Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture” - The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end. (www.newyorker.com)
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing” - The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Lucy Letby Report Misses the Point - The Thirlwall Inquiry looked at why the nurse wasn’t prevented from murdering babies. But it didn’t address the question of whether she had actually done so. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good - Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Sheep That Stop Wildfires - Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms. (www.newyorker.com)
Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I. - China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation? (www.newyorker.com)
New York Film Festival’s World of Cinema - Also: the punk-rock ruckus of Bikini Kill, New York City Ballet’s fall season, the Australian solo comedy “Garry Starr: Classic Penguins,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom - Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Beef the Next Internal-Combustion Engine? - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., eats it every day, but more Americans, faced with rising prices and another climate warning, might want something else for dinner. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker’s Coverage of the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Nominees - Marlon James, Louise Erdrich, Edwidge Danticat, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
That Back-to-School Feeling - With teachers and students returning to the classroom, the hosts of Critics at Large reflect on the art of education itself. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview - Have you considered “Six Hours a Day of MSNBC” on MS NOW (or Fox News, depending on your specific parents)? (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Returns to the U.N. Amid the Collapse of the Old Order - Trump is at the heart of this geopolitical moment, catalytic in his alliance-fraying bullying, unprovoked warmongering, and protectionist demagoguery. (www.newyorker.com)
How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? - Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Emily St. John Mandel’s Fluid New Novel - “Exit Party” is an elegant crime story with sci-fi shadings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy - Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities. (www.newyorker.com)
Updated Jane Austen Titles - Including “Brain-Rot Third Space” and “Based and Vibey.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World - John Wilson’s whimsical first documentary feature reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of the ubiquitous stuff of construction. (www.newyorker.com)
My Weekend with an A.I. Agent - What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of a once analog experience. (www.newyorker.com)
The Long Doomsday of A.I. - After industry-wide calls for regulation, what’s concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions. (www.newyorker.com)
Bob Mackie Was Serious About Sequins - The designer, known for dressing Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John in feathers and fringe, excelled at Old Hollywood craftsmanship. (www.newyorker.com)
Mail-In Voting Survives - In an unsigned ruling, the Supreme Court demonstrated that it is willing to limit Donald Trump’s agenda. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist - The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 5: The Children - Will the children be returned to the couple’s mansion? As the judge reaches a decision, Ava examines a confidential court file and makes a startling discovery. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 4: The Courts - One of the surrogates secretly takes home the baby she carried. And, in an unprecedented circumstance, it seems like she might have the chance to keep her. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 3: The Industry - It takes a village to create such a large family. Ava uncovers how the stunning lack of regulation in the surrogacy industry enabled the couple’s plans. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 2: Intended Parents - Ava investigates what is going on inside the Arcadia mansion. What is the couple actually up to? And why do they want so many kids? (www.newyorker.com)
Arrangements I Would Accept - Marriage is hard; an arrangement is sexy, bold, mature. Getting married says, “I’m a romantic.” Having an arrangement says, “I know how the world works.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” Episode 1: Gifts - A woman in Texas agrees to carry a child for a wealthy couple in California. She thinks she’s helping a family in need. Then she becomes a whistle-blower. (www.newyorker.com)
Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame? - The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people. (www.newyorker.com)
Trailer: “The Journey” - Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion? A five-part series from In the Dark investigates. (www.newyorker.com)
John Wilson’s Poetry of the Mundane - The director of “The History of Concrete” discusses the value of comedy, NIMBYs, and making films out of both found moments and the rules that govern the Hallmark Channel. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Violent Feud That Shocked the Horse World - A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim. (www.newyorker.com)
The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird - Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of their marvels. Can they survive a changing planet? (www.newyorker.com)
My Surefire, Can’t-Lose Polymarket Bets - Spot on my neck: Cancer? 88% Yes. 12% More tests are needed, none of which are covered by my insurance. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth, the Author of “Grit,” Does an About-Face - In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth challenges the conventional wisdom that says we shouldn’t run away from our problems. (www.newyorker.com)
