The Folly of Trump’s Oil Imperialism - The President has made clear he wants to exploit Venezuela’s vast oil reserves; history suggests that it won’t be easy. (www.newyorker.com)
Allegra Goodman Reads “Deal-Breaker” - The author reads her story from the January 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Amanda Petrusich on Katy Grannan’s Photograph of Taylor Swift - Looking at this image is like seeing a picture of yourself taken just before something seismic happened. (www.newyorker.com)
“Deal-Breaker,” by Allegra Goodman - When he takes her in his arms, she wants to be with him forever. She wants everyone to know that they’re together, everyone except her mother. (www.newyorker.com)
All Hail the Jamaican Patty - A pastry as ubiquitous in New York City as pizza or bagels is getting its turn on the higher end. (www.newyorker.com)
What Will New York’s New Map Show Us? - Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be. (www.newyorker.com)
Allegra Goodman on Writing a Serial Novel in Stories - The author discusses her story “Deal-Breaker.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation - A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. (www.newyorker.com)
Regime Change in America’s Back Yard - What comes after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela? (www.newyorker.com)
Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud - A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it. (www.newyorker.com)
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad - In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. (www.newyorker.com)
Gaza After the Ceasefire - A Palestinian businessman on the persistent humanitarian crisis in the territory, and what he hopes might change. (www.newyorker.com)
Demi Moore Talks with Jia Tolentino - The star discusses some of her demanding roles from decades of filmmaking. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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How Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game - For decades, couples were told to value a certain kind of rarity. The jewelry designer Kindred Lubeck, with the help of her most famous client, is popularizing the unique qualities of old-mine-cut stones. (www.newyorker.com)
January Festivals Bring the Weird, Wonderful Shows - Also: “Tartuffe” mania, the guitar stylings of William Tyler and Yasmin Williams, Justin Chang’s movies for a new year, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers - In Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s latest drama, set in and around a Belgian maternity home, several teen-age moms seek to break through cycles of poverty, addiction, and neglect. (www.newyorker.com)
Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Small Flame,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. (www.newyorker.com)
A Day in My Highly Optimized, Convenient Life - With a single tap on the screen, I open the blinds, with another, I turn on the espresso machine, and with a third, I review the footage from my Ring camera. (www.newyorker.com)
What Zohran Mamdani and Michael Bloomberg Have in Common - As mayors, the socialist and the plutocrat each embody outsized ideas of the city—and distinct forms of capital. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Reading for the New Year - The first installment in a series of recommendations by New Yorker writers. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 31st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful - A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport—and Leave Their Kids Behind - Can undocumented parents elude ICE capture for one more year, until their youngest turns eighteen? (www.newyorker.com)
Finishing School: Hands Off Our Pencils - Given the wild fluctuations in the market, I did what anyone with a crippling dependence on pencils would do: I took inventory. (www.newyorker.com)
A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan - A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 29th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music - The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Ice-Skater,” by Kanak Kapur - The man from Kabul had warned about the number of men assigned to each room. “I won’t lie to you,” he had said. “You’ll be uncomfortable. You’ll have to adjust.” (www.newyorker.com)
Kanak Kapur on Migrant Labor and Skating in Dubai - The author discusses her novella “The Ice-Skater.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok - The app might wreak havoc on users’ mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content. (www.newyorker.com)
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Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 - This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered. (www.newyorker.com)
Bill Clinton’s M10: The Story Behind My Favorite Cartoon - When the cartoon appeared, it attracted immediate attention. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What to Do on New Year’s Eve - Also: Vinson Cunningham on his favorite songs of the year. (www.newyorker.com)
What Kind of New World Is Being Born? - A Christmas essay. (www.newyorker.com)
“All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Edited by Someone in Couples Therapy - Oh, I won’t ask for much this Christmas, mainly because “asking” suggests that you’re doing me a favor, when, in actuality, I’m setting some healthy boundaries. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How Should We Approach A.I. in 2026? - The rapid normalization of artificial intelligence is forcing a reckoning with how much of the future is being shaped by hype rather than utility. (www.newyorker.com)
What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us? - Two recent books follow young religious converts down the winding back roads of belief. (www.newyorker.com)
