Uncertainty in Israel After Election Results - A majority of Israelis rejected the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but forming a coalition could require breaking taboos. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Donald Trump’s Unpopularity Catching Up with Republicans? - Once a kingmaker in Republican politics, Donald Trump may now be an albatross for candidates counting on his support. (www.newyorker.com)
Race to the Bottom: Great Moments in the History of Leaders Talking About Asses - “Asses, asses, asses, asses.” So said Charles de Gaulle as he walked behind his troops through the streets of Paris after the Liberation, in 1945—except he said it in French. (www.newyorker.com)
A Global Anti-Right Backlash - After Brazil’s election, and ahead of the U.S. midterms, progressives and liberals around the world find cause to celebrate. (www.newyorker.com)
The Founder of Arab Americans for Trump Has Some Regrets - As the President and his party launch a wave of bigoted attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Bishara Bahbah reflects on what, exactly, Trump has delivered in his second term. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Mystery Novels of the Twenty-First Century - Most of the best mysteries deal with the imperfect fit between the law and justice. (www.newyorker.com)
Meghan O’Rourke Reads Max Ritvo - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Poem to My Litter,” by Max Ritvo, and her own poem “Sectioned.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Middle-Aged Misanthropes of the Wisconsin Trilogy - Nate Lippens’s autobiographical series has earned a word-of-mouth following for its coruscating prose and frank view of Midwestern gay life. (www.newyorker.com)
“Queen at Sea” Confronts Old Age with Bitter Empathy - Lance Hammer’s new drama, starring Anna Calder-Marshall, Tom Courtenay, and Juliette Binoche, sharply observes the private agonies and public quandaries of dementia. (www.newyorker.com)
Texas Democrats Venture Into No Man’s Land - Democrats around the country dream of a blue wave in Texas. Organizers and voters say they need more of an irrigation system. Can the Party leaders build it? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unclassifiable Talent of Hervé Guibert - The French writer and photographer’s portraits of love. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Democrats Win Back Labor? - Sherrod Brown, who built his career as an avatar of blue-collar frustration, lost his Senate seat as more and more working-class voters defected to Trump. Now he is looking for a comeback. (www.newyorker.com)
What I Would’ve Been Like If I Had Shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch Instead of Hot Topic in the Nineties - I would flirt by making eye contact and smiling instead of by staring off into the distance and scowling. (www.newyorker.com)
Political Pixies, Goblins, and Imps - But don’t feed the trolls! (www.newyorker.com)
Shaken and Stirred by the Search for the Next James Bond - The question may be less who will inherit the mantle than who in his right mind would want to. (www.newyorker.com)
An Anxious Season for Muslims in Texas - Facing severe political attacks and threats, Muslim civil-liberties activists in Texas are urging their communities to vote. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Did Substack Fix the Internet? - A new book by Hamish McKenzie, the platform’s co-founder, argues that writers today are more empowered than ever. But online newsletters form their own kind of attention economy. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Ausländer,” “Frivolity: A Defense,” “May We Feed the King,” and “Sophie, Standing There.” (www.newyorker.com)
Charles Kushner and the MAGA Ambassador’s Playbook - Since taking up his post in Paris, Kushner has become known for lobbing provocations onto France’s domestic scene at sensitive moments. As he put it, “Nobody has the courage to say what I say.” (www.newyorker.com)
From the Battalion to Broadway - Alex Ekker served four years in the Marine Corps—then decided to be an actor. While sightseeing at the Empire State Building, he talks about his professional début in Aaron Sorkin’s “A Few Good Men.” (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “Polling Place” - An election strategy. (www.newyorker.com)
Love, Sex, and Existential Dread for a Gay Vampire in “Time to Go” - Renzo Cozza’s short film gives a classic monster a moral dilemma. (www.newyorker.com)
Cheeks - A young New Yorker considers moving away. (www.newyorker.com)
The Victoria & Albert Museum Expands, Twice - Two new outposts of the London institution make a vibrant case for handmade craft in an age of A.I. slop. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Nicholas Lemann’s report on California’s proposed wealth tax, Peter Hessler’s article about the Million Dollar Highway, Eyal Press’s piece about Justice Department lawyers, and Margaret Talbot’s essay about the global decline in fertility. (www.newyorker.com)
Daniel Humm’s Home Décor - The Eleven Madison Park chef surveys his cozy new restaurant in the West Village with the artists who decked it out, Rashid Johnson and Francesco Clemente. (www.newyorker.com)
A Pickpocket’s Guide to New York - Preparing to play a petty thief in a new movie, John Turturro learned the moves—“reefing the kick” among them—from Apollo Robbins, and observed how much stealing has in common with acting. (www.newyorker.com)
Did an Alternative-Medicine Guru Accidentally Kill Patients? - In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question. Now he’s accused of lethally negligent care. (www.newyorker.com)
Why the Broadway Musical Refuses to Die - Broadway once thrived on the collision of musical traditions. Now, amid jukebox shows and Hollywood adaptations, can it recover its creative daring? (www.newyorker.com)
The Gold Rush and the Making of Modern America - The best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick sees links between eighteen-fifties California and the current A.I. boom. What can the history of the action-packed gold rush actually tell us? (www.newyorker.com)
How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest - The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wall Cano,” by Souvankham Thammavongsa - I didn’t know what homework was. And since my parents had never gone to school themselves, they never asked me about it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Political Upstarts That May Decide Israel’s Election - Frustrated with the polarization of the Netanyahu era, voters look for ways to create change. (www.newyorker.com)
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Wall Cano” - The author reads her story from the November 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
