Emma Allen on Otto Soglow’s Spot Art - Fifty years after his death, the work of the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist still appears in every issue. (www.newyorker.com)
History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along - Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience. (www.newyorker.com)
“Risk, Discipline,” by Andrew Martin - Despite our best efforts, we were going to be, in the end, two more thirtysomethings from Brooklyn getting married in the Hudson Valley. (www.newyorker.com)
How Nicolas Sarkozy Survived Twenty Days Behind Bars - With his new book, “The Journal of a Prisoner,” the former French President seeks to place himself in the company of Alfred Dreyfus and Jesus Christ. (www.newyorker.com)
Caught in the “Ceasefire” - A new show on C-SPAN seeks to model civil dialogue and bipartisan coöperation in an age of inflamed debate. But is getting along a worthwhile goal? (www.newyorker.com)
Teen Rebellion Immortalized, Through the Eyes of Chris Steele-Perkins - The late British photographer was drawn to outsider subcultures, among them the working-class youths known as Teds. (www.newyorker.com)
The Edge of Adolescence - Nineties teen counterculture, a trip to Universal Studios, and the modern American dream of perpetual childhood. (www.newyorker.com)
The Washington Roundtable’s 2025 in Review - Taking stock of how American norms, ideals, and values have been transformed by Trump 2.0. (www.newyorker.com)
Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes - The former C.I.A. director and Secretary of Defense explains the problem with using the military for law enforcement. (www.newyorker.com)
Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss - The poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi talks with Kevin Young, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, about their newest collection, “The New Economy,” and poetry’s role in addressing grief. (www.newyorker.com)
Is A.I. Actually a Bubble? - The narrative of boom and bust is familiar—but also out of step with the possibilities of a new technology. (www.newyorker.com)
Nancy Shaver Is the Real Deal - Also: Murray Hill’s holiday variety show, Kara Young and Nicholas Braun in “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” James L. Brooks’s anti-romantic comedy “Ella McCay,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Bi Gan’s Dream Factory - With “Resurrection,” the director has made a surrealist epic not just about Chinese history but about the cinema itself. (www.newyorker.com)
America’s Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks - CNN and CNBC have partnered with Kalshi, a prediction market, encouraging their viewers to wager on current events in real time. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lovably Fragile Exes of “Is This Thing On?” - Bradley Cooper’s latest film, about separated spouses played by Laura Dern and Will Arnett, is scrappy but soul-nourishing. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wake Up Dead Man”: A Murder Mystery with God in the Details - In Rian Johnson’s latest whodunnit, Josh O’Connor plays a Catholic priest trying to restore moral order at a church befouled by murder. (www.newyorker.com)
The Curse of Trump 2.0 - What does it say that the President doesn’t even feel he needs to hide his most profane and radical views anymore? (www.newyorker.com)
How Bad Is It?: Three Political Scientists Say America Is No Longer a Democracy - They do argue, however, that there are ways out of the United States’ authoritarian moment. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Trump Torpedo North American Trade? - As a crucial negotiating deadline looms, envoys from three countries are scrambling to preserve a continent-wide economy. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wake Up Dead Man” and the Whodunnit Renaissance - A wave of high-concept murder mysteries has revived the classic genre—and proved to be catnip for modern audiences. Why can’t we get enough? (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Trump’s Artless Takeover of the Kennedy Center - Amid firings, boycotts, and programming reoriented to reflect the MAGA agenda, the performing-arts center has become a showcase for Trump’s aesthetics and ambitions. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism - The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive. (www.newyorker.com)
What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies - The competition between Netflix and Paramount Skydance to acquire the studio is haunted by the ghosts of mergers past. (www.newyorker.com)
Automation and Intimacy Brought Video Podcasters Out of the Man Cave - Whether you’re a pundit, a politician, or an A-list comedian, the best media strategy these days is a D.I.Y. stage set and a microphone. (www.newyorker.com)
A Student Chases the Shadows of Tiananmen - In Ha Jin’s “Looking for Tank Man,” uncovering the past doesn’t guarantee making peace with the present. (www.newyorker.com)