Thelma Golden on the Literature of Harlem - The director of the Studio Museum chooses some of her most beloved books about the neighborhood—both as a place and as an anchor for Black cultural consciousness. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump, Epstein, and the Women - The Epstein files are a vast trove of documents and will take time to absorb, but Trump made his attitude about women clear long ago. (www.newyorker.com)
“No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style - In Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s crime novel, Lee Byung-hun plays a newly laid-off executive who launches his own campaign of mass termination. (www.newyorker.com)
Americans Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media. What Can We Do Instead? - Free-speech norms and powerful tech companies make legal restrictions unlikely—but social changes are already taking place. (www.newyorker.com)
Dear Pepper: Slaying the Self-Doubt Dragon - It is easier for me to write my truth than to speak it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Right Wing Rises in Latin America - The new President of Chile joins a new class of leaders trying to seize the future by rewriting the past. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 23rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “Love Poem Like We Used to Write It.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Waiting to Exhale,” Thirty Years On - The 1995 classic became as much a sociological phenomenon as an artistic one—but its designation as a “chick flick” belies its emotional sophistication and intelligence. (www.newyorker.com)
“It’s Getting Lighter,” by Mary Jo Bang - “O Holy Mother of Moths, brighten the light / that fills the scene where I fall.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Psychology of Fashion - Our garments offer glimpses of the unconscious; we may also choose them because they feel nothing like us—because they allow us, briefly, to become someone else. (www.newyorker.com)
The Biggest Threat to the 2026 Economy Is Still Donald Trump - Many analysts are predicting an election-year upturn, but they aren’t accounting for the President’s ability to cause more chaos. (www.newyorker.com)
Mona Fastvold Knows Her Way Around a Chair - The director’s new movie, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” stars Amanda Seyfried as the Shakers’ founder. But the film’s furniture alone is worth a trip to the theatre. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Dictionary Done For? - The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution. (www.newyorker.com)
A Puppet Called Paddington - Tahra Zafar has made creatures for “Harry Potter” and “Star Wars.” Her latest project? Bringing the beloved bear to the stage. (www.newyorker.com)
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Goodbye to All That” - Onward and upward into 2026. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Antonia Hitchens’s piece about Laura Loomer, Jill Lepore’s article about the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, and Amanda Petrusich’s Profile of David Byrne. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 22nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Memory Palace,” by Bianca Stone - “Every memory palace should have a damp basement / with frozen pipes and mouse bones, / shreds of pink insulation, you dare not enter.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Peter Navarro, Trump’s Tariff Cheerleader, Became the Ultimate Yes-Man - The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials. (www.newyorker.com)
How Willie Nelson Sees America - On the road with the musician, his band, and his family. (www.newyorker.com)
The Re-Assemblage of Joseph Cornell - Wes Anderson and Jasper Sharp teamed up to re-create the artist’s famous Flushing studio—only this time it’s at a Gagosian gallery in Paris. (www.newyorker.com)
“Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep,” Reviewed - In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. (www.newyorker.com)
Premeditated - Close your eyes. Breathe in. Experience “Titanic” and “The Wizard of Oz” the Chloé Zhao way. (www.newyorker.com)
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars - Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them? (www.newyorker.com)
The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films - Early on, movies had no sound, but musicians provided live accompaniment. The tradition continues. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Millennials Love Prenups - Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people—including many who don’t have all that much to divvy up. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Daring to Be Free,” “The Second Estate,” “Best Offer Wins,” and “A Love Story from the End of the World.” (www.newyorker.com)
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MAHA Country - Follow the Ivermectin River to the Swamp of Unemulsified Mayonnaise. (www.newyorker.com)
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life - Jim Jarmusch’s three-part drama, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, casts such notables as Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett in wry, ironic probes of grown children’s relationships with their parents. (www.newyorker.com)
The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.” - Rachel Sennott, the HBO series’ creator and star, may be a relative newcomer to Los Angeles, but she’s a native of the show’s true setting: the internet. (www.newyorker.com)
The Burgled Louvre’s Stolen-Art Expert - Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, she’s bringing her ideas to the Louvre. (www.newyorker.com)
The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover - Whatever became of Don Sample? (www.newyorker.com)
What Zohran Mamdani Is Up Against - When the thirty-four-year-old socialist is sworn in as mayor, he will have to navigate ICE raids, intransigent city power players, and twists of fate and nature. (www.newyorker.com)