The Republicans’ Remarkably Bad Midterm Campaigns - Things were going poorly even before Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ran the most offensive ad of the year. (www.newyorker.com)
The State Officials Defending the Midterms from the President - Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Good Time Country Buffet - Good Time Country Buffet, in the East Village, is a painstaking homage to a turn-of-the-millennium Southern steam-table joint. (www.newyorker.com)
Souvankham Thammavongsa on the Gears That Turn Underneath a Story - The author discusses her story “Wall Cano.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Waves, Cords,” by Alfred Corn - “The psyche: a kind of twine, a cordage spun / Of optic fibre drawn from a thousand minds.” (www.newyorker.com)
Maria Bamford Asks for the Check - The comedian on being the subject of a Judd Apatow documentary, her passion for open-book accounting, and dating in her fifties. (www.newyorker.com)
“ABCMIAMI,” by Adrienne Raphel - “I return to collect my former self / And every day I leave with a new one.” (www.newyorker.com)
For Bob Iger, That’s the Way It Is - The former Ithaca weatherman became Disney’s C.E.O. Now he’s just like everyone else—retired and co-owning the Los Angeles Lakers with Josh Kushner, by way of Karlie Kloss. (www.newyorker.com)
Gina Hinojosa’s Populism for Democrats - A candidate’s search for common ground raises hopes in Texas. (www.newyorker.com)
The Great, Cynical Fun of “The Traitors” - The series, which has been remade in dozens of countries, is derivative of other reality-competition shows. What’s different is the mood: it is both quaint and greasy, and perfectly in tune with our culture of incentivized fraud. (www.newyorker.com)
A Mother on Trial - Nakira Griner said that her toddler fell down the stairs. A jury convicted her of murder. What really happened that day? (www.newyorker.com)
The Great Schlep - Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad are flying back to cast votes in what many describe as the most pivotal election in the country’s history. (www.newyorker.com)
Rahm Emanuel Is “Cautiously Optimistic” About the Democrats’ Midterm Prospects - The former Chicago mayor thinks that the Democrats can flip Senate seats in Iowa and Texas, but he credits Republican infighting more than his own party’s message. (www.newyorker.com)
How Macron Destabilized France - Widespread protests against his policies were followed by violent riots across the country. Does this mean Marine Le Pen is all but certain to be the next President of France? (www.newyorker.com)
Despite Reports, Reading Is Alive and Well - In “The New Age of Reading,” the staff writer Nathan Heller says that news of the demise of reading is greatly exaggerated. He lays out his case to David Remnick. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 23rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Spooky-Season Theatre to Chill You to the Bone - Also: the gorgeous new musical of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the sumptuous sound of Yebba, American Ballet Theatre’s fall season, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Alaska’s Senate Race Could Be Decided by Salmon - Mary Peltola, whose campaign could determine whether the Democrats retake Congress, mostly just wants to talk about fish. (www.newyorker.com)
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Inside Meta’s Efforts to Prevent School Shootings - Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fragile Unions of “Possible Love” - In Lee Chang-dong’s brilliantly acted film, a community’s devastation plays out through a documentary lens—and through a tale of two very different couples. (www.newyorker.com)
Political Skirmishes in “Other Desert Cities” and “A Bright Room Called Day” - Revivals of plays by Jon Robin Baitz and Tony Kushner. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Repudiation Is at Hand, Right? - As Democrats’ midterm expectations soar, history advises only a lowercase, cautious optimism. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 22nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Justin J. Pearson Win in Tennessee? - Republicans eliminated the state’s only Black-majority district, in Memphis, so Pearson took a campaign about economic inequality to rural white voters. (www.newyorker.com)
Hemingway’s Vendetta - In 1952, the author read a novel by a thirty-year-old Yale graduate and former bullfighter, branded him a fraud, and launched a secret war to defend his turf. (www.newyorker.com)
Does the D.S.A. Have a Vision for Public Schools in New York? - Mayor Mamdani’s K-12 platform is increasingly perceived as a “blank space.” Some of his supporters have ideas for filling it. (www.newyorker.com)
A Philosopher of War Changes His Mind - Michael Walzer wrote “Just and Unjust Wars” half a century ago. The war in Gaza made him rethink one of its fundamental principles. (www.newyorker.com)
Word Problems About Dealing with a Friend’s Weird Boyfriend - Elizabeth expresses hurt that Jessica would judge Tim based on just one quirk. Jessica replies that it’s not just one quirk. How many quirks does Tim have? (www.newyorker.com)
“You Can See Everything” and the Nathan Fielder Effect - “It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Slow Horses,” Apple TV’s Best Show, Retains Its Pungent Relevance - The spy series, which follows a lowly team of pariahs in MI5, mirrors our present moment. (www.newyorker.com)
Gina Hinojosa Thinks Texas Is Different This Time - The Democratic gubernatorial candidate argues that crony capitalism, distrust of data centers, and attacks on public education have disenchanted voters enough to finally bring a blue wave to the state. (www.newyorker.com)
How ICE Is Targeting the 2026 Midterms - In the run-up to the election, the Trump Administration is turning its immigration crackdown into a desperate hunt for voter fraud. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 21st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Anne Carson’s Best Books - Our critic’s favorite works by the new Nobel laureate. Plus: Colm Tóibín’s reading recommendations. (www.newyorker.com)
Lula’s Last Dance - Brazil’s once towering leftist leader may soon be swept away by Latin America’s right-wing tide. (www.newyorker.com)
Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory - The wonder of the online world was built by a community of eccentric volunteers. Can it survive the A.I. models it helped train? (www.newyorker.com)
