18:00 Donald Trump’s TikTok Deal Looks Like Crony Capitalism - The sale demonstrates the President’s personal brand of industrial policy—transactional, opaque, and designed to politically benefit him and his allies. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? - In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Jerome Groopman’s review of “The Headache,” by Tom Zeller, Jr., and Paige Williams’s article on Bill Belichick. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 As Siberia Gets Another Round, Fallon’s a No-Show - The dive bar hidden in a subway entrance was the go-to spot for Anthony Bourdain and Quentin Tarantino. After a two-decade hiatus, it’s popped up in Columbus Circle. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Now That I Run the Zoo - The tigers eat tofu. “Child care!” / chant kang’roos. / And the sea slugs debate the best / pronouns to use. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Carol Burnett Plays On - The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 The New York Historical Looks Down East for Its Facelift - Along with a general rebrand, the Central Park West institution is getting clad in pink granite, found—and quarried by manly men—on a wild island in Maine. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It - In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Glowworms - In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 An Italian Geek in King Charles’s Court - Federico Marchetti, a fashion entrepreneur, was a confidant of Giorgio Armani, but he’s stumped by whether it’s O.K. to wear a kilt around the king. (www.newyorker.com)
05:10 Eric Adams Slips Out the Side Door - The Mayor makes official what has been obvious for some time, and ends his reëlection campaign. (www.newyorker.com)
09-28 The Politics of Faith After Charlie Kirk - The future of American democracy could depend on whether Christians see themselves as warriors or servants. (www.newyorker.com)
09-28 “Amarillo Boulevard,” by David Wright Faladé - Jean stepped out of the car as Nia approached—lean and arrogant, a cigarette pinched between her lips. Then her swagger slipped, her expression unsettled. (www.newyorker.com)
09-28 Jonathan Blitzer on Roger Angell’s “Down the Drain” - In the summer of 1975, one of the great writers about baseball profiled the pitcher Steve Blass, whose career had recently imploded. (www.newyorker.com)
09-28 Chris Kraus Reinvents the True-Crime Novel - Her début, “I Love Dick,” was an epistolary memoir of erotic obsession that redefined the form. In “The Four Spent the Day Together,” she turns another genre on its head. (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 The Leftist Podcaster Who Studies Online Radicalization - Joshua Citarella sees his YouTube show “Doomscroll” as a “tactical media experiment” to funnel young internet users toward esoteric left-wing ideas. (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War - Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and hell is photogenic. (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 Richard Linklater’s Uncompromising Artists - In two new historical films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague,” the director explores the challenges of staying true to a creative vision. (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 Grace and Disgrace - Hope lies not in expecting a late-in-life conversion experience in the Oval Office but in carrying out the ordinary work of civic life. (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 Putting ChatGPT on the Couch - When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us. (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure - The comedian has returned to late-night TV. What can the response to his suspension teach us about countering Trump? (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 The Flimsy, Dangerous Indictment of James Comey - The charges against the former F.B.I. director look weak. But they may be just the start of Donald Trump’s long-threatened drive to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies. (www.newyorker.com)
09-27 Ezra Klein Argues for Big-Tent Politics - The writer and podcast host on the Charlie Kirk discourse, Barack Obama’s distance from politics, Bari Weiss’s Gaza coverage, and the Democratic Party’s future. (www.newyorker.com)
09-26 How Free Is Free Speech? - Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words. What happens next? (www.newyorker.com)
09-26 Where Should the Democrats Go from Here? - Some reflections on the defining battle of contemporary American politics—between an all-consuming attentional force and a fractured opposition. (www.newyorker.com)
09-26 The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon - The Welsh musician’s latest album, “Michelangelo Dying,” offers strange solace in chaotic times. (www.newyorker.com)
09-26 Is Trump’s Attack on the Media Following Putin’s Playbook? - What it was like to live through the takeover of one of Russia’s most influential television stations—and what the experience suggests about the state of free expression in the U.S. today. (www.newyorker.com)
09-26 “One Battle After Another” Is a Powerhouse of Tenderness and Fury - In Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” the fight against American fascism is a family affair. (www.newyorker.com)
09-26 Richard Brody’s New York Film Festival Picks - Also: Kelefa Sanneh’s latest obsessions, the supernatural fantasy of “Weather Girl,” a Franz Liszt piano competition, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-26 What to See in the 2025 New York Film Festival’s First Week - This year’s edition teems with artistically ambitious movies that confront politics and mores in a wide variety of formats, from historical spectacles to intimate confessions. (www.newyorker.com)