The Hearing Aid That Plays It by Ear - A company called Fortell made an A.I.-powered device that tries to tune out background noise in real time. Does it work? Ask Fortell’s test subject, Steve Martin. (www.newyorker.com)
The Wealthiest—and Stealthiest—Class in America - America’s everywhere millionaires built fortunes from hot dogs, car dealerships, medical practices, and convenience stores. Then they learned how to protect them. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sisters Buying Homes Together - As marriage rates fall and housing prices climb, adult siblings are betting on the family they already have. (www.newyorker.com)
Paula Cole Doesn’t Want to Wait - At the Conservatory Garden, the singer reflects on her new two-album set, “Sonic Memoir: Demos 1989-1998”; launching Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlan; and the time Jay Leno made fun of her armpit hair. (www.newyorker.com)
Ke Huy Quan Keeps Smiling - On a trip to Liberty Island, the actor chats about his new memoir, “Never Say Die,” which chronicles his journey from refugee to child star in “Indiana Jones” to winning an Oscar, for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” (www.newyorker.com)
Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy - Donald Trump’s son-in-law represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth. (www.newyorker.com)
The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities - Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again? (www.newyorker.com)
Dean Rohrer’s “Beginnings” - The city as a blank canvas. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Dèy,” “Etna,” “Are They Dead Yet?,” and “Unbelonging.” (www.newyorker.com)
What the Met’s John Galliano Reversal Reveals - The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on power still exist. (www.newyorker.com)
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Lost Child” - The author reads her story from the September 21, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin? - Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history. (www.newyorker.com)
“Late September,” by Jodie Hollander - “Now the air / is darker; my garden plots are empty.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Lost Child,” by Joyce Carol Oates - It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers - A new book captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the movement alive. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Protect Democracy - The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma. (www.newyorker.com)
Joyce Carol Oates on Embedded Memories - The author discusses her story “Lost Child.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Driveway,” by Stephanie Horvath - “In the gut, / In the mouth, / In the irreducible / ‘Bile’ humor.” (www.newyorker.com)
On Not Being a Homeowner - Generational wealth shapes our futures and friendships, whether we talk about it or not. (www.newyorker.com)
Ric Burns, N.Y.C. Optimist - The director—and brother of Ken Burns—is releasing two new episodes of his long-running “New York: A Documentary Film,” this time covering Superstorm Sandy, COVID, and Eric Adams. (www.newyorker.com)
Is a Blue Wave Really Coming? - Democrats have the numbers on their side, but their success in the midterms is far from a sure thing. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Uprising” Is a Grim But Scattershot History Lesson - In Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and hyperkinetic action filmmaking fight each other to a draw. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 11th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Colin Kaepernick, Ten Years After Taking a Knee - In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league. (www.newyorker.com)
John Wilson and “The History of Concrete” - The documentary filmmaker met up with the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz at Wilson’s independent movie theatre to discuss his newest endeavor. (www.newyorker.com)
Can A.I. “Go Rogue”? - In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a little trickier. (www.newyorker.com)
The U.S. Was Never Going to Win the “War on Terror” - In the twenty-five years since 9/11, the U.S. has waged several military campaigns against extremism around the world, resulting in the deaths of almost a million people. What has it accomplished? (www.newyorker.com)
The Sartorial Riches of the Silent-Film Era - Also: the neo-soul of Erykah Badu, a festival of Indian classical dance, John Wilson’s ode to concrete, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
“My Brilliant Career” Is the Best Show of the Summer - A new pop-feminist interpretation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian novel is both fizzy and intelligent. (www.newyorker.com)
Troy Jackson Is Still Surprised That He’s Running for Senate - The former state senator replaced Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic nominee. But as he reminded voters over Labor Day weekend, “it could have been anyone else.” (www.newyorker.com)
Canada and the U.S.A. Face Off - A former friendship on ice. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 10th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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Is the Democratic Party Still Too Woke? - The political operative Adam Jentleson once believed “the way for Democrats to win was to get your base really riled up.” He’s now trying to wrest the Party away from its far-left flank. (www.newyorker.com)
Late-Night Dorm-Room Conversation Topics, Updated for Middle Age - Fuck, Marry, Kill: Income-tax returns, life-insurance policies, that folder explaining benefits that you received from H.R. when you were onboarded, and then immediately lost? (www.newyorker.com)
