07:47 A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery - The NATO secretary-general goes all in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.” (www.newyorker.com)
07:00 Inside the Mind of a Never Trump War Hawk - Why Eliot Cohen, an intellectual architect of the Iraq War, thinks Trump was right to strike Iran. (www.newyorker.com)
03:28 “M3GAN 2.0” Is a Victim of Inflation - The sequel, which adds more A.I.-endowed robots and increases their powers, diminishes its dramatic impact. (www.newyorker.com)
02:39 A Pioneering Photographer Revives Her Slide Show of Lesbian Life - Between 1979 and 1984, Joan E. Biren’s travelling images served as a vehicle for transformation and community building. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 Packing Lists for Your Upcoming Emotional Journeys - Be prepared for anything with D.I.Y. travel Martini ingredients and your twenty-seven nighttime skin-care products. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 “Prince Faggot” Sends Up Kink and Country - Jordan Tannahill’s explicit new play fetishizes the British Royal Family but has more than sex on its mind. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 How Bad Is It?: Trump Strikes Iran, and His Base Hits Back - The President’s flirtation with another forever war threatened to fracture his coalition, alienating the likes of Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 The Diva Is Dead, Long Live the Diva - We’ve worshipped divinely talented but demanding women for centuries. In an era of careful language and online backlash, is there still room for the diva? (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet - The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted his sentence, and he went home. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 Megan Fernandes Reads Hala Alyan - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Half-Life in Exile,” by Hala Alyan, and her own poem “On Your Departure to California.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 A Summer Reading List of Lighthearted Mysteries - Sue Halpern, a novelist and critic, recommends a handful of books equal parts reassuring and riveting. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 What Zohran Mamdani’s Defeat of Andrew Cuomo Means for the Democrats - On Tuesday, the thirty-three-year-old left-wing mayoral candidate sent an unmissable message to his Party: be new. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later” - Decades after “28 Days Later,” the director Danny Boyle and the screenwriter Alex Garland return to—and advance—a frighteningly effective franchise. (www.newyorker.com)
06-25 A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts - Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original. (www.newyorker.com)
06-25 Zohran Mamdani Wins the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary - A few months ago, the “no-name” state assemblyman seemed destined to lose to Andrew Cuomo. On election night, he redrew the city’s political maps. (www.newyorker.com)
06-25 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Declaration of Independence - The newest Justice is increasingly willing to condemn the actions of the conservative majority, even when that means breaking with her liberal colleagues. (www.newyorker.com)
06-25 Yoga for Finding Inner Calm in L.A. Right Now - Now sit up and let your hips sink back. Feel the ground beneath you, which I’m told has been sold by the federal government to private entities for mineral rights. (www.newyorker.com)
06-25 What Have the U.S. and Israel Accomplished in Iran? - It remains to be seen how long the ceasefire will hold, but the Iranian regime is unlikely to end its nuclear program anytime soon. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 24th - “As New Yorkers cast their ballots today, the current leader in the polls is a four-billion-B.T.U. air-conditioner.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Glory and Gore in “Afternoons of Solitude” - Albert Serra’s new documentary about the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey offers a keenly observed—and surprisingly moving—depiction of the blood sport. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 “The Gilded Age” Is a Poor Man’s Period Drama - The HBO series is peppered with references to real-life personages and historical events—but it lacks the anything-goes energy of the era in which it’s set. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Ben Shahn, the Lefty Artist Who Was Left Behind - Shahn was an American phenomenon, but a new retrospective suggests that we’ve come to prize his politics over his accomplishments. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 The Drug That Could Revolutionize the Fight Against H.I.V. - World leaders are dismantling global health programs and cutting back foreign aid. Will an extraordinary new medicine be able to outpace the damage? (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Can Ayatollah Khamenei, and Iran’s Theocracy, Survive This War? - The future of the Islamic Republic may be shaped more by the country’s culture and politics than by the military prowess of its opponents. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 23rd - “We have no concrete idea what we did, what comes next, or what it means for the globe, but other than that it was a spectacular military success!” (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Why Passing the Stablecoin GENIUS Act Might Not Be So Smart - Critics say enacting the pro-crypto legislation will make the financial system less safe and less stable—and further enrich Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Kathryn Schulz’s review of “Melting Point,” Lauren Michele Jackson on a new biography of Mark Twain, Diego Lasarte on compost-disposal inspections, and Ian Frazier’s essay about pigeons in New York City. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Amazon’s New James Bond - The secretary Miss Moneypenny will now be known as Miss Money One Hundred Billion Dollars Money Money Money. Or Alexa. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 How Donald Trump Got NATO to Pay Up - The Administration is strong-arming European nations to do more on behalf of their own defense. Is the strategy working? (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 What Zohran Mamdani Got Right About Running for Mayor - The thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist has created a movement. Can it overcome Andrew Cuomo’s power? (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Your Hip Surgery, My Headache, by David Sedaris - Getting Hugh home after his hip replacement involved a thick cushion and a car with legroom. “Ow!” he said whenever I tried to help. “You’re making everything worse!” (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Do We Need Another Green Revolution? - As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Mark Hamill Considers the Odds - The actor who became famous as Luke Skywalker now plays a math-obsessed grandfather in “The Life of Chuck.” At MoMath, he studied fractals and rode a square-wheeled tricycle. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Are Young People Having Enough Sex? - Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 “God,” by Campbell McGrath - “It makes sense notionally, a painless hypothesis / for our predicament, crayoned face to bridge / the gulf between grace and the lightning storm.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 The Mütter Museum Reckons with Human Remains in Its Collection - Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical and a political minefield. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A. - Pro sports have long seemed like the closest thing we have to a true meritocracy. But maybe not anymore. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 The DOGEfather Part II - Joe Gebbia, a RISD grad and an Airbnb billionaire, may soon lead the federal cost-cutting effort known as DOGE. Could there be clues to his methods in his art-school days? (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 “South Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day,” by Terrance Hayes - “The comfort in the smell of bacon in the morning / is mostly burning fat & salt, but the taste is sweet / as the part of the pig that stores the soul.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 With His Eyes on History, Benjamin Netanyahu Aims for Political Resurrection - There is no overestimating the triumphalism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s circle, but the cascading effects of the war being waged on Iran are still unfolding. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in Iran - Why even a successful attack might do less to curb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions than a diplomatic deal would have. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 “Happy Days,” by Han Ong - Why shouldn’t Matthew Lim play Winnie? Inside his body, the role would be no spoof at all but the purest of incarnations. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 John McPhee on His Childhood Appearance in The New Yorker - The little boy in the piece was definitely me, and the moment I saw it I developed a lifelong affection for the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 The People Being Disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles - As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 Donald Trump Bombs Iran, and America Waits - The U.S. strikes were unprecedented, and the repercussions are impossible to predict. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Donald Trump and the Iran Crisis - It’s not easy to trust the President to make an optimal decision. For one thing, he is suspicious of nearly every source of information save his own instincts. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 The Rise of the Anti-Cinderella Story - A pair of recent films, Celine Song’s “Materialists” and Sean Baker’s “Anora,” turn the fairy tale on its head, with mixed results. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship - With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Where Is the Iran-Israel Conflict Headed? - President Donald Trump’s decision on whether to attack Iran may prove to be the most consequential of his Presidency yet. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Could New York City’s Next Comptroller Be a Punk Rocker? - Justin Brannan, a city councilman from Bay Ridge running in the Democratic primary, used to play guitar for the hardcore bands Indecision and Most Precious Blood. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Was a Right to Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Possible? - The Supreme Court was unlikely to strike down a state ban on some pediatric medical treatments, but the Biden Justice Department’s strategy made it even more improbable. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Revisiting “Columbus,” a Thrilling Drama of Growing Up Modernist - Kogonada’s first feature, starring Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, and Parker Posey, highlights the inspirational power of the architecture for which Columbus, Indiana, is famed. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 America’s Oligarch Problem - How did the United States join Russia and China as an oligarchy? The staff writer Evan Osnos chronicles the shift in his new book, “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Why Israel Struck Iran First - The Israeli American writer Yossi Klein Halevi is vehemently opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu, but he makes a case for why Netanyahu was right to start a war, whatever the consequences. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 20th - “Hopefully we can have a productive dialogue, now that the Americans are sitting at the kids’ negotiating table.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-20 “F1” is a Well-Tooled Engine of Entertainment - The destination of this comeback narrative starring Brad Pitt may be predictable, but Joseph Kosinski’s direction ensures thrillingly tight turns en route. (www.newyorker.com)
