Spoiler Alert: Keeping Movies Under Wraps - Why do so many new films have plots and structures that make reviews a delicate dance of hints and secrets? (www.newyorker.com)
I Used to Be a Horse - I was powerful, graceful, and gorgeous. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon’s Money Talks - But is anyone listening? (www.newyorker.com)
The Death of a Young Haitian’s American Dream - Pierre Damas Bel was a twenty-year-old college student planning for his future. His family says that ICE monitoring made him lose hope. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s at Stake in the 2026 Midterms - The midterms could deliver a major victory for Democrats. What would that tell us about Trump’s hold on the country—and the party hoping to succeed him? (www.newyorker.com)
Kimberly Who? - In this Administration, former Ambassador Guilfoyle is the rare Trump associate to face consequences for misdeeds. (www.newyorker.com)
The Doxing of Jane Doe - The alleged perpetrators in the “Cornell Seven” case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Thirteen Books for Parenthood - Dr. Becky and Emily Oster share their favorite titles. (www.newyorker.com)
Marco Rubio’s Wild, Wild West - In Greece, the Secretary of State cast the West as a civilization defined by its warriors and conquerors, not by its democracies. (www.newyorker.com)
The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock - At the Met, a landmark exhibition doesn’t just show that the painters were equals. It makes it impossible to imagine their art existing without their marriage. (www.newyorker.com)
Reasons You Might Be Calling Me Instead of Texting - You’re feeling too lazy to text, and you know perfectly well that I’m just going to let it go to voice mail and then text my response anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
What a Public Execution Looks Like - Dexter Filkins on Pete Hegseth’s planned public execution of Nidal Hasan and his memory of a public execution by the Taliban in Kabul. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom McCarthy’s Meaningless Men - For decades, the novelist has dismantled the tropes of realist fiction, writing about mysterious individuals trapped in byzantine systems. In “The Rhyl Poster,” that approach may have reached its limit. (www.newyorker.com)
Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy? - The Modi government has removed more than a hundred million people from voter rolls and is cracking down on a vigorous protest movement. (www.newyorker.com)
Encountering the Past in “Music Against the Night” - John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a historical novel? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey” Update: The D.A. Brings Charges - Three weeks after we released The Journey, Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were arrested, and local prosecutors charged them with child abuse. (www.newyorker.com)
An Unlikely Taylor Swift Fan Gets Out of Prison, in “Daylight” - Joe Garcia, who wrote about finding Swift’s music after a murder conviction, searches for redemption in a new short film by Jon Kasbe. (www.newyorker.com)
Some Mangled Foreign Title Translations - “Dune: Part Two” to “Those Mad Worms Won’t Stop, Mate” (Australia): You think those dodgy snakes in the outback are devo? You ain’t seen nothing, mate! (www.newyorker.com)
Pity the Poor Passport - Americans’ most valued official document is the latest national treasure to get a Trump makeover. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 12th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness - By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Canadian TV Show May Have Helped Foil the FlyDubai Terrorist Attack - The documentary series “Air Crash Investigations” has attracted a cult following by obsessively dissecting historic plane crashes. Then a fan of the show found himself aboard a hijacked plane headed for Israel. (www.newyorker.com)
Hollywood’s Tech-Founder Fixation Takes a Dark Turn - Tech-entrepreneur bio-pics used to give us flawed men who built great products. But the latest wave of movies, from “The Social Reckoning” to “Artificial,” recast Silicon Valley titans as unambiguous villains, and suggest that the products themselves are the threat. (www.newyorker.com)
My Education on the Border of the Syrian War - In the last Turkish town on the road to Aleppo, jihadis and spies mixed with reporters trying to prove themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
A.1. II - Readers and condiment lovers react. (www.newyorker.com)
Deana Lawson’s Subjects of Surveillance - In a new series featuring security-camera stills of suspected shoplifters, the photographer seems more interested in the surface than in the soul. (www.newyorker.com)
The Communist Thrillers of Anna Seghers - In her tautly suspenseful novels, fugitives stay one step ahead of the Nazis. (www.newyorker.com)
The First Candid - In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped a photo of a Parisian street, empty but for a shoeshine boy and his client. Now that some sleuths have zeroed in on the location, the city is marking it with a plaque. (www.newyorker.com)
Around the World in Explorer Names - The American Geographical Society has long invited big-name adventurers—Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong—to sign its ceremonial globe. The latest? Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan. (www.newyorker.com)
Kramer and Fauci—Enemies to Friends to Protagonists - The playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in a new play that almost included a “Guys and Dolls” song break. (www.newyorker.com)
Malika Favre’s “Sweater Weather” - Comfortable patterns. (www.newyorker.com)
Cinema of Wayward Souls - The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms. (www.newyorker.com)
We’re Learning to Live with Waymos. It’s Going Weird - A view from the back seat. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Occidental Book of the Dead,” “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” “The Minimalist,” and “The Decadent Movement.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Yakuza and the Way of the Would-Be Warrior - For generations, Japanese gangsters have styled themselves as heirs to the samurai—a mystique that helped them prosper in league with politicians, police, and big business. (www.newyorker.com)