“Fatherland” Cleans Up the Rough Edges of History - In this dramatization of the novelist Thomas Mann’s 1949 return to Germany, the filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski tweaks the facts to fit his style. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Military Low-T? - New data suggest that a quarter of American servicemen may have low testosterone. That doesn’t mean what Pete Hegseth thinks it does. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 20th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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Gifts for Cats (and Their Owners) That Are Worth Knocking Off the Table - Scratchers that aren’t total eyesores, toys your feline friend might play with at least once (before fixating on the packaging), books and accessories for cat-obsessed humans, and some ideas for dog people, too. (www.newyorker.com)
“An Unprecedented Case of Child Abuse” - In an L.A. criminal court, new details emerge about the mysterious couple who collected more than twenty babies through surrogacy. (www.newyorker.com)
Dogs That Weren’t Rescued - People make a big deal about the hundred and one Dalmatians, and how they were saved from Cruella de Vil, but rarely do you hear about the hundred-and-second Dalmatian. (www.newyorker.com)
Behind the Settler Attack on Palestinians and a Washington Post Journalist - Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who filmed the attack, describes the significant increase in West Bank violence on the eve of the Israeli election. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Everyone Can Be Migos Now - The viral “Hotel Lobby” meme, which lets users inhabit the bodies of Quavo and Takeoff using A.I., resembles a kind of digital blackface, but also speaks to a technology that makes appropriation the default. (www.newyorker.com)
Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made - They power our phones, cars, dishwashers—and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry. (www.newyorker.com)
Josh Safdie’s Top Ten (or So) N.Y.C. Films - The director stops by the Two Palms studio to sign prints of a list of his favorite New York movies—“Taxi Driver,” “Do the Right Thing,” and some you wouldn’t expect. (www.newyorker.com)
When God Is Another Addiction - A remarkable memoir recounts a writer’s struggles with alcoholism and religious faith—and the unsettling ways in which each has fed her longing for the other. (www.newyorker.com)
The Furry Prima Donna of “La Bohème” - Wanda the Donkey regularly steals the show at the Met’s most popular production. Here’s an inside look at her creative process. (www.newyorker.com)
Mark Ulriksen’s “Make It Two” - Game on. (www.newyorker.com)
The Perils of Time Travel - Undoing the Hindenburg disaster, and other romantic things to do on a time-travel date. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Age of Reading - Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand. (www.newyorker.com)
Frank Capra’s Mythmaking Magic - A new biography of the great director inspires wonder at his irresistible vision of America and his immigrant journey. (www.newyorker.com)
Bill Irwin Is the O.G. Clown - Fresh from playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the rubber-limbed actor chats about reviving and starring in Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” on Broadway. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Blockers,” “Exhibit G,” “Passengers,” and “Few and Far Between.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Danger of Getting Too Close to a Source - Richard Darman was my source in the Reagan and Bush Administrations—and my best friend. (www.newyorker.com)
Louise Glück’s Life in Restaurants - The Nobel Prize-winning poet made an art of being a regular. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Brightness,” Reviewed: Chad Harbach’s Sequel to “The Art of Fielding” - In his sweeping new novel, Chad Harbach studies the crisis of being a college student in 2015—and of being a writer trying to redeem realist fiction. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Faux - With the opening of Faux, in Tribeca, Keith McNally’s son steps into the family business. Is it ambition or hubris? (www.newyorker.com)
George Saunders on How Fiction Helps Us Gawk Fondly at Reality - The author discusses his story “Appeasement, Ohio.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Woodcutter,” by Nick Laird - “In the earliest version / by Perrault the story is finished / when the girl gets eaten.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Shortcut,” by Diane Mehta - “I can’t remember how to reach / the end of my own sentences.” (www.newyorker.com)
George Saunders Reads “Appeasement, Ohio” - The author reads his story from the October 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
What John Goodman Knows About Fear - The actor discusses Tom Cruise, the Coen brothers, and his lifelong quest to feel at ease in his own skin. (www.newyorker.com)
How the D.S.A. Learned to Love Elections - Members of the Democratic Socialists of America believe deeply in the possibility of a class revolution. Meanwhile, they’re running for office—and winning. (www.newyorker.com)
The Bari Weiss Effect on “60 Minutes” - CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different. (www.newyorker.com)
“Appeasement, Ohio,” by George Saunders - Sometimes a person has to be bold and trust that the person he’s being bold to will rise to the occasion. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Gave Florida Democrats a Chance - A competitive House race in Miami, which leads all American cities in ICE arrests, has revealed how mass deportations have eroded the President’s support among Latinos. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Next Vacay Is . . . the Strait of Hormuz? - The ad agency MC Saatchi has been working to boost tourism in the war-torn region. One of its inspo pics is Anthony Bourdain in sunglasses. (www.newyorker.com)
My Year of O.C.D. - A simple e-mail or kitchen appliance could send me into a pit of anxiety. The only way out, I learned, was in. (www.newyorker.com)
Andre D. Wagner’s Eye for the Photo-Ready - Wagner knows the special alchemy that can happen when you point a camera at a Black person on the street. (www.newyorker.com)
We Can Never Understand Elizabeth Holmes, or Nathan Fielder - Unlike Fielder’s past work, “You Can See Everything” isn’t very funny. Instead, the documentary, co-directed by Lance Oppenheim, is a haunting exploration of the limits of other people’s knowability. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Midterms, and He Doesn’t Care Who Knows It - Alex Gibney, the director of the new documentary “Musk,” on how the richest man in the world consolidated his power—and now wields it with abandon. (www.newyorker.com)
