The Kirkification of Our Troubled Times - The culture has transitioned from memeing one man’s death to delighting in the memeing of wars in real time. (www.newyorker.com)
How “The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood - The Marvel Cinematic Universe is often held up as the exemplar of the Hollywood mega-franchise. The “Fast” movies may have been just as influential. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How Putin and Zelensky View the War in Iran - The war’s ripple effects have exacerbated conflicts, economic insecurity, and regional tensions around the world, including in Ukraine. (www.newyorker.com)
Michel Hurst’s Impassioned Vision of Mexico - Hurst captured the country’s culture—from public rituals of the cult of Santa Muerte to scenes from everyday life—with no small amount of homoeroticism. (www.newyorker.com)
Conversation with a Health-Care-Provider Support Bot - Here are a few things I’d rather do than log in to a portal: Get three mosquito bites. Drive all the way to Encino to have something notarized. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Lose-Lose Negotiations with Iran - How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Pardon Economy - For some wealthy offenders, clemency is just a golf game—or a million-dollar plate at Mar-a-Lago—away. (www.newyorker.com)
Patrick Ball’s Path to Broadway and “Becky Shaw” - Before “The Pitt,” the actor waited tables, made lattes, and schlepped Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe around town. (www.newyorker.com)
How Long Can Martha Graham’s Dance Revolution Last? - As the company she left behind celebrates its centenary, it finds itself caught between preservation and radical tradition. (www.newyorker.com)
Reverend Billy Takes On Norman Foster’s New Monolith - Fresh from opening shows for Neil Young, the street preacher Billy Talen has moved on from burning Mickey Mouse in effigy to protesting JPMorgan Chase’s ties to fossil fuels. (www.newyorker.com)
Medallions, Movement, and Mamdani at MOMA PS1 - The cab-driving Elcharfa brothers, Bilal and Salah, star in a new piece by the artist Kenneth Tam that showcases the hardships of their jobs. (www.newyorker.com)
Kash Patel’s Implausible Lawsuit Against The Atlantic - The F.B.I. director’s lawyers seem to misunderstand how the law (or logic) works. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lessons from Jerome Powell’s Defiance of Donald Trump - An independent Fed needs an independent leader. Is Kevin Warsh up to the job? (www.newyorker.com)
What Happens When Someone Throws a Message in a Bottle Into the Sea? - Most simply disappear. One enthusiast is on a quest to find the notes—and the people behind them. (www.newyorker.com)
Tomer Hanuka’s “Spring Salutations” - Central Park flow. (www.newyorker.com)
“Death in Rome” and “The Hothouse,” Reviewed - Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country. (www.newyorker.com)
“A Theory on the Origin of Language,” by Tishani Doshi - “Last night, after months away from home, / a lapwing piercing the still dark still / with its warnings.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Sqirl Redemption Arc - The beloved L.A. café was brought low by a bucket of moldy jam. Now it’s open for dinner. (www.newyorker.com)
Laurie Metcalf’s Third Act - The once cancelled producer Scott Rudin has staked his own comeback on making her the First Lady of American Theatre. (www.newyorker.com)
The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp - How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself. (www.newyorker.com)
Ellen Burstyn’s Inner Library - Kris Kristofferson told her he was a poet when they co-starred in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Her new book tells the story of her life in poetry. (www.newyorker.com)
Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin? - The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change. (www.newyorker.com)
“Tompkins Square,” by Anthony Walton - “It was an evening they had planned, privately, in the sequester / of their thoughts for years before it could or should have / happened.” (www.newyorker.com)
Ava’s Life List - Spring is here, and with it sightings of the Great-breasted Hausfrau, the Pot-Bellied Galoot, and the Common Nanny. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “In Search of Now,” “Nothing Random,” “Of Loss and Lavender,” and “No Way Home.” (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Spring Cleaning - The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries. (www.newyorker.com)
Has Steve Kerr Had Enough? - The head coach for the Golden State Warriors on his future with the team, his complicated relationship with Draymond Green, and whether he might give politics a try. (www.newyorker.com)
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Process of Elimination” - The author reads his story from the May 4, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Opening with Kafka - The author discusses his story “Process of Elimination.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Process of Elimination,” by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh - The night the tip jar went missing, we assumed that it had been stolen by a student, or maybe a professor—an adjunct—who had taken it when we weren’t looking. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen, Help Me: How to Recalibrate Your Kitchen - A New Yorker food critic responds to a reader’s baking woes. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Gunshots Rang Out - I thought a caterer might have dropped a stack of plates, but then I heard shouts of “Shots fired!” (www.newyorker.com)
The Death of Afrika Bambaataa and the Afterlife of Hip-Hop - One of the originators of the genre now haunts it. (www.newyorker.com)
With A.I., Anyone Can Be an Influencer - TikTok and Instagram made it easy to monetize the physical self. Now the social-media-savvy can use A.I. to play with their identity, or overhaul it entirely. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside the World-Conquering Rise of the Micro-Drama - Much of humanity has now watched—or scrolled past—extremely short shows about love and betrayal. How do Chinese companies create them? (www.newyorker.com)