In Argentina, Rural Residents Send Messages Over the Radio - In rural Argentina, isolated residents exchange messages over AM radio. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump After the Midterms - If the coming election does result in a blue wave, Trump will be faced with the fact of his diminishment. The rest of us will be faced with the wreckage. (www.newyorker.com)
Kevin Barry on Giving Thanks to the Short-Story Gods - The author discusses his story “Chuck Murphy’s Last Run.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Creola - At Creola, the chef Lana Lagomarsini puts French technique to work exploring Black American foodways—and overhauls her prix-fixe menu every few weeks. (www.newyorker.com)
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Betty Gilpin Is Having a Moment - On the heels of her Emmy win for “Widow’s Bay,” the “GLOW” star reflects on her slew of new projects, growing up with actor parents, taking on Cole Escola’s role in “Oh, Mary!,” and the importance of performing with your whole heart. (www.newyorker.com)
Kevin Barry Reads “Chuck Murphy’s Last Run” - The author reads his story from the October 19, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Chuck Murphy’s Last Run,” by Kevin Barry - How could you give up the throb of urgent throttle and the surge of roaring power that take you through the gates of fear to a state of nerveless bliss? (www.newyorker.com)
How “Oscar” Stages the Sad, Sordid Decline of Oscar Wilde - The ballet, on now at New York City Center, imagines the renowned writer enclosed in a cell, tortured by images from his own works about the relationship between life and art. (www.newyorker.com)
Kash Patel’s Slap Shot - The F.B.I. director’s Trump-inspired hockey team, the Dons, faced their rivals in a beer league. With rogue slap shots and hovering security agents, Patel was in the zone—or, at least, next to it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Good-Hang Economy - The comedy-podcast boom is changing our idea of what it means to be funny. (www.newyorker.com)
The Blistering Hollywood Satire of “Misty Green” - In Chris Rock’s film, Rosalind Eleazar gives a tremendous performance as a fast-fading TV veteran with a talent for acting, singing, and self-sabotage. (www.newyorker.com)
Who Won the Redistricting War? - Democrats and Republicans are in a race to the bottom—and the worst consequences will extend far beyond next month’s midterms. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Avedon’s Defining Early Fashion Shoots - Avedon was the first—and for a long time the only—staff photographer at The New Yorker, but he began his career at Harper’s Bazaar, transforming the fashion photograph in issue after sensational issue. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Became a Lock Picker - For those who appreciate “locksport,” a well-crafted lock may be more interesting than whatever it locks up. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Donald Trump’s Corruption Matter in November? - The President’s self-dealing has been well documented. Do voters care—and will anyone ever pay? (www.newyorker.com)
Season 2 Update: Curtis Flowers Has Died - He was found dead in his home at age fifty-six. (www.newyorker.com)
55. 《记者》杂志的尼古拉斯·莱曼撰文探讨加利福尼亚州为通过“亿万富翁税”而展开的斗争——一项针对加利福尼亚州超级富豪征税的提案，是衡量进步主义议题风向的晴雨表。为何如此多的民主党人对此持怀疑态度？
The Reporter Nicholas Lemann on California’s Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax - A measure to tax the ultra-wealthy in California is a bellwether progressive issue. Why are so many Democrats skeptical? (www.newyorker.com)
Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump - Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad. (www.newyorker.com)
In the Dark: Season 2 - The investigative podcast In the Dark examines why Curtis Flowers, a Black man in Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime, revealing a town divided by race and a conviction supported by questionable evidence. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Driving the French Student Protests - A movement born in the Paris banlieues has mobilized young people against diminished school conditions and accumulating problems at home and beyond. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Vertiginous Revelations of “You Can See Everything” - Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s interrogation of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder, is a compelling spectacle of manipulation, suspicion, and apparent sincerity. (www.newyorker.com)
Footballese, the Most American Vernacular - In N.F.L. commentary, expertise is celebrated, even craved, by the masses. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lincoln in the Bardo” Gets an Opera at the Met - Also: an Animal Collective reunion, the reverent art of Malcolm Peacock, a new jazz documentary from 1972, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology - “To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” (www.newyorker.com)
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How Rick Bragg Became His Generation’s Bard of the South - The Alabamian writer has published multiple acclaimed memoirs about his humble roots and is at work on another, which may be his last. His writing has also been dogged by controversy. (www.newyorker.com)
“Fjord” Keeps the Faith - In Cristian Mungiu’s drama, a family of conservative Christian immigrants in Norway collide with the progressive values of the European welfare state. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dumocrats Are Coming for Trump, and All He Can Do Is Call Them Names - A report from the President’s campaign tour through the formerly safe precincts of red America. (www.newyorker.com)
Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism - The new Nobel laureate uses finely wrought forms to constrain a terrible excess of feeling. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Social Reckoning” Leaves Out the Human Element - In Aaron Sorkin’s overwritten sequel to “The Social Network,” inspired performances by Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White can’t bring the main characters to life. (www.newyorker.com)
“Degenerates” Is Funny, Pervy, and Startling - Else Went’s new play dares to display some empathy for the troubled denizens of the manosphere. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Social Reckoning” Shows How It All Went Wrong - Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Meta, urged his employees to “move fast and break things.” Aaron Sorkin’s new film depicts the aftermath. (www.newyorker.com)