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2025 - The year’s most-liked gag drawings suggest that you, our readers, are really going through something. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Treasures That Are Old, or Old at Heart - A list of things to give that are secondhand or—if they must be new—emulate the craftsmanship and quality of an earlier time. (www.newyorker.com)
If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? - Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences. (www.newyorker.com)
This Bowl Has One Hundred Grams of Protein - This meal is full of macros. What are macros? Who cares? You don’t need to know. What you need to know is that you are the alpha of this fast-healthy-adjacent bowl purveyor. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Supreme Court Unsure About Birthright Citizenship? - Maybe the Justices simply want to reiterate what the Court has already said—or maybe not. (www.newyorker.com)
Two New Movies Revivify the Portrait-Film Genre - Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the filmmaker-subject relationship in ways that recall classics of the form. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best TV Shows of 2025 - This year, Hollywood’s decline was evident from its output—but a few great, conversation-starting shows made our critic crave the return of the water cooler. (www.newyorker.com)
What Happens When an “Infinite-Money Machine” Unravels - After Michael Saylor’s software company Strategy stockpiled hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, he was hailed as an alchemist. Then things went awry. (www.newyorker.com)
And Your Little Dog, Too, by David Sedaris - Two small dogs, both unleashed, rushed toward me, snarling, and one of them bit me on my left leg, just below the knee. It all happened within a second. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s the Fastest Subway Line? (Yes, There Is One) - The M.T.A.’s new “Love Letter to the Subway” tells all about the underground system beloved—and hated—by New Yorkers. (www.newyorker.com)
The Many Stages of Cynthia Nixon - Now starring in her fourteenth Broadway production, the “Sex and the City” actress reflects on Mike Nichols, F. Murray Abraham, and Times Square sleaze. (www.newyorker.com)
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? - The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Leave the U.S.A. - In the wake of President Trump’s reëlection, the number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out. (www.newyorker.com)
“Of the People for the People but by Me,” by Lucie Brock-Broido - “What is it I will have left when I leave, little but the milkweed silk, / My inky fetishes, my spirit-papers and my urns.” (www.newyorker.com)
Will Geese Redeem Noisy, Lawless Rock and Roll? - Critics love to make these kinds of breathless pronouncements. But with this band, currently on tour to promote its album “Getting Killed,” controlled hysteria is sort of the point. (www.newyorker.com)
“Almost Home,” by Adrian Matejka - “Bob Kaufman loved San Francisco’s / gentle malaise, long views of bay / & insistent bridge, the ocean right after.” (www.newyorker.com)
The New Studio Museum in Harlem Shows that Black Art Matters - Reopening with work by Tom Lloyd and others, the museum is a manifestation of possibility, specifically in Black lives. (www.newyorker.com)
Marilyn Minter’s Rapturous Visions - The artist was shunned by the art world for being too vulgar. Her new show embraces the female body, with muses like Lizzo, Padma Lakshmi, and Jane Fonda. (www.newyorker.com)
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, the Finance Bros Behind HBO’s “Industry” - Konrad Kay and Mickey Down failed as financiers—but they’re making a killing by depicting the profession on HBO. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about the demolition of the East Wing, Jessica Winter’s essay about the so-called crisis of men, and Jill Lepore’s essay about historical precedents for the Trump era. (www.newyorker.com)
A New Afghan Bakery, in New York’s Golden Age of Bread - The city has vaunted sourdough loaves and endlessly hyped croissants. Diljān, in Brooklyn Heights, brings a classic Afghan flatbread into the mix. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ancient Roots of Doing Time - The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean - Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy. (www.newyorker.com)
Chloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void - The director of “Hamnet” says that her art has been shaped by her early love of manga, her relationship to the natural world, and her neurodivergence. (www.newyorker.com)
“Understanding the Science,” by Camille Bordas - Katherine’s phone rang, and, because it was Adrian calling, everyone went quiet, trying to hear the famous actor’s voice. (www.newyorker.com)
Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature” - A reader trusts the author’s voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble. (www.newyorker.com)
Sarah Sherman Is Grosser Than You Think - The comedian is chafing against playing a pretty girl in a wig on “S.N.L.” In her new HBO special, “Sarah Squirm: Live in the Flesh,” the focus is body horror. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Gear for the Coffee Nerd - Our staff expert recommends a collection of grinders, kettles, and other devices worth poring over. (www.newyorker.com)