A Chernobyl Widow’s Tragedy, Forty Years Later - Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, the first worker to die at the nuclear reactor, until she fell victim to a Russian attack. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Economic Warfare Abroad Comes Home - From tariffs to the war with Iran, the President is blowing up the global economy. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers - The libertarian-leaning Republican discusses his effort to restrain the President’s actions in Iran, and how he would campaign against other G.O.P. Presidential candidates in 2028. (www.newyorker.com)
“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem - The novelist Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her short-story collection “Fat Swim,” and the fatphobia she finds in contemporary fiction, with the critic Jennifer Wilson. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Rise of the Epstein Democrat - In demanding the release of the Epstein files, the Party has embraced a radically new way of fighting Donald Trump. Is it a good idea? (www.newyorker.com)
How Big a Threat Are Iranian-Backed Cyber Attacks? - A recent CISA advisory was a blunt reminder that, in the digital age, the battlefield has expanded to encompass the geography of everyday life. (www.newyorker.com)
Oneohtrix Point Never’s Sense of the Uncanny - Also: Sarah Larson’s latest podcast picks, “The Rocky Horror Show” and “The Balusters” on Broadway, the French singer Oklou, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Masculinity of “DTF St. Louis” - The show exists in a strange world where men repeatedly confess their love for each other. Does it make them better people? (www.newyorker.com)
“Half Man” TV Review - Richard Gadd’s follow-up to “Baby Reindeer” traces a decades-long quasi-familial relationship that’s thornier than any other male bond on TV. (www.newyorker.com)
“Michael,” Reviewed: A Sanitized Bio-Pic That’s All Business - The new movie details the backstage maneuvers that catapulted Michael Jackson to stardom but leaves his personal life out of the picture. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump and the Iran Deal That Wasn’t - It’s tough to reach an agreement with a President whose word is not his bond. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 23rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What the U.S.-Iran War Means for China - Jonathan Czin, a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s China Center, discusses how the ties between China and Iran have been overstated, and what the conflict might mean for the future of Taiwan. (www.newyorker.com)
A Wunderkind’s Best-Selling Nostalgia - Nelio Biedermann’s “Lázár” is, for the most part, the well-rehearsed story of twentieth-century Europe. Why is it making such waves? (www.newyorker.com)
What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools? - The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite. (www.newyorker.com)
LIV Golf Is Dying of Boredom - Once you got past the Saudi-backed league’s business drama, what you were left with was watching sensationally wealthy, morally compromised middle-aged men go to work. (www.newyorker.com)
What Jesus Meant - Some people sin and vote and criticize others who are the President or Vice-President, which they shouldn’t do, and that’s why Jesus likely died. For other people’s sins. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Earnestness Is Everywhere - “Project Hail Mary” and Lena Dunham’s memoir “Famesick” are part of a new wave of art works that boldly embrace sincerity over cynicism. Why are we suddenly so eager to wear our hearts on our sleeves? (www.newyorker.com)
What Pro Wrestling Taught Linda McMahon About Politics - As Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon has executed the goals of a brash man with a flair for the theatrical—skills she developed during her time at World Wrestling Entertainment. (www.newyorker.com)
Happy Earth Day - (To those who celebrate.) (www.newyorker.com)
Daniyal Mueenuddin on the Uses, and Abuses, of Real Life - The novelist discusses works of fiction that draw from the people one knows—often, to controversial effect. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 22nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Gwendoline Riley’s New Novel Surveys the Wreckage of Middle Age - “The Palm House” is haunted by stubborn male egos and sharp-edged women whose honesty is often ineffectual in the face of life. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Kardashians Explain Everything (Because They Are Everything) - A new book by an online Kardashian theorist argues that Kim and clan are the keys to understanding media in the new millennium. (www.newyorker.com)
That One Week Every Year You Forget You Have Allergies - In what you assume is a sign of your body’s imminent total collapse, your eyes are now itching and watering. (www.newyorker.com)
The History of Jazz Has Instantly Expanded - Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Minnesotans Who Wanted to Be in “Purple Rain” - In 1983, the photographer Tom Arndt heard about something interesting happening in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn: a casting call for Prince’s new movie. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Ticketmaster Monopoly Verdict a Mirage? - After years of skyrocketing fees and byzantine sales practices, a jury ruled against the company in an antitrust case. The effect on concert-going remains uncertain. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Fountain of Youth - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Triumphal Arch and the Architecture of Autocracy - When asked by a reporter whom the arch would be for, Trump said, “Me.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 21st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What Nicolás Maduro’s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail - The President of Venezuela has reportedly been stuck in a unit for high-profile inmates, known for housing rappers and tech moguls, while his country forms an uneasy relationship with Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
If You Ask Me: Save the Rich White Women - The plots of these shows usually center on a murder, which occurs not so much to end a human life as to inconvenience our star, who must postpone a brunch or a media event to conceal an inconvenient corpse. (www.newyorker.com)