Medically Misunderstood - Clearly your five-year-old tattoo is causing the infection, so let this be a lesson to you . . . (www.newyorker.com)
Why Donald Trump Is Pausing His Crackdown on Salvadoran Immigrants - The President’s delay in ending Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans highlights a tension between his nativist agenda and the industries that rely on immigrant labor. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What to Read if You Loved “East of Eden” - Our TV critic on how the original compares to the adaptation. (www.newyorker.com)
Back to School, in Gaza - My nephews study in a big tent surrounded by bombed-out houses. They have no access to chairs or tables, so they sit on the dirt. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Netanyahu Escape His Reckoning? - In his bid for reëlection, the Israeli Prime Minister is doing everything in his power to smear his opponents and evade blame for the security fiasco of October 7th. (www.newyorker.com)
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How the Billions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent - Some of the money, which is difficult to track, has gone to recovery programs, but much of it has gone to law enforcement—for squad cars, jail costs, drones, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fighting in Ethiopia Is Part of a Far Bigger Conflict - Powers in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, and beyond are being drawn toward the conflict, which diplomatic efforts have failed to stop. (www.newyorker.com)
“Fear Fokol” Looks Inside the Private-Security Forces That Patrol Johannesburg - The patrolmen hired to protect the city’s wealth operate in a culture of paranoia, inequality, and fragile but well-armed masculinity. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 6th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How “Edinburgh” Reimagines Time to Tell a Story of Trauma - Alexander Chee’s début novel, published twenty-five years ago, collapses past and present in a brilliant account of abuse and its aftermath. (www.newyorker.com)
I’m Starting to Suspect That the F.D.A. Is Just Trying to Get Me to Cook - This morning, the agency urged me to immediately discard my store-bought rotisserie chicken and instead braise a lamb shank in a classic mirepoix. (www.newyorker.com)
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MacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut - Scott’s decision to self-publish could be seen as a protest against her ex-husband’s company—or as a sign of how profoundly it’s altered the publishing landscape. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 5th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Fight Your Landlord, the Heel - In Williamsburg, wrestlers dressed like Zohran Mamdani and a cockroach take turns in the ring. Their opponent? The big, bad Slumlord. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About? - A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still struggling to put physical suffering into words. (www.newyorker.com)
How Lists Became Our Greatest Defense Against Endless Slop - A form that was once emblematic of the internet’s frivolity has become our preferred way of expressing taste, with the New York Times and Letterboxd users alike clamoring to define the canon. (www.newyorker.com)
Year of the Horse - After a young tourist was killed in a Central Park carriage accident this summer, the City Council is considering whether to ban horse-drawn carriages forever. (www.newyorker.com)
The Battle for the Post-Trump Right - For decades, the Heritage Foundation was a conservative powerhouse. Can it stay relevant in the influencer age? (www.newyorker.com)
Boo! You’ve Been Buried Alive - The first time I saw a mausoleum, I felt like I was home free. (www.newyorker.com)
Ernie Bushmiller’s Sunday Morning, Live - In 1976, the artist behind the “Nancy” comic was slighted on “S.N.L.” A new Off Off Broadway show tells the tale of the day after. (www.newyorker.com)
Ellen Allien’s Hill of Sound - On a trip to the Cooper Hewitt museum, the techno d.j. reflects on her latest album, “New Life,” and on how Michael Jackson and ABBA haunted her Berlin childhood. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Vanishing Family,” “The Jews of Italy,” “I Made You Up Inside My Head,” and “Days & Chances.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough - Test engineers stage reality, sometimes by extreme means, to make sure airplanes don’t fall apart, children can’t open pill bottles, and bears won’t break into coolers. (www.newyorker.com)
Arthur Jafa’s “I Am Tony,” Reviewed - In “I Am Tony,” a retrospective at the New Museum, the artist takes his remixing of the past to its outer limits. (www.newyorker.com)
Peter de Sève’s “Lapdog” - Trying to keep up. (www.newyorker.com)
A Woman with a Past - My cousin Laura had a diva’s charisma and a siren’s voice. She also had a mysterious past. When she died, she left me to tell the story of her defiant reinvention. (www.newyorker.com)
Maternal Intelligence: An Open Letter - Is M.I. hopping our guardrails? If unchecked, it can lead to “recursive self-improvement,” such as dyeing a “fun streak of color” in her bangs. (www.newyorker.com)
“Democracy,” by Sophie Cabot Black - “Always those horses up on the hill, each / To their own pasture.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Trudie’s Tavern - The new spot in Brooklyn joins its siblings, Gertrude’s and Gertie, as a bastion of playfully Ashkenazi-ish cooking. (www.newyorker.com)
The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax - Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents. (www.newyorker.com)
ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity - Arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Heng Reads “A Very Safe Place” - The author reads her story from the October 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Old Story: October,” by Cynthia Zarin - “When is enough enough?” (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Heng on Safety and the Power of the Child’s-Eye View - The author discusses her story “A Very Safe Place.” (www.newyorker.com)
“A Very Safe Place,” by Rachel Heng - No sooner did the words leave his mouth than the man’s eyelids fluttered open. “No . . . police,” he said. (www.newyorker.com)
