18:00 Will Harris Get Trump to Self-Destruct at the Debate? - “The stakes are genuinely huge,” Evan Osnos says. “As we’ve learned this year, debates can be actually decisive.” (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Natasha Rothwell Wants You to Consider the T.S.A. Screener - The “Insecure” and “White Lotus” actor heads to J.F.K. to explain why she set her new show, “How to Die Alone,” in an airport. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 The Beautiful Mystery of Rooting for Aaron Rodgers - Fandom is an exercise in imagination. What happens when you know too much? (www.newyorker.com)
06:16 How “King, Murray” Seizes the Day - This 1969 documentary about a hard-driving Long Island insurance salesman confronts the sexist mores of the times and the ethical premises of the genre. (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 A Legend on Broadway, Patti LuPone Makes Her Début in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - The three-time Tony winner discusses her new play “The Roommate,” alongside Mia Farrow, and bringing Aubrey Plaza—her castmate on “Agatha All Along”—to a “sort of theatre boot camp.” (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias - The Democrats’ top legal strategist in the 2020 Presidential election won nearly every lawsuit brought by Trump’s team. He explains why the threat to democracy is far greater in 2024. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 6th - “I’m so tired, I’ll be asleep the minute my head hits the pillow, then awake again every hour filled with existential dread.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 How Kamala Harris’s Coalition Changes the Race for Congress - The elections analyst Dave Wasserman assesses Black support for Donald Trump and explains a state-level primary that’s a national bellwether. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 The Ghoulishly Retro Pleasures of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” - The director Tim Burton and the actor Michael Keaton resurrect a classic collaboration with supernatural-screwball verve. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 What Do Progressive Parents Owe Their Public Schools? - A lead-poisoning scandal in Oakland underscores a growing sense of hopelessness among families who are committed to school integration. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 Basil Twist’s “Dogugaeshi,” and More Exhilarating Theatre from Abroad - Also: The intuitive rap of Mavi, New York City Ballet’s new season, Jackson Arn’s top Prospect Heights spots, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 Can Red-Baiting Save Trump’s Flailing Campaign? - On “Comrade Kamala” and the ex-President’s last-century approach to winning in 2024. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 How Drake Lost the Plot - Like many celebrities nowadays, the rapper has tried to stage a comeback by flooding the Internet with content. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 America!: J. D. Vance’s Early Art-House Films Discovered - Notable movies include “Cat Ladies,” “Stolen Valorian,” and “Awkward Daddy Stuff.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 The Trap of the Trad Wife - A new crop of influencers showcasing regressive gender roles has soared in popularity in recent months. Is this life style a harmless personal choice or an existential threat to feminism? (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 “Happy New Year,” by Hiromi Kawakami - A long time ago, lots and lots of people lived on this island. Now there are only a few of us. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore? - “How the once narrow term has come to be weaponized as "informational terrorism." (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 The Arrest of Telegram’s Founder Illuminates Global Anxieties About Social Platforms - Pavel Durov may have been detained for the company’s alleged illegal conduct, but his predicament is also a signal of government concern about digital networks’ outsized power. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom - New works by the Zoomer and young millennial writers Gabriel Smith, Frankie Barnet, and Honor Levy share gonzo premises, bizarre imagery, exuberantly “unlikable” characters, and an eye-rolling contempt for the status quo. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 The Metafictional Ingenuity of “My First Film” - Zia Anger dramatizes her artistic coming of age by reconsidering her 2019 performance piece, her earlier directorial efforts, and her life story. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 4th - “Keep your eye on the ball. Then catch it. Then obsessively develop your skills to land a baseball scholarship, get recruited to a major-league team, and finally make me happy.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Out of the Sky - In remote Kazakhstan, the photographer Andrew McConnell captured the places where astronauts return to Earth. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Covering the Election in Spanish for a Latino Audience - Spain’s El País ventures into the world’s fifth-largest Spanish-speaking country: the United States. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 “English Teacher” Is an After-School Special with Edge - Brian Jordan Alvarez’s new FX comedy tackles hot-button issues with a satisfying mix of earnestness and irreverence. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 How Natural Are We? - The philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith believes that we needlessly divide ourselves from the world we inhabit. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 Danzy Senna Is Amused by Your Mixed Feelings - For decades, the novelist has found humor in the ever-changing ways that biracial people are questioned, fetishized, or ignored in America. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 Can Colleges Do Without Deadlines? - Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 Grief and Fury in Israel - Hamas’ killing of six hostages in Gaza, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly delayed a ceasefire deal, has provoked major protests and a renewed sense of crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 How Seamus Heaney Wrote His Way Through a War - As his country’s most prominent poet, Heaney struggled to reconcile his vision of poetry with the Troubles tearing the Irish apart. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Will Packer’s Year of Firsts - The Hollywood producer visits Martha’s Vineyard for the première of his new Peacock series, “Fight Night,” and runs across Michelle Obama. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Is a Stay at Francis Ford Coppola’s Hotel an Offer You Can’t Refuse? - A guest checks in to the All-Movie Hotel, in Georgia, where “Mr. F.” plays “Godfather”-themed pinball and finished postproduction on “Megalopolis.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 The Supreme Contradictions of Simone Weil - It’s a conundrum of the philosopher’s biography that most basic human needs were alien to her. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Ina Garten Talks About Her Life, Her Marriage, and Her New Memoir - The Barefoot Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Your Lingering Fear of Germs - Sketchpad by Colin Tom: Zooming with a friend and a glass of wine? Freaked out in an elevator? You may have COVID déjà vu. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 “A Sunset,” by Robert Hass - “Play, beauty, the impulse to reproduce it, / The impulse to evoke and bring to rage / And then to stillness the violence / In our natures.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 David Sedaris Meets the Pope - I thought that the e-mailed invitation was spam. “Nice try, Russia,” I said to my laptop screen. But the Pope really did want to meet with comics and humorists. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Nate Silver’s New Book, “On the Edge,” Reviewed - Nate Silver’s “On the Edge” applies the lessons of modern gambling to the arenas of tech startups, artificial intelligence, and ethics. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 The Magazine for Mercenaries Enters Polite Society - Susan Katz Keating, the editor and publisher of Soldier of Fortune, discusses how she’s changing the publication and assesses the threat of political violence. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Sloane Crosley’s essay about the loss of her cat, Clare Malone’s Profile of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Parul Sehgal’s review of Sarah Manguso’s “Liars,” and Jackson Arn’s piece about Surrealism. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 How to Give Away a Fortune - An Austrian heiress recruited fifty people from all walks of life to redistribute twenty-five million euros—if they could agree on how to spend it. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Every Newspaper Obituary’s First Paragraph - Alfred T. Alfred, whose invention of the plastic fastener that affixes tags to clothing upended the tag industry, died on Saturday. (www.newyorker.com)
09-01 Do Celebrity Presidential Endorsements Matter? - It’s hard to empirically determine whether they drive voters to the polls. But they might have less measurable effects. (www.newyorker.com)
09-01 Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. (www.newyorker.com)
09-01 Restaurant Review: A Brooklyn Gas Station with Serious Grub - Inside a BP, Blue Hour offers a greatest-hits album of fast-food favorites made with high-quality ingredients and a considerable amount of care. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 The Mute Spectacle of Bianca Censori - Kanye West’s wife and muse has become known for going out in very—very—little clothing. What does her nudity reveal, and what does it hide? (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art - To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 Ian Frazier’s Tour of “Paradise Bronx” - The staff writer walks through New York’s most overlooked borough. “There are places . . . where ‘a Bronx’ means a slum,” he notes. “This cannot, this should not, stand.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America - The novelist, who uses the word “mulatto” to describe mixed-race people like herself, talks with Julian Lucas about living across the color line, in a country obsessed with it. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 The Giddy Delights of “1941” - Steven Spielberg gave free rein to his anarchic inner child in this Second World War comedy—and paid the price. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 Kamala Harris’s Political Calculus Takes Shape in First Major Interview - The Vice-President and her advisers clearly believe that being accused of flip-flopping is a lesser threat to her campaign than being cast as too radical. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 Why So Many People Are Going “No Contact” with Their Parents - A growing movement wants to destigmatize severing ties. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations? (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 Usher, the King of R. & B. - Also: The wrenching documentary “Daughters,” the Fourth Wall Ensemble in Green-Wood Cemetery, Lauren Collins on truth and deception. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools? - New technologies are raising suspicions about students’ work, but the controversy—like so many others swirling around American classrooms—misses the point of what we want our kids to learn. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 The Inner Lives of the Nazis - A new history asks what can be gained from trying to understand the personalities of Hitler and his followers. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood? - By drawing data out of tampons and pads, startups hope to shed light on poorly understood diseases. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 Kamala Harris’s Gamble - Four years ago, the Democrats made big promises to address racial and economic injustice. Will voters remember? (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 Tarot, Tech, and Our Age of Magical Thinking - A fascination with mysticism has swept across the culture, cropping up in astrology apps such as Co-Star and shows like “The Curse” and “True Detective.” What does our obsession with predicting the future say about our present? (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 The Plight of the Political Satirist - How Ruben Bolling, of “Tom the Dancing Bug,” finds the humor in a volatile news cycle. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 “The Third Premier,” by George Saunders - He must be forever changed, we thought, entire fields of joy no longer his, every lovely thing tainted. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 MJ Lenderman Keeps It Raw - The artist discusses resisting the neutering effects of technology, his breakup with a bandmate, and his new album, “Manning Fireworks.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 How Much is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics? - The New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry dissects how Vice-President Harris became a “Kamalanomenon.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 How Arizona’s Maricopa County Became the Battleground for Election Conspiracies - The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 “Emily in Paris” in the Late Streaming Era - Over four seasons, the Netflix series has hollowed out along with the streaming industry that spawned it. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 28th - “Remember, before devices, when we used to sit and be forced to watch political ads on television together?” (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 “Incident” Shows How Officers React When a Police Killing Is Caught on Tape - A collection of surveillance and body-camera footage offers a raw look at the 2018 shooting of Harith Augustus, and at the immediate attempts to shape the story. (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 The State of the Netflix Standup Special - Joe Rogan’s “Burn the Boats,” Matt Rife’s “Lucid,” and Langston Kerman’s “Bad Poetry” showcase vastly different approaches to connecting with the audience. (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 Is That a Young Child You Have? Please, Please, Take Our Old Toys! - I can just run home right now, throw all of my kids’ old toys into a garbage bag, and dump it on your front porch. (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 Sabrina Carpenter’s Funny, Feisty “Short n’ Sweet” - The artist sings with wry, petulant specificity, whether she’s addressing a boyfriend, an ex-boyfriend, or that ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 What Does It Really Mean to Learn? - A leading computer scientist says it’s “educability,” not intelligence, that matters most. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn’t Want the World to See - When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 Season 3, Episode 7: Innocent in My Eyes - The conflicting narratives about what happened in Haditha make their way through the opaque inner workings of the military justice system, until they reach a top commander who decides which story to believe. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 The Election-Interference Merry-Go-Round - Claims and counterclaims of “election interference” are ubiquitous these days. What does the term actually mean? (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s New Album Steeped in Longing - On “Woodland,” even tracks ostensibly grounded in a feeling of satisfaction evoke that which has slipped away. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Putting a Fine-Art Touch on Fixer-Uppers - Gray Malin, a photographer whose customers include Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, is now turning his eye to dream houses. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Studying Stones Can Rock Your World - To think like a geologist is to contemplate timescales that stagger the imagination—and lay bare the planetary forces behind our earthly existence. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Kamala Harris and the New Democratic Economic Paradigm - At their Convention in Chicago last week, the Democrats looked like a party that is unusually united in its goals. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Bonnie Slotnick, the Downtown Food-History Savant - In the forty-eight years that she’s lived in the West Village, the owner of the iconic cookbook shop has never ordered delivery. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 The Brief, Brilliant Career of a Forgotten Trailblazer of Modern Jazz - Charles Bell recorded only three complete albums. Stop what you are doing and listen to them now. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Wine, Candlelight, and Singing Swamp Weeds - At Vespertine, the Michelin-starred California restaurant, Jordan Kahn has cooked up a soundtrack with Sigur Rós’s Jónsi Birgisson. The featured musician: a patch of reeds. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 A Guide to Brat Summer - What is Brat? It’s the Cynthia doll from “Rugrats.” It’s praying to Janeane Garofalo to keep you free from harm. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about the history of prison abolition and Rebecca Mead’s Profile of the actor Gillian Anderson. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 “Poem Never to Be Read Aloud,” by Dobby Gibson - “No words can tell us how to live, but to live is to reach / for them anyway.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Along the Gowanus Canal, Notes of Tar and Manure - The perfumer who created such scents as Elizabeth Taylor’s White Diamonds and Clinique’s Happy assesses the eau de Gowanus, one of Brooklyn’s most pungent odors. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit,” by Noliwe Rooks; “Why Animals Talk,” by Arik Kershenbaum; “The Rich People Have Gone Away,” by Regina Porter; and “Grown Women,” by Sarai Johnson. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 The Forgotten History of Sex in America - Today’s battles over issues like gender nonconformity and reproductive rights have antecedents that have been lost or suppressed. What can we learn from them? (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Real Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse - Thirty-nine per cent of Americans believe that we’re living in end times, and the market for underground hideouts is heating up. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 An Exclusive Excerpt from Al Pacino’s Memoir “Sonny Boy” - The actor recalls a childhood full of danger and adventure in the South Bronx. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 “The Particles of Order,” by Yiyun Li - If a person’s imagination, kind or wicked, was boundless, sooner or later what was imagined could become a fact. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Restaurant Review: Le Veau d’Or Makes a Thrillingly Old-Fashioned Comeback - The restaurateurs behind Frenchette and Le Rock have face-lifted and spit-shined the city’s oldest surviving French restaurant while remaining obsessed with its history. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Yiyun Li on Writing from the Height or from the Depth of Experience - The author discusses her story “The Particles of Order.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 What Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Took from the Tornado - The legendary folk artists discuss rescuing their tapes from a catastrophic storm, singing as if they have one mouth, and making music that’s like a pebble tossed in a river. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Steps Aside for Donald Trump - As Kennedy’s 2024 election campaign collapses, he has embraced a new role as the former President’s latest ally. (www.newyorker.com)
08-24 Kamala Harris’s “Different Kind of Hope Campaign” - “The enthusiasm is real, but I don’t think it’s so much around an agenda of Harris’s as much as it is around an agenda of stopping Trump,” Susan B. Glasser says. (www.newyorker.com)
08-24 Teen-Age Alienation, on Display - In the nineteen-eighties, Andrea Modica took photos of the students at her Catholic alma mater. “I recognized something there that I had to deal with about my time in high school—something both horrible and wonderful,” she said. (www.newyorker.com)
08-24 Can Kamala Harris Keep Up the Excitement Through Election Day? - At the Democratic National Convention, the sense of relief was as overwhelming as the general euphoria—but the campaign against Donald Trump has only just begun. (www.newyorker.com)
08-24 Democracy Needs the Loser - The observance of defeat, especially in an election, is often all that keeps a state from tipping into violence. (www.newyorker.com)
08-24 An Inside Look at the Democratic National Convention - Photographs captured artifice, chaos, and ambiguity that weren’t as evident on TV. (www.newyorker.com)
08-24 From In the Dark: What Happened That Day in Haditha? - A new series from the award-winning investigative podcast examines the killing of twenty-four Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines, and why no one was ever brought to justice. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 Was Linguistic A.I. Created by Accident? - Seven years after inventing the transformer—the “T” in ChatGPT—the researchers behind it are still grappling with its surprising power. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 Meet the First Gen-X-tleman - When Doug Emhoff took to the floor at the D.N.C. wielding a leaf blower and exhorting the crowd to “get crazy with the Cheez Whiz," he brought a tear to this Gen X-er’s eye. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 The Charismatic Vitality of Pacita Abad’s Trapuntos - Also: The Nigerian singer Asake, Mark Morris Dance Group’s “Gloria,” the Boscobel Chamber Music Festival, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 “Between the Temples” Is a Songful, Scathing Jewish American Love Story - Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane bring imagination and energy to Nathan Silver’s high-strung comedy about a grieving cantor and an elder bat-mitzvah student. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 Mourning the End of “Evil,” a Show Like Nothing Else on Television - The Paramount+ procedural’s unusually serious treatment of faith—and delightfully absurdist take on almost everything else—made it a bright spot in an increasingly risk-averse TV landscape. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 Why Was It So Hard for the Democrats to Replace Biden? - After the President’s debate with Trump, Democratic politicians felt paralyzed. At the D.N.C., they felt giddy relief. How did they do it? (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 Kamala Harris’s “Freedom” Campaign - Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 The Speech of Kamala Harris’s Lifetime - The Democratic Presidential nominee leaves Chicago with her party united, but Donald Trump is not yet defeated. (www.newyorker.com)
08-23 Will Ukraine’s Incursion Into Russia Change the Trajectory of the War? - Volodymyr Zelensky’s Western allies have worried that the surprise, cross-border attack will provoke Vladimir Putin to escalate. (www.newyorker.com)
08-22 Among America’s “Low-Information Voters” - Donald Trump has dominated in polling of people who pay little attention to political news. What do they have to say? (www.newyorker.com)
08-22 The Irresistible Myth of Las Vegas - The city was designed to be an entertainment capital—and shows up across our entertainment landscape, from “Hacks” to “The Hangover.” How do such cultural overlays shape our understanding of the very real place underneath? (www.newyorker.com)
08-22 “The Books of Losing You,” by Junot Díaz - I visited your room once to bring the book back but all we did was talk—you in shorts and me using your dumbbells. Was there a chance that night? (www.newyorker.com)
08-22 The Democratic Party Rebrands Itself Before Viewers’ Eyes - With Kamala Harris preparing to take the spotlight at the D.N.C., Party factions seek to project unity and joy. (www.newyorker.com)
08-22 How Ezra Klein Helped Set the Stage for the Democratic National Convention - The Times columnist was an early advocate for replacing Joe Biden at the top of the ticket; in recent weeks, his podcast has seemed like the smoke-filled back room of the Democratic Party. (www.newyorker.com)
08-22 Unity, Millennial Cringe, and Overwhelming Relief Abound at the D.N.C. - Why the “cringe-millennial” production value of the 2024 D.N.C. is outplaying the macho bravado of this year’s R.N.C. (www.newyorker.com)