The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke - Several recent books with unreliable narrators give children the rare pleasure of feeling smarter than the story. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 20th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Dynamic Pricing Ruining the World Cup? - Soccer fans and host-city politicians are up in arms about the prices that FIFA is charging for tickets under its new sales system. (www.newyorker.com)
Daphne Rubin-Vega Comes Home - Strolling through Hell’s Kitchen, the actress recalls old celeb sightings (Jane Fonda! Donald Sutherland!) on her way to playing the swaggering Mr. Zero in “The Adding Machine,” Off Broadway. (www.newyorker.com)
The Action-Film Director Who’s Taking On Michael Jackson - Antoine Fuqua has built a career on movies with irresistible heroes. Now he’s telling the story of the King of Pop. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Power of Life,” “How It Feels to Be Alive,” “Go Gentle,” and “Exemplary Humans.” (www.newyorker.com)
Escape Rooms for Middle-Aged People - Work as a team as you and other dads chat about pro sports, college sports, kids (and their sports), while avoiding eye contact, politics, and any hint of vulnerability. (www.newyorker.com)
“Favor,” by Franz Wright - “My death is in the second drawer.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Novelist Reimagining the Japanese American Internment - In “Questions 27 & 28,” Karen Tei Yamashita opens an inquiry into how the story of the past gets made. (www.newyorker.com)
Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee - A project meant not to end. (www.newyorker.com)
When Your Digital Life Vanishes - A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void. (www.newyorker.com)
The Popes That Trump Might’ve Liked - The President thinks Pope Leo XIV is a wuss. Meet some real tough-guy Pontiffs who might have fit the bill. (www.newyorker.com)
The Anatomy of a Failure - From spray-on condoms to radioactive wrinkle cream, “Flops?!,” at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris, puts terrible inventions in the spotlight. (www.newyorker.com)
The Apprenticeship of Linda McMahon - The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd. (www.newyorker.com)
Christoph Niemann’s “West Fourth” - One of the city’s most iconic courts. (www.newyorker.com)
“Spring Comes and I Finally Throw Out the Last Flowers I Bought You,” by Ariel Francisco - “It’s been weeks. / It’s been months. It’s been seasons.” (www.newyorker.com)
In Defense of the Moderate - In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s exactly what we need. (www.newyorker.com)
“Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” Reviewed: The Met Rescues a Master - Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing. (www.newyorker.com)
When Soul Food Met Daniel Boulud - The Harlem franchise Charles Pan-Fried Chicken invited a bunch of chefs to take over for the weekend. Up next: oxtails from Lana Lagomarsini. (www.newyorker.com)
“Ordinary Wear and Tear,” by Thomas McGuane - She broke Carl’s heart, he thought, but she’s not breaking mine. (www.newyorker.com)
Thomas McGuane Reads “Ordinary Wear and Tear” - The author reads his story from the April 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Thomas McGuane on Decency and Feral Charm - The author discusses his story “Ordinary Wear and Tear.” (www.newyorker.com)
How the Creator of “Beef” Got from Petty Feuds to Class Warfare - Lee Sung Jin on tailoring dialogue to Oscar Isaac and Charles Melton, the differences between Korean and American élites, and making TV in an age of “all-gas, no-brakes capitalism.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Amrum” Offers a Child’s-Eye View of Fascism in Retreat - In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous, momentous remove. (www.newyorker.com)
Emmet Gowin’s American Family - The photographer has said, of his images of his wife Edith’s extended clan, “I wanted to pay attention to the body and personality that had agreed out of love to reveal itself.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV - A “Sesame Street” writer once said it was easier to write an episode about death than one about divorce. Where are the shows that manage to do it well? (www.newyorker.com)
“Euphoria” ’s Descent Into Hell - With Season 3, the HBO drama feels like it’s clicked into its final, hardened form: a thrilling, disturbing horror show, delivered with a sneer and a smile. (www.newyorker.com)
J. D. Vance’s Bumpy Ride - It wasn’t the first time that Trump had debased someone who serves him. It wasn’t even the first time that Vance had had to downplay a blasphemy-themed A.I. image. (www.newyorker.com)
Justin Bieber, Pop Music’s Fallen Angel, Rises Again at Coachella - The former child star, who, now past thirty, often gestures at a deep well of discontent, wants us to know that he’s got his own ideas. (www.newyorker.com)
Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next? - “Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says. (www.newyorker.com)
The Art of the Fictional Pop Song - The chart-topping hits you hear in movies can stretch the limits of belief. On the “Mother Mary” soundtrack, Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff capture the real thing. (www.newyorker.com)
El retorno de la detención familiar - Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños inmigrantes han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica. (www.newyorker.com)
The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera - Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician who’s trying to unseat a Republican in Congress, has turned some of his district’s splashiest parties into campaign stops. (www.newyorker.com)
Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death - The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son. (www.newyorker.com)
A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel - The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza. (www.newyorker.com)
We Need Fewer Influencers and More Bullshit E-mail Jobs - We need Directors of Manual Automation Sales Development who roll up their sleeves and type one singular e-mail every day in which they pass off their work to a different department. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze - Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy - “The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word. (www.newyorker.com)
Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws - The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way. (www.newyorker.com)