09-25 Donald Trump Keeps Finding New Ways to Shock the World - Two speeches—one endorsing hate and another warning foreign nations “you will fail”—encapsulate a Presidential agenda that is like no other. (www.newyorker.com)
09-25 An Intimate Chronicle of Kanye West’s Fall from Grace - The rapper and producer has become a pariah, running for President and praising Hitler. A new documentary gives insight into what went wrong. (www.newyorker.com)
09-25 Graham Platner Hopes to Win Susan Collins’s Maine Senate Seat in 2026 - Graham Platner, a local veteran, is angling to take on Susan Collins, who may be vulnerable in her 2026 reëlection bid—and is drawing support from both sides of the aisle. (www.newyorker.com)
09-25 A Children’s Book That Actually Feels Like Childhood - In “Sato the Rabbit,” the aim is not to educate but to surrender to the rhythms of daily life. (www.newyorker.com)
09-25 What’s Cooking? - The internet has put tens of thousands of recipes at our fingertips—and the art of the dinner party is now the subject of books, blogs, and debate. How did the kitchen become a showcase for the self? (www.newyorker.com)
09-25 How MAHA Is Sowing Vaccine Confusion - Trump’s second-term overhaul of the C.D.C. and the H.H.S. has turned vaccine policy into a partisan battleground and has left states to fill the void. (www.newyorker.com)
09-25 The Mother as Antihero - Sasha Bonét, the author of “The Waterbearers,” shares four books about mothers who are both incredible and imperfect. (www.newyorker.com)
09-24 The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser - Artificial-intelligence startups, like the makers of the “smart” web browser Dia, are being acquired for vast sums. But it’s not yet clear which products can transcend the hype. (www.newyorker.com)
09-24 Gary Shteyngart’s Tragicomedy of the Penis in “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong” - The author opens up—with pathos, humor, and props—about his experience receiving a botched circumcision. (www.newyorker.com)
09-24 How One J6er Has Been Emboldened by His Pardon - Some insurrectionists have re-offended. Others have run for office. Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., is campaigning to get reparations—from “the deep state” and his parents. (www.newyorker.com)
09-24 A New Era of Vaccine Federalism - As confidence in the C.D.C. wanes, states are asserting more control over their vaccine policies, creating a fragmented public-health system. (www.newyorker.com)
09-24 “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” Is a Film for the Ages - William Greaves’s great historical documentary, centered on a 1972 reunion of Harlem Renaissance luminaries, is still awaiting completion. (www.newyorker.com)
09-24 Can Progressive Mayors Redeem the Democratic Party? - Zohran Mamdani isn’t the only candidate challenging the status quo—and having fun doing it. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 We’re Still Living in Man Ray’s Shadow - A show at the Met reveals not just the wonders of the artist’s rayographs—photographs taken without a camera—but the relentless creativity of the man himself. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 Can Liberalism Be Saved? - The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 A Brief Memoir in Snack Recipes - Put two Eggos in a toaster set to the desired level of crispiness. Suggested use: inexplicable meltdowns you’ll think about forever. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Louis Menand’s essay about James Baldwin, Leslie Jamison’s article about perfectionism, and Tad Friend’s report on biohackers. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism” - How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Mahmoud Khalil, Back Home - Cooking his mother’s maqluba recipe, the Palestinian activist describes his detention in Louisiana: losing fifteen pounds and a cleaning contest with pizza as a prize. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery - His new novel, “What We Can Know,” imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they’ve missed out on. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith - In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Nepal’s Violent Gen Z Uprising - Fed up with élite corruption and widening inequality, a youth-led movement toppled the government in forty-eight hours. Now what? (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Trump? - From Disney’s capitulation on Jimmy Kimmel to tech moguls’ White House dinner, corporate élites are choosing self-preservation over principle. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration - Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 New York Civil Servants Strut Their Stuff - Andrew Cuomo, Carolyn Maloney, and other public officials hit the runway in a bipartisan Fashion Week defile. Naomi Campbell for comptroller? (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For? - Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Jeremy Irons’s Walk of Fame - The “Morning Show” actor strolls the theatre district, remembering his star turn in Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing” and recalling the way Mike Nichols always joked that he was Jewish. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 “What I Might Sing,” by Donika Kelly - “Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 H. W. Fowler, the Autocrat of English Usage - Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 R.F.K., Jr.: A Day in the Life - Why riding underneath the car is safer than riding inside the car, and other neato things to learn from the Secretary of Health and Human Services. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 “The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era - Sterlin Harjo’s new series, starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Jeanine Tesori, Young-Adult Whisperer - The award-winning composer of “Fun Home” gave her Juilliard students a prompt for a song-writing assignment: “How do you view the world?” (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America - “Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but it lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Donald Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines - The dismissal of Erik Siebert sends yet another ominous message about the risks of refusing to do the President’s bidding, and the lengths to which he will go to punish perceived enemies. (www.newyorker.com)