08-21 The Obamas’ Rousingly Pragmatic Call to Action at the D.N.C. - For better and for worse, the former First Couple are still the best communicators that the Democrats have. (www.newyorker.com)
08-21 Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 21st - “Attention, passengers: there will be some moderate turbulence while we pass through the energy field pulsing up from the Democratic National Convention.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-21 How Post Malone Made Himself at Home in Country Music - Everyone’s headed to Nashville these days, but no one is as comfortable there as he is. (www.newyorker.com)
08-21 When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In - The supposed recluse constantly sent letters to friends, family, and lovers. What do they show us? (www.newyorker.com)
08-21 Can Kamala Harris’s Campaign Solve the Latino Turnout Problem? - For decades, Democrats have struggled to motivate communities that could guarantee them victories. Harris may have the best shot yet. (www.newyorker.com)
08-21 How the Harris Campaign Beat Trump at Being Online - Trump has always drawn ideas from the darker corners of the Internet, but his new opponent has found a different kind of traction by embracing the Web’s native formats. (www.newyorker.com)
08-21 Friendship and Hard Work Amid Italy’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, in “Fratelli Carbonai” - A young man from Mali carves out a life for himself in an ancient trade in the Calabrian mountains, when the nation’s politics take a hard right turn. (www.newyorker.com)
08-20 In the Dark: Season 3 - The New Yorker investigative podcast examines the killings of twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable for the crime. (www.newyorker.com)
08-20 Season 3, Episode 6: The Full Picture - Startling new information emerges from deep within the investigation files. Then the In the Dark team gets a big break. (www.newyorker.com)
08-20 Should We Think of Our Children as Strangers? - A new line of inquiry asks us to imagine them as random individuals who just happen to live in our homes. (www.newyorker.com)
08-20 Season 3, Episode 5: Four Brothers - Was it a face-off with insurgents or the murder of four innocent brothers? We investigate what happened in the final house the Marines entered that day. (www.newyorker.com)
08-20 Proud and Impassioned, Joe Biden Passes the Torch at the D.N.C. - In a valedictory speech in Chicago, the President mapped his legacy and asked to be remembered as a man who pulled the country from the maw of tragedy. (www.newyorker.com)
08-20 How Gena Rowlands Redefined the Art of Movie Acting - The actress, who died last week, at the age of ninety-four, changed the history of cinema in her collaborations with the actor and director John Cassavetes. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 19th - “If we ignore the calls from R.F.K., Jr., long enough, he’s bound to reach out via falcon.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Has Kamala Harris Risen Above the Vibecession? - Voters are still concerned about high prices, but inflation has dropped below three per cent, interest-rate cuts seem inevitable, and Donald Trump can’t focus. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Are Bookstores Just a Waste of Space? - In the online era, brick-and-mortar book retailers have been forced to redefine themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Stop! Newspaper Thief! - On one Yorkville block, print isn’t dying—it’s being stolen. Can a book conservator, a ninety-year-old fax enthusiast, and a vigilante nab a well-read bandit? (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 My Life’s Work - Every day for the past forty years, I’ve got up in the morning and tried to figure out how to get tiny shards of plastic into human testicles. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Did R.F.K., Jr., Squander a Golden Opportunity with the Dead Bear Cub? - Sure, dumping it in Central Park was interesting. But had he even considered using it as a delicious gift for Putin, or as a pickup line with the ladies? (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Letters from our Readers - Readers respond to Nick Paumgarten’s piece on Dead & Company, Lauren Collins’s article on the Prince de Conty shipwreck, and Louis Menand’s review of a book about yuppies. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 “On Emptiness,” by Garrett Hongo - “If only I could stand the infinite measures, wait long enough, / and not waste their buoyant resolve.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Supplies Needed for a Tech C.E.O. Murder-Mystery Dinner Party - A megayacht that emits smog clues, a candlestick that can testify before Congress, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 The Kamala Show - How Vice-President Harris’s public persona has evolved, from tough prosecutor to frozen interviewee to joyful candidate. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Our Very Strange Search for “Sea Level” - As the oceans ebb and surge, staggering ingenuity has gone into inventing the measure. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Helen Phillips’s “Hum,” Reviewed - Helen Phillips’s new novel takes place in a dystopian world where the environment has been devastated and humans have outsourced their best selves to tireless, empathetic robots. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Graduation Day at an Urban Kayak Camp - New York City teens, trapped in the concrete jungle, head out on the Housatonic with two pros, Jessie Stone and Eric Jackson, for some of their first river rides. (www.newyorker.com)
08-19 Chris Perfetti Considers the Lion - The “Abbott Elementary” star heads to the Bronx Zoo to research his role as a queer, existentialist feline predator in the play “Open Throat.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-18 Infiltrating the Far Right - The threat from domestic terrorism is rising, but, with Republicans decrying the “deep state,” the F.B.I. is cautious about investigating far-right groups. Vigilantes are leaping into the fray. (www.newyorker.com)