Anthony Scaramucci Says the Universe Did Katie Zacharia a Favor - The former White House communications director reflects on his record for occupational brevity being broken. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: The Ex-Press Lane - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Has MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump? - Rich Baris, a pollster supportive of the MAGA “big tent,” talks about how the President lost control of his movement, and why that spells disaster for Republicans. (www.newyorker.com)
Molly Fischer on Waymo, the Driverless Taxi Coming to a City Near You - Removing human drivers isn’t only a cost-cutting strategy; Waymo riders prefer the solitude, the New Yorker staff writer Molly Fischer says. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Facing the Death Penalty - The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Can’t You Sit Still? - We fight our nervous energy—but maybe we misunderstand what it’s telling us. (www.newyorker.com)
The Toxic Logic Behind the Shaming of Cornell’s Jane Doe - One of the biggest failures of the post-#MeToo moment is our collective inability to provide a confident, humane account of sex as a basic good. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker Festival - Conan O’Brien, Min Jin Lee, Lorna Simpson, and more, plus what to do in Chelsea and the East Village. (www.newyorker.com)
The Season of Rosalyn Drexler - With the reissue of her 1974 novel “The Cosmopolitan Girl,” a gallery show, and a documentary screening, the renegade artist is everywhere this fall. (www.newyorker.com)
The Irish Punks Who Know Their Yeats - Fontaines D.C., a young quintet from Dublin, brings a raucous intelligence to its songs of oblivion. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin - No one thinks Russian diesel can save the Republicans, so why is the President doing it? (www.newyorker.com)
Spoiler Alert: Keeping Movies Under Wraps - Why do so many new films have plots and structures that make reviews a delicate dance of hints and secrets? (www.newyorker.com)
I Used to Be a Horse - I was powerful, graceful, and gorgeous. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon’s Money Talks - But is anyone listening? (www.newyorker.com)
The Death of a Young Haitian’s American Dream - Pierre Damas Bel was a twenty-year-old college student planning for his future. His family says that ICE monitoring made him lose hope. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s at Stake in the 2026 Midterms - The midterms could deliver a major victory for Democrats. What would that tell us about Trump’s hold on the country—and the party hoping to succeed him? (www.newyorker.com)
Kimberly Who? - In this Administration, former Ambassador Guilfoyle is the rare Trump associate to face consequences for misdeeds. (www.newyorker.com)
The Doxing of Jane Doe - The alleged perpetrators in the “Cornell Seven” case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Thirteen Books for Parenthood - Dr. Becky and Emily Oster share their favorite titles. (www.newyorker.com)
Marco Rubio’s Wild, Wild West - In Greece, the Secretary of State cast the West as a civilization defined by its warriors and conquerors, not by its democracies. (www.newyorker.com)
The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock - At the Met, a landmark exhibition doesn’t just show that the painters were equals. It makes it impossible to imagine their art existing without their marriage. (www.newyorker.com)
Reasons You Might Be Calling Me Instead of Texting - You’re feeling too lazy to text, and you know perfectly well that I’m just going to let it go to voice mail and then text my response anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
What a Public Execution Looks Like - Dexter Filkins on Pete Hegseth’s planned public execution of Nidal Hasan and his memory of a public execution by the Taliban in Kabul. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom McCarthy’s Meaningless Men - For decades, the novelist has dismantled the tropes of realist fiction, writing about mysterious individuals trapped in byzantine systems. In “The Rhyl Poster,” that approach may have reached its limit. (www.newyorker.com)
Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy? - The Modi government has removed more than a hundred million people from voter rolls and is cracking down on a vigorous protest movement. (www.newyorker.com)
Encountering the Past in “Music Against the Night” - John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a historical novel? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey” Update: The D.A. Brings Charges - Three weeks after we released The Journey, Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were arrested, and local prosecutors charged them with child abuse. (www.newyorker.com)
An Unlikely Taylor Swift Fan Gets Out of Prison, in “Daylight” - Joe Garcia, who wrote about finding Swift’s music after a murder conviction, searches for redemption in a new short film by Jon Kasbe. (www.newyorker.com)
Some Mangled Foreign Title Translations - “Dune: Part Two” to “Those Mad Worms Won’t Stop, Mate” (Australia): You think those dodgy snakes in the outback are devo? You ain’t seen nothing, mate! (www.newyorker.com)
Pity the Poor Passport - Americans’ most valued official document is the latest national treasure to get a Trump makeover. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 12th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness - By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Canadian TV Show May Have Helped Foil the FlyDubai Terrorist Attack - The documentary series “Air Crash Investigations” has attracted a cult following by obsessively dissecting historic plane crashes. Then a fan of the show found himself aboard a hijacked plane headed for Israel. (www.newyorker.com)
Hollywood’s Tech-Founder Fixation Takes a Dark Turn - Tech-entrepreneur bio-pics used to give us flawed men who built great products. But the latest wave of movies, from “The Social Reckoning” to “Artificial,” recast Silicon Valley titans as unambiguous villains, and suggest that the products themselves are the threat. (www.newyorker.com)
My Education on the Border of the Syrian War - In the last Turkish town on the road to Aleppo, jihadis and spies mixed with reporters trying to prove themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
A.1. II - Readers and condiment lovers react. (www.newyorker.com)
Deana Lawson’s Subjects of Surveillance - In a new series featuring security-camera stills of suspected shoplifters, the photographer seems more interested in the surface than in the soul. (www.newyorker.com)
The Communist Thrillers of Anna Seghers - In her tautly suspenseful novels, fugitives stay one step ahead of the Nazis. (www.newyorker.com)