Nell Zink Reads “The Welfare State” - The author reads her story from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Great State” - For all the humor in his reporting, Liebling recognized Louisiana’s governor as something more than another political buffoon. That insight made the piece a classic. (www.newyorker.com)
Nell Zink on German and American Stereotypes - The author discusses her story “The Welfare State.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Welfare State,” by Nell Zink - Julia had longed to be an educated mother like Vroni, but there was never a serviceable father in view, so she had limited herself to being educated. (www.newyorker.com)
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025 - Consider this your personal year-end reading list, one that we hope provides hours of pleasure. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Dishonors the Kennedy Center - A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts. (www.newyorker.com)
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Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board - The thirty-year-old star photographer became famous for his reference-rich images of Black beauty, but his strongest work suggests a tender eye for imperfection. (www.newyorker.com)
What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? - If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again. (www.newyorker.com)
Ten of My Favorite Cookbooks of 2025 - The year’s best culinary titles include a food history of the United States, a guide to being an excellent dinner-party guest, and a collection of recipes that people decided to take to their graves. (www.newyorker.com)
Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race - The veteran and Senate candidate from Maine talks about the affordability crisis, his campaign’s controversies, and why he isn’t ashamed about his past offensive comments. (www.newyorker.com)
Calvin Tomkins’s Century - The writer, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1958, has chronicled turning a hundred in the same year as the magazine’s centennial. (www.newyorker.com)
The Disruptors Behind Radiohead’s Art - Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood discuss how, for thirty years, they''ve crafted the visuals that helped define Yorke’s band, many of which are now on view at Oxford''s Ashmolean Museum. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Jim Jarmusch’s Ironically Optimistic Family Movie - Also: Graciela Iturbide’s tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in “Song Sung Blue,” the coke-rap of Clipse, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Reclaim Your Mind - To feel mentally alive, you have to do more than defeat distraction. (www.newyorker.com)
“Marty Supreme” ’s Megawatt Personality - In Josh Safdie’s hectic new film, Timothée Chalamet plays a gifted Ping-Pong player who’s also a born performer. (www.newyorker.com)
The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever - Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers. (www.newyorker.com)
Merry Christmas, America! The Checks Are in the Mail! - On Donald Trump’s insaaaane holiday message to the nation. (www.newyorker.com)
How America Gave China an Edge in Nuclear Power - Though the two countries are now in a race to develop atomic technology, China’s most advanced reactor was the result of collaboration with American scientists. (www.newyorker.com)
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A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm - A list of songs I loved in 2025. (www.newyorker.com)
The Delirious Cinematic Artifice of Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” - In the Chinese director’s third feature, the pop idol Jackson Yee plays a shape-shifting dreamer who gets lost in a densely allusive maze of stories and genres. (www.newyorker.com)
Isaac Chotiner Sums Up Politics in 2025 - The idea that Donald Trump is acting from a governing strategy or a conception of national interest “seems completely disconnected from reality,” Chotiner says. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized - For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com. (www.newyorker.com)
Matthew Broderick Stars as the Titular Grifter in “Tartuffe” - It’s been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown. (www.newyorker.com)
Holiday Movies We’re Going to Skip - “A Child’s Christmas in a Waymo,” “Alan Dershowitz Is Coming to Town,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Year of the Broken Mirror - In the biggest films of 2025, artists grappled with the country’s divided politics and increasingly fractured relationship to the truth. Can these works of fiction bring us closer to reality? (www.newyorker.com)
What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia - Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that share a kinship with her new film, about actors working in a fake village where U.S. soldiers train. (www.newyorker.com)
Rob Reiner Made a New Kind of Fairy Tale - The director’s great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing? - A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research. (www.newyorker.com)
A Graphic Novel About Rage and Repression in Montreal - For the characters in Lee Lai’s “Cannon,” home is the place most resistant to real emotion. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Year in Slop - This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment. (www.newyorker.com)
The Party Politics of Sovereign House - Nick Allen’s venue in Dimes Square was a popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. Now, he’s opening a new club called Reign, an attempt to build a lasting cultural institution. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation - On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” Mostly Treads Water - In James Cameron’s latest 3-D science-fiction extravaganza, the Na’vi family tree gets more complicated, but our sense of wonderment flattens out. (www.newyorker.com)