09-21 Restaurant Review: I Cavallini - I Cavallini sits right across the street from its sibling establishment, but charts a course of its own. (www.newyorker.com)
09-21 Britain Is Manifesting Nigel Farage as Its Next Prime Minister - Donald Trump’s state visit only added to the seeming inevitability of the right-wing Reform Party. (www.newyorker.com)
09-21 “Unreasonable,” by Rivka Galchen - I was raised to believe that no human is inherently evil, that evil is a surface disturbance caused by fear, misunderstanding, or ignorance. I’m now reconsidering. (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 Picturing a Chinatown Family Across Twenty-Two Years - More than two decades ago, the Lams invited Thomas Holton, a photographer, to their apartment for dinner. He’s been part of the family ever since. (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 The Strange, Cinematic Life of Charlie Sheen - The actor’s new memoir and documentary offer little real vulnerability. But there is undeniable fun in his tales of bad behavior. (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 Seeing Enemies Everywhere - The government’s working definition of “hate speech” now seems to include anything that offends Donald Trump personally—including late-night comedy. (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 What Trump Wants from a TikTok Deal with China - The Chinese-owned social-media app was banned by Congress because of national-security concerns, but the President seems more interested in leveraging its future for his personal gain. (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 What It’s Like to Get Really, Really High - Climbers are often chasing a rush. Was I cheating by using some help to get there? (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 Hillary Clinton on the Psychology of Autocrats - The former Secretary of State discusses the Trump Administration’s efforts to reshape American politics and culture. (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 Is the 2026 Election Already in Danger? - Donald Trump has long claimed elections are rigged; now he gets to do the rigging. The election lawyer Marc Elias explains what the Administration can and can’t do to impact voting. (www.newyorker.com)
09-20 The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books - The illustrator explains how kids’ books made her an artist, and shares favorites from William Steig, Maira Kalman, and Lore Segal and Harriet Pincus. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 How Donald Trump’s Culture-Wars Playbook Felled Jimmy Kimmel - The late-night host’s show was pulled from the air after an F.C.C. pressure campaign—one that’s part of a much broader Presidential agenda. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 The Illusion of Joe Manchin’s “Common Sense” - How an old cliché has been warped and weaponized in contemporary American politics. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 Raul Lopez Wants to Be American Fashion - In the first decade of his career, the Brooklyn-born designer retired three times. Now everything seems to be clicking. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 The Metropolitan Opera Delves Into Comic Books - Also: Long-running culture podcasts having a moment, David Byrne’s art-rock palette, Robert Rauschenberg’s photographs, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 The Great Student Swap - For years, public universities have aggressively recruited out-of-state and international students, charging them higher tuition. But those pipelines may be drying up. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 The Grave Threat Posed by Donald Trump’s Attack on Jimmy Kimmel - The President and his allies are using the power of the state to silence speech they dislike. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 J. D. Vance, Charlie Kirk, and the Politics-as-Talk-Show Singularity - Broadcasting from the White House, the Vice-President seemed to complete the merger of politics and red-meat live streams—and to threaten more ominous crackdowns ahead. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 Robert Redford and the Perils of Perfection - The most golden of golden boys, he was too burnished by Hollywood but kept a lonely chill that was all his own. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” Is None of Those Things - Kogonada’s new fantasy film, starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, suggests that a great directorial talent is losing his way. (www.newyorker.com)
09-19 Israel’s New Occupation - Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel must become Sparta, hardened against the world. What does that mean for the country’s future? (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 Yasmina Reza’s “Art” Feeds Our Appetite for Argument as Entertainment - Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris play friends who spar over almost everything. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 “The Paper,” “The Lowdown,” and the Drama of Journalism - Reporters were the undisputed heroes of such classics as “All the President’s Men” and “Spotlight.” A new crop of shows—and a growing number of real-life skeptics and detractors—paint a different picture. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil - Brazil’s reckoning with authoritarianism may hold lessons for a U.S. system under strain. (www.newyorker.com)