The First Candid - In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped a photo of a Parisian street, empty but for a shoeshine boy and his client. Now that some sleuths have zeroed in on the location, the city is marking it with a plaque. (www.newyorker.com)
Around the World in Explorer Names - The American Geographical Society has long invited big-name adventurers—Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong—to sign its ceremonial globe. The latest? Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan. (www.newyorker.com)
Kramer and Fauci—Enemies to Friends to Protagonists - The playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in a new play that almost included a “Guys and Dolls” song break. (www.newyorker.com)
Malika Favre’s “Sweater Weather” - Comfortable patterns. (www.newyorker.com)
Cinema of Wayward Souls - The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms. (www.newyorker.com)
We’re Learning to Live with Waymos. It’s Going Weird - A view from the back seat. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Occidental Book of the Dead,” “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” “The Minimalist,” and “The Decadent Movement.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Yakuza and the Way of the Would-Be Warrior - For generations, Japanese gangsters have styled themselves as heirs to the samurai—a mystique that helped them prosper in league with politicians, police, and big business. (www.newyorker.com)
In Argentina, Rural Residents Send Messages Over the Radio - In rural Argentina, isolated residents exchange messages over AM radio. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump After the Midterms - If the coming election does result in a blue wave, Trump will be faced with the fact of his diminishment. The rest of us will be faced with the wreckage. (www.newyorker.com)
Kevin Barry on Giving Thanks to the Short-Story Gods - The author discusses his story “Chuck Murphy’s Last Run.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Creola - At Creola, the chef Lana Lagomarsini puts French technique to work exploring Black American foodways—and overhauls her prix-fixe menu every few weeks. (www.newyorker.com)
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Betty Gilpin Is Having a Moment - On the heels of her Emmy win for “Widow’s Bay,” the “GLOW” star reflects on her slew of new projects, growing up with actor parents, taking on Cole Escola’s role in “Oh, Mary!,” and the importance of performing with your whole heart. (www.newyorker.com)
Kevin Barry Reads “Chuck Murphy’s Last Run” - The author reads his story from the October 19, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Chuck Murphy’s Last Run,” by Kevin Barry - How could you give up the throb of urgent throttle and the surge of roaring power that take you through the gates of fear to a state of nerveless bliss? (www.newyorker.com)
How “Oscar” Stages the Sad, Sordid Decline of Oscar Wilde - The ballet, on now at New York City Center, imagines the renowned writer enclosed in a cell, tortured by images from his own works about the relationship between life and art. (www.newyorker.com)
Kash Patel’s Slap Shot - The F.B.I. director’s Trump-inspired hockey team, the Dons, faced their rivals in a beer league. With rogue slap shots and hovering security agents, Patel was in the zone—or, at least, next to it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Good-Hang Economy - The comedy-podcast boom is changing our idea of what it means to be funny. (www.newyorker.com)
The Blistering Hollywood Satire of “Misty Green” - In Chris Rock’s film, Rosalind Eleazar gives a tremendous performance as a fast-fading TV veteran with a talent for acting, singing, and self-sabotage. (www.newyorker.com)
Who Won the Redistricting War? - Democrats and Republicans are in a race to the bottom—and the worst consequences will extend far beyond next month’s midterms. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Avedon’s Defining Early Fashion Shoots - Avedon was the first—and for a long time the only—staff photographer at The New Yorker, but he began his career at Harper’s Bazaar, transforming the fashion photograph in issue after sensational issue. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Became a Lock Picker - For those who appreciate “locksport,” a well-crafted lock may be more interesting than whatever it locks up. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Donald Trump’s Corruption Matter in November? - The President’s self-dealing has been well documented. Do voters care—and will anyone ever pay? (www.newyorker.com)
Season 2 Update: Curtis Flowers Has Died - He was found dead in his home at age fifty-six. (www.newyorker.com)
The Reporter Nicholas Lemann on California’s Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax - A measure to tax the ultra-wealthy in California is a bellwether progressive issue. Why are so many Democrats skeptical? (www.newyorker.com)
Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump - Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad. (www.newyorker.com)
In the Dark: Season 2 - The investigative podcast In the Dark examines why Curtis Flowers, a Black man in Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime, revealing a town divided by race and a conviction supported by questionable evidence. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Driving the French Student Protests - A movement born in the Paris banlieues has mobilized young people against diminished school conditions and accumulating problems at home and beyond. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Vertiginous Revelations of “You Can See Everything” - Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s interrogation of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder, is a compelling spectacle of manipulation, suspicion, and apparent sincerity. (www.newyorker.com)
Footballese, the Most American Vernacular - In N.F.L. commentary, expertise is celebrated, even craved, by the masses. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lincoln in the Bardo” Gets an Opera at the Met - Also: an Animal Collective reunion, the reverent art of Malcolm Peacock, a new jazz documentary from 1972, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology - “To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” (www.newyorker.com)
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How Rick Bragg Became His Generation’s Bard of the South - The Alabamian writer has published multiple acclaimed memoirs about his humble roots and is at work on another, which may be his last. His writing has also been dogged by controversy. (www.newyorker.com)
