How Addison Rae Went from TikTok to the Pop Charts - The artist presents herself as a gently debauched girl next door on her new album, “Addison.” It’s positioned to be one of the summer''s marquee offerings. (www.newyorker.com)
Immigration Protests Threaten to Boil Over in Los Angeles - Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s deportation agenda met its fiercest resistance yet as federal officials conducted worksite raids and clashed with residents. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 9th - “Don’t worry, there’s been no extensive testing done on this crap.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up - In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend. (www.newyorker.com)
Jacinda Ardern’s Overseas Experience - New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. (www.newyorker.com)
Gertrude Berg, the Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom - Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Apocalypse,” “The End Is the Beginning,” “The Book of Records,” and “The River Is Waiting.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Meatpacking District Packs It In - As the market prepares to vacate the West Village, a veteran meatpacker recalls the area in the days of fat-slicked cobblestones, before the Whitney and the High Line. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Terminal,” by Rick Barot - “They stand next to him, in a posture of awkward confession, carefully giving him the words.” (www.newyorker.com)
Jenny Saville, the Body Artist - The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy. (www.newyorker.com)
The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age - How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about the Civil War. (www.newyorker.com)
How Many Naomis Does It Take to Deconstruct “Doppelganger”? - Inspired by Naomi Klein’s best-seller about the headache of being confused with Naomi Wolf, Naomi Becker decided to have a Prospect Park picnic for her fellow-Naomis. (www.newyorker.com)
The Farmers Harmed by the Trump Administration - Four months ago, the government cut funding to agricultural labs. Kansas farmers and researchers say they can see the damage. (www.newyorker.com)
A Palestinian Doctor in Israel Treats People on Both Sides - Lina Qasem Hassan treated victims of October 7th. She also publicly condemned the war in Gaza—a stance that imperilled her job. (www.newyorker.com)
Redditors: Immigrants Keep Kidnapping My Wife!! - What to do about the human-trafficking illegal who absconds with my wife once a week and then drops her at home at dawn? Help! (www.newyorker.com)
A First Kiss from America’s First Woman in Space - Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Family Toy Business Is Fighting Donald Trump’s Tariffs - Despite securing an important court victory against the Administration, the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg knows that his battle with the White House is far from over. (www.newyorker.com)
“Murmuration,” by Rae Armantrout - “They take shapes / in air / like a scarf trick.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Girl on Girl,” Reviewed - “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Learned to Become an Intimacy Coördinator - At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer learned about Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job. (www.newyorker.com)
Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See” - It’s good to be a cat. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: What’s a Neighborhood Restaurant Without a Neighborhood? - Confidant is hoping to draw diners to the sprawling Brooklyn mall known as Industry City. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Queen of Bad Influences,” by Jim Shepard - It is possible I’m too flexible for virtue and too virtuous for villainy. (www.newyorker.com)
The Victims of the Trump Administration’s China-Bashing - A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
Taylor Swift’s Master Plan - In a bid to gain control over her own music, the singer-songwriter rerecorded most of her old studio albums. Then she bought the old ones back. What do we do with the Taylor’s Versions now? (www.newyorker.com)
Jim Shepard Reads “The Queen of Bad Influences” - The author reads his story from the June 16, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Julia Child - The outlines of her biography—the cookbooks, the TV stardom—are familiar to many of us. Tomkins captures what set her apart. (www.newyorker.com)
Brian Lehrer and Errol Louis Take the Pulse of New York City - Two local news stalwarts discuss Andrew Cuomo’s evasion of the press, whether ranked-choice voting has made elections worse, and Curtis Sliwa’s chances of becoming mayor. (www.newyorker.com)
Jim Shepard on Catastrophes and Timing - The author discusses his story “The Queen of Bad Influences.” (www.newyorker.com)
Iran’s Daughters of the Sea - Forough Alaei’s stunning photographs of a community of fisherwomen on a remote island in the Persian Gulf. (www.newyorker.com)
Warped Ways of Seeing “P.O.V.” - How our ideas about point of view got all turned around. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Do Doctors Write? - For physicians, curiosity and care spill easily onto the page. (www.newyorker.com)
The Oligarchs Are Fighting - Does the Trump-Musk breakup resemble an ancient Greek myth or a Godzilla movie? Either way, mere mortals will likely get trampled. (www.newyorker.com)
What We’re Reading This Summer: Mega-Reads - New Yorker writers on long, immersive books that are worth the plunge. (www.newyorker.com)
John Seabrook on the Destructive Family Battles of “The Spinach King” - The writer’s grandfather founded an agricultural empire, but destroyed his business and his family rather than cede control to his sons. “It’s ‘Succession,’ with spinach,” Seabrook says. (www.newyorker.com)
What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism - An autism researcher on Kennedy’s initiative to identify a cause, the focus on environmental factors, and the dangers of misinformation. (www.newyorker.com)
“Mountainhead” and the Age of the Pathetic Billionaire - Extreme wealth has long been an obsession within American culture—but Jesse Armstrong’s new film reflects a sea change in the way we view the über-rich. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Featherweights - Two glass jaws go at it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sublime Spectacle of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Social-Media Slap Fight - The President has kept the upper hand so far, partly because of his bully pulpit, and partly because he has remained relatively understated. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 6th - “He loves me not.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now.” - J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of voices. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Ehud Olmert Thinks His Country Is Committing War Crimes - The Former Israeli Prime Minister explains how his view of the conflict in Gaza has shifted. (www.newyorker.com)