08-18 “The Narayans,” by Akhil Sharma - There were so few Indians in Edison, New Jersey, in those days; we felt that each of us reflected well or badly on the others. (www.newyorker.com)
08-18 Trump’s Got Troubles - His campaign is careening, his poll numbers are slipping, and, after something of a summer lull, he is due for several confrontations in court. (www.newyorker.com)
08-18 Restaurant Review: A “Top Chef” Winner Reheats at Il Totano - A buzzy new Italian-ish spot from Harold Dieterle doesn’t seem to know what kind of restaurant it’s trying to be. (www.newyorker.com)
08-18 A Chinese Memoirist’s Exile in Las Vegas - Gao Ertai hasn’t returned to his homeland in years, but his memoirs have made him a new model of resistance. (www.newyorker.com)
08-18 What the Latest Presidential Polls Say and What They Might Be Missing - Nate Cohn, the New York Times’ chief political analyst, breaks down Kamala Harris’s performance in the battleground states and how we should think about polling error. (www.newyorker.com)
08-17 The Outback Observed, and Transformed - For “Big Sky,” the Australian photographer Adam Ferguson went in search of his own country, and found a place he both did and didn’t know. (www.newyorker.com)
08-17 In London, Taylor Swift and Her Fans Are in Their “Fearless” Era - Following a terrorist threat targeting the pop star’s concerts in Vienna, and the murder of three children at a Swift-themed dance party in the U.K., the Eras Tour continues in London—with heightened security. (www.newyorker.com)
08-17 What the Harris Campaign Needs to Win - James Carville and Paul Begala share lessons from Bill Clinton’s groundbreaking 1992 campaign. (www.newyorker.com)
08-17 Jacques Rozier’s Inspired Improvisations - A retrospective of the great director’s rarely screened movies reveals his extraordinary vision of ordinary life. (www.newyorker.com)
08-17 For Republicans, the End of Abortion Rights Was a Dangerous Victory - Susan B. Glasser discusses growing fissures in the Republican Party around abortion. She speaks with Representative Matt Rosendale, who wants to push the battle further and end I.V.F. (www.newyorker.com)
08-17 Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump? - Geraldo Cadava speaks with prominent Latinos about why the Republican message is resonating with them. (www.newyorker.com)
08-16 Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 16th - “Why pay four dollars at the market for something I can devote all my time and savings to at home?” (www.newyorker.com)
08-16 Nancy Pelosi’s Memoir, and What Makes Her So Appealing Now - Her ruthless pragmatism and reliance on subtext are refreshing after years of lefty infighting and Donald Trump’s endless blather. (www.newyorker.com)
08-16 The Story That “Hillbilly Elegy” Doesn’t Tell - Like many memoirs, J. D. Vance’s book misses a few details, some of which complicate the story upon which he has based much of his politics. (www.newyorker.com)
08-16 With “Close Your Eyes,” a Legendary Filmmaker Makes a Stunning Return - In his first feature in more than two decades, the Spanish director Víctor Erice tells a story haunted by the ghosts of cinema past. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 The Agonies of Intimacy - Two new graphic books by Charles Burns capture the pleasures and discomforts of human connection and self-expression. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 The Culture Wars Inside the New York Times - Joe Kahn, the newspaper’s executive editor, wants to incentivize his staff to take on difficult stories, even when they might engender scrutiny, or backlash. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 My Strict Morning Routine - Before getting up, I like to lie under the covers for thirty minutes meditating, which is really just a fancy word for “falling back asleep.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 The Uncertain Outcomes of Emmanuel Macron’s Election Maneuver - The snap elections yielded a surprising defeat for France’s far right—and a new set of problems for Macron to contend with. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 An Ingenious New French Comedy of Art and Friendship - The director Pascale Bodet works wonders in “Vas-Tu Renoncer?,” based on the relationship of Édouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 What Lessons Do the Stunning Results of the French Election Offer? - President Macron’s gamble in fighting the far right has to be declared, if not a success, at least not an absolute failure. (www.newyorker.com)
07-09 Lena Dunham’s Change of Pace - From her home base in London, the “Girls” creator is working on a new semi-autobiographical TV series and finishing up a memoir. But, she says, “I definitely don’t want to be my own muse.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-09 A Quick Refresher on the High-School Math You’ve Forgotten - It’s good to know pi to at least twenty decimal places, in case a math sergeant ever asks you to drop and give them twenty digits of pi. (www.newyorker.com)
07-09 How Lonnie G. Bunch III Is Renovating the “Nation’s Attic” - The Smithsonian’s dynamic leader is dredging up slave ships, fending off culture warriors in Congress, and building two new museums on the National Mall. (www.newyorker.com)
07-09 Joe Biden Is Fighting Back—but Not Against Trump, Really - In his efforts to demonstrate vigor, is the President finding his voice, or losing his way? (www.newyorker.com)
07-08 Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 8th - “Though the heat wave will break, you won’t notice a difference because it’ll still be hot.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-08 Ira Glass Hears It All - Three decades into “This American Life,” the host thinks the show is doing some of its best work yet—even if he’s still jealous of “The Daily.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-08 Nicolas Cage Is Still Evolving - The actor talks about the origins of “Adaptation,” his potential leap to television, and the art of “keeping it enigmatic.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-07 Rashida Jones Wonders What Makes Us Human - The actor discusses the encroachment of A.I., her adolescent tiff with Tupac, and her enduring love of philosophy. (www.newyorker.com)
