Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 6th - “Looks like it’s another creepy appointee to a federal agency.” (www.newyorker.com)
My Kids Think I’m a Boomer - What does “skibidi” mean? (www.newyorker.com)
One Conductor’s Mission to Diversify Music in “The Orchestra Chuck Built” - Christopher Stoudt’s film tells the story of a conductor leading the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and of the transformative power of music. (www.newyorker.com)
Great Books Don’t Make Great Films, but “Nickel Boys” Is a Glorious Exception - RaMell Ross’s first dramatic feature, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel, gives the bearing of witness an arresting cinematic form. (www.newyorker.com)
The Vibrant Abandon of Barbara Hannigan - Also: A trio of new book bars, Mariah Carey rings in the season, an Avett Brothers musical on Broadway, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Scandal of Trump’s Cabinet Picks Isn’t Just Their Personal Failings - The President-elect and his appointees now view their internal enemies as America’s biggest national-security threats. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 5th - Top tracks for extremely justified existential terror. (www.newyorker.com)
The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome - Films such as “Gladiator II” underscore our long-standing obsession with the Roman Empire—a fixation that’s evident in both culture and politics. Why are we so desperate to reclaim ancient history? (www.newyorker.com)
Ad for the Human Body - The human body is built for glory. For triumph. For experiencing sudden, inexplicable knee pain when you walk up stairs too fast. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Brody’s The Best Movies of 2024 - The year’s finest works suggest that the art of cinema is expanding. (www.newyorker.com)
The Immigrants Most Vulnerable to Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Entered the Country Legally - Biden could still pursue additional protections for many of them—so far, he appears unwilling to do so. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Trump Indictments Backfired - “It was ill-fated from the beginning,” Jeannie Suk Gersen says, of the effort to prosecute Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
The Twenty-first Century’s Best Books About Native America - Ned Blackhawk, who won the 2023 National Book Award for his groundbreaking reappraisal of U.S. history, discusses some of the best recent books about Native America. (www.newyorker.com)
Lucy Grealy Understood What It Meant To Be Seen - Three decades later, “Autobiography of a Face,” a sensation when it was published, has lost none of its force. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 4th - Act fast! (www.newyorker.com)
A Coup, Almost, in South Korea - President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass protests. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Make the World a Better Place in Ten Easy Steps - Aristotle became Aristotle by sitting around for hours. Who knows what’ll happen if you stop moving and just think. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime - A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel groups to overrun the Syrian Army. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 3rd - “You’re just mad ’cause now you’ll never get to see how hot Hunter would’ve looked in an orange jumpsuit.” (www.newyorker.com)
Are Grownups Just Giant Kids? - Adulthood might be less monolithic than it seems. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Contraception Under Attack? - You can now buy a pill over the counter, but a conservative backlash is promoting anti-contraceptive disinformation. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Podcasts of 2024 - Despite industry turmoil, old and new shows continue to innovate, whether investigating Elon Musk, high-school mysteries, or our relationship to death itself. (www.newyorker.com)
Joe Biden’s Pardon of Hunter Further Undermines His Legacy - By granting clemency to his son, the President put his family above the American people. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 2nd - “I’m skipping Cyber Monday deals to hold out for Last-Try Tuesday and We-Didn’t-Make-Our-Sales-Goal Wednesday.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Elegy for a Name,” by Kaveh Akbar - “How you used to come when called. / Blood-in-Me. Best-of-All.” (www.newyorker.com)
Speaking Irish with Kneecap - The rap trio from Béal Feirste, whose eponymous bio-pic won the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance, discover the joys of the Northeast Regional on their U.S. tour. (www.newyorker.com)
On the Block: Where Jerry Lewis and Buddy Hackett Once Schvitzed - The tummlers have moved on, but the distinctive Friars Club building, in midtown, is going to the highest bidder. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Valley So Low,” “The Impossible Man,” “Blood Test: A Comedy,” and “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Emma Green’s piece about the anti-abortion movement. (www.newyorker.com)
Callum Robinson’s “Ingrained,” Reviewed: A Carpenter’s Memoir - In “Ingrained,” Callum Robinson honors not just the art of carpentry but the passion of labor itself. (www.newyorker.com)
John Cuneo’s “Garden Party” - The Knicks are making a joyful comeback. (www.newyorker.com)
Javier Milei Wages War on Argentina’s Government - The President, a libertarian economist given to outrageous provocations, wants to remake the nation. Can it survive his shock-therapy approach? (www.newyorker.com)
R.F.K., Jr., Wants to Eliminate Fluoridated Water. He Used to Bottle and Sell It - Donald Trump’s nominee to lead H.H.S. once started a bottled-water line, Keeper Springs. What was in it? (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Albums of 2024 - It’s possible that I listened to more music this year than any other. I lost interest in podcasts. I lost interest in silence. There was too much extraordinary work out there. (www.newyorker.com)
John C. Reilly’s Lovelorn Alter Ego - Figuring that he can fall back on vaudeville if his film career dries up, the actor has devised a new act, “Mister Romantic.” (www.newyorker.com)
Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th - For decades, I maintained a status quo of living like a Jew without being one. When I finally pursued conversion, I discovered that I was part of a larger movement born of crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Obscure Familial Relations, Explained for the Holidays - Half siblings, great-aunts, cousins once removed, and how to tell the difference. (www.newyorker.com)
Houston’s Thriving West African Food Scene - As the city has welcomed more immigrants from Nigeria and neighboring countries, the local restaurant landscape has flourished. (www.newyorker.com)