09-18 Great Gay Novels Recommended by the Director of “The History of Sound” - Oliver Hermanus—whose latest film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor—recommends three books by queer writers who hid their sexualities. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds - The right-wing activist and his alleged assassin were both creatures of a digital ecosystem that rewards viral engagement at all costs. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 What the Video of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Might Do - Parents have less and less control over what their children see. Our children will likely understand history, and the world, very differently as a result. (www.newyorker.com)
09-17 How Samin Nosrat Learned to Love the Recipe - The chef’s first book, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” famously resisted the form. Her follow-up, “Good Things,” reflects a new appreciation for what it can teach us. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 White House Job Openings - The President’s driver should be able to go vroom-vroom fast without getting scared, and must be at least sixteen years old with a valid driver’s license. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 Your First Call After You Shoot Someone - In the era of Stand Your Ground, self-defense insurance is increasingly popular. Does it promote gun violence? (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 Can You Really Live One Day at a Time? - Productivity culture encourages us to live inside our tasks and projects. But nature offers its own organizational system. (www.newyorker.com)
09-16 Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights - Federal offices and programs that insure equal treatment are being shuttered and scaled back. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 How Far Could Donald Trump’s Assault on the Federal Reserve Go? - Some central-bank veterans are concerned about a scenario in which the President’s appointees gain effective control of the institution and end its independence. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 New Yorker Covers, Brought to Life! - To celebrate the magazine’s hundredth anniversary, photographers collaborated with Spike Lee, Julia Garner, Sadie Sink, and other notable figures to update covers from the archive. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García - The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Bouldering Beside the Harlem River Drive - After learning to climb by scaling his family’s Park Slope town house, a nineteen-year-old likes to tackle the ledges of upper Manhattan, unless the cops get in the way. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance - The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer? (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 How Other Things End - With apologies to T. S. Eliot, clocking the dénouement of your kid’s bedtime ritual, the energy-drink craze, and your career, to name a few. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Debbie Gibson’s Pavarotti Period - The eighties pop princess returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in the Children’s Chorus, and shows off her new memoir, “Eternally Electric.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming - The Latin-trap performer is probably the most important pop musician of our time. Key to his success is that the bigger he gets, the more local he seems. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to John Seabrook’s piece on floods, Eyal Press’s article on the National Restaurant Association, and Adam Gopnik’s essay on the history of gambling in New York. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Duck, Cover, and Pass: The Atomic Bowl - A former Crawdaddy editor produced a documentary on a peculiar postwar military football game in Nagasaki. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home - A new sanctuary on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway assembles a deliberately whimsical variety of materials, where sculpture moves and is moved in turn. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch? - In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon. (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 How Jessica Reed Kraus Went from Mommy Blogger to MAHA Maven - The founder of “House Inhabit” has grown her audience during the second Trump Administration with political gossip and what she calls “quality conspiracy.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-15 How Jane Birkin Handled the Problem of Beauty - She possessed a mysterious charisma and a seemingly effortless sense of style. Both obscured her relentless, often painful search for meaning. (www.newyorker.com)
09-14 Jennifer Wilson on Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever” - The writer worried that the story was “too niche, too odd,” the crime of flower theft “too minor.” To think, I had loved it for precisely those qualities. (www.newyorker.com)
09-14 “The Pool,” by T. Coraghessan Boyle - If I’d been oblivious to the multidimensional dangers seething below the surface of suburban life, the kids and the pool and the hillside out back brought them home to me. (www.newyorker.com)
09-14 A Campus Mourns Charlie Kirk - Students at Texas A. & M. organized a vigil for the conservative activist, just months after he visited the university. (www.newyorker.com)
09-14 Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV - In his press conference announcing the capture of Charlie Kirk’s killer, the F.B.I. director revealed himself. (www.newyorker.com)