07-06 Did Joe Biden’s ABC Interview Stanch the Bleeding or Prolong It? - Campaigns require conviction—but must also be able to absorb bad news and pull out signal from noise. (www.newyorker.com)
07-06 The Kamala Harris Social-Media Blitz Did Not Just Fall Out of a Coconut Tree - The memes, riffs, and fancams represent a vaguely hallucinatory near-consensus that the Vice-President’s time is now. (www.newyorker.com)
07-06 Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker” - The legendary historian and biographer explains how, from a background in daily journalism, he came to write one of the most revered nonfiction books of the twentieth century. (www.newyorker.com)
07-06 Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road - The singer and leader of Florence and the Machine chats with John Seabrook about finding her voice as a songwriter and her struggles with alcohol, and plays two songs live with her band. (www.newyorker.com)
07-06 Tory Tears on the U.K.’s Election Night - Viewed from across the pond, or even from across the Channel, the Labour Party’s wipeout win looks like an anomaly—a liberal bulwark against a wave of right-wing populism. (www.newyorker.com)
07-05 The Bidens Can’t Let Go - The President’s family has defended him by invoking his past. But these arguments aren’t landing, since the case against his Presidency is that he isn’t even capable of leading as he could twelve months ago. (www.newyorker.com)
07-05 Nate Cohn Explains How Bad the Latest Polling Is for Joe Biden - The Times’ chief political analyst reflects on the unique challenges facing the President, whether it’s still possible for him to launch a comeback, and what the polls can tell us, if anything, about the electability of other Democratic Presidential candidates. (www.newyorker.com)
07-04 Learned Hand’s Spirit of Liberty - Eighty years ago, Americans embraced a new definition of their common faith. “The spirit of liberty,” a then little-known judge said, “is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-04 This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed For - If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent. (www.newyorker.com)
07-04 “Clipped,” Reviewed: A Romp Back Through an N.B.A. Racism Scandal - The FX series about the fallout from a leaked recording of the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner is extremely entertaining, especially if you are not hoping to learn anything about race. (www.newyorker.com)
07-03 The Fake Oilman - Alan Todd May passed himself off as an oil magnate, insinuated himself into West Palm Beach high society, and conned people out of millions. (www.newyorker.com)
07-03 Choose Your Own Adventure: Starting a Garden - What with all the flowers, you’ve now got a bee problem. How do you handle this? (www.newyorker.com)
07-03 Raymond Antrobus Reads John Lee Clark - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Protactile Version of ‘Tintern Abbey,’ ” and his own poem “Signs, Music.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-03 Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 3rd - “It’s so nice to get out of the city! So much space—and yet it still feels like we’re being watched? Like a horror movie? Or that true-crime podcast we listened to on the drive up? When are we leaving again?” (www.newyorker.com)
07-03 A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists - Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza. (www.newyorker.com)
07-02 We Regret to Inform You That You’re Still Just a Person - Congratulations on your Pulitzer! Unfortunately, the automated D.M.V. queue doesn’t care for nuanced storytelling. (www.newyorker.com)
07-02 The Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling is a Victory for Donald Trump - The conservative Justices gutted the January 6th case—and have made it harder to prosecute any President. (www.newyorker.com)
07-02 Why the French Far Right Triumphed - An expert on French politics explains where President Emmanuel Macron went wrong in calling a snap election. (www.newyorker.com)
07-02 The Irresolvable Tragedy of the Karen Read Case - The trial, which ended on Monday in a deadlocked jury, became an object of obsession for offering up a mix of conspiracy, corruption, and hard-drinking oblivion. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Silence of the Choir,” “In Tongues,” “Woman of Interest,” and “The Museum of Other People.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Ivan Cornejo’s Mexican American Heartache - “Regional Mexican” music is booming, but one young singer is in no mood to celebrate. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 How to Survive Lions and Bears and Racism in Nature - Rae Wynn-Grant, the host of “Wild Kingdom” and author of “Wild Life,” recounts the times she nearly died. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Up the Stairs - Granddad had apparently taken the bus quite a distance and walked very far that day, to reach a certain apartment building. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 “Kaho,” by Haruki Murakami - He may have been patiently waiting, for the longest time, for me to show up in front of him, she thought. Like an enormous spider waiting for its prey in the dark. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 “Long Island Compromise,” Reviewed - In “Long Island Compromise,” wealth is a curse. Or is that just what we’d like to think? (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 The Last Rave - In the summer of 2020, I felt as if I’d entered the wrong portal, out of the world I knew and into its bizarro twin. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Steve McQueen Is an Art Doer - In town for a Dia Beacon installation, the visual artist and “12 Years a Slave” director commuted five hours each day and expounded on the virtues of doing stuff instead of thinking about doing stuff. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Alan Braufman’s Loft-Jazz Séance - The composer and saxophonist tours what remains of the clubs and run-down apartments (now delis and clothing stores) of the downtown scene of the seventies. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discusses “Every Night for a Thousand Years,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 “The Drummer Boy on Independence Day,” by E. L. Doctorow - An indispensable part of the ceremony, of course, was the Civil War veteran, and at the time I’m telling about we still had one—a Confederate, naturally. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 “Opening Theory,” by Sally Rooney - Looking over at her, he starts to smile again—revising, she thinks, the presumption of failure. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 “Consent,” by Jill Ciment, and “Change,” by Édouard Louis, Reviewed - “Consent,” by Jill Ciment, and “Change,” by Édouard Louis, revisit the past with an eye for distortion and error. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Fitzcarraldo Editions Makes Challenging Literature Chic - In ten years, the London publishing house has amassed devoted readers—and four writers with Nobel Prizes. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Lost Stories - I promised myself that I would not write memoir again; it was too strenuous, too costly, too harmful, no matter how cathartic it might be. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Sally Rooney on Characters Who Arrive Preëntangled and Her Forthcoming Novel - The author discusses her story “Opening Theory.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 A Newly Discovered Story by E. L. Doctorow - A conversation with Bruce Weber, the author of a biography in progress of E. L. Doctorow. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 The Mail - Readers respond to Masha Gessen’s article on Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom and Katy Waldman’s piece on pandemic fiction. (www.newyorker.com)
07-01 Norman Maclean Didn’t Publish Much. What He Did Contains Everything - You could read his literary output in a single day, yet it includes almost all there is to know about what the English language can do. (www.newyorker.com)
06-30 Annie Proulx on the Allure of the Ocean Deeps and the Value of Uninterrupted Time - The author discusses her story “The Hadal Zone.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-30 Restaurant Review: The Central Park Boathouse Is Back, and It’s Perfectly Fine - Recently reopened under new management, the pricey tourist-bait canteen is more satisfying than it has any right to be. (www.newyorker.com)
06-30 “The Hadal Zone,” by Annie Proulx - Arwen’s last thought before sleep is that he is in a twisting cyclonic fall down through the ocean trench to become a compressed speck of matter. It feels good. (www.newyorker.com)
06-30 Finally, a Leap Forward on Immigration Policy - President Biden has offered help to undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens, in the most consequential act of immigration relief in more than a decade. (www.newyorker.com)
06-30 Losing a Beloved Community - I wanted to understand how a radical evangelical church fused faith and a commitment to social justice. Instead, I watched it unravel. (www.newyorker.com)
06-30 The Reckoning of Joe Biden - For the President to insist on remaining the Democratic candidate would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment. (www.newyorker.com)
06-30 Biden Gets Up After His Debate Meltdown - The President’s political decision-making has long been shaped by two instincts: bouncing back and reading the room. They could lead him in opposite directions in the days ahead. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 Hayek, the Accidental Freudian - The economist was fixated on subconscious knowledge and dreamlike enchantment—even if he denied their part in his relationships. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 What Does Biden’s Disastrous Debate Mean for Democrats? - “This has raised terrible questions about the Biden camp’s credibility on the issue of his age,” Jane Mayer says. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 “The Bear” Is Overstuffed and Undercooked - The Hulu series about a Chicago sandwich joint once felt like the best kind of prestige TV—but the new season, like its Michelin-hungry protagonist, has lost sight of what made it great. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 Why the Democratic Party Is Too Afraid of Replacing Biden - The President’s supporters have long treated his age as a superficial issue. Ezra Klein on how that position has become untenable. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 “Last Summer” Is a Ferocious Vision of Sexual Frenzy - The French director Catherine Breillat’s new film, a fiercely antagonistic tale of an incestuous affair, is both a long-delayed return to work and an artistic self-renewal. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 Richard Brody’s Best Movies of 2024 So Far - At the midway point of the year, the film critic discusses his top three pictures. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel - Once a beacon for progressives, the senator has put the left at a distance and moved past centrist Democrats with his unconditional support of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 Summer at the Racetrack with Ada Limón - The U.S. Poet Laureate offers a guided tour of a racetrack near her home, deep in the horse country of Lexington, Kentucky. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions - David Remnick asked listeners for their questions about the Presidential election, and a crack team of The New Yorker’s political writers came together to answer them. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 The Writing on Joe Biden’s Face at the Presidential Debate - The true locus of the President’s humiliation onstage was not his misbegotten words but the sorry pictures he made with his face. (www.newyorker.com)
06-29 The Man Who Could Paint Loneliness - Though known for his gloomy landscapes, Caspar David Friedrich was chasing the sublime—the divinity, in all of nature, that made us seem small. (www.newyorker.com)
06-28 A Little Bit of Everything at Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City” - Also: Nancy Pelosi vs. A.O.C. in “N/A,” the observant folk of Cassandra Jenkins, Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)