Highly Successful Insomniacs - Marv W. sleeps only on Tuesdays. You know what he does on the other nights? Masterpieces. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Sterling Silver Mirror,” by Nikki Giovanni - “My great great grandmother was a slave holding inside / Her the first of our family to be born / Free.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Meditative Organ Soundscapes of Kali Malone - The eighty-minute suite “All Life Long” is slow, hushed, and gnawingly beautiful, but it does not supply conventional musical comforts. (www.newyorker.com)
The Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves - To whom should we have allegiance—the version of ourself making choices, or the version of ourself who will be affected by them? (www.newyorker.com)
The New Business of Breakups - After getting dumped (by text), a writer investigates the feverish boom in heartbreak apps, breakup coaches, and get-over-him getaways. (www.newyorker.com)
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History - A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job. (www.newyorker.com)
“Plaster,” by David Szalay - The things that left him feeling that nothing would ever be the same again—they just aren’t important here. (www.newyorker.com)
What You Can Do with an Electric Volkswagen Bus - I took the new VW ID. Buzz for a drive down memory lane. Things got bumpy. (www.newyorker.com)
David Szalay Reads “Plaster” - The author reads his story from the December 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
David Szalay on the Inarticulacy of Experience - The author discusses his story “Plaster.” (www.newyorker.com)
Ayşegül Savaş Reads Tessa Hadley - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “An Abduction,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. (www.newyorker.com)
A Kamala Harris Canvasser’s Education - Even on my first day, I sensed dissonance between the campaign’s celebrity-inflected exuberance and the raw divisions I saw in the streets. (www.newyorker.com)
Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term - After spending years painting the media as the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump is ready to intensify his battle against the journalists who cover him. (www.newyorker.com)
A Bahraini Photographer Returns Home - Ali Al Shehabi’s images of the Gulf kingdom dwell on the texture of a homeland he felt alienated from for most of his life. (www.newyorker.com)
Of Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye - A smattering of Yiddish happens to be all the Yiddish I have. (www.newyorker.com)
The Asymmetry in the Abortion-Rights Movement - Grassroots activists believe that high-altitude advocacy is taking precedence over helping patients access care. (www.newyorker.com)
Hilton Als on Understanding Difference in “Alok” - Also: A fresh “Elf” on Broadway, Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton navigate “The End,” the French hip-hop dance of Bintou Dembélé, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Jokes of 2024 - A suggestive tennis match, a manic “Hot Ones” interview, and other amusing moments in an often surreal year. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 29th - “Oddly, social media isn’t helping my state of mind.” (www.newyorker.com)
Looking Back on a Fallen Life in “Oh, Canada” - In Paul Schrader’s latest film—his most audacious religious vision yet—a documentarian on his deathbed confesses, on camera, to a lifetime of misdeeds. (www.newyorker.com)
The Triumph of the Post-Thanksgiving Sandwich - After the big meal, alone with your refrigerator, let the real celebration begin. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 28th - “No hats at the table.” (www.newyorker.com)
Expiration Dates According to My Mom - All cheese is expired. This one’s just becoming “bleu” around the edges. (www.newyorker.com)
Rae Armantrout Reads Dorothea Lasky - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Mother,” by Dorothea Lasky, and her own poem “Finally.” (www.newyorker.com)
What to Read This Winter, According to Tattered Cover - Kathy Baum, who curates new books for the Denver-area independent-bookstore institution, shares some of her fall and winter favorites. (www.newyorker.com)
Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer - Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature? (www.newyorker.com)
What Google Off-loading Chrome Would Mean for Users - A landmark antitrust ruling could change the Internet’s power balance, but the industry is shifting regardless. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 27th - An unwelcome cornucopia. (www.newyorker.com)
What Can Stop the Cycle of Escalation in Ukraine? - As the Biden Administration approves new weaponry for Ukrainian forces, Putin has invoked Russia’s nuclear arsenal, but neither move is likely to significantly alter the trajectory of the war. (www.newyorker.com)
Pick 3: Justin Chang’s Downer Movies for the Holiday Season - The New Yorker’s critic on holiday-season films that he’s excited about. “These are not upbeat movies,” Chang admits, “but they are among the most thrilling that I’ve seen this year.” (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights - The first transgender person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from other House members, including Speaker Mike Johnson. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: A Wicked Good Plan - “Shall we do a Frenemiesgiving?” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 26th - “I’d like to give up my seat to someone who can tolerate their family during the holidays.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” Is a Shattering Epic of Reproach - In Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing film, contemporary social unrest threatens to tear an Iranian family apart. (www.newyorker.com)
Did the Opioid Epidemic Fuel Donald Trump’s Return to the White House? - New research suggests that the Democrats’ struggles in communities battling fentanyl addiction had little to do with economic theory or messaging—it was, more simply, a failure of political attention. (www.newyorker.com)
I’m Not Afraid of Conflict - Whenever a colleague is unkind or unfair, I let them know . . . that, unfortunately, I’ve just noticed the time and I’d better leave immediately so that I won’t miss my bus. (www.newyorker.com)
Little Treats Galore: A Holiday Gift Guide - An annual roundup of things to make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Gratitude So Difficult? - When we feel grateful, we’re doing something that’s more complex than it seems. (www.newyorker.com)