Olga Tokarczuk Recommends Visionary Science Fiction - The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Beast in Me” Is at War with Itself - The thriller series on Netflix, starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, is internally confused—stylish, but uneven—despite its pretensions to real storytelling. (www.newyorker.com)
A Greenlandic Photographer’s Tender Portraits of Daily Life - Inuuteq Storch set out to rediscover Inuit culture that was suppressed by Danish colonizers, by finding its traces in the everyday. (www.newyorker.com)
America’s “Bad Emperor” Problem - Assessing the political implications of the President apparently dozing off in a Cabinet meeting. (www.newyorker.com)
Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Her Film About the Grief of William Shakespeare - The director talks with Michael Schulman about her new film, about the death of Shakespeare’s only son. (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents - The senator, currently being investigated by the Justice Department, notes that the President can’t stop thinking about him: “I live rent-free in that guy’s head.” (www.newyorker.com)
Guanyu Xu’s Powerful Photographs of Immigration Limbo - Also: Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center residency, the D.I.Y. virtuoso Jay Som, Alexandra Schwartz’s Shakespeare-movie picks, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
How “The New Yorker at 100” Got to Netflix - The creators of the documentary, now streaming, on capturing the publication on film, why the magazine’s editing process is like a colonoscopy, and landing Taylor Swift’s O.K. for the soundtrack. (www.newyorker.com)
Building a State of Fear in “Extremist” - Alexander Molochnikov’s short film reinterprets an act of protest that called attention to the invasion of Ukraine, and led to the imprisonment of Sasha Skochilenko, a young Russian artist, in 2023. (www.newyorker.com)
The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank - Andrew Fox, the creator of “Slam Frank,” was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege gave him a new sense of purpose. (www.newyorker.com)
Does “Hamlet” Need a Backstory? - “Hamnet,” a new film directed by Chloé Zhao, is a fictionalized account of how Shakespeare’s famous tragedy came to be. Is it reductive or revelatory? (www.newyorker.com)
Mikie Sherrill Intends to Move Fast - Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.” (www.newyorker.com)
MaestroClass: Learn Timeless Lessons from Experts of Yore - Develop a personal hair style with Einstein, cultivate advanced diplomacy skills with Cleopatra, and more! (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Trump Targeting Venezuela? - As Trump escalates his confrontation with Venezuela, questions mount about the line between counter-narcotics policy and a bid for regional dominance. (www.newyorker.com)
Samuel Beckett on the Couch - When the young writer began analysis with Wilfred R. Bion, both men were at the beginning of their careers. Their work together would have a transformative impact. (www.newyorker.com)
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year - When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control. (www.newyorker.com)
“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails - In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world. (www.newyorker.com)
Now Watch Me Read - “Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word? (www.newyorker.com)
When to Go to the Hospital for Childbirth - Nausea can be a sign that labor is approaching, but it’s also a sign of so many other things—reading the news, for example. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Podcasts of 2025 - Some of the medium’s all-time best shows ended, but a crop of new contenders is keeping meaningful audio alive. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats - New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war. (www.newyorker.com)
The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order - A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign. (www.newyorker.com)
Donna Lieberman Is at the Wheel - The head of the New York Civil Liberties Union doesn’t only lead the fight against injustice. She can also make you a great pottery bowl. (www.newyorker.com)
What Can Economists Agree on These Days? - A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Tartuffe Times Two - Matthew Broderick and André De Shields have both undertaken Molière’s con-man character. They feel he has a few things in common with a certain orange President. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe - Is the race to create ever more lavish spectator offerings in America’s largest entertainment venues changing the fan experience? (www.newyorker.com)
What Makes Goethe So Special? - The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Susanna Wolff’s Shouts & Murmurs piece about child-led parenting, Molly Fischer’s profile of Costco, and Cal Revely-Calder’s review of Paul Kingsnorth’s book “Against the Machine.” (www.newyorker.com)