09-13 A Major Advance in the Search for Life on Mars - NASA published tantalizing evidence that the red planet once harbored life. But Trump’s proposed budget could leave the mystery unsolved. (www.newyorker.com)
09-13 The Ritual of Civic Apology - More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what they’re remembering. (www.newyorker.com)
09-13 Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence - “We’ve lived through moments of more violence,” the staff writer Jane Mayer notes. “So we know it’s possible to quiet this.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-13 “Megadoc” Shows Francis Ford Coppola Going for Broke on “Megalopolis” - Mike Figgis’s documentary reveals the risky freedom of Coppola’s approach to his self-financed political fantasy. (www.newyorker.com)
09-13 Kevin Young on His Book “Night Watch,” Inspired by Death and Dante - The New Yorker’s poetry editor discusses his new collection of poems, and how the pandemic brought him to themes of grief, political outrage, and our susceptibility to hoaxes. (www.newyorker.com)
09-13 How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster - The veteran negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley spent decades trying to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and they know why it failed. (www.newyorker.com)
09-12 Brittany Howard and Alabama Shakes Return with Audacious New Music - Also: Julio Torres’s “Color Theories,” Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s paintings of bondage, Rachel Syme’s stylish movie picks, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-12 The Intertwined Legacies of Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump - What the Wall Street Journal’s Epstein reporting and the end of the Murdoch succession battle mean for one of the most important relationships in twenty-first-century media. (www.newyorker.com)
09-12 Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left? - After Charlie Kirk’s tragic killing, the President speaks not of ending political violence but of seeking political vengeance. (www.newyorker.com)
09-12 The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound” - In Oliver Hermanus’s period drama, Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor play music lovers whose passions prove less tempestuous than isolating. (www.newyorker.com)
09-12 MAGA Reacts to the Assassination of Charlie Kirk - In Washington, D.C., and online, people mourned the right-wing activist—and some called for vengeance. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 Why New Yorkers Yearn for Barneys - A dishy memoir by the department-store scion Gene Pressman recounts an era of elusive, irreverent cool. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 Charlie Kirk’s Murder and the Crisis of Political Violence - After a shooting with obvious political resonance, news about the perpetrator’s motives rarely brings clarity. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 Please Like, Share, Subscribe, and a Few Other Things, if You Don’t Mind - We’re trying to capture the hearts and minds of every citizen of the cyberworld and beyond. We wouldn’t hate some brand deals, either. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 The Epstein Birthday Book Is Even Worse Than You Might Realize - Reading the two-hundred-and-thirty-eight-page document from start to finish is like examining a crudely illustrated contract with the devil. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “The Brothers Size” and Suzanne Bocanegra’s “Honor” - A gifted cast elevates the poetic drama at the Shed. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 Why We’re All In on Gambling - Betting is not a new pastime, but the rise of platforms such as Polymarket and DraftKings has made it more pervasive than ever. In an increasingly unstable world, what’s the appeal of risking it all? (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era - Donald Trump’s second term has turned the fight over facts into a war over the authority to define reality itself. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 Mark Hamill’s All-Time Favorite Books by Stephen King - The “Star Wars” actor, who appears in the new King adaptation “The Long Walk,” digs into his favorite books by the prolific American author. (www.newyorker.com)
09-11 One of Chantal Akerman’s Best Films Is in Legal Limbo - The Belgian-born director’s 1994 coming-of-age masterwork, about a precocious teen-ager’s romantic audacity, can’t be reissued because of its needle drops. (www.newyorker.com)
09-10 “Cashing Out” Examines an Investment Strategy That Profited from AIDS Deaths - Matt Nadel’s documentary short explores the moral complexities of buying the life-insurance policies of H.I.V.-positive gay men. (www.newyorker.com)
09-10 Social Media Is Navigating Its Sectarian Phase - Many liberals who had fled X for Bluesky seem to be embracing the Elon Musk-owned platform once more. Why? (www.newyorker.com)
09-10 Brazil Braces for a Verdict on Its Ex-President—and on Its Democracy - Jair Bolsonaro faces decades in prison for allegedly attempting a coup after he lost an election. President Trump, like millions of Brazilians, is watching closely. (www.newyorker.com)
09-10 Does Society Have Too Many Rules? - When regular people seem burdened by bureaucracy, and the powerful act as they choose, it’s worth asking whether we’ve forgotten what makes rules effective. (www.newyorker.com)
09-10 Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye - A new book titled “Early Work” reveals that the acclaimed American photographer barrelled into the medium fully formed. (www.newyorker.com)
09-09 The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist - Through Friday, The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. (www.newyorker.com)