The Operatic Drama of “Maria” Misses Its Cue - Despite Angelina Jolie’s passionate performance, this sensationalized story of Maria Callas’s last days neglects the diva’s true art. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Save Us, Pedro - “It’s not strange at all—lately, a lot of people are reporting that their faith in humanity is riding entirely on whether or not Pedro Pascal is as nice as he seems.” (www.newyorker.com)
A Ninety-Nine-Year-Old Lawyer’s Final Case in “Frank” - Frank Lucianna spent most of his life as a criminal-defense lawyer from New Jersey; even as he pushed a hundred, he didn’t wish to retire. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 25th - A Thanksgiving ritual. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Virginia Tracy the First Great American Film Critic? - The actress, screenwriter, and novelist’s reviews and essays from 1918-19 display a comprehensive grasp of movie art and a visionary sense of its future. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Toro’s “Incognito” - Putting on a friendly face. (www.newyorker.com)
Forbidden Sips of the Ukrainian Dom Pérignon - In the Cold War, Stalin ordered that a winery be set up in an old gypsum mine in Bakhmut; now Russian soldiers are using the prized cuvée to flush toilets. (www.newyorker.com)
How Old Age Was Reborn - “The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far? (www.newyorker.com)
Why Trump’s Pick for Treasury Secretary May Be His Most Important - In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason. (www.newyorker.com)
How Malcolm Washington Pitched Denzel Washington on “The Piano Lesson” - On a visit to August Wilson’s childhood home, in Pittsburgh, the director of a new adaptation of the play discusses casting his brother (alongside Samuel L. Jackson) and working for his father. (www.newyorker.com)
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus - Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Sam Knight’s article on shipwreck detectives and Jill Lepore’s and George Saunders’s election dispatches. (www.newyorker.com)
“The World,” by Jorie Graham - “At / first it / didn’t change // much.” (www.newyorker.com)
Protest or Principle: Withholding Sex from My Wife - I vow to go without sex to prove that I am in support of what my wife is in support of, politically, and also in terms of not wanting to have sex with me that much. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Make Fuel (or Booze) from Thin Air - Air Company, a startup that has used water and carbon dioxide to make vodka and to power automobiles, taste-tests its product and discusses getting Elon Musk’s business. (www.newyorker.com)
Lake Tahoe’s Bear Boom - The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites. (www.newyorker.com)
Tyler, the Creator’s Hype Man and D.J. Lets Fly at Camp Flog Gnaw - Jasper Dolphin joins two young fans for corn dogs and scary rides at Dodger Stadium. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “On the Calculation of Volume (Book I),” “The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan,” “Burdened,” and “Linguaphile.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Homage to Willie Mays,” by Larry Levis - “I didn’t like or dislike baseball, I simply / Didn’t understand it.” (www.newyorker.com)
A Revolution in How Robots Learn - A future generation of robots will not be programmed to complete specific tasks. Instead, they will use A.I. to teach themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School - When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink modernity. (www.newyorker.com)
Daniel Craig’s Masculine Constructs - The actor discusses making the new movie “Queer” and breaking out of his Bondian image. (www.newyorker.com)
How Giant Robot Captured Asian America - The magazine explored Asian American culture, without dwelling too much on what that meant. (www.newyorker.com)
A Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide for 2024 - A food writer’s annual guide to gastronomic gift giving. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fundamental Problem with R.F.K., Jr.,’s Nomination to H.H.S. - Kennedy has many bad ideas. Yet the irony of our political moment is that his more reasonable positions are the ones that could sink his candidacy. (www.newyorker.com)
Shuang Xuetao on Memory as a Movie - The author discusses his story “Paris Friend.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Paris Friend,” by Shuang Xuetao - So you get on well? he said. You could say that, I said. You could say that, for a while now, she’s been my only reason to go on living. (www.newyorker.com)
Celebrating the Holidays in N.Y.C. - Favorite traditions light up the season, including “Messiah”s, “Nutcracker”s, Scrooge, James Joyce, the Rockettes, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Rise of 4B in the Wake of Donald Trump’s Reëlection - Why the South Korean feminist movement, which calls for a boycott of men, is gaining traction among American women. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Prepare for Trump 2.0 - The Washington Roundtable speaks with David Cole, a former legal director of the A.C.L.U., about the civil and legal guardrails that could contain a second Trump Administration. (www.newyorker.com)
The Island Where Environmentalism Implodes - New Caledonia is home to thousands of species found nowhere else—and to nickel that companies like Tesla desperately need. (www.newyorker.com)
Conner O’Malley Is the Bard of the Manosphere - The comedian’s absurd, poignant work captures the lives of the kind of frustrated young men who helped Donald Trump win the election. (www.newyorker.com)
Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane - The writer explains how she took up quilting to help her cope with terrible news, and the science behind why it works. (www.newyorker.com)
A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving - “The Thanksgiving Play” is a comedy on an awkward subject, and a sendup of liberal good intentions. The staff writer Vinson Cunningham speaks with the playwright Larissa FastHorse. (www.newyorker.com)
Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court - The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the decline in public trust and questions about the Court’s ethics code, and how Justices get along in a very partisan era. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald and Elon Pull Strings - But who’s playing whom? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 22nd - You in? (www.newyorker.com)
Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes - A second Trump Administration could give impunity to American soldiers who commit atrocities. (www.newyorker.com)