The Heartrending Movies of John Cazale - Also: Sister Nancy’s eternal party, the acoustic sculptures of Jennie C. Jones on the Met roof, American Ballet Theatre’s season at the Met, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
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Can Public Media Survive Trump? - Government-backed institutions sometimes stand up more strongly to authoritarianism than their commercial counterparts. (www.newyorker.com)
The Private Citizens Who Want to Help Trump Deport Migrants - For years, right-wing civilians have eagerly patrolled the border. Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, has hinted that he might enlist their help. (www.newyorker.com)
The Musk-Trump Divorce Is as Messy as You Thought It Would Be - The world’s richest man and its most powerful leader channel their inner middle schooler in a breakup for the ages. (www.newyorker.com)
Miley Cyrus’s Voice - With her new album, “Something Beautiful,” the pop star finally has material worthy of her instrument. (www.newyorker.com)
“Ballerina” Leaps into John Wick’s Bloody World - Ana de Armas energizes this turbulent but thinned-out spinoff from the Keanu Reeves martial-arts franchise. (www.newyorker.com)
How Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern? - A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 5th - Batten the hatches, check the gift registry, and don’t forget the DEET! (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s De-legalization Campaign - After a Supreme Court decision, hundreds of thousands of immigrants who followed the law are among the easiest to deport. (www.newyorker.com)
Dear Pepper: All the World’s a Life Stage - Banish the emptiness of not feeling useful, productive, directed. (www.newyorker.com)
The Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be King - “Yarvin is spot-on that most of us take democracy for granted,” says the staff writer Ava Kofman. “And there is a profound inability, particularly, I think, in liberal circles . . . to defend it, beyond it being a kind of unquestioned, obvious good.” (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah Ruhl’s Guides in Life and Art - The poet and Pulitzer-nominated playwright discusses four books by her closest teachers. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 4th - “I''m just a bill, a big, beautiful bill, la-la-la, you get it, I’m cutting Medicaid.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Mountainhead” Channels the Absurdity of the Tech Bro - In Jesse Armstrong’s new satire, tech is never morally in the black, and the people who create it are no better than despots—inept ones, at that. (www.newyorker.com)
Alison Bechdel and the Search for the Beginner’s Mind - With the cartoonist’s new graphic novel, she appears once again to be trying for the “light, fun” book she’s longed to write. (www.newyorker.com)
Democracy Wins a Referendum in South Korea - The newly elected President defeated an increasingly authoritarian rival party. Can he bring the country back together? (www.newyorker.com)
Genius on the Half Shell - Portrait of a President. (www.newyorker.com)
What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I. - In “I, Robot,” three Laws of Robotics align artificially intelligent machines with humans. Could we rein in chatbots with laws of our own? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 3rd - “It buzzes when the President is ready to pardon me.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard - Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Do You Want to Be a Knight? - Keep in mind that we don’t get to pick which quests we go on, and most of them are pretty Jesus-y. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Broadway Musical “Maybe Happy Ending” Creates Visual Magic - The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set design of the Broadway musical, which stars Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 2nd - “None of them thought to thank me when they won during the regular season, so this is as far as they go in the playoffs.” (www.newyorker.com)
Tusks Up for the Utah Mammoth - The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American Museum of Natural History. Two players made a pilgrimage. (www.newyorker.com)
The Met’s Exhibit on Black Male Style Is an Exceptional Achievement - In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and survival. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Marketcrafters,” “Children of Radium,” “The South,” and “Heart, Be at Peace.” (www.newyorker.com)
What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime - A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe. (www.newyorker.com)
Chicken, Egg, Sharpie, Handcuffs - A subway-platform poster for the School of Visual Arts was trying to stimulate discussion about A.I. One commuter engaged, and got locked up. (www.newyorker.com)
How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire - High-minded and scandal-prone, a foe of marriage who dreamed of domesticity, Fuller radiated a charisma that helped ignite the fight for women’s rights. (www.newyorker.com)
Green-Wood Cemetery’s Living Dead - How the “forever business” is changing at New York City’s biggest graveyard. (www.newyorker.com)
“Inquest,” by Ellen Bass - “What will you miss most about her? / Was she breathing when they found her?” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Jonathan Blitzer’s Comment about Trump’s deportation policy, David Owen’s piece about voice-to-text transcription for deaf people, and D. Graham Burnett’s essay about the humanities and A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the “Mission: Impossible” Series Tom Cruise’s “Blank Check”? - The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or “Speed Racer,” anyone?) celebrates its tenth birthday with a trip to a “Mission: Impossible” exhibition. (www.newyorker.com)
Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights - The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Hazelnut Spread Became a Sticking Point in Franco-Algerian Relations - The wildly popular Nutella competitor El Mordjene has been banned by the European Union, a move some see as politically motivated. (www.newyorker.com)