09-09 Inside the Chaos at the C.D.C. - A former senior official and two current employees describe the turmoil at the agency under R.F.K., Jr.,’s stewardship. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Texas’s Gerrymander May Not Be the Worst Threat to Democrats in 2026 - Nate Cohn, the New York Times’ chief political analyst, on a consequential Supreme Court case and why Republicans are registering so many new voters. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Rachel Aviv’s report on a schizophrenia patient who turned out to have an autoimmune disease, Zach Helfand’s Talk of the Town story about Youman Wilder, and Hua Hsu’s article on A.I. and education. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 N.Y.U.’s Dumpster-to-Dorm Boutique - A group of students collected all the leather jackets, rice cookers, microwaves, and disco balls abandoned in last semester’s dorms to create the free Swap Shop. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 How ICE Turned Venezuelan Migrants Into Enemies of the State - How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends - Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a good partner? (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Anthony Roth Costanzo Finds His Diva - The countertenor searches for the right look to conjure Maria Callas for his starring role in the new production of “Galas.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 They’ll Take You to the Candy Shop - The Composer Laureate twins Adeev and Ezra Potash team up with the actor Martin Starr to build the perfect gummy. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 The Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinů Is One of Music’s Great Chameleons - The Czech composer energetically explored form after form. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 From “Sometimes Tropic of New Orleans,” by Rickey Laurentiis - “Honey in my walk, & I lean, now down the Avenue, pseudo-pioneer to a seized / City, liege to a bee.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Rivals Rub Shoulders in the World of Competitive Massage - Each year, massage therapists from around the globe gather to face off, collaborate, and make sure that no body gets left behind. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Why Christopher Marlowe Is Still Making Trouble - Spy, murder victim, and the boldest poet of his day, the transgressive Elizabethan dramatist taps into the gravely comical troubles into which humans tumble. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair - Many of the staffers at Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar start as teen-agers. Some of them are committed for life. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 MAGAnomics Isn’t Working - A dismal jobs report affirms earlier warnings about the economic impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs, immigration restrictions, and DOGE-led firings. (www.newyorker.com)
09-08 Bella Freud’s Podcast, “Fashion Neurosis,” Offers a Talking Cure - A great-granddaughter of Sigmund—and a child of Lucian—has had a lot to unpack. She’s working through it, mesmerizingly, on “Fashion Neurosis.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-07 Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress’s Photo from September 11th - Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed. (www.newyorker.com)
09-07 “Voyagers!,” by Bryan Washington - You didn’t want to go on this trip, Ronny said. You just wanted to get away from your boring husband. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 R.F.K., Jr., Brings More Chaos to COVID Policy and the C.D.C. - When MAGA met MAHA, Donald Trump vowed that Kennedy would “go wild on health.” Promises made, promises kept. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 Harvard’s Mixed Victory - A resounding win for the university in court still leaves the Trump Administration with plenty of ways to force schools into submission. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 The Mystery of the Cat Mystery - Why was I reading all these cat-detective novels—was I, like the animal itself, trying to cheat death? (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy - Gianni Berengo Gardin spent a lifetime revealing the real people, real ironies, and real beauty of a country that people only think they know. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 Donald Trump, Architecture Critic - With a new executive order, the President has turned his attention to remaking our federal buildings—and it’s not a good look for a democratic state. (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 Anna Wintour’s Interview About Appointing a New Editor of American Vogue - The longtime editor and executive talks about appointing her successor, the arc of her career, and what she thought of “The Devil Wears Prada.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, “Twilight Override” - Wilco’s front man on his forthcoming solo record—a triple album, but “whittled down from five,” as he tells Amanda Petrusich. “I’ve made single records that feel longer.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-06 The Political Trickery of “Eddington” - Ari Aster’s drama, set in 2020, about conflict between a New Mexico town’s sheriff and its mayor, rips plotlines from the headlines and leaves them in shreds. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 “I Who Have Never Known Men” Is a Warning - The slim, disquieting novel, which has become a sensation on TikTok, imagines a child who finds herself at the end of the world. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 What “The Paper” Has to Say About Journalism - The new “Office” spinoff is a love letter to newspapers—if not the reporting inside them. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 The Ministry of Joyce McDonald’s Sculptures - Also: New York City Ballet and New York Philharmonic kick off their fall seasons, Nourished by Time brings “The Passionate Ones” to Irving Plaza, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week? - From tariffs and immigration to the National Guard, federal judges are rejecting Trump’s ridiculous cover stories. (www.newyorker.com)