Christa Pike and the Absurdity of Humane Execution - A witness said that what happened in Tennessee’s death chamber this week was “not normal.” Of course it wasn’t. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Adults Are Playing with Toys - After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.” (www.newyorker.com)
Let Cathy Ames Be a Monster - In the captivating new “East of Eden,” only one note rings false: the softening of John Steinbeck’s most evil character. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Constant Rediscovery of Barbara Trapido - The cult novelist is planning a sequel to “Brother of the More Famous Jack.” What accounts for her persistent appeal? (www.newyorker.com)
Olive Garden Is the Real True North - Two guys created a compass that points to the restaurant’s Times Square location. On a trek rivalling the Odyssey—and with breadsticks on the line—they navigate all the way from Staten Island. (www.newyorker.com)
Gerald Cyrus’s Magnificent Images of Black Life - Cyrus began consistently documenting New York City in the nineties. His images of Harlem—its streets, its jazz clubs, its dark, soulful nights—evoke the place like nothing else. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Swan” Gets a Superficial Reckoning - A new documentary about the reality series, which gave participants extreme makeovers before pitting them against one another in a beauty pageant, fails to grapple with the show’s cruelty, or with the culture that enabled it. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Europe Still Trust America? - Russia is escalating its provocations in NATO territory. Poland''s foreign minister has a message for the U.S.: “You may have affairs elsewhere, but to us, Europe, you are married.” (www.newyorker.com)
An American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia - Evan Gershkovich, a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who was convicted on false charges of espionage, talks about his time in a Russian prison. (www.newyorker.com)
Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters - One of the great actors of the era on finding sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg, Kendall Roy, and Roy Cohn—and why the New Yorker Profile still stings. (www.newyorker.com)
The New York Film Festival, Week Two: Loose Talk, Bold Action - New movies from around the world treat sharp-minded talkers of all ages as agents of drama and danger. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs? - The jobs apocalypse hasn’t arrived. Something else is happening instead. (www.newyorker.com)
Justine Kurland’s Photographs Keep Us on Edge - Also: the progressive R. & B. of Kelela, the art of Jessica Lange, the Australian Ballet on Oscar Wilde, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Quiet Unravelling of a Haitian Life in America - Emmanuella was the only one in her family on Temporary Protected Status. Now that it’s gone, she’s leaving her job without a word, desperately dating to find a husband, and beginning to go underground. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Well-Funded Fight to Keep Latinos Voting Republican - Amid deportations and Trump’s lagging popularity, one Koch-backed group has recruited Michigan Latinos to reach more than a hundred thousand voters for Mike Rogers. (www.newyorker.com)
Why the War in Iran Is Likely to Heat Up Again - Oil exports in the Gulf have rebounded as the U.S. escorts ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But the obstacles to a lasting peace are greater than ever. (www.newyorker.com)
Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War - The combative culture warrior in the Pentagon may soon be Congress’s top target. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Washington Roundtable Live: Can D.C. Get a Grip on A.I.? - With Xi Jinping visiting Washington for a major summit, American politicians are deeply divided over how to approach potential regulation of artificial intelligence. (www.newyorker.com)
Zoe Kazan’s Heady and Bighearted “East of Eden” - While Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist duke it out as John Steinbeck’s Trask brothers, Florence Pugh’s Cathy is a gothic villain you can’t help but root for. (www.newyorker.com)
How the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National Scandal - The dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness. (www.newyorker.com)
Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Awaiting Orders,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Cruise-a-Palooza - Iconic roles and death-defying stunts have made Tom Cruise’s name synonymous with movie magic. In “Digger,” he breaks his action streak to show us something new—for better or for worse. (www.newyorker.com)
Voter Fraud We’ve Identified So Far - After scouring billions of ballots, we have identified countless instances of voter fraud. They are countless, in part, because we are unwilling and unable to count past thirty-four. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Susan Collins Has Lasted So Long - Even if Maine’s longtime senator is finally defeated by a Democrat, her lengthy tenure speaks to the power of bringing federal money home—and asking voters to overlook other misgivings. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Trump Delayed Cancelling Legal Status for Salvadorans - The White House has quietly paused an order to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, a move that came after months of lobbying from the construction industry and other interest groups. (www.newyorker.com)
“Verity” Is a Criminal Waste of Talent - The melodramatic power of Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway is squandered in a romantic tale that’s ludicrously muddled by suspicions of monstrous misdeeds. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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Carolyn Forché Reads Mahmoud Darwish - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl''s Night,” by Mahmoud Darwish, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement - At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life. (www.newyorker.com)
What Barbara Kingsolver Is Reading - The Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate new novel, “Partita,” is out next week. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger” - In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw. (www.newyorker.com)