06-20 The Astonishing Images of Diane Arbus - Also: Bill McKibben’s nature-doc picks, the full-bodied soul of Baby Rose, new work from Pam Tanowitz, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
06-20 Is the Anti-Trump Opposition Getting Its #Resistance Back? - How the movement might cohere—if it does at all—remains an open question. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation - As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 “Familiar Touch” Is an Exquisitely Fragmentary Portrait of Memory Loss - In Sarah Friedland’s début feature, Kathleen Chalfant plays an octogenarian with dementia adapting to the constraints and possibilities of assisted living. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 Why We Turn Grief Into Art - In dark times, many novelists, poets, and performers turn to their work to process and express what they’re feeling. What do these texts born of tragedy offer their audience? (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery - When a “purchasing group” won a ninety-five-million-dollar jackpot, the victory caused a scandal in a state where opposition to legal gambling remains widespread. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 Anne Enright’s Literary Journeys to Australia and New Zealand - The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due. (www.newyorker.com)
06-18 What “Outrageous” Misses About the Mitford Sisters - The television series gives period-drama treatment to one of the most scandalous families of twentieth-century Europe. (www.newyorker.com)
06-18 The Trump Crackdown on Elected Officials - The arrest of Brad Lander in New York was the latest incident in a pattern of increasingly aggressive actions that the Administration has taken against Democrats. (www.newyorker.com)
06-18 Haim Sets Off on a Rampage - The band members discuss when to leave a relationship, hoping people slide into their D.M.s, and their new album, “I Quit.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-18 The World That ABBA Made - It once seemed unlikely that four Swedes in sequins would become global pop icons. A new biography describes how the band became ubiquitous. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 James Frey’s New Novel, “Next to Heaven” Is as Bad as It Sounds - With a status-obsessed comeback book, the author of the fabricated memoir “A Million Little Pieces” attempts to rebrand. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 17th - “We’re seeing a lot of patients with these symptoms. Have you been normalizing copious amounts of insanity?” (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Catherine Lacey’s Infinite Regress - The novelist on her unclassifiable new work, “The Möbius Book”; the limits of autobiography; and the appeal of multiplicity. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 The Minnesota Shootings and the Dangerous Trend of Impersonating Law Enforcement - A new political era has arrived, in which the expectation and the fear of political violence are endemic. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 A Forgotten Surrealist’s Paintings Return to New York - Last year, Henry Orlik was living in poverty after being evicted. Now his work is worth millions. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Queer Allies Can’t Wait to Celebrate Hetero Awesome Fest with You! - It’s 2025, and our society should be evolved enough to finally recognize the important contributions that the straight community has made to our culture. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Apocalypse No: “The Life of Chuck” Stumbles at the Finish Line - Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation offers a schematic, suburban vision of end times. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 What Is Israel’s Endgame with Iran? - There appears to be no off-ramp yet, as the destruction and death toll mount in both countries. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 16th - “I’m ready for the exciting last thirty seconds of the basketball game which stretch into twenty-five minutes of fouls, time-outs, and commercials.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 The Problem With Early Cancer Detection - New blood tests promise to detect malignancies before they’ve spread. But proving that these tests actually improve outcomes remains a stubborn challenge. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Why Donald Trump Is Obsessed with William McKinley - The Gilded Age President led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so determined to bring the liberal international order to an end. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Pub-Crawling with the Tubs - On its first American tour, the British jangle-rock band with a cheeky-dirtbag edge is trying to unite the states, one gig at a time. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? - Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexual assault. Then the world moved on, and left her behind. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 A Penn Station Makeover, Trump Style - Now that the Administration is taking over the station’s renovation, expect vats of gold paint and a little “Presidential grab” in the line for the ladies. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 The History of Advice Columns Is a History of Eavesdropping and Judging - How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I the Asshole. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE? - Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 “The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea,” Reviewed - The label is exclusionary, inconsistently applied, and a license to behave badly. Why can’t we give it up? (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 A New Progressive Rallying Cry: “Don’t Rank Evil Andrew!” - In New York’s Democratic mayoral primary race, Andrew Cuomo’s lead is slipping, and Zohran Mamdani is pulling ahead. Is the DREAM campaign working? (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Antonia Hitchens’s piece on Trump’s Washington, a book note about Dan Nadel’s biography of Robert Crumb, and Jill Lepore’s essay on finding solace in Penguin’s Little Black Classics. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 The Truth About Trump’s Proposed Cash-for-Kids Savings Scheme - A new proposal for child investment accounts sounds progressive—but its biggest beneficiaries would be families that can already afford to save. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 The Portland Bar That Screens Only Women’s Sports - The Sports Bra started as an inside joke between a chef and her friends. It created a national trend. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Trump’s To-Undo List - 1. Cut FEMA flood budget. Make Bezos send wet places salad spinners to dry out stuff. 2. No more brown or yellow M&M’s. Low I.Q., emotionally unstable. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 The Atomic Bombs’ Forgotten Korean Victims - Survivors of the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still fighting for recognition. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 “All Dressed Up,” by Billy Collins - “In Colorado, I once saw a dog in a tuxedo / walk down an aisle and give the bride away.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 The Military’s Birthday Parade Rolls Quietly Through Trump’s Washington - After all the talk of dictators and wannabe kings, the Army’s anniversary celebration in the capital was a low-key affair, amid national turmoil. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 Molly Fischer on Mark Singer’s “Mom Overboard!” - The article, which appeared in the Women’s Issue, asks what happens when three women leave élite careers to stay home with their children. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 Restaurant Review: Cactus Wren Is Doing Its Own Thing - A new restaurant from the chef duo Samuel Clonts and Raymond Trinh puts caviar in unpredictable places. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 “Any Human Heart,” by Yiyun Li - And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that little in life could surprise her anymore. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 Play It Again, Charles Burnett - Over the years, the director’s early films have been lost and found, forgotten and celebrated. But what about the work that came after, or that never came to be? (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 New York to ICE: “G.T.F.O.” - As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread nationwide, a crowd gathered in lower Manhattan—complete with bullhorns, balloons, and a toy doughnut to bait the cops. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 President Trump’s Military Games - Trump, always attracted to playing the role of the strongman, is even more inclined than he was in his first term to misuse the military for his own political gratification. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Trump Makes a Big Show of Military Force - What are the consequences of calling in troops to quell what the President has deemed “the enemy within”? (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 There Are No Perfect Choices in the New York Mayoral Race - Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani are leading the Democratic field. Even they seem nervous. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Why Netanyahu Decided to Strike Iran Now - The editor-in-chief of Haaretz on how President Trump enabled Israel to carry out an attack years in the making. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 After Attacking Iran, Israel Girds for What’s Next - Crisis has become the norm in Israel, but this time feels different. Is it a victory, or the start of a new war? (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan - Nicolas Niarchos shares reporting from a civil war in which Sudan’s Black minority is caught between warring factions led by members of the country’s Arab majority. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life” - The legend discusses her new album, her complicated relationship to performing, and recording a duet with Bob Dylan decades after he first asked her to collaborate. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Inside the Activist Groups Resisting ICE - As raids spread beyond L.A., organizers, lawyers, and volunteers in Orange County are attempting to slow down arrests and deportations. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 13th - “And while all the grownups are busy freaking out about the erosion of norms and the rank partisanship that has crippled our democracy, we’ll steal all the candy!” (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 “Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures - Celine Song’s romantic tale, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans, offers thrilling dialogue but some puzzling silences. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Donald Trump Enters His World Cup Era - The upcoming tournament, hosted in North America for the first time in three decades, reflects the President’s nativist and transactional approach to foreign affairs. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of “Les Mis” - What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly “normal nature” of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Diane Arbus and the Too-Revealing Detail - In “Constellation,” the photographer’s largest-ever show in New York, images linger in the strange space between intention and effect. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Do Androids Dream of Anything at All? - We have tended to imagine machines as either being our slaves or enslaving us. Martha Wells, the writer of the “Murderbot” series, tries to conjure a truly alien consciousness. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off - “Call Me Izzy” and “Angry Alan” feature two stars up close and personal. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 Our Romance with Jane Austen - The author’s novels are critiques of Regency England’s high society. Why, two hundred and fifty years after her birth, does her work resonate so strongly with modern audiences? (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 The Department of Veterans Affairs Is Not O.K. - V.A. insiders describe themselves as miserable—and they worry that the Trump Administration will do long-term damage to the agency. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 What Gaza Needs Now - My family is starving. My neighbors are dying. I’m compelled to share these injustices because they need to stop. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 What Broke the U.S.-China Relationship? - Donald Trump’s trade war, and his threats toward Chinese students, have endangered the close economic relationship between the two great powers. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening - How “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” helped the musician find a purpose beyond hippie-culture stardom. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 Katherine Rundell’s Fantastic Four - The best-selling author of “Impossible Creatures” takes us on a tour of fantastical worlds, old and new. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 Looking for the National Guard in Los Angeles - President Trump’s assertions that federal troops have saved the city from destruction did not appear to reflect reality. (www.newyorker.com)
06-11 An Inside Look at Gaza’s Chaotic New Aid System - A humanitarian worker in the territory explains how the situation has devolved in recent weeks—and what she’s doing for her own family. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 10th - “The protesters seem to be doing some sort of joyful synchronized dance. Is it time to call in the Marines?” (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies - The documentary “Videoheaven” and MOMA’s series “A Theater Near You” consider how people watch films and why it matters. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 How Addison Rae Went from TikTok to the Pop Charts - The artist presents herself as a gently debauched girl next door on her new album, “Addison.” It’s positioned to be one of the summer''s marquee offerings. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 Immigration Protests Threaten to Boil Over in Los Angeles - Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s deportation agenda met its fiercest resistance yet as federal officials conducted worksite raids and clashed with residents. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 “Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up - In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 Jacinda Ardern’s Overseas Experience - New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 Gertrude Berg, the Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom - Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 The Meatpacking District Packs It In - As the market prepares to vacate the West Village, a veteran meatpacker recalls the area in the days of fat-slicked cobblestones, before the Whitney and the High Line. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 “The Terminal,” by Rick Barot - “They stand next to him, in a posture of awkward confession, carefully giving him the words.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 Jenny Saville, the Body Artist - The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age - How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 How Many Naomis Does It Take to Deconstruct “Doppelganger”? - Inspired by Naomi Klein’s best-seller about the headache of being confused with Naomi Wolf, Naomi Becker decided to have a Prospect Park picnic for her fellow-Naomis. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 The Farmers Harmed by the Trump Administration - Four months ago, the government cut funding to agricultural labs. Kansas farmers and researchers say they can see the damage. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 A Palestinian Doctor in Israel Treats People on Both Sides - Lina Qasem Hassan treated victims of October 7th. She also publicly condemned the war in Gaza—a stance that imperilled her job. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 Redditors: Immigrants Keep Kidnapping My Wife!! - What to do about the human-trafficking illegal who absconds with my wife once a week and then drops her at home at dawn? Help! (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 A First Kiss from America’s First Woman in Space - Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 How a Family Toy Business Is Fighting Donald Trump’s Tariffs - Despite securing an important court victory against the Administration, the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg knows that his battle with the White House is far from over. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 “Girl on Girl,” Reviewed - “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 How I Learned to Become an Intimacy Coördinator - At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer learned about Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Restaurant Review: What’s a Neighborhood Restaurant Without a Neighborhood? - Confidant is hoping to draw diners to the sprawling Brooklyn mall known as Industry City. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 The Victims of the Trump Administration’s China-Bashing - A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Taylor Swift’s Master Plan - In a bid to gain control over her own music, the singer-songwriter rerecorded most of her old studio albums. Then she bought the old ones back. What do we do with the Taylor’s Versions now? (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Julia Child - The outlines of her biography—the cookbooks, the TV stardom—are familiar to many of us. Tomkins captures what set her apart. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Brian Lehrer and Errol Louis Take the Pulse of New York City - Two local news stalwarts discuss Andrew Cuomo’s evasion of the press, whether ranked-choice voting has made elections worse, and Curtis Sliwa’s chances of becoming mayor. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 Iran’s Daughters of the Sea - Forough Alaei’s stunning photographs of a community of fisherwomen on a remote island in the Persian Gulf. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 The Oligarchs Are Fighting - Does the Trump-Musk breakup resemble an ancient Greek myth or a Godzilla movie? Either way, mere mortals will likely get trampled. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 John Seabrook on the Destructive Family Battles of “The Spinach King” - The writer’s grandfather founded an agricultural empire, but destroyed his business and his family rather than cede control to his sons. “It’s ‘Succession,’ with spinach,” Seabrook says. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism - An autism researcher on Kennedy’s initiative to identify a cause, the focus on environmental factors, and the dangers of misinformation. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 “Mountainhead” and the Age of the Pathetic Billionaire - Extreme wealth has long been an obsession within American culture—but Jesse Armstrong’s new film reflects a sea change in the way we view the über-rich. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 The Sublime Spectacle of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Social-Media Slap Fight - The President has kept the upper hand so far, partly because of his bully pulpit, and partly because he has remained relatively understated. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now.” - J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of voices. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 Why Ehud Olmert Thinks His Country Is Committing War Crimes - The Former Israeli Prime Minister explains how his view of the conflict in Gaza has shifted. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 The Heartrending Movies of John Cazale - Also: Sister Nancy’s eternal party, the acoustic sculptures of Jennie C. Jones on the Met roof, American Ballet Theatre’s season at the Met, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 Can Public Media Survive Trump? - Government-backed institutions sometimes stand up more strongly to authoritarianism than their commercial counterparts. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 The Private Citizens Who Want to Help Trump Deport Migrants - For years, right-wing civilians have eagerly patrolled the border. Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, has hinted that he might enlist their help. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 The Musk-Trump Divorce Is as Messy as You Thought It Would Be - The world’s richest man and its most powerful leader channel their inner middle schooler in a breakup for the ages. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 “Ballerina” Leaps into John Wick’s Bloody World - Ana de Armas energizes this turbulent but thinned-out spinoff from the Keanu Reeves martial-arts franchise. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 How Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern? - A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID. (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 Trump’s De-legalization Campaign - After a Supreme Court decision, hundreds of thousands of immigrants who followed the law are among the easiest to deport. (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 The Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be King - “Yarvin is spot-on that most of us take democracy for granted,” says the staff writer Ava Kofman. “And there is a profound inability, particularly, I think, in liberal circles . . . to defend it, beyond it being a kind of unquestioned, obvious good.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 Sarah Ruhl’s Guides in Life and Art - The poet and Pulitzer-nominated playwright discusses four books by her closest teachers. (www.newyorker.com)
06-04 “Mountainhead” Channels the Absurdity of the Tech Bro - In Jesse Armstrong’s new satire, tech is never morally in the black, and the people who create it are no better than despots—inept ones, at that. (www.newyorker.com)
06-04 Alison Bechdel and the Search for the Beginner’s Mind - With the cartoonist’s new graphic novel, she appears once again to be trying for the “light, fun” book she’s longed to write. (www.newyorker.com)
06-04 Democracy Wins a Referendum in South Korea - The newly elected President defeated an increasingly authoritarian rival party. Can he bring the country back together? (www.newyorker.com)
06-04 What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I. - In “I, Robot,” three Laws of Robotics align artificially intelligent machines with humans. Could we rein in chatbots with laws of our own? (www.newyorker.com)
06-03 The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard - Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to. (www.newyorker.com)
06-03 Why Do You Want to Be a Knight? - Keep in mind that we don’t get to pick which quests we go on, and most of them are pretty Jesus-y. (www.newyorker.com)