“Favorite Bodies,” by Lydia Davis - I told her that I’d been reading an article about morticians. One of the morticians interviewed had said something that was a revelation. (www.newyorker.com)
The Right’s Crusade to “Make America Hot Again” - After years of championing modesty and purity, conservatives are embracing a new cause: cleavage. (www.newyorker.com)
In “The Sun Never Sets,” Joe Swanberg Strips Romance to Its Bones - The filmmaker’s first feature in six years turns a love triangle in Anchorage into a philosophical experiment. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Five Books for Lingerie Lovers - Recommended reading for anyone who wears underwear. (www.newyorker.com)
Remembrance of September 11th - It became immediately evident that this was terrorism on an unexampled scale. The twentieth century had ended, and the twenty-first had begun. (www.newyorker.com)
Some Legacy Sequels We Hope Are Never Made - But if you’re reading this and want to green-light one, please don’t hesitate to be in touch. (www.newyorker.com)
Can You Write a Memoir in the Third Person? - In Brian Dillon’s bewitching new book, “Ambivalence: An Education,” the author’s younger self is depicted as an inscrutable, fumbling figure named B. (www.newyorker.com)
Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit - The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11 surveillance boom. (www.newyorker.com)
Can East Germany’s Cold War History Explain the Rise of the AfD? - After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades. (www.newyorker.com)
The Warning Benjamin Netanyahu Ignored - New reporting from Haaretz shows that, before October 7th, the Israeli Prime Minister was told to expect an “earthquake” from Gaza—and didn’t tell his security chiefs. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Danny McBride’s Solution to the Masculinity Crisis - In a new story collection, the actor and comedian injects a refreshing breeziness into a discourse that can lean toward self-seriousness. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey,” a Five-Part Audio Investigation from The New Yorker - Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion? Examining a scandal that threatens to undermine the surrogacy industry. (www.newyorker.com)
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Destroying Books to Build a Mind - Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be? (www.newyorker.com)
The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart - Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous. (www.newyorker.com)
Instructions for Watching My Girlfriend While I’m Out of Town - Make sure that water is always available to Blythe, but don’t freak out if she doesn’t drink much. Blythe believes that hydration is “a conspiracy invented by Gatorade.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Paranormal Activity” Creeps Onto Broadway - Oren Peli, the creator of the original horror-film series, stops by the new stage production and dishes on the creaky house that spooked—and inspired—him back in 2005. (www.newyorker.com)
Gloria Steinem Gave It All - The feminist icon understood that you may spend your whole life walking toward a world you will never enter, but that does not relieve you of the obligation to walk. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fall Style & Design Issue - The forces transforming fashion, dining, and the arts. (www.newyorker.com)
Saudi Arabia’s Pursuit of Michelin Stardom - The kingdom, seeking to rebrand as a culinary juggernaut, has bankrolled new restaurants and conscripted big-name chefs. Will it succeed? (www.newyorker.com)
How Hermès Unharnessed Fashion - Under the stewardship of Nadège Vanhée, the artistic director of women’s wear, a house known for craftsmanship is exploring the risqué. (www.newyorker.com)
Willem de Kooning’s Excavations of Intimacy - The first major show of the artist’s drawings articulates his pain and anger and the frightful era he lived in. (www.newyorker.com)
What Carla Lalli Cooked After Her Divorce - With “Food Is a Feeling,” the cookbook author joins a lineage of writers who have explored the appetites of the newly unmarried. (www.newyorker.com)
The Scourge of A.1. - For A.1. to cause such fear is understandable, because many of us are not comfortable with condiments. (www.newyorker.com)
The Prolific Storytelling of This Is Lorelei - Nate Amos writes songs that both embrace and lampoon dusty singer-songwriter tropes. (www.newyorker.com)
Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed? - So far, the proliferation of A.I. models such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. (www.newyorker.com)
Can You Feel the Dub Tonight? - For years, a Peruvian voice actor has tried to get Disney to sign off on his Quechuan translation of “The Lion King.” The new documentary “Runa Simi” follows his path unwinding. (www.newyorker.com)
Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History - In his new book, “Birth of a Culture,” the trailblazing d.j. tells his version of how it all began. (www.newyorker.com)
The Art of American Sophistication - How striving, self-invention, and charm became a national style. (www.newyorker.com)
The Culture Wars Have Come for Lingerie - The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.” (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Sachs Channels Chanel - At his downtown studio, the perennially provocative artist makes a lo-fi version of the brand’s flagship Parisian store. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Becca Rothfeld’s review of Rachel Cusk’s latest novel, Alexandra Schwartz’s piece about death doulas, and Zach Helfand’s Talk story about the Old News Newsstand. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Breakup,” “All Them Dogs,” “Sex and Dissent,” and “We Want to Believe.” (www.newyorker.com)