Dalí, Basquiat, Haring, and Hockney at Luna Luna - Also: Interpol’s “Antics” turns twenty, Kyle Abraham fills Drill Hall, new work by the photographer Jeff Wall, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Electable Female Candidate: Part 2 - She gets every cultural reference, from brat to Brat Pack, from simp to “The Simpsons,” from skibidi to yabba dabba doo. (www.newyorker.com)
Faustian Bargains in “Death Becomes Her” and “Burnout Paradise” - The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Administration Hopefuls Descend on Mar-a-Lago - Since Election Day, the Florida club has played host to a rotating cast of characters from MAGA world, all vying for positions of power. (www.newyorker.com)
The Pain Creating a New Coalition for Trump - Despair permeates white, Black, and Latino working-class life. Democrats will have to find a new way to speak to it. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Franchise” Gives Hollywood the “Veep” Treatment - Satirizing the superhero-blockbuster business, HBO’s new comedy finds mostly easy targets, but eventually something more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Explosion of Matt Gaetz and Other Early Lessons in Trump 2.0 - There are many more manic Thursdays to come. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 21st - “Ah, fall—time to die!” (www.newyorker.com)
Description of a Guy in a Fantasy Romance Novel - In his human form, Algor resembled a mix of George Clooney, Tom Cruise, and a Boeing 747. In his magical form, Algor resembled a demon rhinoceros with wings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Novelist’s Unnerving Memoir of Disordered Eating - In “My Good Bright Wolf,” Sarah Moss recounts a dangerous romance with self-deprivation. (www.newyorker.com)
The Price Lebanon Is Paying for the Hezbollah-Israel War - The group’s supporters remain steadfast in the face of widespread displacement and thousands of deaths. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Kids Online, In Fact, Be All Right? - A new documentary reveals social-media platforms’ iron grip on the lives of teen-agers, one that’s increasingly being linked to a slew of mental-health issues. How scared should we be? (www.newyorker.com)
Frank Auerbach’s Raw Truths - “I find it all very difficult,” the late German-born British artist said, and few painters have done as much to show the struggle of creative endeavor. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Shostakovich Ever Escape Stalin’s Shadow? - Endless debate over whether the ending of the composer’s Fifth Symphony represents a capitulation to Soviet demands or a secret dissent obscures a more tantalizing possibility. (www.newyorker.com)
“Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers,” Reviewed - Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some of the artist’s best work. (www.newyorker.com)
What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America? - Matt Gaetz has “gone to Washington to burn it down,” says the staff writer Dexter Filkins. “And he’s been remarkably successful.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Offer Nostalgic, Half-Satisfying Showdowns - With a musical return to Oz and a bloody epic of ancient Rome, Hollywood studios double down on blockbuster spectacle. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Josh Brolin Loves James Joyce - On the occasion of his new memoir, the “Dune” actor reflects on some of his formative reading experiences. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fantasy of Cozy Tech - From the “cozy gaming” trend to a new generation of A.I. companions, our devices are trying to swath us in a digital and physical cocoon. (www.newyorker.com)
The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone - Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 20th - “I want to be in the moment, just not this moment.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Complex Politics of Tribal Enrollment - How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”? (www.newyorker.com)
The Northeast Is Becoming Fire Country - Maps of recent fires across the region resemble California in August, with hundreds of red dots. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump Could Change the Trajectory of the War in Ukraine - Any deal will likely be favorable to the Russians, though the clock on Putin’s ability to sustain a wartime economy may be running out. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 19th - It’s on the tip of my tongue . . . (www.newyorker.com)
A Visit to Planet Koren - A new exhibition celebrates the work of the late cartoonist Edward Koren. (www.newyorker.com)
El Museo del Barrio Offers a Timely Triennial of Latino Art - The unique history of El Museo has allowed it to be at the vanguard of what is now more widely accepted as the purpose of museums. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s U.F.C. Victory Party - Dana White, the C.E.O. of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, helped Trump reach young male voters. Now White says he’s done with politics: “I want nothing to do with this shit.” (www.newyorker.com)
Why Do We Talk This Way? - Technology is dramatically changing political speech, rewarding quantity and variety over the neat messages of the past. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 18th - The unspoken bond between human and dog. (www.newyorker.com)
Understanding Latino Support for Donald Trump - Democrats have often described Latinos as decisive when they support liberal candidates and inconsequential when they don’t. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Elon Musk Really Embracing Donald Trump? - After spending more than a hundred million dollars to help Trump get elected, Musk stands to earn a lot more. (www.newyorker.com)
“In Praise of Machado de Assis,” by David Lehman - “Better to fall / out of a cloud than from / a third-story window.” (www.newyorker.com)
Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch” Explores the Feral Side of Motherhood - With “Nightbitch”—in which Amy Adams turns into a dog—the director portrays parenting as a visceral transformation. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Women’s Hotel,” “Under the Eye of the Big Bird,” “By the Fire We Carry,” and “Alexander von Humboldt.” (www.newyorker.com)
Why N.S.A. Rules Say No to Smartphones, No to Texting, Yes to Podcasts - The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.” (www.newyorker.com)
Javier Mariscal’s “Desk with a View” - Sudden glimpses of urban artistry. (www.newyorker.com)
The Long Way Home After a Cancelled Flight, by David Sedaris - Had I proposed earlier that we invite someone stranded to come with us to New York, Hugh would have said no. But now there was really no way for him to back out. (www.newyorker.com)
The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S. - Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their ensuing rivalry was political, sometimes even personal. (www.newyorker.com)