Five Things That Changed the Media in 2025 - A.I., of course—but there were also other, less obvious stories and trends that are going to shape how we understand the news. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Performances of 2025 - In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts—from Sarah Snook’s one-woman “Dorian Gray” to Michael B. Jordan’s twin turn in “Sinners”—made their mark. (www.newyorker.com)
So You Want to Come to My New Vinyl-Listening Bar - You may get up to use the restroom, but only between sides. During songs, please remain still. Any movement above shoulder level will be interpreted as dance. (www.newyorker.com)
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Sarah Sherman Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest - The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. (www.newyorker.com)
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line - Preparing to take office, the Mayor-elect dabbles in performance art at the Museum of the Moving Image. (www.newyorker.com)
A Shooting at Brown - The first snow of the year often brings students out together. This year, they are being united “in a very different way,” one said. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Federal Judge at the Trump Rally - Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose. (www.newyorker.com)
Luci Gutiérrez’s “Inside Story” - The games we play. (www.newyorker.com)
Becoming a Centenarian - Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Hannah Goldfield’s Take about Anthony Bourdain and James Somers’s piece about whether A.I. is thinking. (www.newyorker.com)
Audrey Hobert Doesn’t Want to Be Described - The “Bowling alley” singer bowls a few frames and explains how her pal Gracie Abrams inspired her to switch from writing for Nickelodeon to writing songs. (www.newyorker.com)
Once a Rockette, Always a Rockette - As the group celebrates its hundredth year, former dancers gather to reminisce about the good old days—bingeing Advil, marrying Yalies—and what came after. (www.newyorker.com)
Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro - For the late Broadway composer, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as thrilling as writing musicals. (www.newyorker.com)
“Roller-Rink Nocturne,” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil - “When we try to pretend the moon moves / across our faces, we get a disco ball.” (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Hokinson, a Happy Woman - Her version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Ninette’s War,” “Bigger Than Fashion,” “The Award,” and “Analog Days.” (www.newyorker.com)
J. J. Sempé, Deity of Whimsy - His urban idylls are populated by bald businessmen who escape reality by biking and daydreaming. (www.newyorker.com)
Alice Harvey, Humor Pathfinder - My hand twitches with instinctive joy at how you draw a woman’s hat, coat, stance. (www.newyorker.com)
William Steig, Bursting with Joy - He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness. He also writes great female characters. (www.newyorker.com)
Gahan Wilson, Hilarious and Terrifying - He had his own world: a place where the funny and the horrific crossed paths. (www.newyorker.com)
Greetings, Friends! The Annual Holiday Poem by Ian Frazier - Re ’24: Let’s not forget / We’re all in brave Navalny’s debt. / He showed a soul can still be free / Whatever its surroundings be. (www.newyorker.com)
Going to Press Maze - Can you make your way through The New Yorker’s labyrinthine offices before our printer shuts down for the holidays? (www.newyorker.com)
Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food - Lifelike food replicas have long been a fixture of Japanese dining culture. Now, in an exhibition at Japan House, they are being spotlighted as art. (www.newyorker.com)
The Year in Trump Cashing In - In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money. (www.newyorker.com)
Kumail Nanjiani Lets It Out of the Bag - The comedian gets vulnerable in “Night Thoughts,” his first standup special in twelve years. But the real star of the show might be his elderly cat. (www.newyorker.com)
The Priest of the Mediterranean Diet - The mayor of the small community of Pollica, Italy, has dedicated his life to making people healthier. Will it get him a dinner with Zohran Mamdani? (www.newyorker.com)
The Crossword: Rough Copy - A puzzle with a few clues loose. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Cryptic Crossword: Sondheim Edition - An enigmatic tribute to the Broadway legend. (www.newyorker.com)
James Thurber, Consummate Doodler - It wasn’t until I started cartooning myself that I realized he only made it look easy. (www.newyorker.com)
In a Flurry Caption Puzzle - Solve the clues to reveal a cartoon caption hidden in the snow. (www.newyorker.com)
The Cartoons and Puzzles Issue 2025 - Celebrating a century of wit. (www.newyorker.com)
Holiday Gifting - Ideas for under the tree: Expired canned goods? Nonworking appliance? Unwanted adult child? (www.newyorker.com)
A Century of New Yorker Cartoons - Highlights from the first hundred years of this magazine’s most succinct, quadrilateral humor. (www.newyorker.com)
In the Wake of Australia’s Hanukkah Beach Massacre - A conversation about the country’s unique Jewish community and rising levels of antisemitism. (www.newyorker.com)
Memory Speaks in “Marjorie Prime” and “Anna Christie” - Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein, (www.newyorker.com)
Emma Allen on Otto Soglow’s Spot Art - Fifty years after his death, the work of the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist still appears in every issue. (www.newyorker.com)
Andrew Martin on the Post-Lockdown Period - The author discusses his story “Risk, Discipline.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Theatre of 2025 - It was a banner year for generation-defining performance, both up- and downtown. (www.newyorker.com)
History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along - Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Things I Ate in 2025 - Our restaurant critic rounds up her favorite menu items from a year of eating out. (www.newyorker.com)