“Fjord” Keeps the Faith - In Cristian Mungiu’s drama, a family of conservative Christian immigrants in Norway collide with the progressive values of the European welfare state. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dumocrats Are Coming for Trump, and All He Can Do Is Call Them Names - A report from the President’s campaign tour through the formerly safe precincts of red America. (www.newyorker.com)
Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism - The new Nobel laureate uses finely wrought forms to constrain a terrible excess of feeling. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Social Reckoning” Leaves Out the Human Element - In Aaron Sorkin’s overwritten sequel to “The Social Network,” inspired performances by Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White can’t bring the main characters to life. (www.newyorker.com)
“Degenerates” Is Funny, Pervy, and Startling - Else Went’s new play dares to display some empathy for the troubled denizens of the manosphere. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Social Reckoning” Shows How It All Went Wrong - Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Meta, urged his employees to “move fast and break things.” Aaron Sorkin’s new film depicts the aftermath. (www.newyorker.com)
Medically Misunderstood - Clearly your five-year-old tattoo is causing the infection, so let this be a lesson to you . . . (www.newyorker.com)
Why Donald Trump Is Pausing His Crackdown on Salvadoran Immigrants - The President’s delay in ending Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans highlights a tension between his nativist agenda and the industries that rely on immigrant labor. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What to Read if You Loved “East of Eden” - Our TV critic on how the original compares to the adaptation. (www.newyorker.com)
Back to School, in Gaza - My nephews study in a big tent surrounded by bombed-out houses. They have no access to chairs or tables, so they sit on the dirt. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Netanyahu Escape His Reckoning? - In his bid for reëlection, the Israeli Prime Minister is doing everything in his power to smear his opponents and evade blame for the security fiasco of October 7th. (www.newyorker.com)
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How the Billions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent - Some of the money, which is difficult to track, has gone to recovery programs, but much of it has gone to law enforcement—for squad cars, jail costs, drones, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Fighting in Ethiopia Is Part of a Far Bigger Conflict - Powers in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, and beyond are being drawn toward the conflict, which diplomatic efforts have failed to stop. (www.newyorker.com)
“Fear Fokol” Looks Inside the Private-Security Forces That Patrol Johannesburg - The patrolmen hired to protect the city’s wealth operate in a culture of paranoia, inequality, and fragile but well-armed masculinity. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 6th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How “Edinburgh” Reimagines Time to Tell a Story of Trauma - Alexander Chee’s début novel, published twenty-five years ago, collapses past and present in a brilliant account of abuse and its aftermath. (www.newyorker.com)
I’m Starting to Suspect That the F.D.A. Is Just Trying to Get Me to Cook - This morning, the agency urged me to immediately discard my store-bought rotisserie chicken and instead braise a lamb shank in a classic mirepoix. (www.newyorker.com)
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MacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut - Scott’s decision to self-publish could be seen as a protest against her ex-husband’s company—or as a sign of how profoundly it’s altered the publishing landscape. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 5th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Fight Your Landlord, the Heel - In Williamsburg, wrestlers dressed like Zohran Mamdani and a cockroach take turns in the ring. Their opponent? The big, bad Slumlord. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About? - A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still struggling to put physical suffering into words. (www.newyorker.com)
How Lists Became Our Greatest Defense Against Endless Slop - A form that was once emblematic of the internet’s frivolity has become our preferred way of expressing taste, with the New York Times and Letterboxd users alike clamoring to define the canon. (www.newyorker.com)
Year of the Horse - After a young tourist was killed in a Central Park carriage accident this summer, the City Council is considering whether to ban horse-drawn carriages forever. (www.newyorker.com)
The Battle for the Post-Trump Right - For decades, the Heritage Foundation was a conservative powerhouse. Can it stay relevant in the influencer age? (www.newyorker.com)
Boo! You’ve Been Buried Alive - The first time I saw a mausoleum, I felt like I was home free. (www.newyorker.com)
Ernie Bushmiller’s Sunday Morning, Live - In 1976, the artist behind the “Nancy” comic was slighted on “S.N.L.” A new Off Off Broadway show tells the tale of the day after. (www.newyorker.com)
Ellen Allien’s Hill of Sound - On a trip to the Cooper Hewitt museum, the techno d.j. reflects on her latest album, “New Life,” and on how Michael Jackson and ABBA haunted her Berlin childhood. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Vanishing Family,” “The Jews of Italy,” “I Made You Up Inside My Head,” and “Days & Chances.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough - Test engineers stage reality, sometimes by extreme means, to make sure airplanes don’t fall apart, children can’t open pill bottles, and bears won’t break into coolers. (www.newyorker.com)
Arthur Jafa’s “I Am Tony,” Reviewed - In “I Am Tony,” a retrospective at the New Museum, the artist takes his remixing of the past to its outer limits. (www.newyorker.com)
Peter de Sève’s “Lapdog” - Trying to keep up. (www.newyorker.com)
A Woman with a Past - My cousin Laura had a diva’s charisma and a siren’s voice. She also had a mysterious past. When she died, she left me to tell the story of her defiant reinvention. (www.newyorker.com)
Maternal Intelligence: An Open Letter - Is M.I. hopping our guardrails? If unchecked, it can lead to “recursive self-improvement,” such as dyeing a “fun streak of color” in her bangs. (www.newyorker.com)
“Democracy,” by Sophie Cabot Black - “Always those horses up on the hill, each / To their own pasture.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Trudie’s Tavern - The new spot in Brooklyn joins its siblings, Gertrude’s and Gertie, as a bastion of playfully Ashkenazi-ish cooking. (www.newyorker.com)