With Help from Martin Scorsese, a Little Italy Organ Gets a Sprucing Up - Since the Civil War, the Erben organ has imbued St. Patrick’s Basilica with “a tinge of sadness.” (www.newyorker.com)
This Election Just Proves What I Already Believed - The list of issues I was right about goes on and on. Guns? Kamala Harris owns too many, but also not enough. (www.newyorker.com)
An Investigation Into How Prosecutors Picked Death-Penalty Juries - One of the notes on potential jurors read, “I liked him better than any other Jew But No Way,” then added, “Must Kick, too Risky.” (www.newyorker.com)
Helping “Gypsy” ’s Strippers Take It All Off Anew - George C. Wolfe finds inspiration for his production—starring Audra McDonald as Broadway’s first Black Mama Rose—watching the pasties twirl at a burlesque show. (www.newyorker.com)
I.S.O.: Ten to Fifteen Lesbians Over Sixty. Nudity Optional - The artist Samantha Nye tries to drum up models for a shoot of a female-only “pleasure party” at the Belvedere Guest House, the all-male gay compound. (www.newyorker.com)
“Before I Can Exist, I Have to Enter the Gift Shoppe,” by Lisa Russ Spaar - “America, like hope’s sharp pencil, / winks brightly beyond a gantlet of elegant shill.” (www.newyorker.com)
Should India Speak a Single Language? - In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest? - From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Nicholas Lemann’s article on Bidenomics, Kathryn Schulz’s essay on animal mortality, and Jazmine Hughes’s piece on Alpha Kappa Alpha. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Wonders - The President-elect’s nominations look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet. But it is a trolling beyond mischief. (www.newyorker.com)
“Here,” Then and Now - Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums. (www.newyorker.com)
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Debt, Cults, and Our Inner Algorithms - The author discusses his story “Minimum Payment Due.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Minimum Payment Due,” by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh - I had no story except my debt. And debt wasn’t a story. Debt was a lack of foresight. Debt was being caught up in the moment. Debt was an indication of character. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Upstairs and Downstairs at Clemente Bar - A new lounge above Eleven Madison Park offers refined plant-based bites and beverages while leaving fine-dining social hierarchies intact. (www.newyorker.com)
Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback - The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier. (www.newyorker.com)
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Minimum Payment Due” - The author reads his story from the November 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lizard King of Long Island - Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said. (www.newyorker.com)
Bearing Witness to American Exploits - Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of his new book, “Look at the U.S.A.,” that deepens the viewer’s experience. (www.newyorker.com)
Documentaries of Dissent - “No Other Land” and “Union” are films that Hollywood and corporate America don’t want you to see. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Gave Democrats the Working-Class Blues - Kamala Harris spoke of creating an “opportunity economy,” a vague idea more likely to appeal to entrepreneurs than to struggling workers. (www.newyorker.com)
The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority - Two leading political scientists explain why voters failed to defend democracy: We never do. (www.newyorker.com)
Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington - The actress discusses starring in the new film adaptation of “The Piano Lesson,” Wilson’s play about the Great Migration and a family torn apart by inheritance. (www.newyorker.com)
“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life - With in-depth interviews and startling reënactments, the director Mosco Boucault details the anguish and the heroism of a mainly Jewish group of French Resistance fighters. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 15th - “You think they know something we don’t?” (www.newyorker.com)
The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair - What sort of reply can one offer to a person who has already decided that the world ends here? (www.newyorker.com)
A Woman Wonders If She’s Human in “I’m Not a Robot” - In Victoria Warmerdam’s short film, a series of failed CAPTCHA tests plunges a woman into a strange new reality. (www.newyorker.com)
What Russia and Ukraine Want from a Second Trump Presidency - The Trump Administration will likely take the lead in any negotiations to end the war—a development that Vladimir Putin would welcome. (www.newyorker.com)
The Elegiac Art of Robert Frank - Also: Rachel Syme samples opulent advent calendars, Helen Shaw reviews “Tammy Faye” and “A Wonderful World,” “Emilia Pérez” is streaming, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
“Say Nothing” Is a Gripping Drama of Political Disillusionment - The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book captures both the allure of the I.R.A.’s cause and the way violence comes to weigh on its perpetrators. (www.newyorker.com)
The Most Extreme Cabinet Ever - Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun. (www.newyorker.com)
Why the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza Is Worse Than It’s Ever Been - As “imminent” famine looms, Israel’s legislature has voted to ban the main U.N. relief agency for Palestinians. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 14th - America, meet your top Cabinet picks. (www.newyorker.com)
“Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!” and “Gatz” Beat On Against the Current - The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the performance artist Alina Troyano summon downtown’s wild spirit, and Elevator Repair Service revives its signature hit. (www.newyorker.com)
“Your Body, My Choice”: A New Rallying Cry for the Irony-Poisoned Right - It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression: “Your body, my choice.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Value—and Limits—of Seeking Comfort in Art - In the days since Donald Trump’s reëlection, art has offered a distraction for those reeling from the news. But what does it mean to turn away when circumstances demand our attention? (www.newyorker.com)
Our Driverless Cars Are More Human Than Ever - Our alert system automatically blares a train horn if the vehicle ahead of you fails to speed off within 0.28 seconds of the traffic light turning green. That’ll keep traffic moving! (www.newyorker.com)