Lennart Gäbel’s “Showstopper” - Commuter couture. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze - A food critic answers readers’ questions about a citrus-related relationship dispute and restaurant birthday dinners. (www.newyorker.com)
9/11 at Twenty-Five - A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life. (www.newyorker.com)
“Ode to Being Born with Teeth and Sharpening Them Every Day,” by Barbara Hamby - “If you like surprises, being born has to be the best.” (www.newyorker.com)
A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation - Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention. (www.newyorker.com)
“New Shoes,” by Hisham Matar - My life in London, the life I had cobbled together with the barest of routines, grew thin and unconvincing. It now seldom felt real. (www.newyorker.com)
Hisham Matar Reads “New Shoes” - The author reads his story from the September 14, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Hisham Matar on the Outsider in London - The author discusses his story “New Shoes.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Worst,” by Dorothea Lasky - “I am the worst kind of person.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home - It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a touch of kindness from the French. (www.newyorker.com)
The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond - The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely, knowing that the interview won’t come out until they’ve died. (www.newyorker.com)
The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans - There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender. (www.newyorker.com)
A College Caught in the Middle of America’s Football Obsession - Oberlin’s football team was winless last season, sparking discourse over whether anyone at the small liberal-arts school should care. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles - Jerry Hsu captures the city’s manic extremes, with photographs of overturned cars, collisions, and a bank building ablaze. (www.newyorker.com)
The Anti-A.I.-Ad Ad Campaign - The comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross have been putting up posters for fake tech products across the city, including a wearable grandpa, underwear that thinks, and A.I. cutlery. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Donald Trump Picking a Fight with Canada? - How the President’s instinct for escalation is costing him politically. (www.newyorker.com)
Why the Lindsay Clancy Trial Ended in a Deadlock - Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind. (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah Longwell, a Former Republican, on “How to Eat an Elephant” - Working with focus groups, Longwell keeps a bead on what voters are really thinking, and how to combat Trumpism. She presents the playbook to the New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos. (www.newyorker.com)
Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Americans in a Time of Peril - The writer, who recently released a new novel, speaks with The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix about the meaning of home in an era when Haitian Americans are targeted for mass deportation. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 4th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
East Hampton’s Secret Garden of Unusual Trees - During a residency at the Folly Tree Arboretum, I encountered significant specimens including a clone of a “tree” that went to the moon on Apollo 14. (www.newyorker.com)
Jocelyn Bioh’s “Mean Girls” at a Ghana Beauty Pageant - Also: Harry Styles takes up residence at M.S.G., “Paranormal Activity” terrifies Broadway, Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson star in a new movie, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Capital Makeover - A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court - In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks. (www.newyorker.com)
The Principled Cynicism of “By Any Means” - Elegance Bratton’s second feature, starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in the nineteen-sixties. (www.newyorker.com)
Have We Destroyed Childhood? - We blame smartphones—but the problem might be us. (www.newyorker.com)
The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope” - In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide. (www.newyorker.com)
Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay - When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have, your role is to remind us how far we have come. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 3rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Remembering Dolly Parton - The New Yorker’s critics take stock of the star’s life and legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
Seeing It All Hang Out at the Fringe - Twenty-odd shows from Edinburgh’s annual avant-garde rumspringa. (www.newyorker.com)
“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma - Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Neocolonialism Will Backfire - The President is touting his big Venezuelan oil deal, but his interventions abroad are stirring anger and having unintended consequences. (www.newyorker.com)
Welcome to Career Day - I spend two-ish hours messing around with an A.I. chatbot, as per the company’s new mandate, teaching it how to do my job so that it can replace me. Any questions? (www.newyorker.com)
Reporting the Big World - Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore? (www.newyorker.com)
Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair - Olivia Rodrigo’s daylong, woman-led event felt at times like any other corporate music festival. But, if music is the measure, it was up to something stunning. (www.newyorker.com)
Carrying Water for the President - Tech titans are all over the map. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Five Great Campus Novels - Our critic’s picks for going back to school. Plus: an Edith Wharton novella for a last gasp of the season. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop - Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials? (www.newyorker.com)
