The Democrats’ Big Night and the Repudiation of Donald Trump - A previously unimaginable Democratic victory has reshaped the political landscape. Does it signal a lasting shift in the electorate? (www.newyorker.com)
After the Midterms, Washington Lawyers Up - With Democratic majorities in Congress, oversight, and its frustrations, return. (www.newyorker.com)
The Night that Texas’s Seemingly Unchangeable Republican Identity Vanished - Texans have something to teach the country about fighting for an apparently hopeless cause; conservatives aren’t the only ones who remember the Alamo. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Repudiation, America’s Revenge in the Midterms - Even J. D. Vance admits that the righteous blue wave in the midterms wasn’t a result of Republicans failing to show up—it’s that they showed up for the Democrats. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Got Hit by a Car Because of O.C.D. - No looking up! If I look up, something bad will happen. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Blue Surge - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Three Novels that Stuck with Chad Harbach - Chatting with the author of “The Brightness” about the books that influenced him and the one he recommends reading next. (www.newyorker.com)
Emmanuel Carrère Untangles His Russian Roots - The French writer’s latest book is a conflicted, strikingly nuanced portrait of his mother, a celebrated Sovietologist who defended Putin before the invasion of Ukraine. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 4th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Blue Wave Just Crashed on Trump - The Republican Party has only the President and his policies to blame for its historic losses in the 2026 midterms. (www.newyorker.com)
Haley Stevens and Her Friends Explain What the Hell Just Happened - During a mystifying election week in Michigan, the congresswoman reflects on her endorsement switch, people thinking she’s in “some sort of cahoot” with Republicans, and her fiancé—“the amazing and the one and only Jason Turkish.” (www.newyorker.com)
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Election 2026: Live Results Map - The vote counts from key Senate, House, and gubernatorial elections around the country. (www.newyorker.com)
Finally, the Beginning of Trump’s End - Reflections on a midterm campaign in which our octogenarian President waged war—against algae in the Reflecting Pool. (www.newyorker.com)
The Insistent Monumentality of “La Bola Negra” - In Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s historical triptych, dramas of gay repression and liberation dovetail in ways more reductive than illuminating. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 3rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Life as a D.C. Insider, as Imagined by a D.C. Outsider - I text my best friend, Coal Lobby, and ask if he wants to play outside. “Sorry, I have to be at the Capitol today,” he replies. He adds a sad emoji. I cry. (www.newyorker.com)
Nothing Is Stopping the Flood of A.I. Political Ads - An A.I.-generated Josh Shapiro talking about “deleting incriminating e-mails.” An A.I.-generated Abdul El-Sayed and the words “DEATH TO AMERICA.” They’re not real, but can voters tell the difference? (www.newyorker.com)
Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients? - A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help. (www.newyorker.com)
Reliving the Bronx’s Biggest Battle - In 1776, Continental Army soldiers defended what is now Glover’s Rock from the British. The other day, reënactors did it all again at Orchard Beach. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trouble with Saying What You Mean - In “The Channel,” the poet Jana Prikryl borrows voices from Shakespeare and her own past to explore exile, family, and the possibilities of expressing private grief. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest - How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.” (www.newyorker.com)
Roy Lichtenstein’s Witty Critiques of Masculinity - The artist’s best work, in a new retrospective at the Whitney Museum, directs his campy humor at gender stereotypes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Telephone’s Tangled History of Intimacy and Control - “Music Against the Night,” “Her Kind,” “A World We Share,” and “The Flying Death.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Gifts for Kids Are Small. Or Big. Or Lots. Or Stomp - No one cares as much about presents as children do. No pressure! (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The MAGA Faithful Eye the Exits - With polls suggesting a bleak midterms for the G.O.P., Trumpworld in D.C. is girding itself for congressional subpoenas and preparing pardon requests. (www.newyorker.com)
New Jersey, the Diesel State - A data center in the Meadowlands recently leaked five thousand gallons of fuel into a nearby creek. The Riverkeeper of the Hackensack gives a tour. (www.newyorker.com)
Dante de Blasio Is Off Vocal Rest - As a newborn, the son of the former mayor won free music lessons for life at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music—and then he quit. Now he’s finding his way back to the notes. (www.newyorker.com)
How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism - In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old party message: that the Republicans are selling out to the highest bidder. (www.newyorker.com)
An Exiled Filmmaker’s Unsparing View of Contemporary Russia - Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur” is the first independent feature to portray Russian life during the war with Ukraine. (www.newyorker.com)
Common Scams to Avoid - Thinking of throwing that ball for your dog? He might be scamming you. (www.newyorker.com)
Carter Goodrich’s “Leaf Chic” - Costume drama for the season. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Music Against the Night,” “Her Kind,” “A World We Share,” and “The Flying Death.” (www.newyorker.com)
Conan O’Brien Talks with David Remnick - Funny business. (www.newyorker.com)
King Princess Talks with Amanda Petrusich - Pop rocks. (www.newyorker.com)