Mayors vs. Nationalists - Leaders of cities around the world are standing up for democracy, even if the leaders of their countries are not. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 29th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime - A new book revisits a notorious British sexual-assault trial in which a woman was convicted of posing as a man in bed. (www.newyorker.com)
Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools - Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach. (www.newyorker.com)
New Kinds of Trad Wife I Could Be - Outfit Only: I totally look like I’m in a sexy version of “Little House on the Prairie,” but I refuse to do a single chore. (www.newyorker.com)
Is What We’re Watching True or False? - A.I. is everywhere, and it’s often hard to tell what’s even real. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Cartoon Recession Indicators - Is your life savings a single moth? Are you afflicted with moola eyes? It might be a sign we’re in a downturn. (www.newyorker.com)
Why America Looks the Way It Does - From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property. (www.newyorker.com)
Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons - Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Guide to Navigating the Parent Group Chat - From the kind and competent to the scheming and lost, meet all the characters blowing up your phone. (www.newyorker.com)
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Caleb Hammer’s Humiliation Economy - The host of “Financial Audit,” a popular YouTube series, claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do. (www.newyorker.com)
The Cellmate Who Taught Me the Codes of Russian Prison - On the outside, we would have never been friends. But in our small shared space we established a delicate rapport. (www.newyorker.com)
More Sunshine with Joey Arias and Basil Twist - The performance artist and the puppeteer are reviving their avant-garde cabaret show, a leggy fantasia beloved by Cyndi Lauper and the late Paul Reubens. (www.newyorker.com)
At the Department of Justice, Many Lawyers Are Wondering If It’s Time to Quit - The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads? - The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. (www.newyorker.com)
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Flower District” - An oasis in the middle of the city. (www.newyorker.com)
How Paweł Pawlikowski Learned to Film Europe’s Fractures - The Polish director has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and political. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Radiance,” “Cloudthief,” “Dear Dealer,” and “Citizen Beast.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to M. R. O’Connor’s story about smokejumpers, Kelefa Sanneh’s piece about A.I. music, Jennifer Wilson’s article about lingerie, and Anna Holmes’s home-ownership essay. (www.newyorker.com)
Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His A.I. Mandate - Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work? (www.newyorker.com)
Detecting Notes of . . . Citi Field? - In the parking lot outside a Mets game, the TikTok sommeliers Ryan and Chris Goydos, of SuperVinoBros, crack open a mystery wine and guess its provenance. (www.newyorker.com)
How America Became Antifascist - Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around. (www.newyorker.com)
The President vs. the Press - Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point. What was noteworthy last week, however, was the way that the media responded. (www.newyorker.com)
“Narrow Escape,” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The police lieutenant appeared to be writing down exactly what Gleb was telling him, but relying upon completely different words. (www.newyorker.com)
“Weeping Willow, Nantucket,” by Stephanie Burt - “They can’t get off the island either.” (www.newyorker.com)
Fiction by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in English for the First Time - A conversation with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s son Ignat Solzhenitsyn. (www.newyorker.com)
“D’Angelo in Starlight,” by Ishion Hutchinson - “Good God, the devil is up to his old tricks.” (www.newyorker.com)
Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump - After a heated week at the U.N. General Assembly, a new ceasefire proposal came and apparently went. (www.newyorker.com)
Nolan Wells’s Family Still Wants Answers - A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died. (www.newyorker.com)
Taryn Simon’s Father Figures - In a new show at the Guggenheim, the artist grapples with patriotism and patriarchy through the long career of an anonymous F.B.I. agent. (www.newyorker.com)
Are Public Spaces Really for the Public? - A group of locals is trying to reclaim city spots for the people—including lobbying to turn vacant lots into gardens and fighting the event venue Guastavino’s over a courtyard. (www.newyorker.com)
The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola - Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace. (www.newyorker.com)
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A Night Living in Penn Station - For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges. (www.newyorker.com)
Susan Collins’s Maine Money Machine - The senator uses her seniority in Congress to bring significant resources to her state. Is that enough for voters who hate her party? (www.newyorker.com)
Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics - The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, the tech mogul, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.” (www.newyorker.com)
The New York Film Festival, Week One: Better Late Than Never - This year’s prime offerings include the festival début of an overlooked great director and startling new work by acclaimed filmmakers. (www.newyorker.com)
Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko” - The author talks with David Remnick about leaving corporate law to become a novelist, and making Korean culture and experiences legible to readers around the globe. (www.newyorker.com)