The Gorgeous Mumbai Rhapsody of “All We Imagine as Light” - Payal Kapadia’s drama of women’s solidarity, a major prizewinner at Cannes, pays radiant homage to a city and its people. (www.newyorker.com)
Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next - “There’s a tension between planning and future-tripping, and I’m trying not to future-trip too much” the MSNBC host says. “The first big thing that we all got to get our heads around is: What is this mass-deportation thing going to look like?” (www.newyorker.com)
Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story - The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured political moment. (www.newyorker.com)
How R.E.M. Created Alternative Music - In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could break through to mass appeal without being cheesy, or nostalgic, or playing hair metal. (www.newyorker.com)
Pete Hegseth’s Path from Fox News to Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense - No decision more clearly reveals Donald Trump’s disdain for his country’s armed forces than his selection of the TV host as his Secretary of Defense. (www.newyorker.com)
How Elon Musk Rebranded Trump - The tech billionaire’s alliance with the President-elect has far-reaching implications for the incoming Administration. (www.newyorker.com)
Career Fair, Class of 2028 - Become an A.I. operator. The work is dull, but you’ll make enough money for rations and to live in a pipe in Williamsburg with twenty other people. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 13th - Choose wisely. (www.newyorker.com)
Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information - For years, Democrats have sought to win elections by micro-targeting communities with detailed facts. What if the secret is big, sloppy notions seeded nationwide? (www.newyorker.com)
“Goodbye, Morganza” Follows the Legacy of a Black Family’s Property Loss - Devon Blackwell’s short documentary explores how her great-grandparents lost the house they had owned since 1892, and the impact of that loss on generations of her family. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 12th - ”I know it’s early, but it makes me believe we’ll make it to Christmas.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Election Was About the Issues After All - The fifteen-dollar minimum wage, a core progressive issue, won ballot measures in red states. Why have Democrats stopped pushing for it? (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus: Your Season 3 Questions, Answered - Was it scary to knock on all those Marines’ doors? What was it like to report in Iraq? Is it still possible for any Marines to face consequences for what happened in Haditha? The In the Dark team sits down to answer your questions. (www.newyorker.com)
A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio - In Adali Schell’s “New Paris,” which documents his family in the aftermath of death and divorce, individuals are more complicated than the worst thing happening to them. (www.newyorker.com)
January 6, 2025 - The Capitol is breached. Security cameras catch Senator Josh Hawley running in fear from a passel of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A. activists attempting to garland him in Pride bunting. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Gold’s “Romeo Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth - Gold, a celebrated Shakespeare director, designed his theatre production for a young audience. “It’s loud. I’m willing to hear the complaints, because I have risk tolerance,” he said. (www.newyorker.com)
Do You Have Hope? - And, if not, how can you get some? (www.newyorker.com)
“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord - The performances of Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña bring energy and emotion, but the movie never gets beyond its splashy surfaces. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 11th - Game over. (www.newyorker.com)
New York’s Clock Master to City Hall: Time’s Up! - Eighty-five-year-old Marvin Schneider and his seventy-four-year-old apprentice have staged a five-year-long protest against the landmarks commission over a famous clock tower. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Parul Sehgal’s review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Message” and Tad Friend’s Profile of the rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz. (www.newyorker.com)
A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era - In “Quarterlife,” Devika Rege uses three very different protagonists to explore the country’s ideological ferment—setting them first at play, then at war. (www.newyorker.com)
At COP29, the Sun Sets on U.S. Climate Leadership - Just how bad a second Trump Administration will be for climate policy remains to be seen, but the most likely scenarios are all pretty bleak. (www.newyorker.com)
The Morning After the 2024 Election at the White House - A teary voter tours the People’s House and tries to find perspective in the relics of the “Honest and Wise Men” who came before. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Your Parenting-Failure Style? - Like to watch TikToks while your toddler eats a bagel from the subway floor? Take this quiz to determine how bad a mom or dad you really are. (www.newyorker.com)
The Painful Pleasures of the New York Tattoo Convention - The art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another. (www.newyorker.com)
“Everything Always,” by Alex Dimitrov - “It’s so early I am still in last night.” (www.newyorker.com)
The New Pro-Life Playbook - Under Trump, a new vision of conservative family policy is ascendant. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Victory and the Politics of Inflation - Joe Biden’s strong record on jobs and Kamala Harris’s vow to reduce the cost of living couldn’t prevent the Democrats from succumbing to a global anti-incumbency wave. (www.newyorker.com)
“Vigil,” by Camille Rankine - “Long day’s night, the endless dream.” (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre? - An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe. (www.newyorker.com)
Eve’s Memoir, “Who’s That Girl?,” and Other Questions - The Philadelphia-born rapper on stage clothes (“Jumpsuit, bitch!”), the Diddy situation, and her run-ins with Questlove and Jay-Z. It’s a Philly thing. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Kent State,” “How the New World Became Old,” “The Last Dream,” and “The Repeat Room.” (www.newyorker.com)
The British Artist Jadé Fadojutimi Has a Color Instinct - In a London warehouse pumping with dance music and movie soundtracks, Jadé Fadojutimi paints exuberant canvases all night long. (www.newyorker.com)