The Strange Power of the Dance-Floor Novel - A new run of books embrace the literary potential of underground electronic music. (www.newyorker.com)
“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows - This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about four middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a teeming panorama of social divisions and inequities. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. (www.newyorker.com)
Seven Steps to Financial Success, According to a Guy Who Won a Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Against the Circus - You can optimize your chances by insuring that you’re in the best possible position to get whacked in the face by wealth and prosperity. (www.newyorker.com)
George W. Bush’s Code of Silence - He lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump? (www.newyorker.com)
Was “Defund the Police” Crazy? - A reckoning with the “woke” years. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 31st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Disappearers,” Reviewed - Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack. (www.newyorker.com)
All Rise! Coyote Court Is Now in Session - In the new film “Coyote vs. Acme,” starring Will Forte, Wile E. Coyote demands justice from the company that keeps blowing him up. Here to weigh in is the personal-injury attorney Motorcycle Mike. (www.newyorker.com)
Smokejumpers Leap Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires - Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes. (www.newyorker.com)
Who’s Afraid of A.I. Music? - When the rapper Fenix Flexin débuted a new accent on his single “Rubberz,” he stumbled into a century-old fight over musical fraudulence. (www.newyorker.com)
“Matisse’s Femme au Chapeau: A Modern Scandal,” Reviewed - More than a century after its incendiary début, “Woman with a Hat” remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Black Shield,” “Endless Endings,” “Solstice,” and “I Was Bonnie & Clyde.” (www.newyorker.com)
The MAHA Custody Battle - A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Barman of the Ritz” Is No “Casablanca” - The best-selling novel by the French author and podcaster Philippe Collin, which is set during the German Occupation of Paris, has a great premise but suffers in the execution. (www.newyorker.com)
How Much Is the Iran War Costing Americans? - A proper calculation must take in more than just the military costs. (www.newyorker.com)
Jim Nollman’s Orca-stra - The sound artist spent thirteen years playing guitar alongside singing whales in British Columbia. Now he’s releasing their collaboration, on “Orcas’ Greatest Hits.” (www.newyorker.com)
What Happened in Minneapolis - Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after. (www.newyorker.com)
Has the Supreme Court Sandbagged Democracy? - A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment. (www.newyorker.com)
Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Reckoning - The Meta settlement will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram. It also reflects the degree to which public outrage is outmatched by the speed and size of Big Tech. (www.newyorker.com)
Rivers Cuomo Is Piecing It All Together - The singer-songwriter and Weezer front man on the making of the band’s new LP, the Gold Album, his relationship with his father, and the stories we tell about ourselves. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Simpson Reads “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub” - The author reads her story from the September 7, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub,” by Helen Simpson - A sense of impending doom—that was how Weary had described the feeling many people got, like a heaviness in the chest. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Simpson on Our Timeline on This Planet - The author discusses her story “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Horse Song of a Nightmare,” by Joy Harjo - “It is raining, raining, raining. / The sky is falling, falling, falling.” (www.newyorker.com)
Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” Was an Anthem, Then an Elegy - For a crew of young musicians in New York, the Brooklyn rapper’s killing was more than just a headline. (www.newyorker.com)
Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Way of Seeing - At seventy-five, she may be New Zealand’s greatest living artist. (www.newyorker.com)
“Just Kidding,” by Rita Dove - “A priest, a rabbi, and a poet walk into a bar / and we’re laughing already, calculating their clashing philosophies.” (www.newyorker.com)
Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur - Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference. (www.newyorker.com)
Where to Get Fire Outfits for Burning Man - Heading to the playa like Paris Hilton and Mark Zuckerberg once did? Need a faux-fur coat or a secret stash pouch? The Burning Man Bazaar has you covered. (www.newyorker.com)
The Floods Nepal Didn’t Cause - Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it. (www.newyorker.com)
Going Through the Motions with Khloé Kardashian’s “The Girls” - Yes, there are Botox parties and rollerblading dates, but the women in the family’s latest spinoff give the sense that they are just clocking in at the reality-show office. (www.newyorker.com)
New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State - The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant. (www.newyorker.com)
How Alex Eala Became a Symbol of the Philippines - At only twenty-one, the tennis phenom is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet - Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children. (www.newyorker.com)