I’ll Have What Xi’s Having - When Donald met Jinping. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Predator Catcher Turns Predatory in “Primetime” - A dazzling, wolfish performance from Robert Pattinson anchors Lance Oppenheim’s period piece about the rise and fall of a reality-TV host. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sublime Somi Bridges African and Western Jazz - Also: David Greenspan and Lupita Nyong’o onstage, the found-object art of Narcissister, a Hong Kong-born filmmaker’s exploration of family history, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
“Resident Evil” Is Fun, but Soulless. What Else Could It Be? - Zach Cregger has made a great video-game movie, in part by leaving out the things that make a Zach Cregger movie great. (www.newyorker.com)
The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump - The President’s party, facing a midterm reckoning, is begging for a way out of his Iran-war doom loop. (www.newyorker.com)
Gut Renos of Ionesco and Chekhov - In “Delirium” and “The Cherry Orchard,” experimental directors smash up and rebuild classic plays. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What Survival Stories Tell Us (and Should We Listen?) - Tales of human resilience in nature bring the thrill of the wild to the comfort of the couch. In our hyper-developed day and age, why do we return to stripped-down tales of survival? (www.newyorker.com)
There Is No A.I. “Race” - We’re constantly told that Chinese advances would have catastrophic consequences. But the first to innovate is rarely the one who wins. (www.newyorker.com)
Currently on View in an Art-Fair Booth - If the art market ceases to exist, you’ll at least have a painting of Bart Simpson. (www.newyorker.com)
How MAHA Tore One Family Apart - As measles cases reach a thirty-five-year high, disagreements over vaccines are putting new strains on families—and bringing the politics of MAHA into the home. (www.newyorker.com)
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“NAZA” Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza - In this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers of civilian deaths and widespread destruction. (www.newyorker.com)
What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom - Tech workers have flocked to Liangzhu, a small town outside Hangzhou, looking to escape China’s corporate culture and build their future with A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
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An OpenAI Engineer and His Friends Debate the Future - In Brent Katz’s short documentary “Josh’s Wedding,” a group of groomsmen reckon with a technology that one of them is building. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 23rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Kate Atkinson’s Obsession with History - “Our Noble Selves,” the author’s latest novel, is an object-obbsessed murder mystery, of a sort. (www.newyorker.com)
The Worlds That Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Want - As the President stages a gala welcome for the Chinese leader, it appears that, in curious ways, the two men mirror each other. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Trump’s Latest Press Attack Just Another Distraction? - After CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were barred from the White House, the entire TV press pool announced a boycott of the President. (www.newyorker.com)
Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World - We met decades after “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” took her from the slush pile to literary celebrity, in a flash. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 22nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Even Ed Sheeran’s Apology Took Both Sides - After allowing Macklemore to be removed from his tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, the pop star took the stage in Philadelphia alone, said he was sorry, and then apologized for apologizing. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy - A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check. (www.newyorker.com)
Some Ways A.I. Might Do It - A.I. tells fifty per cent of people that knee-high socks are in and the other fifty per cent that no-show socks are in, and everyone dies in the Sock Wars. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 21st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson - Scientists have new proof that the President had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus Scandal - Students and faculty across the country were punished for their reactions to the conservative activist’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name. (www.newyorker.com)
Waiting for Jay-Z - In a sold-out run at Yankee Stadium and an eight-part documentary on HBO, the rapper makes the latest case for his own singularity. (www.newyorker.com)
What Barbara Kingsolver Believes the Novel Can Do - One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In her new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for. (www.newyorker.com)
Hernan Diaz’s Grand Experiment - In the novel “Ply,” the Pulitzer Prize winner imagines a ruined New York, a fractured society, and the ultimate structure of existence. (www.newyorker.com)
The Curious Power of Punctuation - Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences? (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust? - People say they want more children than they’re having. Is modern life stopping them—or have our ideas about a good life changed? (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “Pulling the Plug” - Is an A.I. kill switch possible? (www.newyorker.com)
What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today - Nearly a year after the ceasefire, the analyst Jaser Abu Mousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family. (www.newyorker.com)
A Populist Revival in Iowa - In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Shaq’s League of Dunkers - The basketball legend’s dunking tournament launched this summer, with a clear star—a twenty-seven-year-old poetry lover named Mac McClung. (www.newyorker.com)
Learning to Yearn with Georgia Oakley - The director of the new “Sense and Sensibility” film chats about marketing Jane Austen for Gen Z, with a little help from “Normal People” ’s Daisy Edgar-Jones. (www.newyorker.com)
The Return of “Salt” - Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 best-seller is back on the list, all thanks to a young TikToker who’s never had a latke. (www.newyorker.com)