Neighborhood Update: We’ve Finally Taken Down Our Christmas Lights - We have been so touched by the flood of D.M.s, the comments posted on Nextdoor, and the notes tied to rocks thrown through our window with heartfelt concerns like “ARE YOU KEEPING THEM UP FOREVER??!!!” (www.newyorker.com)
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America - The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee. (www.newyorker.com)
Who Gets the Guns in Lebanon? - As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising. (www.newyorker.com)
David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill” - An artist revisits seasons across a lifetime. (www.newyorker.com)
Stephen Malkmus’s New, Er, Supergroup - The Pavement front man passed through town with his latest project, the Hard Quartet, and showed off his one-handed backhand. (www.newyorker.com)
“An Ocean of Clouds,” by Garrett Hongo - “I sing for clouds, constant rains, a fern chorus / of things forgotten.” (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Makes America’s Refugee Program a Tool of White Racial Grievance - The President’s interest in the plight of Afrikaners seems to have begun with—what else?—segments on Fox News. (www.newyorker.com)
Louise Erdrich Reads “Love of My Days” - The author reads her story from the June 2, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Elias,” by Jon Fosse - I need to open the door now, it’s not the end of the world, it’s just that it’s been such a long time since anyone’s knocked on my door. (www.newyorker.com)
Elif Batuman on Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Perfect Past” - A contract with the The New Yorker saw Nabokov through his cash-strapped pre-“Lolita” years—and continued beyond them for three decades. (www.newyorker.com)
Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the Rain - The Pulp singer on conquering his fear of nature, the pleasures and perils of art and aging, and the band’s first new album in twenty-four years. (www.newyorker.com)
Jon Fosse on Writing as an Act of Listening - The author discusses his story “Elias.” (www.newyorker.com)
Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. (www.newyorker.com)
Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity - The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery.” (www.newyorker.com)
How to Think About COVID-19 Vaccines in the Era of R.F.K., Jr. - The coronavirus may no longer be a leading danger to our health. That doesn’t mean it can’t hurt us, or that we don’t need to protect ourselves. (www.newyorker.com)
In Praise of “Northanger Abbey,” Jane Austen’s Least Beloved Novel - Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work. (www.newyorker.com)
Josh Hawley and the Republican Effort to Love Labor - The Senator, like Vice-President J. D. Vance, appears to be positioning himself as Trump’s heir, a right-wing populist who can appeal to working-class voters in the MAGA base. (www.newyorker.com)
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does” - The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his two new albums of ambient music, and his book “What Art Does,” a pocket-size argument for the value of feelings in our lives. (www.newyorker.com)
Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News - The “60 Minutes” correspondent is troubled by the loss of journalistic integrity that a settlement of the President’s twenty-billion-dollar lawsuit would likely entail. (www.newyorker.com)
What Could End the War in Ukraine? - An analyst of the conflict argues that there is still a path to peace. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 30th - “That new Knicks player looks eerily like Ben Stiller, Timothée Chalamet, and Spike Lee in a trenchcoat.” (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk’s Vanishing Act - Musk looks like the latest victim of a common Trump-era dynamic: the impossibility of sharing the President’s spotlight. (www.newyorker.com)
John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X” - Also: the skateboarding play “Bowl EP,” the off-kilter divas Grace Jones and Janelle Monae; Jamie Lee Curtis’s early “Love Letters,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers” - The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk Didn’t Blow Up Washington, But He Left Plenty of Damage Behind - The obits for the tech mogul’s time at the Department of Government Efficiency are, justifiably, vicious. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 29th - “We’re sorry, but the goodbye-party budget was gutted by DOGE.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Supreme Court Undercuts Another Check on Executive Power - In leaping to defend the Trump Administration, the Court conveniently ignored a long-established precedent that prevented Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will. (www.newyorker.com)
Everything Is LinkedIn Now - I’m thrilled to announce that I’m hot and have a mysterious and unknowable source of income! (www.newyorker.com)
Lessons from “Sesame Street” - The long-running children’s show is one of the last remaining pieces of American monoculture. But after a half century of change, is “Sesame Street” still the same place we know and love? (www.newyorker.com)
Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint - MOMA pays tribute to a restlessly innovative artist whose life’s work was to give abstraction soul. (www.newyorker.com)
Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film? - Despite an abundance of plot strands and characters, Anderson’s latest drills down into the father-daughter relationship depicted by its leads, Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton. (www.newyorker.com)
Examining Trump’s War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary - A widely condemned media bill being passed through the Hungarian parliament provides a dangerous road map for how Trump may escalate his attacks on the press in the future. (www.newyorker.com)
“Love Letters,” Received Forty Years Too Late - Amy Holden Jones’s 1983 melodrama should have established her as a major Hollywood director, but, as a female filmmaker, she faced rejection. (www.newyorker.com)
Oval Office Ambush - How to lose friends and alienate people. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life - The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster than any company” ever has. What could go wrong? (www.newyorker.com)
Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst - The philosopher discusses three novels about cephalopods’ mysterious forms of consciousness. (www.newyorker.com)
The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture - The Trump Administration is using an “Alien Enemy Validation Guide” to target supposed members of Tren de Aragua, but many of the items on the list—tattoos, sports jerseys, Jordans—are commonplace in urban style and music. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 28th - “Every time I start to think about the water, Trump comes up with another stupid distraction.” (www.newyorker.com)