Our Longing for Inconvenience - The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times. (www.newyorker.com)
The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear” - Kirk Jones’s bio-pic of the activist John Davidson, who has worked to destigmatize Tourette’s syndrome, is effective as an educational tool but mechanical as a drama. (www.newyorker.com)
America’s Orange Jesus - Reflections on a week in which Donald Trump decided to feud with the Pope while comparing himself to the Saviour. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump, Bible-Thumper - Making the good book great again. (www.newyorker.com)
“Mother Mary,” Starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, Reviewed - Anne Hathaway, as a pop star, and Michaela Coel, as a fashion designer, are trapped in the narrow limits of a chamber drama that’s smaller than their personalities. (www.newyorker.com)
Who Is the U.S. Negotiating with in Iran? - As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Beef,” “The Drama,” and the New Marriage Plot - Two releases about troubled couples meet a broader cultural moment of questioning what the institution is good for—and what new arrangements might replace it. (www.newyorker.com)
Sharp Claws at “Becky Shaw” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” - Gina Gionfriddo’s zinger-filled sex farce and the celebratory ballroom-culture adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s confounding musical are cathartic catnip. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Zohran Mamdani’s “Sewer Socialism” Resonating? - After an unlikely political rise, New York’s Mayor has embraced a model of governance focussed on basic services—and making sure New Yorkers see it. (www.newyorker.com)
Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich - The writer and internet critic discusses books that reflect different facets of living in a society run by billionaires. (www.newyorker.com)
What Brought Down Eric Swalwell - How the attention economy produced a moment of congressional reckoning. (www.newyorker.com)
The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion - Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough. (www.newyorker.com)
A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making - OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to “de-escalate” the rhetoric around A.I. But if you tell people that your product will upend their way of life, take their jobs, and possibly threaten humanity, they might believe you. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
TMZ Gets Political - The celebrity tabloid has been basking in the Schadenfreude of catching politicians shirking their responsibility to the American people. (www.newyorker.com)
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain - A new book charts the creation of a secretive system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks. (www.newyorker.com)
What Zendaya Leaves Unsaid - Her films rarely center on—or even acknowledge—her race, seemingly out of concern that focussing on identity might limit her characters’ emotional palettes. But why couldn’t it expand those palettes? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Top Attractions at Anxietyland Amusement Park - Experience feeling totally disconnected from the people around you. (www.newyorker.com)
How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply? - Defense officials inside the Trump Administration were already concerned that American stockpiles were insufficient for a potential standoff with China. A war of choice in the Middle East has only made matters worse. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Peace President” Gets Belligerent with Iran and the Pope - After negotiations to end the war failed to produce a deal, Trump imposed a naval blockade to cut off the Islamic Republic’s ability to trade through the Strait of Hormuz. (www.newyorker.com)
The Hungarian Election Shows That Even Strongmen Can Lose - Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Clarion,” by Rae Armantrout - “There are people who don’t hear an internal monologue or private dialogue in their heads.” (www.newyorker.com)
Zara Larsson Gets Her Flowers - On the “Midnight Sun” tour, the Swedish artist makes a comeback that feels like a début. (www.newyorker.com)
What Wallace Shawn Did Before His “Moth Days” - When the two lead actresses in Shawn’s play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The stand-ins? Deborah Eisenberg and Shawn himself. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Wang, Politician-in-Training - The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals—and Trump voters? (www.newyorker.com)
The Wild Mind of the Romanian Director Radu Jude - The director’s native city drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to E. Tammy Kim’s article about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Nicholas Lemann’s report about the Trump Administration’s attack on higher education, and Jill Lepore’s piece about whether A.I. needs a constitution. (www.newyorker.com)
R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Meet-Cute” - The next generation. (www.newyorker.com)
When It Gets Warm . . . - I will wear the perfect amount of sunscreen so that I don’t look like clown-faced Mark Zuckerberg on that surfboard or red-faced Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing. (www.newyorker.com)
A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out - The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation. (www.newyorker.com)
“Apocalypso,” by Dobby Gibson - “I couldn’t finish the article about / short attention spans either, / armed feds in the Wendy’s, / Saturn slowly losing its rings.” (www.newyorker.com)
St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It? - New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later. (www.newyorker.com)
The Violence in Vermeer - It is easy to treat the Dutch artist as an agreeable intimist—a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world of war, starvation, and massacres. His paintings were safe havens. (www.newyorker.com)
Sandy Liang Puts a Bow on It - The designer will add frills to anything—from Dr. Dre headphones to Gap hoodies. At the Frick’s “Ruffles & Ribbons” exhibit, she confronts the deeper meaning of decadence. (www.newyorker.com)