06-03 How the Broadway Musical “Maybe Happy Ending” Creates Visual Magic - The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set design of the Broadway musical, which stars Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 2nd - “None of them thought to thank me when they won during the regular season, so this is as far as they go in the playoffs.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Tusks Up for the Utah Mammoth - The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American Museum of Natural History. Two players made a pilgrimage. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 The Met’s Exhibit on Black Male Style Is an Exceptional Achievement - In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and survival. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime - A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Chicken, Egg, Sharpie, Handcuffs - A subway-platform poster for the School of Visual Arts was trying to stimulate discussion about A.I. One commuter engaged, and got locked up. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire - High-minded and scandal-prone, a foe of marriage who dreamed of domesticity, Fuller radiated a charisma that helped ignite the fight for women’s rights. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Jonathan Blitzer’s Comment about Trump’s deportation policy, David Owen’s piece about voice-to-text transcription for deaf people, and D. Graham Burnett’s essay about the humanities and A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Is the “Mission: Impossible” Series Tom Cruise’s “Blank Check”? - The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or “Speed Racer,” anyone?) celebrates its tenth birthday with a trip to a “Mission: Impossible” exhibition. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights - The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 How a Hazelnut Spread Became a Sticking Point in Franco-Algerian Relations - The wildly popular Nutella competitor El Mordjene has been banned by the European Union, a move some see as politically motivated. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Neighborhood Update: We’ve Finally Taken Down Our Christmas Lights - We have been so touched by the flood of D.M.s, the comments posted on Nextdoor, and the notes tied to rocks thrown through our window with heartfelt concerns like “ARE YOU KEEPING THEM UP FOREVER??!!!” (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America - The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Who Gets the Guns in Lebanon? - As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising. (www.newyorker.com)
06-02 Stephen Malkmus’s New, Er, Supergroup - The Pavement front man passed through town with his latest project, the Hard Quartet, and showed off his one-handed backhand. (www.newyorker.com)
06-01 Trump Makes America’s Refugee Program a Tool of White Racial Grievance - The President’s interest in the plight of Afrikaners seems to have begun with—what else?—segments on Fox News. (www.newyorker.com)
06-01 “Elias,” by Jon Fosse - I need to open the door now, it’s not the end of the world, it’s just that it’s been such a long time since anyone’s knocked on my door. (www.newyorker.com)
06-01 Elif Batuman on Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Perfect Past” - A contract with the The New Yorker saw Nabokov through his cash-strapped pre-“Lolita” years—and continued beyond them for three decades. (www.newyorker.com)
06-01 Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the Rain - The Pulp singer on conquering his fear of nature, the pleasures and perils of art and aging, and the band’s first new album in twenty-four years. (www.newyorker.com)
06-01 Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. (www.newyorker.com)
06-01 Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity - The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery.” (www.newyorker.com)
05-31 How to Think About COVID-19 Vaccines in the Era of R.F.K., Jr. - The coronavirus may no longer be a leading danger to our health. That doesn’t mean it can’t hurt us, or that we don’t need to protect ourselves. (www.newyorker.com)
05-31 In Praise of “Northanger Abbey,” Jane Austen’s Least Beloved Novel - Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work. (www.newyorker.com)
05-31 Josh Hawley and the Republican Effort to Love Labor - The Senator, like Vice-President J. D. Vance, appears to be positioning himself as Trump’s heir, a right-wing populist who can appeal to working-class voters in the MAGA base. (www.newyorker.com)
05-31 Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does” - The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his two new albums of ambient music, and his book “What Art Does,” a pocket-size argument for the value of feelings in our lives. (www.newyorker.com)
05-31 Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News - The “60 Minutes” correspondent is troubled by the loss of journalistic integrity that a settlement of the President’s twenty-billion-dollar lawsuit would likely entail. (www.newyorker.com)
05-31 Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 30th - “That new Knicks player looks eerily like Ben Stiller, Timothée Chalamet, and Spike Lee in a trenchcoat.” (www.newyorker.com)
05-30 Elon Musk’s Vanishing Act - Musk looks like the latest victim of a common Trump-era dynamic: the impossibility of sharing the President’s spotlight. (www.newyorker.com)
05-30 John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X” - Also: the skateboarding play “Bowl EP,” the off-kilter divas Grace Jones and Janelle Monae; Jamie Lee Curtis’s early “Love Letters,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
05-30 Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers” - The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way. (www.newyorker.com)