Can the Southern Baptist Convention Survive Without Women Pastors? - Leaders of the nation’s most powerful evangelical church try to cast women out of the ministry, igniting struggles over power, faith, and the church’s future in Daniel Lombroso’s short documentary “Hold the Line.” (www.newyorker.com)
Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral - A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. (www.newyorker.com)
Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Triumph Sends a Warning to Authoritarians Everywhere - The Iranian director’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, “It Was Just an Accident,” set the tone for a festival defined by dramas of political resistance. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government - By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Unrehearsed - “Is Nathan Fielder in the room with us right now?” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 27th - “Sure, baseball is boring, but if you learn how to keep score it’s also math.” (www.newyorker.com)
Two Paths for A.I. - The technology is complicated, but our choices are simple: we can remain passive, or assert control. (www.newyorker.com)
Everything My iPhoto Memories Has Chosen to Resurface - A three-minute slide show of my cat, titled “Your closest friends.” (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder - The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents. (www.newyorker.com)
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bond Market? - The House G.O.P.’s Trump-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes a reckless three-trillion-dollar gamble with America’s creditworthiness. (www.newyorker.com)
“Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre - The Apple TV series, starring Jon Hamm as a hedge funder turned thief, serves up luxury porn in the guise of social critique. (www.newyorker.com)
The Self-Taught Cook Who Mastered the Flour Tortilla - Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City. (www.newyorker.com)
Pete Hegseth’s Day - One venti vanilla latte with two per cent and extra foam, please. I’m the one overseeing the F/A-18 Hornets conducting sorties over the Aegean Sea in T minus thirty minutes. (www.newyorker.com)
Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape - By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier. (www.newyorker.com)
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Torture and Tres Leches in Iran’s Most Notorious Prison - Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the Islamic Republic. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 26th - “Do you ever get halfway through a book and suddenly remember you read it on some other beach?” (www.newyorker.com)
Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway—and Almost Everything Else - The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers. (www.newyorker.com)
William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism - A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready. (www.newyorker.com)
“Even Here It Is Happening,” by Ada Limón - “It’s mustard color, the dress— / I must wear it like a uniform.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Radical Development of an Entirely New Painkiller - The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s something effective. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “When It All Burns,” “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love,” “The Emperor of Gladness,” and “The Words of Dr. L.” (www.newyorker.com)
Inspired by “The Crucible,” Miniatures, and “Harriet the Spy” - Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Inheritance,” by Li-Young Lee - “Mother, your hair / has fallen / for the last time, / and I can’t raise it up.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Emma Green’s report on universities’ backlash against D.E.I., John Cassidy’s piece about labor and A.I., and Sarah Stillman’s article about starvation in prisons. (www.newyorker.com)
Should Men Even Have Friends? - Andrew DeYoung, the writer-director of the cringe comedy “Friendship,” talks about working with his real-life buddies Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, and the sinkhole of male bonding. (www.newyorker.com)
Annie DiRusso Sings and Tells - The twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter sets her mind on finding a good substitute for the F-word (“smash”? “bone”?) before an appearance on “Kimmel.” (www.newyorker.com)
Kadir Nelson’s “Major Taylor, a Champion Who Led the Way” - A celebration of the “world’s fastest man.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Finale of “The Rehearsal” Is Outlandish and Sublime - The first season of Nathan Fielder’s mind-bending show seemed to exhaust all possibilities for its conceit. But the second is, somehow, even more berserk than the first. (www.newyorker.com)
All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2025, Ranked from Best to Worst - The festival served up its richest edition in years, with multiple standouts among the twenty-two films in contention for the Palme d’Or. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Three Ice-Cream Sundaes for the Start of Summer - Most sundaes are satisfying, but only a select subset are truly special. (www.newyorker.com)
A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close - The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not. (www.newyorker.com)
“Love of My Days,” by Louise Erdrich - She knew who the man was, knew a bullet furrow when she saw one. (www.newyorker.com)
Julian Lucas on Hilton Als’s “The Islander” - The reporter’s casually piercing, coolly amused Profile of Derek Walcott introduced me to a man whose poetry I had read and whose behavior I hadn’t expected. (www.newyorker.com)
J. D. Vance Warns Courts to Get in Line - The Vice-President says it’s time for Chief Justice John Roberts to step in and make judges behave. He’s wrong. (www.newyorker.com)
Louise Erdrich on Being Haunted by the Landscape of the Past - The author discusses her story “Love of My Days.” (www.newyorker.com)
Alba de Céspedes’s Broadcasts Against Fascism - During the Second World War, the Italian writer took to the radio, urging resistance to the pressures of tyranny. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Tom Cruise Will Never Die - When we watch the actor’s stunts, we are watching someone defy death, over and over again. It’s impossible to look away. (www.newyorker.com)