TV Review: Tim Robinson’s “The Chair Company,” on HBO - The comedian’s new HBO series is full of characters who possess their own sparks of madness. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Make the Perfect Partner in 18 Easy A.I. Prompts - Generate yourself as a [age] [gender] who sounds like [parental figure or lost loved one] mixed with [favorite entertainer]. (www.newyorker.com)
Hey, Kids! Get Yer Epstein Files Activity Fun Page! - Maybe the Justice Department should try a Word Search puzzle and a Connect the Dots. (www.newyorker.com)
When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk - During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. (www.newyorker.com)
The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner - A new biography details the secrets and scandals of the Mitfords, a notorious family of aristocrats—and of the one sister who broke away from the rest. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Albums of 2025 - There are plenty of albums that might have made the cut on a different day. But good list-making requires hubris, constraint. A moment of wild and fearless conviction. (www.newyorker.com)
A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language - In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity. (www.newyorker.com)
“Blue Baby,” by Mary Jo Salter - “You thought yourself lucky as a sickly / child, who got to spend whole days // reading long books in bed.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Tornado Imagined from Far Away,” by Sharon Olds - “Some homes almost disappeared, / as if the atoms that had made them were gone.” (www.newyorker.com)
Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Elephant,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom Stoppard’s Radical Invitation - The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking. (www.newyorker.com)
“Safety,” by Joan Silber - It horrified me to be from a species that did such things, over and over, but what good did my horror do? (www.newyorker.com)
Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses” - The poem confirmed the ascent of a rare new voice—a mesmerizing voice that became indispensable to American verse. (www.newyorker.com)
How Noah Baumbach Fell (Back) in Love with the Movies - The writer-director talks about the art of dialogue, his love of marital fight scenes, and how his new film, “Jay Kelly,” helped him rekindle his affection for the medium. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Ceramicist Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye Makes Bowls That Hold Time - Over decades and through thousands of repetitions, the Turkish artist has whittled down her distinctive stoneware bowl to its very essence. (www.newyorker.com)
The Undermining of the C.D.C. - The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell. (www.newyorker.com)
My Mother’s Memory Loss, and Mine - When I began forgetting words in midlife, I wondered if it was menopause—and worried that it was something more. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Music Lovers - Our music critic gives a roundup of tactile, old-fashioned ways to honor sound, and the people who make it. (www.newyorker.com)
Louis C.K. Débuts a Standup Special, “Ridiculous,” and Book, “Ingram” - In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back. (www.newyorker.com)
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love - Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. (www.newyorker.com)
Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney - The director talks with the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison about his new film, in which a famous actor wonders whether he’s made the right choices. (www.newyorker.com)
Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster - The novelist talks about his new book, set a century in the future, and why writers should try to describe the wider world—not just themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
God Bless “A Christmas Carol,” Every One - Also: the galloping Americana of Ryan Davis, Michael Urie’s tragic “Richard II,” a holiday roundup, Inkoo Kang’s TV picks, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Newest States in the U.S.A. - Bunly: State Nickname: The Creamy Leftovers State. State Motto: “Oops, I left it in Bunly.” State Gemstone: The humble pebble. (www.newyorker.com)
What are Putin’s Ultimate Demands for Peace in Ukraine? - The Trump Administration has claimed that it’s nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict’s essential impasse still holds: Moscow won’t accept what Kyiv can stomach. (www.newyorker.com)
A Chef’s Guide to Sumptuous Writing - How the restaurateur Gabrielle Hamilton—of the beloved New York City establishment Prune—became a noted memoirist. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Shepard’s Enactments of Manhood - “Coyote,” a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself. (www.newyorker.com)
Traci Brimhall Reads Thomas Lux - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Refrigerator, 1957,” by Thomas Lux, and her own poem “Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It.” (www.newyorker.com)