Democrats Tried to Counter Donald Trump’s Viciousness Toward Women with Condescension - The Harris campaign felt the need to remind women voters that they can vote for whomever they want. Women understood this. The campaign failed to. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s 2024 Election and the Prospect of Corruption, by Rachel Maddow - Authoritarian rule always entails corruption. With Donald Trump in office, watch your wallet. (www.newyorker.com)
“Heavy Snow,” by Han Kang - I have made my way here at Inseon’s request. Because she said, I need you to go to my place in Jeju. If you don’t, she’ll die. (www.newyorker.com)
Pope Francis, the Cardinals, and “Conclave” - The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view of what the Church should be. (www.newyorker.com)
Haruki Murakami on Rethinking Early Work - The author discusses his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” and his growth as a writer. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Bridges - Bridges, a chic new restaurant from a former Estela chef, offers indulgence through restraint, with eye-opening results. (www.newyorker.com)
A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again - How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana. (www.newyorker.com)
The Feminist Critic Who Kept Flaubert on His Toes - For years, the writer flirted and exchanged ideas with Amélie Bosquet—until her ideas threatened his work. (www.newyorker.com)
Into the Phones of Teens - “Social Studies,” a documentary series by Lauren Greenfield, follows a group of young people, and screen-records their phones, to capture how social media has reshaped their lives. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Returns. What Now? - “This is the pivotal four years,” Susan B. Glasser says. “We’re going to understand whether something like an American strongman can arise within our system right now or not.” (www.newyorker.com)
Canvassing for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania - Going door-to-door in Pennsylvania felt intense and hopeful, but after Trump’s victory in the state a few encounters kept floating back. (www.newyorker.com)
It Can Happen Here: Reckoning with Donald Trump’s 2024 Election Victory - Everyone who realizes with proper alarm that Trump’s reëlection is a deeply dangerous moment in American life must think hard about where we are. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future - David Remnick joins Evan Osnos, Jane Mayer, and Susan Glasser to explain how Trump won the race, and what his rhetoric of vengeance and retribution portends for his return to power. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 8th - Guess it’s that time again. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Majority Could Easily Rule Through 2045 - Democrats failed to make the Supreme Court itself a major campaign issue, but what comes after the Dobbs decision could very well be worse, and more wide-reaching. (www.newyorker.com)
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? - Donald Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs. (www.newyorker.com)
Morning-After Campaign Texts - Hey, it’s Kamala. Should we do a tiny insurrection? Quick poll: Y/N? No worries if not! (www.newyorker.com)
The Reckoning of the Democratic Party - Donald Trump won votes across racial and class lines on Tuesday night. Are Republicans now the more diverse voice of the working class? (www.newyorker.com)
Post-Election Faces - Are these the usual blank stares—or something heavier? (www.newyorker.com)
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” Transcends the Holiday-Movie Genre - Tyler Thomas Taormina’s comedy drama about a Long Island family boasts some of the year’s sharpest characterizations and a strikingly original narrative form. (www.newyorker.com)
Kacey Musgraves, Offbeat Pageant Princess - Also: Hilton Als on theatrical magic from David Cromer and Zoë Winters, Ralph Lemon at MOMA PS1, “A Real Pain” reviewed, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Reprise: Writers Respond to Donald Trump’s 2024 Reëlection - What his return to the Presidency reveals about America. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump’s Election Victory in 2024 Differs from 2016 - We will be a fundamentally different country by the end of the next Administration. Indeed, we already are. (www.newyorker.com)
The Deep Rot Revealed by Trump’s Return to Power - Our civic wells are poisoned. Why? (www.newyorker.com)
A Fourth-Rate Entertainer, a Third-Rate Businessman, and a Two-Time President - The 2024 election, like the one in 2016, had the same nutty and vapid Donald Trump, the same retrograde gender politics, and the same result. (www.newyorker.com)
After Trump’s Reëlection, How Can Americans Rebuild a Common Life? - Visiting the site where the Civil War began, for clues on how the cold war of the present may end. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump Took Back America - “I don’t understand why the Democratic Party makes the decisions that it does,” The New Yorker’s Jay Caspian Kang says. “I find that the more reporting I do, it’s actually more confounding to me.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump, the Leader of White Grievance, Gained Among Hispanic Voters - In 2016, the idea that Trump was a cloaked white supremacist made him seem like a fringe character. What does it mean that his popularity has increased? (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Talks Through His Hat - Everything old is old again. (www.newyorker.com)
The End of Kamala Harris’s Campaign - At Howard University, a sombre crowd came out to support their candidate and witness history. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 7th - “No one’s leaving until we can get them to agree on who to blame for this.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Cartoonist’s Dream Journal - My ideas come from my dreams, so that’s why I nap so frequently. I’m working. (www.newyorker.com)
Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season - Above my desk, I keep a Post-it note with a quote from the play: “The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’ ” (www.newyorker.com)
How America Embraced Gender War - Both Trump’s and Harris’s campaigns framed the Presidential election as a contest between men and women. Did the results prove them right? (www.newyorker.com)
Can Direct Democracy Save Abortion Rights? - Voters are amending their state constitutions to protect reproductive freedom—and discovering the limitations of these measures in the post-Dobbs era. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach Victory Celebration - Surrounded by an ever-expanding cast of MAGA characters, the perpetual candidate becomes President-elect again. (www.newyorker.com)