Kai Bird on Roy Cohn, a Founding Father of Donald Trump’s America - The biographer’s new book, “American Scoundrel,” details Cohn’s infamous tactics during the McCarthy purges, a sex-trafficking allegation, and his profound influence on Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Ian Frazier and Samy Burch on “Coyote vs. Acme” - Frazier, the author of the New Yorker humor essay that inspired the new, buzzy film, talks with Burch, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter who reimagined it as a satire of legal thrillers. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Nicole Rifkin’s “Pure Gold” - We will always love you. (www.newyorker.com)
Could Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin? - As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion. (www.newyorker.com)
Kacey Musgraves, Crossover Queen - Also: John David Washington plays a tech bro in “Disruption,” Samara Joy and Christian McBride perform at Central Park, Jacob Elordi’s stars in Ridley Scott’s latest movie, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
There’s No Place Like Group Chats - My old friends and I have ended up scattered across different states, in different time zones, but we’ve made our own neighborhood inside the black and blue bubbles of our phones. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Adults,” Gen Z Gets the Hangout Sitcom It Deserves - The FX series, which is returning for a second season, won’t restore the genre to its normcore roots—but, happily, it has no interest in doing so. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Google Chrome’s Latest Updates - We understand that downloading and re-starting your browser disrupts your workflow, but you weren’t working anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
The Great Floating Homes of Los Angeles - In the city’s burnt neighborhoods, rebuilding is brutally expensive. Now residents have turned to a lost art: moving entire houses to their vacant lots. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain - It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house. (www.newyorker.com)
What If Canada Joined the E.U.? - The Trump Administration’s trade war with Canada has pushed a fringe idea into mainstream conversation, on both sides of the Atlantic. (www.newyorker.com)
What is Gen Z Afraid Of? - With “It Ends,” Alex Ullom takes his place in a cohort of young horror directors who are translating the anxieties of their generation to the big screen—and upending the film landscape while they’re at it. (www.newyorker.com)
Can We Learn Anything from the Lindsay Clancy Trial? - Both sides agree that Clancy killed her children. But neither can offer a satisfactory explanation for why—and that vacuum has fuelled sympathy, vilification, and conspiracy theories. (www.newyorker.com)
Dolly Parton, Honky-Tonk Angel - Dolly Parton belonged to a beloved category: the outlaw Christian, who loved Jesus and refused to hate anyone else. (www.newyorker.com)
Mark Wunderlich Reads Spencer Reece - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “My Great-Grandmother''s bible,” by Spencer Reece, and his own poem “The Bats.” (www.newyorker.com)
Dolly Parton for the People - She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones. (www.newyorker.com)
A Sex Tape Won’t Make You Famous Anymore - Influencers inspired by the Kardashian origin story seem to have drawn the wrong lessons from it. (www.newyorker.com)
Shirley Clarke Lived Her Art to the Fullest - A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Quest to Cure Hangovers - Scientists still aren’t sure what makes us feel lousy after drinking—but that hasn’t stopped companies from touting new and purportedly scientific remedies. (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Hamilton and Taking Back Religion from the Right - Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians may prove more influential this November. (www.newyorker.com)
He Gave the Knicks Their Name. Why Was He Forgotten? - In “A Washington Irving Sketch Book,” the essayist Phillip Lopate tries to rescue New York City’s original mythmaker from literary oblivion. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump and Carney Face Off - Don’t discount the underdog. (www.newyorker.com)
South Carolina Republican Senate-Primary-Runoff Map: Live Results - Darline Graham and Ralph Norman compete for the G.O.P. nomination in November’s general election. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation - Young people are already discontented. It’s not going to get better anytime soon. (www.newyorker.com)
The Least-Wanted Items at My Parents’ Estate Sale - Seventeen years’ worth of National Geographics, stacked by my father in order of “least to most erotic.” Price: 400. (www.newyorker.com)
Stumped by a Medical Mystery? Try Metagenomics - When doctors can’t figure out what’s ailing us, they can search our bodies for snippets of genetic material from viruses, bacteria, and fungi. (www.newyorker.com)
Is R.F.K., Jr., Winning or Losing? - A case for cautious optimism about the Trump Administration’s war on vaccines. (www.newyorker.com)
On Jackie the Eagle and the Nature of the Soul - Live-streaming tragedy and seduction from a nest in the San Bernardino Mountains. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians - Retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run up to October’s election. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas - Pouria Zeraati, a dissident who was living in London, was stabbed by a group of Romanian thugs. His case is part of a widening campaign by the Iranian regime to silence its detractors. (www.newyorker.com)
The Humbling of Scott Bessent - Thirty-odd years ago, the Treasury Secretary was one of the speculators who broke the Bank of England in a famous trade. Now he’s on the other side of the markets, struggling to contain rising bond yields. (www.newyorker.com)
Does Anybody Know Who Darline Graham Is? - Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, who was appointed to his South Carolina Senate seat upon his death, may soon be elected to a full term. Political insiders say she is a “black box.” (www.newyorker.com)