“Risk, Discipline,” by Andrew Martin - Despite our best efforts, we were going to be, in the end, two more thirtysomethings from Brooklyn getting married in the Hudson Valley. (www.newyorker.com)
Andrew Martin Reads “Risk, Discipline” - The author reads his story from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
How Nicolas Sarkozy Survived Twenty Days Behind Bars - With his new book, “The Journal of a Prisoner,” the former French President seeks to place himself in the company of Alfred Dreyfus and Jesus Christ. (www.newyorker.com)
Caught in the “Ceasefire” - A new show on C-SPAN seeks to model civil dialogue and bipartisan coöperation in an age of inflamed debate. But is getting along a worthwhile goal? (www.newyorker.com)
Teen Rebellion Immortalized, Through the Eyes of Chris Steele-Perkins - The late British photographer was drawn to outsider subcultures, among them the working-class youths known as Teds. (www.newyorker.com)
The Edge of Adolescence - Nineties teen counterculture, a trip to Universal Studios, and the modern American dream of perpetual childhood. (www.newyorker.com)
The Washington Roundtable’s 2025 in Review - Taking stock of how American norms, ideals, and values have been transformed by Trump 2.0. (www.newyorker.com)
Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes - The former C.I.A. director and Secretary of Defense explains the problem with using the military for law enforcement. (www.newyorker.com)
Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss - The poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi talks with Kevin Young, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, about their newest collection, “The New Economy,” and poetry’s role in addressing grief. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Skin All Green and Teeth All Yellow - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 12th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Is A.I. Actually a Bubble? - The narrative of boom and bust is familiar—but also out of step with the possibilities of a new technology. (www.newyorker.com)
2025 Was David Lynch - The filmmaker, who died in January, showed us what our world was becoming, and how we should respond. (www.newyorker.com)
Nancy Shaver Is the Real Deal - Also: Murray Hill’s holiday variety show, Kara Young and Nicholas Braun in “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” James L. Brooks’s anti-romantic comedy “Ella McCay,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Puzzles and Games Galore - Our editor rounds up the best presents you can play. (www.newyorker.com)
Bi Gan’s Dream Factory - With “Resurrection,” the director has made a surrealist epic not just about Chinese history but about the cinema itself. (www.newyorker.com)
America’s Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks - CNN and CNBC have partnered with Kalshi, a prediction market, encouraging their viewers to wager on current events in real time. (www.newyorker.com)
Going Nuclear Without Blowing Up - How Rafael Grossi risks his life tracking the world’s most dangerous material. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lovably Fragile Exes of “Is This Thing On?” - Bradley Cooper’s latest film, about separated spouses played by Laura Dern and Will Arnett, is scrappy but soul-nourishing. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wake Up Dead Man”: A Murder Mystery with God in the Details - In Rian Johnson’s latest whodunnit, Josh O’Connor plays a Catholic priest trying to restore moral order at a church befouled by murder. (www.newyorker.com)
The Curse of Trump 2.0 - What does it say that the President doesn’t even feel he needs to hide his most profane and radical views anymore? (www.newyorker.com)
How Bad Is It?: Three Political Scientists Say America Is No Longer a Democracy - They do argue, however, that there are ways out of the United States’ authoritarian moment. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 11th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Trump Torpedo North American Trade? - As a crucial negotiating deadline looms, envoys from three countries are scrambling to preserve a continent-wide economy. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wake Up Dead Man” and the Whodunnit Renaissance - A wave of high-concept murder mysteries has revived the classic genre—and proved to be catnip for modern audiences. Why can’t we get enough? (www.newyorker.com)
The People You Imagine Reading Your Letterboxd Posts - “I must hire this reviewer to write the screenplay for my next project!” (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Trump’s Artless Takeover of the Kennedy Center - Amid firings, boycotts, and programming reoriented to reflect the MAGA agenda, the performing-arts center has become a showcase for Trump’s aesthetics and ambitions. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism - The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive. (www.newyorker.com)
What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies - The competition between Netflix and Paramount Skydance to acquire the studio is haunted by the ghosts of mergers past. (www.newyorker.com)
Automation and Intimacy Brought Video Podcasters Out of the Man Cave - Whether you’re a pundit, a politician, or an A-list comedian, the best media strategy these days is a D.I.Y. stage set and a microphone. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 10th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Student Chases the Shadows of Tiananmen - In Ha Jin’s “Looking for Tank Man,” uncovering the past doesn’t guarantee making peace with the present. (www.newyorker.com)
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2025 - The year’s most-liked gag drawings suggest that you, our readers, are really going through something. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Treasures That Are Old, or Old at Heart - A list of things to give that are secondhand or—if they must be new—emulate the craftsmanship and quality of an earlier time. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? - Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences. (www.newyorker.com)