05-30 Elon Musk Didn’t Blow Up Washington, But He Left Plenty of Damage Behind - The obits for the tech mogul’s time at the Department of Government Efficiency are, justifiably, vicious. (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 The Supreme Court Undercuts Another Check on Executive Power - In leaping to defend the Trump Administration, the Court conveniently ignored a long-established precedent that prevented Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will. (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 Lessons from “Sesame Street” - The long-running children’s show is one of the last remaining pieces of American monoculture. But after a half century of change, is “Sesame Street” still the same place we know and love? (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint - MOMA pays tribute to a restlessly innovative artist whose life’s work was to give abstraction soul. (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film? - Despite an abundance of plot strands and characters, Anderson’s latest drills down into the father-daughter relationship depicted by its leads, Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton. (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 Examining Trump’s War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary - A widely condemned media bill being passed through the Hungarian parliament provides a dangerous road map for how Trump may escalate his attacks on the press in the future. (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 “Love Letters,” Received Forty Years Too Late - Amy Holden Jones’s 1983 melodrama should have established her as a major Hollywood director, but, as a female filmmaker, she faced rejection. (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life - The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster than any company” ever has. What could go wrong? (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst - The philosopher discusses three novels about cephalopods’ mysterious forms of consciousness. (www.newyorker.com)
05-29 The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture - The Trump Administration is using an “Alien Enemy Validation Guide” to target supposed members of Tren de Aragua, but many of the items on the list—tattoos, sports jerseys, Jordans—are commonplace in urban style and music. (www.newyorker.com)
05-28 Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 28th - “Every time I start to think about the water, Trump comes up with another stupid distraction.” (www.newyorker.com)
05-28 Can the Southern Baptist Convention Survive Without Women Pastors? - Leaders of the nation’s most powerful evangelical church try to cast women out of the ministry, igniting struggles over power, faith, and the church’s future in Daniel Lombroso’s short documentary “Hold the Line.” (www.newyorker.com)
05-28 Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral - A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. (www.newyorker.com)
05-28 Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Triumph Sends a Warning to Authoritarians Everywhere - The Iranian director’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, “It Was Just an Accident,” set the tone for a festival defined by dramas of political resistance. (www.newyorker.com)
05-28 Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government - By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder - The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bond Market? - The House G.O.P.’s Trump-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes a reckless three-trillion-dollar gamble with America’s creditworthiness. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 “Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre - The Apple TV series, starring Jon Hamm as a hedge funder turned thief, serves up luxury porn in the guise of social critique. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 The Self-Taught Cook Who Mastered the Flour Tortilla - Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Pete Hegseth’s Day - One venti vanilla latte with two per cent and extra foam, please. I’m the one overseeing the F/A-18 Hornets conducting sorties over the Aegean Sea in T minus thirty minutes. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape - By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Torture and Tres Leches in Iran’s Most Notorious Prison - Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the Islamic Republic. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 26th - “Do you ever get halfway through a book and suddenly remember you read it on some other beach?” (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway—and Almost Everything Else - The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism - A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 The Radical Development of an Entirely New Painkiller - The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s something effective. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “When It All Burns,” “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love,” “The Emperor of Gladness,” and “The Words of Dr. L.” (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Inspired by “The Crucible,” Miniatures, and “Harriet the Spy” - Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Emma Green’s report on universities’ backlash against D.E.I., John Cassidy’s piece about labor and A.I., and Sarah Stillman’s article about starvation in prisons. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Should Men Even Have Friends? - Andrew DeYoung, the writer-director of the cringe comedy “Friendship,” talks about working with his real-life buddies Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, and the sinkhole of male bonding. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 Annie DiRusso Sings and Tells - The twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter sets her mind on finding a good substitute for the F-word (“smash”? “bone”?) before an appearance on “Kimmel.” (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 The Finale of “The Rehearsal” Is Outlandish and Sublime - The first season of Nathan Fielder’s mind-bending show seemed to exhaust all possibilities for its conceit. But the second is, somehow, even more berserk than the first. (www.newyorker.com)
05-26 All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2025, Ranked from Best to Worst - The festival served up its richest edition in years, with multiple standouts among the twenty-two films in contention for the Palme d’Or. (www.newyorker.com)
05-25 Restaurant Review: Three Ice-Cream Sundaes for the Start of Summer - Most sundaes are satisfying, but only a select subset are truly special. (www.newyorker.com)
05-25 A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close - The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not. (www.newyorker.com)