Drake’s “Janice STFU” on Every Corner - With his new album, “Iceman,” the master of the summer banger is not done airing his grievances. (www.newyorker.com)
Sean Duffy in the Real World - Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary got his big break on reality TV, and is now out with a six-part YouTube show about a family road trip. How bad could it be? (www.newyorker.com)
Meg Stalter Commits to the Bit - The “Hacks” actress and comedian on her red-carpet-outfit stunts, her star turn in “Oh Mary!,” and why she believes that God loves gays. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Zig Zag Oyster Bar - Contemplating life’s mysteries over a seafood tower at Zig Zag Oyster Bar. (www.newyorker.com)
What Natalie Harp Carries - Trump’s devoted aide, who is said to follow the President around with a printer, does not seem to be driven by the conventional desires for wealth and power. (www.newyorker.com)
Why People Want to Believe the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Theories - Mistrust about the case stems from understandable anger and sorrow at the ways women in extremis aren’t believed. (www.newyorker.com)
A Passage - Crossing into England, at twenty, with a false story. (www.newyorker.com)
Melissa Auf der Maur’s Chronicle of Nineties Rock - The photographer, who played bass for Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, captured a moment in which one generation’s subculture became the next generation’s mainstream. (www.newyorker.com)
General David Petraeus on the New Rules of War - How drones and asymmetric warfare are upending the battlefield and what the U.S. military can do to adapt. (www.newyorker.com)
Jessica Tarlov, a Lonely Liberal on Fox News’ “The Five” - Tarlov occupies the hot seat on a panel of diehard conservatives, arguing for liberal values and rousing the ire of the President, who has encouraged Fox to fire her. (www.newyorker.com)
Jon Lovett Answers Your Questions - The “Pod Save America” host answers listeners’ questions about the 2026 midterm elections and what they tell us about the 2028 Presidential race. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 21st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Get a Tech Job, Babies! - The puzzling rise in high-level science books for infants and toddlers. (www.newyorker.com)
A Political Awakening in Arab America - A Midwestern Muslim family’s story of immigration, assimilation, and how one year changed the life of its youngest son. (www.newyorker.com)
Should You Believe in Fate? - We’d be happier, perhaps, if we found meaning not through abstractions but through the physical things around us. (www.newyorker.com)
Late Summertime Idylls by the Water - A roundup of bars on boats and at the beach. (www.newyorker.com)
The Boom of the Sex-Recession Movie - In films like “One Night Only” and “I Want Your Sex,” our prudish age becomes the scene of a crime. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America? - Trump claims that the institution has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 20th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A “12 Inch Pianist” Walks Into a Bar - Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow-drinkers’ deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic. (www.newyorker.com)
After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran - The conflict marks a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige.” (www.newyorker.com)
Can Head Start Be Deregulated Out of Existence? - The early-childhood program faces a renewed assault by the Trump Administration. (www.newyorker.com)
The Podcast That’s Charting a Post-Trump Future - “America, Actually,” a new offering from Vox, is trying to talk about politics without talking about the President. Is that even possible? (www.newyorker.com)
What Your Swimwear Says About You - Yellow polka-dot bikini: you were deeply affected by a Yoplait Light commercial as a youth and consider this suit to be the physical manifestation of confidence. (www.newyorker.com)
“Every Weekday at 4:45 P.M.,” by Libby Flores - In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone. (www.newyorker.com)
Critics’ Cult Classics: Emily Nussbaum on “Slings & Arrows” - The New Yorker writer sings the praises of a little-known Canadian television series set at a Shakespeare festival—which happens to be her favorite show of all time. (www.newyorker.com)
The Shifting Meaning of “Moderate” - Political labels can be useful shorthand. But some doubt how much they tell us about what draws voters to candidates. (www.newyorker.com)
The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal - In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work - For writers like me, who had crossed borders to arrive in the West, Ondaatje’s disregard for established boundaries taught us how to spell out our own liberation. (www.newyorker.com)
Three Books that Will Transport You - Be moved the old-fashioned way. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mark of the Machine - Few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic is making it even easier to determine if text was generated by Claude. (www.newyorker.com)
“Dreams in Nightmares” Turns the Art Life Political - Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s second feature, about three women’s search for a friend gone missing. (www.newyorker.com)
First-Date Montage - Yes, I am odd, but I am still multifaceted. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Became a Subaru Socialist - By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark. (www.newyorker.com)
Usher and Chris Brown’s Audacious Joint Tour - The R. & B. megastars seem to think their genre needs saving. But from what? (www.newyorker.com)
Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America - How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race. (www.newyorker.com)