Is A.I. Above the Law? - Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Maltese Version,” “That Summer’s End,” “Berlin Before and After,” and “Jean Toomer.” (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Brady’s Endgame - A new biography argues that the star quarterback’s divorce was his biggest fumble. (www.newyorker.com)
Why I Free-Solo El Capitan - When some of you asked if I’d record my thoughts as I hang by my fingertips over my impending death, I thought, Why not? (www.newyorker.com)
Our A.I. Problem - Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Ugly Baby - The beloved Brooklyn restaurant is back to serve a city in the thrall of Thai spiciness. (www.newyorker.com)
“Debt,” by Daniel Poppick - “What debt is this whose currency is sleep?” (www.newyorker.com)
“Dark Horse,” by Sarah Anderson - At least once a day I press the Thought like a bruise, and if I don’t it eventually starts to play anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah Anderson on Relief from Intrusive Thoughts - The author discusses her story “Dark Horse.” (www.newyorker.com)
Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur - The TV writer-actor on the sandwich generation, finding love onscreen, and growing older with her shows. (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah Anderson Reads “Dark Horse” - The author reads her story from the September 28, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Garden,” by Melissa Broder - “I was in Eden. God’s light / Tongued the leaves.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Thomas and Kavanaugh Hearings Restaged as a Theatre of Fact - “The Ford/Hill Project,” a documentary play, may capture recent events, but it’s a product of the present: activist theatre in a moment when the idea of civic urgency is losing purchase. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unknowable Miley Cyrus - The singer has been raunchy, folksy, psychedelic, Disney-clean. On her new album, “Bass Persuades,” she disappears onto the dance floor. (www.newyorker.com)
Why the Houthis Are Saudi Arabia’s Problem - The U.S. opted not to intervene as Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized a major choke point for Saudi oil shipments on the Red Sea. (www.newyorker.com)
Lena Dunham’s “Famesick” Is a Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV - In chronicling the making of “Girls,” Dunham’s memoir reveals the cost of moving from the freedom of independent filmmaking to the corporate demands of television. (www.newyorker.com)
Israel’s Qatargate Scandal - Did Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides peddle influence to a foreign power? (www.newyorker.com)
Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym? - As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward. (www.newyorker.com)
Who’s on Susanna Hoffs’s List? - On the eve of her residence at Café Carlyle, the Bangles singer dishes on her set list, which includes a Prince song and tracks from her new album, “The List,” inspired by a string of old boyfriends. (www.newyorker.com)
Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture” - The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end. (www.newyorker.com)
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing” - The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Lucy Letby Report Misses the Point - The Thirlwall Inquiry looked at why the nurse wasn’t prevented from murdering babies. But it didn’t address the question of whether she had actually done so. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good - Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Sheep That Stop Wildfires - Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms. (www.newyorker.com)
Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I. - China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation? (www.newyorker.com)
New York Film Festival’s World of Cinema - Also: the punk-rock ruckus of Bikini Kill, New York City Ballet’s fall season, the Australian solo comedy “Garry Starr: Classic Penguins,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom - Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Beef the Next Internal-Combustion Engine? - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., eats it every day, but more Americans, faced with rising prices and another climate warning, might want something else for dinner. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker’s Coverage of the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Nominees - Marlon James, Louise Erdrich, Edwidge Danticat, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
That Back-to-School Feeling - With teachers and students returning to the classroom, the hosts of Critics at Large reflect on the art of education itself. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview - Have you considered “Six Hours a Day of MSNBC” on MS NOW (or Fox News, depending on your specific parents)? (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Returns to the U.N. Amid the Collapse of the Old Order - Trump is at the heart of this geopolitical moment, catalytic in his alliance-fraying bullying, unprovoked warmongering, and protectionist demagoguery. (www.newyorker.com)
How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? - Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Emily St. John Mandel’s Fluid New Novel - “Exit Party” is an elegant crime story with sci-fi shadings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy - Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities. (www.newyorker.com)
Updated Jane Austen Titles - Including “Brain-Rot Third Space” and “Based and Vibey.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World - John Wilson’s whimsical first documentary feature reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of the ubiquitous stuff of construction. (www.newyorker.com)
My Weekend with an A.I. Agent - What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of a once analog experience. (www.newyorker.com)
The Long Doomsday of A.I. - After industry-wide calls for regulation, what’s concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions. (www.newyorker.com)
Bob Mackie Was Serious About Sequins - The designer, known for dressing Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John in feathers and fringe, excelled at Old Hollywood craftsmanship. (www.newyorker.com)