The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax - Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents. (www.newyorker.com)
ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity - Arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Heng Reads “A Very Safe Place” - The author reads her story from the October 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Old Story: October,” by Cynthia Zarin - “When is enough enough?” (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Heng on Safety and the Power of the Child’s-Eye View - The author discusses her story “A Very Safe Place.” (www.newyorker.com)
“A Very Safe Place,” by Rachel Heng - No sooner did the words leave his mouth than the man’s eyelids fluttered open. “No . . . police,” he said. (www.newyorker.com)
Christa Pike and the Absurdity of Humane Execution - A witness said that what happened in Tennessee’s death chamber this week was “not normal.” Of course it wasn’t. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Adults Are Playing with Toys - After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.” (www.newyorker.com)
Let Cathy Ames Be a Monster - In the captivating new “East of Eden,” only one note rings false: the softening of John Steinbeck’s most evil character. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Constant Rediscovery of Barbara Trapido - The cult novelist is planning a sequel to “Brother of the More Famous Jack.” What accounts for her persistent appeal? (www.newyorker.com)
Olive Garden Is the Real True North - Two guys created a compass that points to the restaurant’s Times Square location. On a trek rivalling the Odyssey—and with breadsticks on the line—they navigate all the way from Staten Island. (www.newyorker.com)
Gerald Cyrus’s Magnificent Images of Black Life - Cyrus began consistently documenting New York City in the nineties. His images of Harlem—its streets, its jazz clubs, its dark, soulful nights—evoke the place like nothing else. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Swan” Gets a Superficial Reckoning - A new documentary about the reality series, which gave participants extreme makeovers before pitting them against one another in a beauty pageant, fails to grapple with the show’s cruelty, or with the culture that enabled it. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Europe Still Trust America? - Russia is escalating its provocations in NATO territory. Poland''s foreign minister has a message for the U.S.: “You may have affairs elsewhere, but to us, Europe, you are married.” (www.newyorker.com)
An American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia - Evan Gershkovich, a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who was convicted on false charges of espionage, talks about his time in a Russian prison. (www.newyorker.com)
Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters - One of the great actors of the era on finding sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg, Kendall Roy, and Roy Cohn—and why the New Yorker Profile still stings. (www.newyorker.com)
The New York Film Festival, Week Two: Loose Talk, Bold Action - New movies from around the world treat sharp-minded talkers of all ages as agents of drama and danger. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs? - The jobs apocalypse hasn’t arrived. Something else is happening instead. (www.newyorker.com)
Justine Kurland’s Photographs Keep Us on Edge - Also: the progressive R. & B. of Kelela, the art of Jessica Lange, the Australian Ballet on Oscar Wilde, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Quiet Unravelling of a Haitian Life in America - Emmanuella was the only one in her family on Temporary Protected Status. Now that it’s gone, she’s leaving her job without a word, desperately dating to find a husband, and beginning to go underground. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Well-Funded Fight to Keep Latinos Voting Republican - Amid deportations and Trump’s lagging popularity, one Koch-backed group has recruited Michigan Latinos to reach more than a hundred thousand voters for Mike Rogers. (www.newyorker.com)
Why the War in Iran Is Likely to Heat Up Again - Oil exports in the Gulf have rebounded as the U.S. escorts ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But the obstacles to a lasting peace are greater than ever. (www.newyorker.com)
Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War - The combative culture warrior in the Pentagon may soon be Congress’s top target. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Washington Roundtable Live: Can D.C. Get a Grip on A.I.? - With Xi Jinping visiting Washington for a major summit, American politicians are deeply divided over how to approach potential regulation of artificial intelligence. (www.newyorker.com)
Zoe Kazan’s Heady and Bighearted “East of Eden” - While Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist duke it out as John Steinbeck’s Trask brothers, Florence Pugh’s Cathy is a gothic villain you can’t help but root for. (www.newyorker.com)
How the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National Scandal - The dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness. (www.newyorker.com)
Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Awaiting Orders,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Cruise-a-Palooza - Iconic roles and death-defying stunts have made Tom Cruise’s name synonymous with movie magic. In “Digger,” he breaks his action streak to show us something new—for better or for worse. (www.newyorker.com)
Voter Fraud We’ve Identified So Far - After scouring billions of ballots, we have identified countless instances of voter fraud. They are countless, in part, because we are unwilling and unable to count past thirty-four. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Susan Collins Has Lasted So Long - Even if Maine’s longtime senator is finally defeated by a Democrat, her lengthy tenure speaks to the power of bringing federal money home—and asking voters to overlook other misgivings. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Trump Delayed Cancelling Legal Status for Salvadorans - The White House has quietly paused an order to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, a move that came after months of lobbying from the construction industry and other interest groups. (www.newyorker.com)