Ed Solomon’s Family Portrait - The screenwriter’s latest film, “The Christophers,” stars Ian McKellen as a lapsed artist. While gallery-hopping, Solomon reflects on his relationship with his painter mother, who recently put down her own paintbrush. (www.newyorker.com)
The Return of Family Detention - Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect. (www.newyorker.com)
Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris - It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.” (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Safe Passage,” “Cave Mountain,” “See You on the Other Side,” and “Almost Life.” (www.newyorker.com)
New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy - High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. (www.newyorker.com)
Noah Kahan Makes an Unlikely Home-Town Hero - In his new songs—and a new documentary—the Vermont singer-songwriter considers how the misery of fame can make you yearn for the place you meant to escape. (www.newyorker.com)
“A Private View,” by Douglas Stuart - “Oh, not another story about me,” she cried. “Another book about how I was the world’s worst mother. I wish you could find something else to write about.” (www.newyorker.com)
Elle Fanning Gets the Money Shot - The Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” in which she stars as a single mom who turns to OnlyFans to make ends meet. (www.newyorker.com)
Douglas Stuart on the Push and Pull of an Old Life Versus a New One - The author discusses his story “A Private View.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Blue Heron” Is an Exalted Drama of Troubled Childhood - Sophy Romvari’s first feature brings keen observation and wondrous imagination to the quasi-autobiographical story of growing up with a brother in crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Douglas Stuart Reads “A Private View” - The author reads his story from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Mad About the Mandolin - Returning to making music later in life. (www.newyorker.com)
Will J. D. Vance Inherit MAGA? - The Vice-President reportedly opposed the Iran War. Now he’s tasked with leading American negotiations to end it. (www.newyorker.com)
“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source - In Genki Kawamura’s infinity-loop thriller, a labyrinthine metro station becomes a metaphor for a life lived in extreme tunnel vision. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI - Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 10th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order - Also: Raye’s ambitious new album, Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s seminal “Firebird,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Global Stakes of Hungary’s Pivotal Election - What the fate of Viktor Orbán, a pioneer of strongman politics and a darling of right-wing movements across the world, might mean for Europe, Russia, MAGA, and beyond. (www.newyorker.com)
A Grandmother’s Life in Photos - As long as I’d known her, Laolao had a point-and-shoot camera loaded and ready to record—gardens, meals, new outfits, and visitors. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran - From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. (www.newyorker.com)
Zohran Mamdani, Perpetual Student of the City - The Mayor, along with some teen-agers from Bronx Science, takes stock of his first hundred days. (www.newyorker.com)
Israel’s War in Lebanon Has Not Stopped - While America and Iran negotiate a ceasefire, Beirut remains under siege. (www.newyorker.com)
The Costs of Trump’s Iran-War Folly - If this is “total and complete victory,” imagine what failure looks like. (www.newyorker.com)
“Big Mistakes” Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays - Dan Levy’s first scripted series since “Schitt’s Creek” is another fish-out-of-water comedy—this one set in a very different milieu. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
So Sorry—I Was Just Reminded of My Own Mortality - I think it’s best that I stay here cradling these baby squirrels. That’s pretty much all I’m capable of doing right now. (www.newyorker.com)
What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now - The finding of a California jury represents the opening legal salvo in a fight against one of the central anxieties of our time. (www.newyorker.com)
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again - But this time he means it. (www.newyorker.com)
Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case - Bondi’s tenure at the Justice Department was marked by incompetence. But her effort to remake it in Donald Trump’s image was “a tragic success,” the contributing writer Ruth Marcus says. (www.newyorker.com)
A Reading List from the Director of the Noguchi Museum - Amy Hau discusses some books by Marilyn Chase, Karin Higa, and Edmund de Waal that have guided her work as a curator. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Is Here, but Trump’s Stone Age Mentality Endures - A temporary truce can’t erase the chaos of a war that the White House started and never fully understood. (www.newyorker.com)
The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology - The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. (www.newyorker.com)
The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents - The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Drama” Is One Long Troll - Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse. (www.newyorker.com)
What Would a Ground Invasion of Iran Look Like? - As President Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What Trump’s Reorganization of the Forest Service Means for Rural America - Lots of room for lumber lobbyists, less for forest science. (www.newyorker.com)
The Scandal of the Sharenting Economy - As kidfluencers come of age, some may find the law an imperfect means of restitution for what was lost and broken in their childhoods. (www.newyorker.com)
What I Know About You Based on How Many of Your Friends Are Becoming Therapists - If one of your friends is studying to be a therapist, it’s your wife and she’s thinking of leaving you. (www.newyorker.com)
What Will the Artemis II Moon Mission Teach Us? - Four astronauts are travelling deeper into space than anyone in history. NASA will never be the same. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 6th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Theodore Roosevelt Taylor,” by Tyehimba Jess - “In short, he slid metal on string till the devil / got tickled and laughed up the Blues.” (www.newyorker.com)