This Bowl Has One Hundred Grams of Protein - This meal is full of macros. What are macros? Who cares? You don’t need to know. What you need to know is that you are the alpha of this fast-healthy-adjacent bowl purveyor. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s World and the Real World - A bad year for the United States, a better one for China. (www.newyorker.com)
Kissing Up at the Kennedy Center - All it takes is a little loyalty. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Supreme Court Unsure About Birthright Citizenship? - Maybe the Justices simply want to reiterate what the Court has already said—or maybe not. (www.newyorker.com)
Two New Movies Revivify the Portrait-Film Genre - Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the filmmaker-subject relationship in ways that recall classics of the form. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best TV Shows of 2025 - This year, Hollywood’s decline was evident from its output—but a few great, conversation-starting shows made our critic crave the return of the water cooler. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What Happens When an “Infinite-Money Machine” Unravels - After Michael Saylor’s software company Strategy stockpiled hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, he was hailed as an alchemist. Then things went awry. (www.newyorker.com)
And Your Little Dog, Too, by David Sedaris - Two small dogs, both unleashed, rushed toward me, snarling, and one of them bit me on my left leg, just below the knee. It all happened within a second. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s the Fastest Subway Line? (Yes, There Is One) - The M.T.A.’s new “Love Letter to the Subway” tells all about the underground system beloved—and hated—by New Yorkers. (www.newyorker.com)
The Many Stages of Cynthia Nixon - Now starring in her fourteenth Broadway production, the “Sex and the City” actress reflects on Mike Nichols, F. Murray Abraham, and Times Square sleaze. (www.newyorker.com)
The Show Must Go On: A Comic Strip by Adrian Tomine - A location shoot’s hierarchy of needs. (www.newyorker.com)
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? - The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Leave the U.S.A. - In the wake of President Trump’s reëlection, the number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out. (www.newyorker.com)
“Of the People for the People but by Me,” by Lucie Brock-Broido - “What is it I will have left when I leave, little but the milkweed silk, / My inky fetishes, my spirit-papers and my urns.” (www.newyorker.com)
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Christmas Avenue” - The celebratory chaos of the season. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Geese Redeem Noisy, Lawless Rock and Roll? - Critics love to make these kinds of breathless pronouncements. But with this band, currently on tour to promote its album “Getting Killed,” controlled hysteria is sort of the point. (www.newyorker.com)
“Almost Home,” by Adrian Matejka - “Bob Kaufman loved San Francisco’s / gentle malaise, long views of bay / & insistent bridge, the ocean right after.” (www.newyorker.com)
Baubles Melting on an Open Fire - A third-generation German glassblower and Santa look-alike struts his stuff at John Derian. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Studio Museum in Harlem Shows that Black Art Matters - Reopening with work by Tom Lloyd and others, the museum is a manifestation of possibility, specifically in Black lives. (www.newyorker.com)
Marilyn Minter’s Rapturous Visions - The artist was shunned by the art world for being too vulgar. Her new show embraces the female body, with muses like Lizzo, Padma Lakshmi, and Jane Fonda. (www.newyorker.com)
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, the Finance Bros Behind HBO’s “Industry” - Konrad Kay and Mickey Down failed as financiers—but they’re making a killing by depicting the profession on HBO. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Peacemaker,” “The Running Ground,” “Cursed Daughters,” and “Bog Queen.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about the demolition of the East Wing, Jessica Winter’s essay about the so-called crisis of men, and Jill Lepore’s essay about historical precedents for the Trump era. (www.newyorker.com)
A New Afghan Bakery, in New York’s Golden Age of Bread - The city has vaunted sourdough loaves and endlessly hyped croissants. Diljān, in Brooklyn Heights, brings a classic Afghan flatbread into the mix. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ancient Roots of Doing Time - The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean - Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy. (www.newyorker.com)
Chloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void - The director of “Hamnet” says that her art has been shaped by her early love of manga, her relationship to the natural world, and her neurodivergence. (www.newyorker.com)
Camille Bordas on Other People’s Beliefs - The author discusses her story “Understanding the Science.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Understanding the Science,” by Camille Bordas - Katherine’s phone rang, and, because it was Adrian calling, everyone went quiet, trying to hear the famous actor’s voice. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Babbo - Under the chef Mark Ladner, the famous Greenwich Village trattoria aims for selective nostalgia. (www.newyorker.com)
Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature” - A reader trusts the author’s voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble. (www.newyorker.com)