How Kim Kardashian’s Robbery Trial Came and Went - When the star was robbed at gunpoint, in 2016, the incident announced her graduation into something greater than a glorified Instagram influencer. Now her courtroom testimony is just another cog in her family’s media machinations. (www.newyorker.com)
Knicks in Six? Ask Fran Lebowitz, Alison Roman, and Spike Lee - Before Game One against the Pacers, predictions rolled in from some under-the-radar fans: Peter Gelb, George Santos, Julian Casablancas, and a clarinettist at the New York Philharmonic. (www.newyorker.com)
An Anatomy of Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible” Stunts - The New Yorker’s Tyler Foggatt on how the actor’s death-defying physical performances are essential to the success of the series. (www.newyorker.com)
How American Photography Came Into Its Own - A sprawling exhibit at the Met charts the medium’s era of busy development. (www.newyorker.com)
Is “Thunderbolts*” Marvel’s Attempt to Salvage the Superhero Genre? - The film succeeds in part by flipping the franchise’s standard script: the main characters aren’t embarrassed because they’re superheroes; they’re embarrassed because they’re not. (www.newyorker.com)
Remembering the Composer of “Annie,” the Late Charles Strouse - Before he passed away last week at ninety-six, Strouse discussed working with Jay-Z, his rivalry with Stephen Sondheim, and the “God-given gift” of composing. (www.newyorker.com)
Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final Game - The sports correspondent on John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”—his account of Ted Williams’s last game, and last home run, with the Boston Red Sox. (www.newyorker.com)
In Daniel Kehlmann’s Latest Novel, Everyone’s a Collaborator - “The Director” uses the filmmaking career of G. W. Pabst to map the moral and artistic disintegration of Nazi-occupied Europe. (www.newyorker.com)
A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations - Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest. (www.newyorker.com)
“You Don’t Rebuild Gaza by Bringing More Injustice Into This World” - Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were young Israeli Embassy staffers. They were murdered without regard for who they were, or what they believed. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 23rd - “Can’t we just wait a few years and let the ocean come to us?” (www.newyorker.com)
Summer Culture Preview - What’s happening this season in TV, movies, music, art, theatre, and dance. (www.newyorker.com)
Who’s to Blame for Missing Biden’s Decline? - The suggestion of a press coverup belies a more difficult reality. (www.newyorker.com)
The Chinese Adoptees Who Were Stolen - As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins. (www.newyorker.com)
Pee-wee Herman and the Cost of Dividing Yourself in Two - A new HBO documentary shows how the performer Paul Reubens came to resent his iconic alter ego. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging - Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term. (www.newyorker.com)
What It’s Like to Root for the Knicks - After powering through to the Eastern Conference Finals, New York’s long-suffering Knickerbockers caved to the Indiana Pacers in the final seconds of Game One. (www.newyorker.com)
Vladimir Putin’s Dangerous Game - We’ve seen this movie before. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 22nd - A major milestone. (www.newyorker.com)
Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests - The spirit of August Strindberg infuses Hannah Moscovitch’s “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” and Jen Silverman’s adaptation of “Creditors.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Experts Became the Enemy - “R.F.K. Jr. got so much gas in his tank by doubting the authorities that now he is the authority,” the historian Daniel Immerwahr says. “And he''s really ill-suited for that.” (www.newyorker.com)
In Chicago, Will the Pope Bump Last? - A historically Catholic American city considers the election of Leo XIV, a home-town Pontiff. (www.newyorker.com)
What Casey Means and MAHA Want You to Fear - Amid the destruction of America''s public-health systems, Trump’s Surgeon General nominee believes that your wellness is yours alone to defend. (www.newyorker.com)
A Few Quick Thoughts from Bridezilla! - How do I put this . . . I want to make sure that you all look worse than me, physically. (www.newyorker.com)
Ann Goldstein on Keeping English in Mind - The translator of Elena Ferrante discusses four books filled with “solid English rhythms.” (www.newyorker.com)
Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “What Work Is,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “To Gather Together.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla - How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom. (www.newyorker.com)
What Israeli Officials Are Privately Saying About Starvation in Gaza - And how the humanitarian response intersects with Netanyahu’s ability to continue waging war. (www.newyorker.com)
“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” Goes Hard on Valediction - The eighth (and perhaps the last) installment in the epochal Tom Cruise vehicle suffers from self-indulgent gravitas, but the best sequences are a model of action cinema at its purest. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 21st - “. . . and can you believe it only cost a hundred and eighty people their Medicaid benefits?” (www.newyorker.com)
How “Andor” Injects Contemporary Politics Into “Star Wars” I.P. - Beneath all the laser blasters and X-wing spaceships, Tony Gilroy’s miniseries spinoff is a twisting tale of radicalization. (www.newyorker.com)
The Definitive Guide to Types of Oligarchies - Broligarchy: When they’re not busy fist-pumping, their gravitational pull sucks in government resources and spits out human-rights violations. (www.newyorker.com)
Behind the Scenes of In the Dark Season 3 - The creators of the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series talk about reporting on the military, elevating the testimony of survivors, and the challenges of visualizing what happened that day in Haditha. (www.newyorker.com)
The Making of “Rust” Was a Tragedy. Its Final Form Is a Missed Opportunity - Joel Souza’s film is inevitably overshadowed by the death of its cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was accidentally shot by its star, Alec Baldwin. But the director’s attempt to honor her memory is misguided. (www.newyorker.com)
A New Wave of Cinematic Riches Arrives at Cannes - In its first week, the seventy-eighth film festival showcased new movies by Richard Linklater, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, and Mascha Schilinski. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 20th - “I’ve been giving this standing ovation since last year’s Cannes Film Festival.” (www.newyorker.com)