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Jean Hanff Korelitz’s All-Time Favorite Sequels - The New York Times best-selling author of “The Sequel” discusses some standout follow-up novels, including ones by Erica Jong, Chaim Potok, and Scott Turow. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Second Term Is Joe Biden’s Real Legacy - How the President’s protracted refusal to step aside as the Democratic nominee has imperilled his policy achievements—and the country. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 6th - Blown away. (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “Back with a Vengeance” - Donald J. Trump’s second term. (www.newyorker.com)
The Amazing, Disappearing Johnny Carson - Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable. (www.newyorker.com)
Offering Dignity for Those Who Die Alone in “People Like Us” - Pedro Samper’s short film follows a woman who operates a cemetery in Colombia for people who die, mostly Venezuelan migrants, without anyone to see their burial. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Revenge - The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before. (www.newyorker.com)
Quincy Jones Had Something for Everyone - The music superproducer knew that if you have to find your way to a kind of telepathy with an artist, operating as one mind, you can’t speed past the human element. (www.newyorker.com)
“A Real Pain” Fails to Stay in Its Discomfort Zone - In Jesse Eisenberg’s film, a shticky bromance obscures a thoughtful attempt to probe the legacy of the Holocaust. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: “V” for Victory, or Just Vamoose - “Look, the geese are skipping town before the election results.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 5th - “We’re either headed for disaster or we’ll be fine—either way, I’m going to puke.” (www.newyorker.com)
Election 2024: Live Results Map - The latest vote counts, news, and updates from the Presidential, House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. (www.newyorker.com)
Ways to Respond When You’re Stressed and Someone Tells You “Not to Stress” - Smile and keep emphatically blinking until they go away. (www.newyorker.com)
Even Losing May Not Stop Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance - But on the eve of another razor-thin election, it sure beats the alternative. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 4th - “I don’t want to know. My stress level is high enough as it is.” (www.newyorker.com)
What Is Cornel West Thinking? - The public intellectual’s Presidential campaign could ease Donald Trump’s path to the White House. Why won’t he drop out? (www.newyorker.com)
A Farewell Tour for the Outdoor Dining Shed - As the free-for-all architectural symbols of pandemic-era New York are torn down by city decree, a photographic chronicler of the sidewalk structures says goodbye. (www.newyorker.com)
The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War - Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns. (www.newyorker.com)
The Shipwreck Detective - Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics Into Cartoon Cover Gold - Armed with watercolors and a “passive-aggressive” sense of humor, the illustrator finds the funny, even in ugly times. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Vinson Cunningham’s review of “Mr. McMahon” and Rivka Galchen’s piece on the researchers studying birdsong for signs of real language. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Kamala Harris Win the Kamala Harris Vote? - The handful of Kamala Harrises who aren’t the Vice-President review the perks (wayward donors) and the perils (threatening phone calls) of their name. (www.newyorker.com)
Willie Nelson’s Latest Is a Cannabis Cookbook - The ninety-one-year-old singer might outsmoke Snoop Dogg, but for lunch he’ll stick to bacon-and-tomato sandwiches. (www.newyorker.com)
The Brothers Grimm Were Dark for a Reason - Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, meant unearthing its authentic culture. (www.newyorker.com)
“Two Kinds of Ending,” by Vona Groarke - “She’d be waiting; eye to the window, / ear to the door.” (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Disrupted City,” “Q&A,” “Model Home,” and “Canoes.” (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “Tightrope” - Lady Liberty’s precarious perch. (www.newyorker.com)
How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer - Bashar al-Assad has propped up his regime by exploiting the Middle East’s love of an amphetamine called captagon. (www.newyorker.com)
Life Advice with Animal Analogies - Live like a fish? A mountain lion? A butterfly? A beaver? A menagerie of unideal options. (www.newyorker.com)
When Andrew Carnegie Was a Cotton Spinner: Inside the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen - You won’t find any taxidermied animal heads, like those at the Harvard Club, across the street, but there are hundreds of very cool locks and safes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Artificial State - As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning back? (www.newyorker.com)
Charles Ives, Connoisseur of Chaos - Celebrating the composer’s hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana. (www.newyorker.com)
“Creation Theory,” by Joy Harjo - “I was earth grasping for air. / No one in this universe fit precisely anywhere.” (www.newyorker.com)
Watching an American Election from Across the Pond - Louisa Compton is overseeing coverage for Channel 4, trying to explain a strange election cycle to a bewildered Britain. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Honest Island,” by Greg Jackson - Only as the memory faded and he struggled to detain it did he realize, with a start, that he had remembered something. (www.newyorker.com)
A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi - As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Final Days on the Campaign Trail - Under assault from all sides, in the last weeks of his campaign, the former President speaks often of enemies from within, including those trying to take his life. (www.newyorker.com)
Greg Jackson Reads “The Honest Island” - The author reads his story from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen, Help Me: What If You’re Dining with a Jerk? - Our restaurant critic offers advice on martini drinking, cutting through restaurant hype, and staying on servers’ good sides. (www.newyorker.com)
Greg Jackson on the Intersection of Mind and World - The author discusses his story “The Honest Island.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Economic Philosophy of Donald Harris - The Trump campaign has portrayed the Vice-President’s father as a Marxist. He insists he’s been caricatured. (www.newyorker.com)