Colson Whitehead Talks with Julian Lucas - America’s storyteller. (www.newyorker.com)
Hannah Einbinder Talks with Rachel Syme - Laughing matters. (www.newyorker.com)
Parker Posey Talks with Michael Schulman - True original. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Richaud Petite Bakery - The jambon-beurre shines at spots such as Richaud Petite Bakery. (www.newyorker.com)
“Form and Function,” by Paul Tran - “I tried, but I was too small to lift you / Up and out of that bathtub—” (www.newyorker.com)
Catherine Lacey Reads Lorrie Moore - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1993. (www.newyorker.com)
Téa Obreht Reads “Family Lore” - The author reads her story from the November 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Corruption on the Ballot - Corruption is always an issue, but this year will it finally catapult from a topic of chronic bellyaching to an actual mechanism for changing votes? (www.newyorker.com)
“Family Lore,” by Téa Obreht - Fatal, the internet kept saying. Once symptoms began, the disease was almost always fatal. (www.newyorker.com)
Téa Obreht on Letting Your Characters Flounder - The author discusses her story “Family Lore.” (www.newyorker.com)
“I Love You in the Morning,” by Ellen Bass - “What makes up a life?” (www.newyorker.com)
The Year Math Changed Forever - A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world. (www.newyorker.com)
Brazil’s President Faces Down the Online Right - In the internet age, national elections are increasingly international. What does Lula’s victory mean for the world? (www.newyorker.com)
The Party Girls at the Heart of “Club Kid” - Jordan Firstman’s directorial début tells the story of a gay promoter who finds out he’s a father. On a groggy Lower East Side morning, the three actors who play his night-life posse compare notes on queer family planning. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside India’s Cockroach Protests - The youth movement that has roiled the country prepares its next move. (www.newyorker.com)
Surviving “The Graduate” - It was the film that made me famous. On set, all I could think about was how I was failing. (www.newyorker.com)
“Chronovisor” Captures the Terror of Thinking - The filmmakers Jack Auen and Kevin Walker have found the ideal genre in which to depict the life of the mind: horror. (www.newyorker.com)
The Washington Roundtable Live: The Final Stretch with David Plouffe - With the midterms nearly upon us, the political strategist assesses where things stand, and how the chips may fall. (www.newyorker.com)
A New Gig for Liz Holmes - How many Scaramuccis might she last? (www.newyorker.com)
Defending the Midterms from Donald Trump - The reporter Barton Gellman discusses threats to the upcoming elections. (www.newyorker.com)
Jamie Raskin Is Not Afraid to Impeach Trump Again - The Maryland congressman talks about how the Democratic Party is fighting the President’s “gangster state.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Tip Toe” Is a Rare Outcry Against Social Revanchism - The gripping British show starring Alan Cumming is fuelled by panic over the erosion of progressive political and cultural gains. (www.newyorker.com)
The Real Stakes of the Ilhan Omar Case - In seeking to revoke the citizenship of a sitting congresswoman, the Trump Administration has sent a chilling message about dissent, loyalty, and who gets to be an American. (www.newyorker.com)
Do You Feel Needed? - Being necessary has never been more necessary—or more difficult. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wild Horse Nine” Gets Lost on Easter Island - Martin McDonagh’s comic thriller, set on the eve of the Pinochet dictatorship, diverts our tears toward the mortality of a cancer-riddled C.I.A. agent. (www.newyorker.com)
The Final Electric Days of Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate Campaign - The candidate fears that high-profile attacks have compromised his safety—but he also argues that they’ve given him “one of the biggest and best platforms.” (www.newyorker.com)
What to Do in N.Y.C. This Winter - The shows to see, hear, and watch in TV, art, contemporary music, theatre, movies, classical music, and dance. (www.newyorker.com)
America!: Meet the Midterms Superfans - Some of whom write political romantasy featuring gruff yet sensual senatorial candidates. (www.newyorker.com)
Obama’s Great Skewering of Trump - The former President’s riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but politically brilliant. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 29th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Critics at Large Live: “I Need a Critic!” - Onstage at the New Yorker Festival, the hosts offer advice on embracing a less managerial approach to life, how to handle disagreement, and the best art for reigniting a feminist spark. (www.newyorker.com)
Creative Technology - Gizmos and gadgets to enable artistry. (www.newyorker.com)
I’m Told I’m Lucky to Be at the Front of This Human Centipede - “Do you know how many clients I have who would give anything just to be in the middle of that ’pede?” (www.newyorker.com)
How a Kansas Megachurch Pastor Might Determine Who Wins the Senate - Adam Hamilton’s campaign tests whether Democrats can find religion. (www.newyorker.com)
A Long View of the French Protests - A visual tour of the Place de la République, a site of protests and political conflict in Paris for the past hundred and fifty years. (www.newyorker.com)
James Talarico’s Final Sprint - The Texas Democrat has stretched his closing message to encompass Beyoncé, the biblical David, and “Friday Night Lights.” Is that what it takes to flip the state? (www.newyorker.com)
A Song of Grief and Union in “Lincoln in the Bardo” - Missy Mazzoli’s operatic adaptation of George Saunders’s novel is a charismatic, openhearted work. (www.newyorker.com)
The Humans Are Coming for A.I.’s Jobs in “We Were Here” - In India, a group of uncles plan to subvert the A.I. that is replacing them, in a mockumentary that celebrates the weirdness of regular intelligence. (www.newyorker.com)
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)
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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)