Who Gets to Be an American? - Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of racism, suspicion, and paranoia. (www.newyorker.com)
Reasons I Haven’t Left New York Yet - I’ve gotten too used to crying in public. I could never live somewhere where there is literally any chance that someone might come up to me and ask me what’s wrong. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future? - The C.E.O. of OpenAI helped usher artificial intelligence into public life. Now, as fears and fortunes mount, his own transformation is just beginning. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 19th - “I understand it just as much as any other European election.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Make the Audiobook Before the Book Is Made” - “Each morning, stand before a steamy mirror / talking to your reflection.” (www.newyorker.com)
Escape from Khartoum - A family of nine’s desperate attempt to find safety in Sudan. (www.newyorker.com)
Ricky Cobb Finds Himself on Fox - A former community-college sociology professor, who broke into comedy as the Super 70s Sports guy on Twitter, drops by for a spot on “Gutfeld!” (www.newyorker.com)
Does the United States Need an Official Language? - Donald Trump’s executive order succeeds where decades of right-wing efforts have failed. (www.newyorker.com)
Pavement Inspires a Strange, Loving Bio-Pic - The band was willfully ironic and averse to canonization. An aggressively heady new movie it inspired, “Pavements,” thumbs its nose at the epic rock bio-pic. (www.newyorker.com)
How Barry Diller Stayed on Top - In his new memoir, the media mogul recalls a career built as much on serendipity as on strategy. (www.newyorker.com)
“Last Exit,” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips - “Yesterday bleeds in the rearview mirror / As tomorrow’s fires fan out everywhere.” (www.newyorker.com)
R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise - It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened? (www.newyorker.com)
A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met - For decades, an obsessive duo of guitar guys has been amassing a definitive collection. The art these objects created changed the world. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Valley of Forgetting,” “The Lost Orchid,” “The Director,” and “Happiness Forever.” (www.newyorker.com)
Colum McCann’s Limp Novel of Digital Life - In “Twist,” the characterization is listless and the internet is just a series of tubes. (www.newyorker.com)
Larry David’s Notes from a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Production Meeting - Not so different from a Trump Cabinet meeting. Jeff Garlin: “When we’re in a scene together, I’m just watching you in awe.” Susie Essman: “How lucky we are to be in the presence of such a genius.” (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Amidon Visits Vanished Spaces - The experimental folk musician and a music historian wander around SoHo in search of long-lost friends and neighbors. (www.newyorker.com)
Depression-Era Dolls for Trump-Tariff-Era Children - Some toy ideas for kids lamenting their new two-doll allowance, including Dusty the Dust Bowl, Potato Princess, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Macrons’ Familial Macarons - Brigitte Macron’s grand-nephew Jean-Baptise Trogneux, a sixth-generation chocolatier, opens the inaugural Paris outpost of his clan’s famous sweet shop. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Elizabeth Kolbert’s review of two new books about nuclear power and Nick Paumgarten’s Talk story about hanging out at McSorley’s with Peter Wolf. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dissonant Howl of “Salome” - Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice. (www.newyorker.com)
This Is Your Priest on Drugs - Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Times Square’s Revolving Restaurant Comes Around Again - Can Danny Meyer make the View transcend its touristy gimmick? (www.newyorker.com)
“Fairy Pools,” by Patricia Lockwood - There is an exchange, she thought. Something passes between this life and the next that allows you to be here for a while. (www.newyorker.com)
Patricia Lockwood on Fairies and Putting the Writing Mind Back Together - The author discusses her story “Fairy Pools.” (www.newyorker.com)
Patricia Lockwood Reads “Fairy Pools” - The author reads her story from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Mark Singer on John Bainbridge’s “The Super-Americans” - As an Oklahoman, I knew too well the Texan behaviors that Bainbridge anatomized. (www.newyorker.com)
Kenny Smith Isn’t Going Fishing Yet - The co-host of “Inside the NBA” discusses the show’s move to ESPN, the antics of his co-star Charles Barkley, and their role in popularizing meme culture. (www.newyorker.com)
Behind the Birthright-Citizenship Case - The Trump Administration is trying to use the case to stop lower-court judges from issuing “nationwide injunctions” against its unconstitutional executive orders. (www.newyorker.com)
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and the Challenges of Covering an Aging President - Biden’s deterioration was physically evident. Does Trump’s vigorous bluster protect him from questions about age-related decline? (www.newyorker.com)
How President Donald Trump Became a Prophet - For many of Donald Trump’s followers, his appeal has an almost mystical dimension. What happens when the spell breaks? (www.newyorker.com)
The Everyday Dramas of Manhattan Rush Hour - In 1998, Matthew Salacuse took hundreds of pictures of New York commuters. Then he forgot about them for more than twenty years. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Encampments” and the American College Student - In a new documentary about the pro-Palestine demonstrations on Columbia’s campus, students are in an existential battle of both exploiting and shedding their protagonist status. (www.newyorker.com)
What the Pope Was Like as a Kid - Bobby was a good guy. But sometimes he’d do weird shit like put his hand on my head, unprompted, which was annoying. (www.newyorker.com)
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline and Its Coverup - The journalists’ reporting shows that the 2024 Presidential debate between Biden and Donald Trump was not an anomaly but the unravelling of a scheme orchestrated by top aides and family. (www.newyorker.com)
Pepe Mujica’s Long Revolution - For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency. (www.newyorker.com)