We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing - Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. (www.newyorker.com)
An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem - Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries. (www.newyorker.com)
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In “Cinematic Immunity,” the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen - Michael Lee Nirenberg’s oral history of classic New York filmmaking centers on crew members whose labor the movies are made of, and reveals behind-the-scenes passions and tensions that shape the art. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides? - Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake. (www.newyorker.com)
Our Mom-and-Pop Data Center - Mornin’, tech brothers and sisters! Come take a walk on our information super country road. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? - As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. (www.newyorker.com)
Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons” - Technology and the future. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man,” “True Color,” “Half His Age,” and “Under Water.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks,” by Morgan Parker - “Sometimes I text my friends I’m crying / and they reply lol.” (www.newyorker.com)
In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family - In “The Witch,” a mother passes to her daughters a secret, burdensome power, but sorcery can’t fix a household that’s coming apart. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics - Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free? - Two writers of different evangelical generations offer rival visions of marriage, motherhood, and ambition. (www.newyorker.com)
Geese, Cooked - As bird flu hits the Hamptons, Long Island’s fanciest beaches are becoming mass graves for felled fowl. (www.newyorker.com)
Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax - To ring in his new WQXR podcast, the veteran pianist puts on a special live show with a secret surprise guest—his old drinking buddy Yo-Yo Ma. (www.newyorker.com)
Do the Circulation-Desk Shuffle - The New York Public Library’s new series, Lunch Dances, features choreography based on objects in the stacks. Can a pirouette tell the story of a mid-century lesbian magazine? (www.newyorker.com)
Getting Older with Clare Barron and Anne Kauffman - At Cherry Lane Theatre, the writer and the director of “You Got Older,” starring Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman, dish on mortality, romantic angst, and the rapper Pitbull. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? - New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Kelang - Kelang, in Greenpoint, offers a modern, wide-ranging definition of culinary authenticity. (www.newyorker.com)
“Rate Your Happiness,” by Catherine Lacey - How natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion. (www.newyorker.com)
Catherine Lacey Reads “Rate Your Happiness” - The author reads her story from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Ben Lerner and the Impossible Interview - The novelist and poet discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” what fiction can record that a transcript can’t, and why the book is also a handheld device. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Offshore-Drilling Dream Is a Recipe for Poisoning the Oceans - Trump envisions a new era of offshore oil drilling. Scientists know all too well how that story ends. (www.newyorker.com)
Catherine Lacey’s Escape from the Self - The author discusses her story “Rate Your Happiness.” (www.newyorker.com)
My Unrequited Love Story with J.F.K., Jr. - I knew John F. Kennedy, Jr., not that well and not that long, but enough to have experienced the gravitational pull he exerted, like some great big moon. (www.newyorker.com)
How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer - The artist bent the medium of photography to suit his creations. (www.newyorker.com)
This Easter, an American Pope Confronts an American War - Last week, when asked if he had a message about the war in Iran for President Trump, Leo XIV said, “Hopefully, he’s looking for an off-ramp.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Art of No Deal: Trump’s Approach to the Iran War - “The plan is not to have a plan,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. (www.newyorker.com)
The Strange (Partial) End to the (Partial) Government Shutdown - Democrats are claiming victory. But what did they really gain? (www.newyorker.com)
Who’s In, Who’s Out at the Department of War - Look who’s looksmaxxing. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine - Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is aiding Russia. (www.newyorker.com)
Pick Three: Spring Sports News - The New Yorker staff writer Louisa Thomas on the season’s biggest basketball stories. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 3rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Pam Bondi’s Legacy of Flattery and Destruction - No Attorney General has done more damage to the Justice Department. Her successor could be even more dangerous. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision of the Iran War - The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn’t true. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Christophers”: A Review of Steven Soderbergh’s New Drama - In Steven Soderbergh’s film, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are superbly matched as two skilled painters who find their way from slippery deception to common ground. (www.newyorker.com)
Is It Wrong to Write a Book With A.I.? - The nature of authorship isn’t as straightforward as it seems. (www.newyorker.com)
Searching for Iran’s Disappeared Prisoners - Families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations, and are at risk of abuse or execution. (www.newyorker.com)
New Directors, New Films - Also: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama,” Michael Schulman on spring fabulosity, Rachel Syme on the latest in trenchcoats, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Drama” Has a Combustible Premise That It Struggles to Justify - In Kristoffer Borgli’s Boston romance, Robert Pattinson and Zendaya play a couple weathering more than their fair share of premarital jitters. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Woman Who Made the Machine That Made Zohran Mamdani - Tascha Van Auken helped turn the D.S.A. into an electoral force. What will she do inside City Hall? (www.newyorker.com)