Everything That Will Happen After I Silence My Phone at the Movie Theatre - The customer-service representative from whom I’ve been waiting for a callback for fifty-three hours will call me back one minute before I turn my phone back on. (www.newyorker.com)
“The End of Oak Street” Is a Weirdly Alienated Jurassic Lark - In David Robert Mitchell’s film, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, a family is endangered not only by dinosaurs but also by the director’s penchant for Spielbergian nostalgia. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
New York’s Hottest Club Is . . . the Jacob Riis Bathhouse? - The Rockaway institution is now home to a flashy new members-only club, with a private pool and a co-working space. But how do the locals feel about it? (www.newyorker.com)
The Improbable Longevity of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” - The irreverent comedy is the longest-running sitcom in history, yet has won no major awards. What gives? (www.newyorker.com)
The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands - Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
The End of the European Summer - As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand. (www.newyorker.com)
A Crossword Odyssey - Alas, I’d left my épée on a wee mesa in SoHo. (www.newyorker.com)
Admissions Tour: Being a Person - In the real world, you can choose your meal plan: vegan, kosher, Sustainable, Totally Unsustainable, What Zendaya Eats in a Day, American Girl Doll food. Just swipe your card. (www.newyorker.com)
A Trump Grift Too Far? - A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lament,” by Adrienne Su - “We were never a family of food snobs.” (www.newyorker.com)
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire Towers - After seventy-eight years, New Jersey finally has a new lookout spot for blazes. With more frequent wildfires and record temperatures, it’s not a moment too soon. (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Bell, Curator of High Art - The Gotham weed dispensary’s content director gets stoned at N.Y.C. landmarks for her video series, “Hi, I’m High.” On a trip to the Guggenheim, she critiques kooky sculptures and reflects on her trippy career path. (www.newyorker.com)
How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil? - Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Yahoo Boys,” “Unsayable,” “Sunrise,” and “Skin Contact.” (www.newyorker.com)
Anatomy of a Sex Scandal - What a nineteenth-century uproar reveals about our zeal for public shaming—and the truths that get trampled along the way. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Hooters - The chain is attempting a wholesome revival. Will it work? (www.newyorker.com)
Diana Ejaita’s “Before the Plunge” - A moment of stillness. (www.newyorker.com)
The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial - In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling. (www.newyorker.com)
“Saint Paul,” by Hieu Minh Nguyen - “All my friends have their gods & their heavens / & their plans on how to get there.” (www.newyorker.com)
Madhuri Vijay Reads “Hidden Life” - The author reads her story from the August 24 & 31, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote - The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: A Tasting Menu That Uses Every Last Scrap - At Cynthia, an emphasis on low-waste cooking yields a menu of thrilling abundance. (www.newyorker.com)
“Hidden Life,” by Madhuri Vijay - A tiny motor of pleasure had started to hum away inside her, but she was aware, too, of a flash of scorn. How easy it had been to arouse his admiration! (www.newyorker.com)
The Unlikely Reign of “Choosin’ Texas” - Ella Langley’s chart-topping lament is about what everyone wants to do in mid-August: give in and let go. (www.newyorker.com)
“Life of M,” Reviewed - “The Yahoo Boys,” “Unsayable,” “Sunrise,” and “Skin Contact.” (www.newyorker.com)
Madhuri Vijay on Cross-Generational Dynamics - The author discusses her story “Hidden Life.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Wealth and Glam of “The Hamptons” Looks Almost Quaint - Barbara Kopple’s documentary follows a generation of starlets, moguls, and other tanned partygoers who have no idea what tragedies and class anxieties lie in store. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lonely Men at the End of the World - In Patagonia, los puesteros look after other people’s livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else. (www.newyorker.com)
When Middle Age Comes Into Focus - A bevy of cultural sacraments marks our passage into adulthood, but the yawning decades beyond it unspool without ceremony. (www.newyorker.com)
Move Over, Aaron Judge—the Real Yankees M.V.P. Is George Costanza - After last year’s bobblehead-giveaway frenzy, the team is bringing Jason Alexander’s “Seinfeld” character back—this time, with a calzone. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense - After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on. (www.newyorker.com)
Gina Raimondo on Reclaiming the American Dream in the Age of A.I. - Democrats talk a lot about affordability. Could a message of prosperity be more powerful? (www.newyorker.com)
Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers - The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do. (www.newyorker.com)
Erin Brockovich Takes on Data Centers - The environmental activist has launched a project to document community concerns about the boom in data-center construction across the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Phoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth - The indie artist’s new album, “Lost Weekend,” is a document of both rupture and redemption. (www.newyorker.com)
Help—I’m a Narrator Stuck in the Calm.com Meditation App! - Sure, rhythmic, pattering rain can help regulate your nervous system, and trigger your autonomous sensory meridian response, but me? I’m wet. (www.newyorker.com)