Arrested for Singing While Female, in “My Orange Garden” - In Anna-Sophia Richard’s short documentary, a woman sentenced to prison for singing in public in Iran both grapples with repression and longs for home. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 16th - She shoots! He scores! (www.newyorker.com)
On “I’m the Problem,” Morgan Wallen Goes Back to God’s Country - The country singer presents himself like some guy you ran into at Home Depot. But he may be the most commercially successful musician of his era. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Real Audience for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Spectacles - A plan to deport people to countries that aren’t their home is cruel, performative politics—whether it works or not. (www.newyorker.com)
In Defense of Despair - The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so. (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “Soft Landing” - Only a “stupid person” would turn down a free plane, Donald Trump says. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Culture of Corruption - How right-wing populism fights graft at the bottom and nurtures it at the top. (www.newyorker.com)
Building Drones—for the Children? - The influential venture capitalist Katherine Boyle is making the case that creating things for America—from weapons to rockets to nuclear-energy plants—is pro-family. (www.newyorker.com)
Hilton Als on the Visionary World of Alva Rogers - Also: The great Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, East L.A. Latinas in “Real Women Have Curves,” a Maria Callas look-alike contest in a cemetery, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mideast Is Donald Trump’s Safe Place - On the “free” airplane from Qatar, and an American President with a self-interested foreign policy a sheikh could admire. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 15th - “This book is banned, but the internet is fair game.” (www.newyorker.com)
Kanye Gave Twitter an Exclusive Hit Single - Spotify and YouTube barred the song, which salutes Hitler, from their platforms. It found its audience, anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
Justice David Souter Was the Antithesis of the Present - His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint. (www.newyorker.com)
Dolly Parton’s Quietly Inspiring Defense of Marriage - The death of Parton’s husband, in March, called rare attention to a steadfast union that the fame-friendly country star had kept private for decades. (www.newyorker.com)
The Grand Spectacle of Pope Week - Robert Francis Prevost’s election to the papacy has captivated audiences at the Vatican and online alike. How did the Pope become a pop-cultural symbol? (www.newyorker.com)
Pitch to Cronenberg: Consider the Body Horror of Zara Fit Models - At five inches tall—and six inches tall when she’s propped up and wearing a hat—Arlene is a Zara XL. And sure, if you go strictly by her taxonomy, she is a sea slug. (www.newyorker.com)
“Overcompensating” Is a New Kind of Coming-Out Comedy - Benito Skinner’s Prime Video series about a closeted jock starts off as a satire of toxic masculinity—and lands somewhere surprisingly sweet. (www.newyorker.com)
What is Jeff Bezos’s Plan For The Washington Post? - “It’s odd to both want the billionaire''s money and to tell the billionaire . . . ‘Just keep your hands off,’ ” the staff writer Clare Malone says. “It places the media in a really uncomfortable situation.” (www.newyorker.com)
Robert Macfarlane on Books That Hold Water - The best-selling author and professor discusses four books through which rivers flow. (www.newyorker.com)
When a Writer Takes to the Stage - A one-man show, a box of old stories, and the strange intimacy of talking to a room full of strangers. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump’s Crypto Dealings Push the Bounds of Corruption - With the meme coin TRUMP and the company World Liberty Financial, the President is using an underregulated industry to enrich himself and court foreign influence. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 14th - “It’d make a lot of people believe in you.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Gaza - As Netanyahu rallies troops for an expanded offensive, some reservists are resisting the call. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Jetty,” a Grand Infrastructure Project Becomes Both Visually and Politically Compelling - Bringing an aesthetic eye to the work of securing a shoreline devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Sam Fleischner’s film highlights the beauty of social responsibility and civic trust. (www.newyorker.com)
How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump - At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for reëlection? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 13th - “I feel incredibly lucky that I’m able to earn a living doing what I love.” (www.newyorker.com)
All My Hottest Gandr Dates - A lesbian librarian experiences five not-so-hot dates in New York City. (www.newyorker.com)
How an Election Denier Became the U.S. Treasurer - Brandon Beach was a state senator in Georgia who got involved in Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. Now his name will be on our money. (www.newyorker.com)
The Astonishing Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus - The Trump Administration is stepping up its war on the rule of law. Ruth Marcus asks whether this is bluster aimed at intimidating judges, or the start of something worse. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 12th - I said I’m fine. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post? - How the paper that brought down Richard Nixon is struggling to survive the second term of Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Spare a Thought for the Snitch - In “Spotlight: Snitch City,” the Boston Globe skillfully reveals how police abused confidential informants in a Massachusetts port town. (www.newyorker.com)
Three Faces of American Capitalism: Buffett, Musk, and Trump - As the Sage of Omaha announces his retirement, the Trump family’s crypto ventures and Musk’s DOGE cuts illuminate darker aspects of the system. (www.newyorker.com)
Why End Energy Star? - Many of the Trump Administration’s proposed rollbacks of climate policies run counter to its own goals. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Kind Is the Perfect Second Banana - The inveterate character actor discusses Don Quixote, his time as George Clooney’s roommate, and his latest gig: m.c.ing John Mulaney’s absurdist talk show. (www.newyorker.com)
The Next Phase of Trump’s Retribution - What the replacement of Ed Martin, who punished his own prosecutors for bringing cases against January 6th rioters, signals about the President’s signature campaign promise. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack? - Professional writers and passionate amateurs are using the platform to experiment with new forms. (www.newyorker.com)