Camille Bordas Reads “Understanding the Science” - The author reads her story from the December 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah Sherman Is Grosser Than You Think - The comedian is chafing against playing a pretty girl in a wig on “S.N.L.” In her new HBO special, “Sarah Squirm: Live in the Flesh,” the focus is body horror. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Gear for the Coffee Nerd - Our staff expert recommends a collection of grinders, kettles, and other devices worth poring over. (www.newyorker.com)
Olga Tokarczuk Recommends Visionary Science Fiction - The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Beast in Me” Is at War with Itself - The thriller series on Netflix, starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, is internally confused—stylish, but uneven—despite its pretensions to real storytelling. (www.newyorker.com)
A Greenlandic Photographer’s Tender Portraits of Daily Life - Inuuteq Storch set out to rediscover Inuit culture that was suppressed by Danish colonizers, by finding its traces in the everyday. (www.newyorker.com)
America’s “Bad Emperor” Problem - Assessing the political implications of the President apparently dozing off in a Cabinet meeting. (www.newyorker.com)
Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Her Film About the Grief of William Shakespeare - The director talks with Michael Schulman about her new film, about the death of Shakespeare’s only son. (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents - The senator, currently being investigated by the Justice Department, notes that the President can’t stop thinking about him: “I live rent-free in that guy’s head.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 5th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Guanyu Xu’s Powerful Photographs of Immigration Limbo - Also: Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center residency, the D.I.Y. virtuoso Jay Som, Alexandra Schwartz’s Shakespeare-movie picks, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
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Are We Getting Stupider? - Stupidity is eternal—and more complex than we think. (www.newyorker.com)
How “The New Yorker at 100” Got to Netflix - The creators of the documentary, now streaming, on capturing the publication on film, why the magazine’s editing process is like a colonoscopy, and landing Taylor Swift’s O.K. for the soundtrack. (www.newyorker.com)
Building a State of Fear in “Extremist” - Alexander Molochnikov’s short film reinterprets an act of protest that called attention to the invasion of Ukraine, and led to the imprisonment of Sasha Skochilenko, a young Russian artist, in 2023. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Best Films of 2025 - Our critics rank their favorite movies of the year. (www.newyorker.com)
War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition - The outcry grows over Trump''s undeclared war in the Caribbean. (www.newyorker.com)
Pete Hegseth, in the Tank - The defensive Secretary of War. (www.newyorker.com)
The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank - Andrew Fox, the creator of “Slam Frank,” was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege gave him a new sense of purpose. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 4th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Does “Hamlet” Need a Backstory? - “Hamnet,” a new film directed by Chloé Zhao, is a fictionalized account of how Shakespeare’s famous tragedy came to be. Is it reductive or revelatory? (www.newyorker.com)
Mikie Sherrill Intends to Move Fast - Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.” (www.newyorker.com)
MaestroClass: Learn Timeless Lessons from Experts of Yore - Develop a personal hair style with Einstein, cultivate advanced diplomacy skills with Cleopatra, and more! (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Trump Targeting Venezuela? - As Trump escalates his confrontation with Venezuela, questions mount about the line between counter-narcotics policy and a bid for regional dominance. (www.newyorker.com)
Samuel Beckett on the Couch - When the young writer began analysis with Wilfred R. Bion, both men were at the beginning of their careers. Their work together would have a transformative impact. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 3rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year - When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control. (www.newyorker.com)
“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails - In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Book Review: Olivia Nuzzi’s “American Canto” - Across social media, definitely. In her new memoir, “American Canto,” not so much. (www.newyorker.com)
Now Watch Me Read - “Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word? (www.newyorker.com)
When to Go to the Hospital for Childbirth - Nausea can be a sign that labor is approaching, but it’s also a sign of so many other things—reading the news, for example. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Podcasts of 2025 - Some of the medium’s all-time best shows ended, but a crop of new contenders is keeping meaningful audio alive. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats - New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war. (www.newyorker.com)
The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order - A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Donna Lieberman Is at the Wheel - The head of the New York Civil Liberties Union doesn’t only lead the fight against injustice. She can also make you a great pottery bowl. (www.newyorker.com)
What Can Economists Agree on These Days? - A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Tartuffe Times Two - Matthew Broderick and André De Shields have both undertaken Molière’s con-man character. They feel he has a few things in common with a certain orange President. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe - Is the race to create ever more lavish spectator offerings in America’s largest entertainment venues changing the fan experience? (www.newyorker.com)