The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign - Explosive News’ A.I.-generated videos have been shared by Iranian-government accounts and co-opted by No Kings protesters. A spokesperson for the group says, “Let’s face it—if truth isn’t flashy, it’s kinda lonely.” (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Case for War Fails to Mention How to Win It - The President poses an existential question: Can everything be going according to the plan with Iran if there is no plan? (www.newyorker.com)
“Dog Day Afternoon” on Broadway, Reviewed - Sidney Lumet’s kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots. (www.newyorker.com)
Social-Media Advertisements vs. Reality: Postpartum-Clothes Edition - Many people are eager to warn you of the body horrors caused by pregnancy, but no one tells you what’s going to happen in the months (maybe years?!) after birth. (www.newyorker.com)
“DTF St. Louis” and the New Story of the Suburbs - Depictions of the suburbs have long been a mirror for the nation’s discontents. What do they reveal today? (www.newyorker.com)
The Long Odds of Undoing Birthright Citizenship - In arguments at the Supreme Court, a clear majority of the Justices seemed inclined to uphold the right. (www.newyorker.com)
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on the Liberations of the Seventies - The author of “The Nest” and “Lake Effect” discusses some books that shed light on the era’s changing moral standards. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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How the Guillotine Got Axed - In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from France’s successful campaign to abolish it? (www.newyorker.com)
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The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades - In “What We Are Seeking,” the cult author Cameron Reed returns to show us a strange, totally alien world that somehow feels like our own. (www.newyorker.com)
Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Night Face Up,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1967. (www.newyorker.com)
Savannah Guthrie’s Excruciating Story, on “Today” - The morning-show host recounted the disappearance of her mother, Nancy, and its aftermath in boldly religious terms, as millions of viewers watched. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 31st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Spectacle of War and the Struggle to Protest - On social media, images of destruction in Iran are giving way to commentary from talking heads, dulling the reality of war. (www.newyorker.com)
How World Cup Players Are Navigating Trump’s Immigration Crackdown - The U.S. is co-hosting the tournament this summer, despite having banned tourist visas for some participating countries. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Museum Reopens with “New Humans: Memories of the Future” - After an eighty-two-million-dollar renovation, the museum has put on a sprawling show about the war between humanity and technology. We seem to be losing. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Be Deep in a Marketable Way - Post vague quotes about self-realization that are universal, but ultimately mean nothing. For instance, “Follow your own light,” with a picture of you holding an unlit match. (www.newyorker.com)
How Pakistan Became a Major Player in Peace Negotiations Between the U.S. and Iran - The Pakistani military has wooed Donald Trump, and fallen out with its former Taliban allies, as it looks to wield more influence in the region. (www.newyorker.com)
Kanye West Makes a Record for the A.I. Era - Fans want to know whether the vocals on his new album, “Bully,” are truly his. But the question of what the “real” Kanye sounds like has never been simple. (www.newyorker.com)
The Rise of a Spanish-Language News Influencer - How Carlos Eduardo Espina reaches millions of followers. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Great-Grandmothers,” by Sandra Lim - “One paid the rent with a row of her teeth.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Following Bashō’s Narrow Walk Into the Interior,” by Bob Holman - “White water-filled spheres / Floating in a rock garden / Ah! Whose dream is this?” (www.newyorker.com)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered—and Afloat - The city’s Blue Highways distribution program aims to decrease truck emissions and road congestion while delivering your Sephora package. Its solution? Boats. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s War Hits the Chaiwalas - Restrictions and attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have made fuel prices rocket. Just ask the roadside tea venders in New Delhi. (www.newyorker.com)
He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb - A former C.I.A. officer says that he recruited scientists as part of the United States’ effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. (www.newyorker.com)
Stephanie Hsu Does the Time Warp - The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actress returns to Broadway, playing the Susan Sarandon role in “Rocky Horror,” at Studio 54. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Meaning of Your Life,” Reviewed - In a new book, the conservative pundit Arthur C. Brooks offers tips to “young strivers” on maximizing their daily meaning quotient. (www.newyorker.com)
Kia Damon’s Audacious Florida Cooking - A young Black chef from Orlando conjures a distinctive image of her home state, beyond the loud luxury of Miami and the kitsch of the Keys. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner’s Slender New Novel - In “Transcription,” a novel about memory and influence, an interview with an aging intellectual goes unrecorded. Or does it? (www.newyorker.com)
Reality-TV Deconstructor - The author of the book “Dream Facades,” about the architecture in reality-TV shows, gives a tour of notable New York locations—including Bethenny Frankel’s old apartment. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump, Iran, and the Shadow of Suez - As Iran imposes a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, squeezing the global economy, Trump faces a crisis that echoes one of history’s most revealing strategic failures. (www.newyorker.com)