Mail-In Voting Survives - In an unsigned ruling, the Supreme Court demonstrated that it is willing to limit Donald Trump’s agenda. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist - The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 5: The Children - Will the children be returned to the couple’s mansion? As the judge reaches a decision, Ava examines a confidential court file and makes a startling discovery. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 4: The Courts - One of the surrogates secretly takes home the baby she carried. And, in an unprecedented circumstance, it seems like she might have the chance to keep her. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 3: The Industry - It takes a village to create such a large family. Ava uncovers how the stunning lack of regulation in the surrogacy industry enabled the couple’s plans. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 2: Intended Parents - Ava investigates what is going on inside the Arcadia mansion. What is the couple actually up to? And why do they want so many kids? (www.newyorker.com)
Arrangements I Would Accept - Marriage is hard; an arrangement is sexy, bold, mature. Getting married says, “I’m a romantic.” Having an arrangement says, “I know how the world works.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 1: Gifts - A woman in Texas agrees to carry a child for a wealthy couple in California. She thinks she’s helping a family in need. Then she becomes a whistle-blower. (www.newyorker.com)
Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame? - The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people. (www.newyorker.com)
Trailer: “The Journey” - Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion? A five-part series from In the Dark investigates. (www.newyorker.com)
John Wilson’s Poetry of the Mundane - The director of “The History of Concrete” discusses the value of comedy, NIMBYs, and making films out of both found moments and the rules that govern the Hallmark Channel. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Violent Feud That Shocked the Horse World - A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim. (www.newyorker.com)
The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird - Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of their marvels. Can they survive a changing planet? (www.newyorker.com)
My Surefire, Can’t-Lose Polymarket Bets - Spot on my neck: Cancer? 88% Yes. 12% More tests are needed, none of which are covered by my insurance. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth, the Author of “Grit,” Does an About-Face - In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth challenges the conventional wisdom that says we shouldn’t run away from our problems. (www.newyorker.com)
The Hearing Aid That Plays It by Ear - A company called Fortell made an A.I.-powered device that tries to tune out background noise in real time. Does it work? Ask Fortell’s test subject, Steve Martin. (www.newyorker.com)
The Wealthiest—and Stealthiest—Class in America - America’s everywhere millionaires built fortunes from hot dogs, car dealerships, medical practices, and convenience stores. Then they learned how to protect them. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sisters Buying Homes Together - As marriage rates fall and housing prices climb, adult siblings are betting on the family they already have. (www.newyorker.com)
Paula Cole Doesn’t Want to Wait - At the Conservatory Garden, the singer reflects on her new two-album set, “Sonic Memoir: Demos 1989-1998”; launching Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlan; and the time Jay Leno made fun of her armpit hair. (www.newyorker.com)
Ke Huy Quan Keeps Smiling - On a trip to Liberty Island, the actor chats about his new memoir, “Never Say Die,” which chronicles his journey from refugee to child star in “Indiana Jones” to winning an Oscar, for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” (www.newyorker.com)
Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy - Donald Trump’s son-in-law represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth. (www.newyorker.com)
The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities - Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again? (www.newyorker.com)
Dean Rohrer’s “Beginnings” - The city as a blank canvas. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Dèy,” “Etna,” “Are They Dead Yet?,” and “Unbelonging.” (www.newyorker.com)
What the Met’s John Galliano Reversal Reveals - The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on power still exist. (www.newyorker.com)
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Lost Child” - The author reads her story from the September 21, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin? - Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history. (www.newyorker.com)
“Late September,” by Jodie Hollander - “Now the air / is darker; my garden plots are empty.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Lost Child,” by Joyce Carol Oates - It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers - A new book captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the movement alive. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Protect Democracy - The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma. (www.newyorker.com)
Joyce Carol Oates on Embedded Memories - The author discusses her story “Lost Child.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Driveway,” by Stephanie Horvath - “In the gut, / In the mouth, / In the irreducible / ‘Bile’ humor.” (www.newyorker.com)
On Not Being a Homeowner - Generational wealth shapes our futures and friendships, whether we talk about it or not. (www.newyorker.com)
Ric Burns, N.Y.C. Optimist - The director—and brother of Ken Burns—is releasing two new episodes of his long-running “New York: A Documentary Film,” this time covering Superstorm Sandy, COVID, and Eric Adams. (www.newyorker.com)
Is a Blue Wave Really Coming? - Democrats have the numbers on their side, but their success in the midterms is far from a sure thing. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Uprising” Is a Grim But Scattershot History Lesson - In Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and hyperkinetic action filmmaking fight each other to a draw. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 11th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Colin Kaepernick, Ten Years After Taking a Knee - In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league. (www.newyorker.com)