One Hundred Years of New York Movies - Ten lesser known films from the past century have captured the city just as indelibly as modern classics by the likes of Martin Scorsese or Spike Lee. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Head Start Survive the MAGA Era? - A sixty-year consensus on the War on Poverty program is at risk of finally coming undone. (www.newyorker.com)
The Paradoxes of Feminine Muscle - In a new book, the author Casey Johnston argues that pumping iron helped her “escape diet culture.” But a preoccupation with strength can take many forms. (www.newyorker.com)
Cut Right Through the Boat and Illuminate Everything - The Singaporean photographer Nguan spent a decade capturing New York via the Staten Island ferry. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Asylum Still Possible?: The Story of Edgarlys Castañeda Rodríguez - A young democracy activist fled Venezuela, where the government threatened to arrest her for treason. Now in ICE custody, she knows that she may be quickly deported. (www.newyorker.com)
Percival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer - The writer and National Book Award winner on his book “James.” (www.newyorker.com)
Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English” - The Michigan senator on what she thinks Democrats have been getting wrong, and why her state elected Donald Trump and her at the same time. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dynamics Behind the Current India-Pakistan Clash - How internal politics in both countries could escalate the conflict in the wake of a tourist massacre in Kashmir. (www.newyorker.com)
Will the First American Pope Be a Pontiff of Peace? - Leo XIV’s pontificate will likely be defined by his approach to the violent conflicts rending the globe, which his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, referred to as “a third world war in pieces.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 9th - “Good conclave, good conclave, good conclave. . . .” (www.newyorker.com)
The Resistance Will Be Fragmented - What an overhaul at MSNBC suggests about the state of anti-Trump defiance. (www.newyorker.com)
I Never Thought the Trolley Problem Would Happen to Me - Ugh, I wish I had binoculars to see if one of them is Hitler! (www.newyorker.com)
Our Favorite “Only in New York” Spots - New Yorker writers muse on sui-generis spots around New York City. (www.newyorker.com)
A Day in the Live-Streamed Life of Donald Trump - America’s TV-obsessed President has made his rambling Oval Office press gaggles the signature of his second term—chaotic, self-aggrandizing, random, and frequently nasty. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Root for the Home Team - The other guys’ dreams go up in smoke. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 8th - “I don’t really mind the government’s new death ray, because it hasn’t hit me yet.” (www.newyorker.com)
Podcasts by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Improv with the antichrist, an accusatory interview with a klepto demon, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Brazil’s President Confronts a Changing World - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Trump, Putin, and a collapsing global order. (www.newyorker.com)
I Need a Critic: May, 2025, Edition - The hosts of Critics at Large issue recommendations on TV shows to watch while eating, how to ease the guilt of unread books, and texts to take the edge off of current events. (www.newyorker.com)
Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery - The President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the “statements of intent” of a budding authoritarian. (www.newyorker.com)
Rediscovering a Great Film Critic of Hollywood’s Golden Age - In his brief, brilliant career, Andre Sennwald witnessed the coming of Technicolor, snarked at the implementation of the Hays Code, and advanced a visionary view of cinema. (www.newyorker.com)
Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint - The award-winning author of “The Friend” explains why some of the recent books that she admires most are ones in which not much happens. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 7th - For real this time. (www.newyorker.com)
How Cory Arcangel Recovered Michel Majerus’s Digital Legacy - Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Russia and Ukraine Are Playing Trump’s Blame Game - With the President intent on delivering a speedy end to the war, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are competing to make each other the subject of his ire. (www.newyorker.com)
The Spectacle of a Boxing Match in Times Square - Eager to make the sport feel relevant again, promoters staged a series of fights in one of the most crowded places in America. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 6th - The trickle-down effects of Trump’s trade war. (www.newyorker.com)
How Is Elon Musk Powering His Supercomputer? - Fast and loose in Memphis, as in D.C. (www.newyorker.com)
What Can We Learn from Broken Things? - The smashed, fractured, and non-functional can frustrate us—and illuminate who we are. (www.newyorker.com)
How I’ll Become Pope - While they’re asleep, I’ll use a Sharpie to scrawl “NOT ME” on the front-runners’ faces. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker Wins Three 2025 Pulitzer Prizes - The awards honor Mosab Abu Toha’s commentary on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; Moises Saman’s photographs of Syria after Assad, and the third season of the In the Dark podcast. (www.newyorker.com)
On “Hacks” and “The Studio,” Hollywood Confronts Its Flop Era - The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 5th - “Actually, place the spoils at the feet of my adult children. I’m trying to look less corrupt.” (www.newyorker.com)
No-Parking Zone: The Perils of Finding a Spot in N.Y.C. - Why do city drivers waste two hundred million hours a year circling the block? (www.newyorker.com)
Lena Dunham on Why She Broke Up with New York - Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took me several decades to realize that I could go my own way. (www.newyorker.com)
Christoph Niemann’s “Spotted in New York City” - Small moments that span a century. (www.newyorker.com)
“her disquietude absorbed.,” by C. D. Wright - “By an attendant memory she is walking / alongside the child on his cycle.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Manvir Singh’s article about growth curves, Adam Iscoe’s investigation of the wedding website the Knot, and Adam Gopnik’s piece on Jesus’ life. (www.newyorker.com)