mona Awad on Enchantment as a Sinister Force - The author on her story “The Chartreuse.” (www.newyorker.com)
Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording? - An unlikely YouTube star surveys the spoils of an overflowing but precarious industry. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Next-Level Vietnamese at Bánh Anh Em - The new restaurant, near Union Square, offers hard-to-find regional dishes. But you’ll have to wait in line. (www.newyorker.com)
The Price of Occupation - In Sakir Khader’s photographs of the West Bank, life and death coexist. (www.newyorker.com)
Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse” - The author reads her story from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Chartreuse,” by Mona Awad - She could feel the mirror shining in her dark bedroom closet. Waiting for the offering. (www.newyorker.com)
Behind Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein Problem - The President has tried to blame the Democrats, and, more unexpectedly, he has called those in his base who have asked for a fuller accounting “weaklings” and “stupid.” (www.newyorker.com)
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black at Fenway - My father taught me about jazz, poetry, and philosophy, but he couldn’t show me how to be Black and a Red Sox fan. (www.newyorker.com)
How Rembrandt Saw Esther - What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today. (www.newyorker.com)
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Another Doctor Is Dead in Gaza - In February, Marwan Sultan showed me the wrecked hospital where he worked. In July, an Israeli missile killed him. (www.newyorker.com)
Stephen Colbert on Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson - From Hollywood to the Hasty Pudding, we waft like smoke from an unfiltered Pall Mall through Carson’s worlds, most of which are gone. (www.newyorker.com)
Leah Litman on Trump’s Supreme Court - “I think the Supreme Court, in particular, has proven that it is really fine with a lot of what the Administration is doing, and that they are basically willing to bend over backwards and ignore their own rules and procedures to allow the Administration to do what it wants,” Litman says. (www.newyorker.com)
Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt Over Jeffrey Epstein - The journalist talks about his interviews with the infamous abuser, and the political fallout from the White House’s attempt to close his case. (www.newyorker.com)
The Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington” - Ari Aster’s neo-noir Western involves a gun-toting sheriff, COVID, the George Floyd protests, and a mysterious A.I. data center. The writer-director talks with Adam Howard. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trophy Abs and Soul Ties of “Love Island USA” - The Peacock reality show, filmed in Fiji, offers a parallel America in which nearly naked contestants attempt to pair up and the audience votes on the winning couple. (www.newyorker.com)
How Dartmouth Became the Ivy League’s Switzerland - The school has attracted attention for its refusal to join the higher-ed resistance and, perhaps not coincidentally, for its avoidance of any direct sanctions by the Trump Administration. (www.newyorker.com)
“Eddington” Is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire - In Ari Aster’s dark comedy, Joaquin Phoenix plays the sheriff of a New Mexico town riven by political clashes and pandemic anxieties. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Three Conspiracy-Theory Theories - Trump rode the paranoid style of MAGA politics to power. Has he discovered that he can’t control it? (www.newyorker.com)
The Sophisticated Kitsch of Blackpink - Also: “The Gospel at Colonus” at Little Island, Golden Age celebrity photos at MOMA, Soledad Barrio’s flamenco at the Joyce, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Has a Bad Case of Biden on the Brain - Distracted by the President’s constant bashing of his predecessor? Of course not. (www.newyorker.com)
Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith - How the artist both hid and found himself in his work, which is featured in a new exhibition. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Aging Millennial’s Guide to Summer - Read an autofiction novel written by someone your age about how they’re way too old to be this pathetic and single. (www.newyorker.com)
“Double Time for Pat Hobby” - On the day that Pat met Jim Dasterson in the barrier, he had less than a dollar in one pocket and an ounce of gin in the other. (www.newyorker.com)
“Cloud” Is a Cautionary Tale of E-Commerce—and the Summer’s Best Action Movie - In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film, a crafty online grifter learns that digital crimes beget analog punishments. (www.newyorker.com)
“Eddington” and the American Berserk - Ari Aster’s new film attempts to capture the particular brain-breaking turmoil of May, 2020. Can it—or any work of art—measure up to the craziness of real life? (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers - The author of “Creation Lake” on how artists steal from the world. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What Will Become of the C.I.A.? - The covert agency has long believed in the power of knowing one’s enemy. But these days the threats are coming from above. (www.newyorker.com)
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Gentle Parenting My Smartphone Addiction - An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Trump Deport People to Any Country That Will Take Them? - A Yale Law professor on the Administration’s third-country deportation powers—and why the Supreme Court allowed it to send eight men to a prison in South Sudan. (www.newyorker.com)
“SWAG,” Reviewed: Justin Bieber’s Messy, Improbable Masterpiece - “SWAG” is the artist’s first album to hover above his noisy celebrity, to make a case for its own specificity. (www.newyorker.com)
A New Agnès Varda Exhibition Is an Extension of Her Life’s Work - Rooted in Varda’s early photography, the Musée Carnavalet’s show illuminates and clarifies the singular nature of a great filmmaker’s achievement. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Chased by Climate Disaster in North Carolina - During Tropical Storm Chantal, a mother worried for the safety of her daughter, who is still grappling with the trauma of Hurricane Helene. (www.newyorker.com)