What Makes Goethe So Special? - The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Susanna Wolff’s Shouts & Murmurs piece about child-led parenting, Molly Fischer’s profile of Costco, and Cal Revely-Calder’s review of Paul Kingsnorth’s book “Against the Machine.” (www.newyorker.com)
TV Review: Tim Robinson’s “The Chair Company,” on HBO - The comedian’s new HBO series is full of characters who possess their own sparks of madness. (www.newyorker.com)
Klaas Verplancke’s “White House of Gold” - Mar-a-Lago extravagance on Pennsylvania Avenue. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Make the Perfect Partner in 18 Easy A.I. Prompts - Generate yourself as a [age] [gender] who sounds like [parental figure or lost loved one] mixed with [favorite entertainer]. (www.newyorker.com)
Mamdani Family Values - Mahmood Mamdani, Zohran’s father, just published his twelfth book. The subject? Dictators. (www.newyorker.com)
Hey, Kids! Get Yer Epstein Files Activity Fun Page! - Maybe the Justice Department should try a Word Search puzzle and a Connect the Dots. (www.newyorker.com)
When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk - During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. (www.newyorker.com)
The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner - A new biography details the secrets and scandals of the Mitfords, a notorious family of aristocrats—and of the one sister who broke away from the rest. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Albums of 2025 - There are plenty of albums that might have made the cut on a different day. But good list-making requires hubris, constraint. A moment of wild and fearless conviction. (www.newyorker.com)
A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language - In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity. (www.newyorker.com)
“Blue Baby,” by Mary Jo Salter - “You thought yourself lucky as a sickly / child, who got to spend whole days // reading long books in bed.” (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Diversity of Morals,” “Night People,” “Venetian Vespers,” and “Television.” (www.newyorker.com)
Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” Becomes a Spanish Opera - Francisco Coll gives Ibsen’s drama a stem-winder of a score. (www.newyorker.com)
“Tornado Imagined from Far Away,” by Sharon Olds - “Some homes almost disappeared, / as if the atoms that had made them were gone.” (www.newyorker.com)
Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Elephant,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Stoppard’s Radical Invitation - The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking. (www.newyorker.com)
“Safety,” by Joan Silber - It horrified me to be from a species that did such things, over and over, but what good did my horror do? (www.newyorker.com)
Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses” - The poem confirmed the ascent of a rare new voice—a mesmerizing voice that became indispensable to American verse. (www.newyorker.com)
How Noah Baumbach Fell (Back) in Love with the Movies - The writer-director talks about the art of dialogue, his love of marital fight scenes, and how his new film, “Jay Kelly,” helped him rekindle his affection for the medium. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Ceramicist Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye Makes Bowls That Hold Time - Over decades and through thousands of repetitions, the Turkish artist has whittled down her distinctive stoneware bowl to its very essence. (www.newyorker.com)
The Undermining of the C.D.C. - The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell. (www.newyorker.com)
Joan Silber on Friendship in a Fractured World - The author discusses her story “Safety.” (www.newyorker.com)
Joan Silber Reads “Safety” - The author reads her story from the December 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
My Mother’s Memory Loss, and Mine - When I began forgetting words in midlife, I wondered if it was menopause—and worried that it was something more. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Music Lovers - Our music critic gives a roundup of tactile, old-fashioned ways to honor sound, and the people who make it. (www.newyorker.com)
Louis C.K. Débuts a Standup Special, “Ridiculous,” and Book, “Ingram” - In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back. (www.newyorker.com)
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love - Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. (www.newyorker.com)
Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney - The director talks with the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison about his new film, in which a famous actor wonders whether he’s made the right choices. (www.newyorker.com)
Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster - The novelist talks about his new book, set a century in the future, and why writers should try to describe the wider world—not just themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Best Jokes of 2025 - During a difficult year, comic relief came from unexpected places. (www.newyorker.com)
God Bless “A Christmas Carol,” Every One - Also: the galloping Americana of Ryan Davis, Michael Urie’s tragic “Richard II,” a holiday roundup, Inkoo Kang’s TV picks, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Newest States in the U.S.A. - Bunly: State Nickname: The Creamy Leftovers State. State Motto: “Oops, I left it in Bunly.” State Gemstone: The humble pebble. (www.newyorker.com)
What are Putin’s Ultimate Demands for Peace in Ukraine? - The Trump Administration has claimed that it’s nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict’s essential impasse still holds: Moscow won’t accept what Kyiv can stomach. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Chef’s Guide to Sumptuous Writing - How the restaurateur Gabrielle Hamilton—of the beloved New York City establishment Prune—became a noted memoirist. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Shepard’s Enactments of Manhood - “Coyote,” a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself. (www.newyorker.com)