Ken Jennings on Why Facts Still Matter on “Jeopardy!” - The man who’s been called “America’s hardest-working nerd” joins Tyler Foggatt live onstage at The New Yorker Festival. (www.newyorker.com)
“Landman” Goes Down Like a Michelob Ultra - Taylor Sheridan’s oil-industry drama trades in gender stereotypes, reactionary politics, and blatant product placement. Why, then, is it so damn satisfying? (www.newyorker.com)
“The Secret Agent,” Reviewed: A Brazilian Political Thriller Teeming with Life - The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho conjures fateful interconnections among vivid characters living in the grip of military dictatorship. (www.newyorker.com)
Which of These Updated Health-Care Plans Is Right for You? - If the San Andreas Fault opens up, we’ll send Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson to help. Not to help you, specifically—he’ll just generally lend a hand in California. (www.newyorker.com)
Ukrainian Men Approaching Military Age Are Fleeing in Droves - A new policy has led to an exodus of male citizens. Will they return if the war ends? (www.newyorker.com)
A Family Drama Over Gender in “Holy Curse” - In Snigdha Kapoor’s short film, an Indian preteen’s queerness is treated as something to be ritually cleansed—with unpredictable results. (www.newyorker.com)
The Turkey Trot Is for Wimps—Welcome to the Iron Turkey - If you manage to make it through the swim, and to peel off your starchy bathing suit, you’ll begin a hundred-and-twelve-mile uphill bike ride to the most crowded grocery store in America. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Part of Thanksgiving, Bones and All - The menu is malleable, the gratitudes negotiable, but the turkey’s second life as stock is one of the greatest gifts of the entire blessed year. (www.newyorker.com)
In a Sargent Painting, a Vicomtesse Lives On - The great-great-grandmother of Laurent Saint Périer was one of John Singer Sargent’s alluring muses, before she died in a notorious fire. Now Saint Périer visits her portrait in the Musée d’Orsay. (www.newyorker.com)
“Letter in April,” by Marie T. Martin (translated, from the German, by Kathleen Heil) - “Do you still receive letters from the dead?” (www.newyorker.com)
In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended - Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape. (www.newyorker.com)
One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World - In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him. (www.newyorker.com)
What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway? - In a new global history, capitalism is an inescapable vibe—responsible for everything, everywhere, all at once. (www.newyorker.com)
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison - The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War? - The President declared a diplomatic triumph. The view from the ground is more complex. (www.newyorker.com)
Kurtis Blow, Still Blowing - After the rapper’s 1979 hit “Christmas Rappin’,” his song “The Breaks” was the first rap single to go gold. Now he’s embracing the good ole days with a “Legends of Hip-Hop” concert. (www.newyorker.com)
What Happens in Kyoto Comes to New York - In 1997, scientists and bureaucrats gathered in Japan to talk about greenhouse-gas emissions. At Lincoln Center, a group of actors rehash all the drama—in front of the original negotiators. (www.newyorker.com)
Weak Female Lead - For some reason, I have been voted to be the leader of the uprising against Society in this dystopian Y.A. action movie, but I really just need to lie down. (www.newyorker.com)
Where Dante’s Divine Comedy Guides Us - The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy rooted in the imperfectly human. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Golden Boy,” by Daniyal Mueenuddin - Bayazid had never quite given up the fantasy he nurtured in boyhood, of discovering himself a child of some minister or prince. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: I’m Donut ? - The viral Japanese bakery, now with a location in Times Square, is one of the few imported brands that has broken through to become genuinely hot while maintaining considerable good will. (www.newyorker.com)
The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files - Not only is the department’s behavior not normal; it is also, as is becoming increasingly clear, self-defeating. (www.newyorker.com)
Ariel Levy on Emily Hahn’s “The Big Smoke” - In 1969, the longtime foreign correspondent recalled a youthful adventure in which she moved to China, keen on becoming an opium addict. (www.newyorker.com)
Edwidge Danticat on Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” - The mother in Kincaid’s story is not only trying to tame a shrew; she is offering a template for survival. (www.newyorker.com)
For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past - By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system. (www.newyorker.com)
A Battle with My Blood - When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family. (www.newyorker.com)