“Verity” Is a Criminal Waste of Talent - The melodramatic power of Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway is squandered in a romantic tale that’s ludicrously muddled by suspicions of monstrous misdeeds. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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Carolyn Forché Reads Mahmoud Darwish - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl''s Night,” by Mahmoud Darwish, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement - At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life. (www.newyorker.com)
What Barbara Kingsolver Is Reading - The Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate new novel, “Partita,” is out next week. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger” - In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw. (www.newyorker.com)
Mayors vs. Nationalists - Leaders of cities around the world are standing up for democracy, even if the leaders of their countries are not. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 29th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime - A new book revisits a notorious British sexual-assault trial in which a woman was convicted of posing as a man in bed. (www.newyorker.com)
Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools - Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach. (www.newyorker.com)
New Kinds of Trad Wife I Could Be - Outfit Only: I totally look like I’m in a sexy version of “Little House on the Prairie,” but I refuse to do a single chore. (www.newyorker.com)
Is What We’re Watching True or False? - A.I. is everywhere, and it’s often hard to tell what’s even real. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Cartoon Recession Indicators - Is your life savings a single moth? Are you afflicted with moola eyes? It might be a sign we’re in a downturn. (www.newyorker.com)
Why America Looks the Way It Does - From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property. (www.newyorker.com)
Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons - Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Guide to Navigating the Parent Group Chat - From the kind and competent to the scheming and lost, meet all the characters blowing up your phone. (www.newyorker.com)
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Caleb Hammer’s Humiliation Economy - The host of “Financial Audit,” a popular YouTube series, claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do. (www.newyorker.com)
The Cellmate Who Taught Me the Codes of Russian Prison - On the outside, we would have never been friends. But in our small shared space we established a delicate rapport. (www.newyorker.com)
More Sunshine with Joey Arias and Basil Twist - The performance artist and the puppeteer are reviving their avant-garde cabaret show, a leggy fantasia beloved by Cyndi Lauper and the late Paul Reubens. (www.newyorker.com)
At the Department of Justice, Many Lawyers Are Wondering If It’s Time to Quit - The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads? - The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. (www.newyorker.com)
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Flower District” - An oasis in the middle of the city. (www.newyorker.com)
How Paweł Pawlikowski Learned to Film Europe’s Fractures - The Polish director has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and political. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Radiance,” “Cloudthief,” “Dear Dealer,” and “Citizen Beast.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to M. R. O’Connor’s story about smokejumpers, Kelefa Sanneh’s piece about A.I. music, Jennifer Wilson’s article about lingerie, and Anna Holmes’s home-ownership essay. (www.newyorker.com)
Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His A.I. Mandate - Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work? (www.newyorker.com)
Detecting Notes of . . . Citi Field? - In the parking lot outside a Mets game, the TikTok sommeliers Ryan and Chris Goydos, of SuperVinoBros, crack open a mystery wine and guess its provenance. (www.newyorker.com)
How America Became Antifascist - Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around. (www.newyorker.com)
The President vs. the Press - Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point. What was noteworthy last week, however, was the way that the media responded. (www.newyorker.com)
“Narrow Escape,” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The police lieutenant appeared to be writing down exactly what Gleb was telling him, but relying upon completely different words. (www.newyorker.com)
“Weeping Willow, Nantucket,” by Stephanie Burt - “They can’t get off the island either.” (www.newyorker.com)
Fiction by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in English for the First Time - A conversation with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s son Ignat Solzhenitsyn. (www.newyorker.com)
“D’Angelo in Starlight,” by Ishion Hutchinson - “Good God, the devil is up to his old tricks.” (www.newyorker.com)
Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump - After a heated week at the U.N. General Assembly, a new ceasefire proposal came and apparently went. (www.newyorker.com)
Nolan Wells’s Family Still Wants Answers - A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died. (www.newyorker.com)
Taryn Simon’s Father Figures - In a new show at the Guggenheim, the artist grapples with patriotism and patriarchy through the long career of an anonymous F.B.I. agent. (www.newyorker.com)
Are Public Spaces Really for the Public? - A group of locals is trying to reclaim city spots for the people—including lobbying to turn vacant lots into gardens and fighting the event venue Guastavino’s over a courtyard. (www.newyorker.com)
The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola - Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace. (www.newyorker.com)
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A Night Living in Penn Station - For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges. (www.newyorker.com)
Susan Collins’s Maine Money Machine - The senator uses her seniority in Congress to bring significant resources to her state. Is that enough for voters who hate her party? (www.newyorker.com)
Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics - The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, the tech mogul, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.” (www.newyorker.com)
The New York Film Festival, Week One: Better Late Than Never - This year’s prime offerings include the festival début of an overlooked great director and startling new work by acclaimed filmmakers. (www.newyorker.com)
Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko” - The author talks with David Remnick about leaving corporate law to become a novelist, and making Korean culture and experiences legible to readers around the globe. (www.newyorker.com)