Who Struck It Rich in the Markets When Trump Postponed Bombing Iran? - A series of uncannily timed bets on the price of oil and stocks deserves a proper investigation. It’s far from clear that they’ll get one. (www.newyorker.com)
Lena Dunham on How She Became a Filmmaker - After college, I joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds working out of an office on lower Broadway. Then the sustainability of the setup started to seem questionable. (www.newyorker.com)
At Beth El, a New Jersey Synagogue, a Deep Divide Over Israel - Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations. (www.newyorker.com)
The Camps Promising to Turn You—or Your Son—Into an Alpha Male - At the Men of War Crucible, you bear crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too. (www.newyorker.com)
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Parallel Lives” - Around and under construction. (www.newyorker.com)
If I Made Novelty T-Shirts - Ever wondered why “I’m with Stupid”? Let me explain. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - Short reviews of recent releases. (www.newyorker.com)
“Enough for Now,” by Cassandra Neyenesch - She flipped through the diary, looking for her name. Was she hoping not to find herself, or did a perverse part of her want to? (www.newyorker.com)
Cassandra Neyenesch Reads “Enough for Now” - The author reads her story from the April 6, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Cassandra Neyenesch on the Provisional Relationships of Backpackers - The author discusses her story “Enough for Now.” (www.newyorker.com)
What Was Behind the T.S.A. Meltdown? - The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE. (www.newyorker.com)
How Arsenio Hall Dreamed Up His Life - The actor, comedian, and former talk-show host on his path from doing magic tricks and telling jokes to creating a TV show for the culture. (www.newyorker.com)
Torbjørn Rødland Touches the Romantic and the Profane - In a new exhibit, the Norwegian photographer finds divergent ways to break through and touch an audience numbed by visual glut. (www.newyorker.com)
The ICEBlock App Has Helped People Avoid Immigration Agents. Is It Legal? - ICEBlock was meant to be an early-warning system to help people avoid immigration enforcement—the Trump Administration claims that it endangered the agents of its mass deportation campaign. (www.newyorker.com)
My Childhood in the Weather Underground - My parents founded the radical revolutionary group, then became fugitives. I was born in hiding, and spent my early years on the run. (www.newyorker.com)
A Mamdani Strategist’s Advice for Democrats in the 2026 Midterms - How to talk about affordability. (www.newyorker.com)
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In “Yes,” an Israeli Filmmaker Charges Israel with Self-Satisfied Brutality - Nadav Lapid’s furiously satirical drama, about a musician’s willful complicity in a war he reviles, tells a vast story of personal and national degradation. (www.newyorker.com)
John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling - The actor, who stars in the new Broadway production “Giant,” about Dahl’s fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist. (www.newyorker.com)
A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice - Troy Edwards tells Ruth Marcus why he left his senior position in the government, and what his father-in-law, James Comey, had to do with it. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Kontinental ’25,” a Guilty Conscience Isn’t Enough - In Radu Jude’s blistering contemporary riff on Roberto Rossellini, a tragic death sends a bailiff spiralling into a futile campaign of self-flagellation. (www.newyorker.com)
Dear Pepper: Are You There Husband? It’s Me, Wife - Over the years, I’ve begun to feel like a piece of furniture. (www.newyorker.com)
Marie Antoinette-Era Fashion Plates, at the Frick - Also: Daniel Radcliffe stars in “Every Brilliant Thing,” Robert Plant sings roots folk in a cathedral, a soulful retrospective of Beuford Smith, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unseen Work of One of Iran’s Greatest Filmmakers - For the director Mani Haghighi, his country’s rich cinematic tradition is a family affair. (www.newyorker.com)
“Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat” and Age of the Prestige Prank Show - The series, returning for a second season, is the latest example of a new breed—one that relies on elaborate, full-immersion experiments rather than on one-off stunts. (www.newyorker.com)
Can BTS Recapture the Magic? - The superstar K-pop group took an almost four-year hiatus. A few things have changed since they’ve been gone. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Goes Postal - Following the letter of the law. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Is Breaking Up with Europe - And the war in Iran is helping him do it. (www.newyorker.com)
What Happens When a Whale Is Born? - Researchers happened on the birth of a sperm-whale calf—which, they found, is a complex family endeavor. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trial of Anti-ICE Protesters Accused of Terrorism - The trial of supposed Antifa members after a shooting at an ICE facility is part of a disturbing strategy. (www.newyorker.com)
Operation Name That Excursion! - Operation Trump: The War, Operation Gulf War III, Operation Venezuela 2: Atomic Boogaloo, and other runners-up. (www.newyorker.com)
The Soft Power of BTS - The mega-popular K-pop stars have been on hiatus for nearly four years. Their new album, “Arirang,” tests the group’s staying power in the global cultural marketplace. (www.newyorker.com)
How the War Has Reshaped Life in Iran - As the conflict continues, civilians find themselves caught between foreign bombardment and a regime that is violently cracking down. (www.newyorker.com)
Louise Erdrich on Novels of Parentless Children - The “Round House” and “Python’s Kiss” author discusses a few books that examine the psychological terrain of growing up without parents. (www.newyorker.com)
Maya C. Popa Reads Brenda Shaughnessy - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Artless,” by Brenda Shaughnessy, and her own poem “The World Was All Before Them.” (www.newyorker.com)