The Obliging Apocalypse of “Pluribus” - The new sci-fi drama from Vince Gilligan posits an end-of-humanity scenario that everyone other than its protagonist can agree on. (www.newyorker.com)
Alice Austen’s Larky Life - The Victorian photographer has gained a cult following for her intimate and surprising images of women. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents to Thank Your Host - Whether you’re staying for one meal or the entire season, these festive offerings will show just how grateful you are. (www.newyorker.com)
The Political Scene Live: A Year Since Trump’s Win, What Have We Learned? - The second Trump Administration has already made good on many of MAGA’s promises. Where will the President’s coalition go from here? (www.newyorker.com)
“Two People Exchanging Saliva” Rewrites the Slap in Cinema - Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata’s film is set in a dystopian version of Paris where kissing is forbidden and purchases are made through small acts of violence. (www.newyorker.com)
Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington - The Maryland Democrat talks about Chuck Schumer’s leadership of a fractured party, and whether Van Hollen himself harbors Presidential ambitions. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult? - Rich Logis was a MAGA warrior before he hung up his red hat, and founded the organization Leaving MAGA to help others do the same. He speaks with the New Yorker Radio Hour producer Adam Howard. (www.newyorker.com)
Dev Hynes Returns as Blood Orange - Also: the kamancheh playing of Kayhan Kalhor, Ethan Lipton’s surrealist “The Seat of Our Pants,” our writers’ holiday traditions, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
“Hamnet” Feels Elemental, but Is It Just Highly Effective Grief Porn? - In Chloé Zhao’s film, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, the death of a child gives rise to the creation of a literary masterpiece. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad - In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking. (www.newyorker.com)
Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye - On seeing Rachel Maddow at the former Vice-President’s funeral, while Donald Trump threatened Democrats on social media with death by hanging. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling” - Mascha Schilinski’s dark, century-spanning ensemble drama sees four generations of women take up spectral residence in a German farmhouse. (www.newyorker.com)
The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti - Jad Abumrad’s new podcast, “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power. (www.newyorker.com)
A Startup’s Bid to Dim the Sun - The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments. (www.newyorker.com)
Lesser-Known Celebrity-Owned Alcohol Brands - Featuring Walton Goggins’s Weirdly Hot Jalapeño Tequila and Sydney Sweeney’s Pure White Rum. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Pluribus,” Utopia Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be - Artists and thinkers have long fixated on the notion of an ideal society—but these experiments, in fiction and in life, inevitably fall short. Why are we still drawn in by the possibility of perfection? (www.newyorker.com)
“This World of Tomorrow” and “Oedipus” Dramatize the Power of the Past - Tom Hanks plays a time-travelling tech titan, and Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a modern tragedy. (www.newyorker.com)
Family Estrangement Is on the Rise. Are Politics to Blame? - In recent years, severing ties with family members over political differences has become increasingly normalized. Is going “no contact” a necessary boundary, or a harmful overcorrection? (www.newyorker.com)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Dignity - The political philosopher Lea Ypi discusses four books about the inviolable quality of dignity. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sikh-Separatist Assassination Plot - A murder in Canada and an attempted one in New York suggest a transnational campaign of violence that has imperilled Indian diplomacy with the West. (www.newyorker.com)
The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon - At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set about championing writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as uniquely American. (www.newyorker.com)
A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind - Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: The Newest, Strangest Gadgets and Apps - Our columnist on digital culture suggests technology—or anti-technology technology—to give this holiday season. (www.newyorker.com)
How M.B.S. Won Back Washington - After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office. (www.newyorker.com)
Lives in Upheaval After an Eviction, in “Last Days on Lake Trinity” - Charlotte Cooley’s short film follows three women as they navigate months of uncertainty after the shuttering of a Florida mobile-home park. (www.newyorker.com)
Nick Fuentes Is Not Just Another Alt-Right Boogeyman - The rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does. (www.newyorker.com)
“Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face” Brings a Star’s Genius to Light - A new biography traces the self-transformative creation of the most movie-made actress of classic Hollywood. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe - After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other. (www.newyorker.com)
The Most Dangerous Genre - Our obsession with deadly game shows—from “The Running Man” and “Squid Game” to MrBeast’s real-life reënactments—reflects a shift in the national mood to something increasingly zero-sum. (www.newyorker.com)
Automatic-Reply Text Messages - “Appreciate you reaching out. I will get back to you as soon as I figure out whose unsaved number this is.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails - Donald Trump occupies a kind of negative space in the available files, which run an enervating gamut from the inane to the depraved. (www.newyorker.com)
Effigies of Me - Would you like the standard, “classic” effigy of me, suitable for hanging from a tree limb or a scaffold? Or would you like the effigy of me that is designed for burning at the stake? (www.newyorker.com)
Kash Patel’s Acts of Service - The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Keeping Up with Andrea Martin - The actress stars in “Meet the Cartozians,” a new play about an Armenian family of reality-TV stars who are suspiciously similar to the Kardashians. (www.newyorker.com)
The Harlem River Houses’ Newest Residents - Decades after the complex’s beloved stone penguins were beheaded and then used for drug stashes, new sculptures have taken their place around the wading pool. (www.newyorker.com)
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality - A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to E. Tammy Kim’s article about the Trump Administration’s attack on immigration courts, Manvir Singh’s piece about mythologies, and Maggie Doherty’s review of “True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen,” by Lance Richardson. (www.newyorker.com)
Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy - It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Can’t Dodge the Costly K-Shaped Economy - John Cassidy writes that, after Trump insisted that his tariffs weren’t raising prices, he has virtually admitted the opposite by moving to scrap the duties on certain foodstuffs. (www.newyorker.com)
If the Legal Campaigns Against Donald Trump Had Ended Differently - New books look at the January 6th Trial That Wasn’t and other failed prosecutions—and whether they might have changed history. (www.newyorker.com)
Annie Leibovitz Outside the Frame - After a prod from Hillary Clinton, the photographer reissued her 1999 book, “Women,” and celebrated with some subjects—Martha Stewart, Gloria Steinem—on hand. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s the Best Movie About the Subway? - “The Big Picture” podcast has interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage. It recently hit the 92nd Street Y for a live show to pick the best New York films in six categories. (www.newyorker.com)
Stephen Fry Is Wilde at Heart - The polymathic entertainer has had a lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers. And now he’s starring in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” (www.newyorker.com)
Kristin Chenoweth’s Uneven Gilt Trip in “The Queen of Versailles” - The Broadway veteran stars as a Marie Antoinette wannabe in a musical about excess, and Anne Washburn goes post-apocalyptic with “The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star - As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name. (www.newyorker.com)
Hanif Abdurraqib on Ellen Willis’s Review of Elvis in Las Vegas - The magazine’s first pop-music critic was never afraid to be overtaken by unexpected delight, even if it came at the expense of some preëxisting skepticism. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lara’s Theme,” by Madhuri Vijay - Buried within every family, perhaps, is the secret desire to self-destruct, to push intimacy to its ugliest extremes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential Pardons - The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand. (www.newyorker.com)
A Holiday Gift Guide: Tools, Treats, and Trifles for Food Lovers - Our food critic’s annual roundup of gastronomic ideas for giving. (www.newyorker.com)
Life at the Edge of a Famous Family - Eleanor Coppola’s new memoir, “Two of Me: Notes on Living and Leaving,” explores the difficulties of having a celebrated director for a husband, and a celebrated director for a daughter. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mystery of the Political Assassin - Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them. (www.newyorker.com)
Time Runs Out on Nico Harrison and the Dallas Mavericks - The infamous N.B.A. executive once said that “time will tell” on the trade that sent superstar Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers. Not even a year later, he’s out of a job. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite? - How twenty thousand pages of Epstein documents, with more potentially on the way, might damage Trump’s Presidency. (www.newyorker.com)
Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025 - The financial journalist discusses his new book about the Wall Street crash of 1929, and the mounting concerns about an A.I. bubble. (www.newyorker.com)
Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem - The curator Thelma Golden takes David Remnick on a tour of the unique institution, which is reopening to the public after a seven-year building project. (www.newyorker.com)
The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship - The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets. (www.newyorker.com)
Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot? - The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature. (www.newyorker.com)
“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death - In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn persistence of compassion. (www.newyorker.com)
Did Women Really Ruin the Workplace? - I can answer that question: yes. Specifically, me—I’m the woman who ruined the workplace. And, frankly, I had a blast. (www.newyorker.com)
The Icelandic Artist Ragnar Kjartansson, Absurd and Profound in Equal Measures - Also: The weird and wild new music of Geese, the tweetstorm-inspired “Slam Frank,” the elaborate cocktails of Double Chicken Please, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Texas’s Water Wars - As industrial operations move to the state, residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies. (www.newyorker.com)
Preliminary Sketches for the White House Renovation - The ballroom ceiling will feature a Sistine Chapel-inspired fresco, depicting traditional American heroes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Guilty Pleasure of the Heist - Elaborate robberies are a Hollywood staple, and the real-life theft at the Louvre has become a phenomenon. Why are we riveted by this particular type of crime? (www.newyorker.com)
The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List in “Retirement Plan” - In John Kelly’s animated short film, narrated by Domhnall Gleeson, nothing’s off limits when it comes to thinking about the future—particularly when there’s so much left to do. (www.newyorker.com)
How Zohran Mamdani Won, and What Comes Next - Mamdani ran against New York City’s political establishment. Do his early appointments suggest he’s preparing to work within it? (www.newyorker.com)
The Joyful Mythology of “Nouvelle Vague” - Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless” embraces the legend of the French New Wave and its enduring influence. (www.newyorker.com)
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I. - Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts. (www.newyorker.com)
Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks - Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Supreme Court Defines Liberty - Recent memoirs by the Justices reveal how a new vision of restraint has led to radical outcomes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mess at the BBC Will Never End - The public broadcaster desperately needs the public to believe in it. Between its own stumbles and ceaseless right-wing hostility, it is in danger of losing its way. (www.newyorker.com)
“Death by Lightning” Dramatizes the Assassination America Forgot - The new Netflix miniseries makes the 1881 killing of President James Garfield feel thrillingly current. (www.newyorker.com)
Just As You Feared—Life in Zohran Mamdani’s New York - At school, I wave goodbye to my son, but he doesn’t even look back, such is his hurry to get to the singing of the Soviet Anthem. (www.newyorker.com)
In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory - After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can’t return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Grim Resonance of “The Innocents of Florence” - A slim, compelling book about one of the first orphanages in Europe contains painful echoes of the present. (www.newyorker.com)
The Art of the Profile - The New Yorker staff writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman join the executive editor Daniel Zalewski for a conversation about building trust with subjects, revealing character, and capturing life on the page. (www.newyorker.com)
Rian Johnson Is an Agatha Christie for the Netflix Age - The director revived the cozy mystery with “Knives Out.” In a new sequel, can he find his way to the end of the maze? (www.newyorker.com)
I Bite Back - Though I cannot sue the people or entities that have wronged you, I BITE BACK, and you will owe me nothing until I bite. (www.newyorker.com)
What Was the American Revolution For? - Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king. (www.newyorker.com)
“Modern European,” by Declan Ryan - “Although we speak, now, to each other in new ways / we can still meet here, I think. We always have.” (www.newyorker.com)
Nina Hoss’s Latest Act of Defiance Is “Hedda” - After playing Ibsen’s title character onstage, the actress now takes to the screen for Nia DaCosta’s adaptation. But if Hedda is played by Tessa Thompson, who is Hoss? (www.newyorker.com)
David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation - At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service. (www.newyorker.com)