09-05 “Erupcja” Starts Charli XCX’s Acting Career on a High Note - The musician stars in the American filmmaker Pete Ohs’s thrillingly inventive drama, about a London couple’s trip to Warsaw and the rekindling of a passionate friendship there. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Reëxamining the American Dream in “The Last Carnival” - On the last day of carnival season, migrant workers keep the rides up and running for joyful kids, while they mourn lost time with their own families. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Our Fads, Ourselves - Labubus are the latest hard-to-find objects to capture the popular imagination. What can speculative manias of the past tell us about the enduring appeal of collectibles? (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Ranking Things from Quiet Luxury to Loud Luxury - Organic blueberries. Buying organic blueberries from a weekday farmers’ market. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Why Pam Bondi Is the Attorney General of Trump’s Dreams - The upheaval under Bondi has left the Justice Department hollowed out, with consequences likely to outlast her tenure and reshape the institution itself. (www.newyorker.com)
09-04 Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced - International climate experts have extensively debunked the D.O.E.’s recent report, but will science win out? (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 “The Paper” Is Old News - The new workplace sitcom from Greg Daniels, who co-created the U.S. version of “The Office,” borrows its predecessor’s mockumentary format—but pales in comparison to what came before. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 The New Yorker Festival Announces Its Full 2025 Lineup - Tickets are now on sale for the three-day October event, which will feature Jon Stewart, Salman Rushdie, Demi Moore, Lina Khan, Lucy Dacus, Percival Everett, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 Arundhati Roy’s “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” Reviewed - A new memoir by Arundhati Roy, about a formidable matriarch, joins a host of recent books in which daughters reckon with mothers who are too much, not enough, or both at once. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 Is Ghosting Inevitable? - We bemoan the injustice of being left on read. But perhaps missed connection is just a part of being a human on the internet. (www.newyorker.com)
09-03 Sabrina Carpenter’s “Man’s Best Friend,” Reviewed - “Man’s Best Friend,” the singer’s newest album, is an obvious companion to her 2024 breakthrough, filled with chatty asides and quick, carnal jokes. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Why Don’t We Take Nuclear Weapons Seriously? - The risk of nuclear war has only grown, yet the public and government officials are increasingly cavalier. Some experts are trying to change that. (www.newyorker.com)
09-01 Do State Referendums on Abortion Work? - Missouri voters approved a measure to protect abortion rights, but opponents have repeatedly blocked it from taking effect. (www.newyorker.com)
09-01 Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 Restaurant Review: Lex Yard at the Waldorf-Astoria - Lex Yard, in the newly restored hotel, tries for maximalist seasonal cooking creative enough to draw in finicky locals and anodyne enough to satisfy an international clientele. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 The End of the Late-Night Band - Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America - A vaccine expert warns that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is deliberately sowing confusion in order to drive down immunization uptake. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 The Surreal Images of Erick and Elliot Jiménez - In “El Monte,” the Cuban American photographers construct a dizzying world inspired by a seminal work of ethnography. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time - The artist’s latest album, “The Passionate Ones,” catches your weariness, and, with a dreamer’s irrationality, asks if you would consider transforming it, even for a while. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department - Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 Fred Armisen on “100 Sound Effects” - The comedian talks about his new album, a sound-effects record for the modern era, with the staff writer Michael Schulman. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow - Adam Gopnik discusses the Administration’s moves to dictate what is acceptable and unacceptable in American culture, and why pluralism remains essential to democracy. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 The New Orleans That Hurricane Katrina Revealed - Twenty years ago, the storm showed how few resources a city built on extraction had. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 Pictures of Life on a Christian Commune - Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of making up rules. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 Your Midlife Girls’ Trip: A Waiver - By signing, you accept that going on this outing is voluntary, even if your group chat made it not feel that way. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 The Long History of Life on Mars - A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century. What does it reveal about our current obsession with the Red Planet? (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 The Orgasm Expert Who Ended Up on Trial - Jurors in New York were asked to decide whether Nicole Daedone’s once high-profile California company, OneTaste, promoted a culture of empowerment or exploitation. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 A Letter from Ghislaine Maxwell - I’d like to take this opportunity to clear up any lingering doubts, particularly in regard to President Trump’s involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s life. (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 “Caught Stealing” Makes New York a Comedic Criminal Nightmare - Darren Aronofsky brings philosophical heft to his violent and frantic neo-noir, starring Austin Butler as a bartender trapped in a vortex of danger. (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 What Would Free Buses Look Like, Actually? - Zohran Mamdani has promised to make the bus fare-free, and so has Andrew Cuomo, sort of. Is New York City ready? (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 “Ritu,” by Akhil Sharma - Everyone was looking at us as though they all knew that Ritu had done the work and I had tried to mooch off her. (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 The Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis - Donald Trump’s unpopularity hasn’t translated into strength among the Democratic Party. Why are key blocs of voters drifting away? (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 Scenes from the “This Is Spinal Tap” Cutting-Room Floor - On any given day, brilliant stuff would spontaneously fly out of someone’s mouth. A lot of that stuff had to go, to keep the film’s motor running. (www.newyorker.com)
08-28 Racing Mount Pleasant Makes Quiet Emotions Sound Grand - On its self-titled album, the Michigan band uses orchestral arrangements to get the most out of every song. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 The Lessons of a Glacier’s Collapse - In May, an unprecedented landslide destroyed an Alpine village. Scientists are studying the role of climate change, and residents are trying to rebuild. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 How to Survive Your Song Going Viral on TikTok - The band Cafuné had a social-media megahit in 2022 with the endlessly remixed “Tek It.” Now they want to make music that’s less online. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 The Enormous Stakes of Trump’s Effort to Fire the Fed Governor Lisa Cook - The President’s authoritarian power grabs are undermining the institutional foundations of the American economy. (www.newyorker.com)
08-27 How Former Biden Officials Defend Their Gaza Policy - The former President’s support for Israel abetted a humanitarian catastrophe. But Jacob Lew, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the country, still thinks that the Trump White House could learn from its predecessor. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 When It’s Acceptable to Be on Speakerphone in Public - Your daughter is in the middle of a bitter divorce, and she has no one to turn to but you and the strangers in your elevator. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 Green Eggs and Sun - How the Trump Administration’s irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 “Eden” Is a Messy Survival Thriller with Nietzschean Appeal - In Ron Howard’s historical potboiler, an off-the-grid social experiment veers clumsily—but sometimes compellingly—into “Lord of the Flies” terrain. (www.newyorker.com)
08-26 When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture - Columbia Records saw Terry Riley’s “In C,” now rereleased for his ninetieth birthday, as a perfect anthem for the psychedelic Zeitgeist, but the mainstream couldn’t contain the composer’s utopian energies for long. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 The Endless August Recess - Members of Congress went back to their districts for the summer, and they discovered that being at home is just as hard as being in Washington. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 What The New Yorker Was Watching in 1925 - The first year of the magazine’s movie writing included proto-auteurist criticism, gossip, and a large dose of Charlie Chaplin. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History - Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 How Weekly Shōnen Jump Became the World’s Most Popular Manga Factory - The magazine, home to such series as “Naruto” and “One Piece,” has created a formula for coaxing hit franchises out of young talents. The twenty-four-year-old behind “Kagurabachi” may be next. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Siddhartha Mukherjee’s article about early cancer detection and S. C. Cornell’s review of “The Genius Myth,” by Helen Lewis. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies, in “All the Way to the River” - “Eat, Pray, Love” was a huge hit in part because readers imagined they could be like its author. Her new book, “All the Way to the River,” shows how dubious that notion was. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 “We Are the World,” January 6th Style - In a Miami studio where the Eagles and Bob Marley recorded, a choir of pardoned Capitol rioters tries to “reclaim” the national anthem. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Zohran Mamdani Talks Love and Deuce with Some New Friends - The mayoral candidate and social-media whiz hit the bleachers at the U.S. Open for a new kind of social-media gambit: the fan meetup. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Fred Armisen Goes Bang! Zip! Zoop! - The latest album from the musical “S.N.L.” alum is a compilation of sound effects, including such tracks as “Obligatory Applause at a Speech” and “Tentative Sawing.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Richard Renaldi’s Portraits of New Yorker Critics - Richard Renaldi’s large-format portraits capture the New Yorker writers who hold the culture to account. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 Inside the Tent on “The Great British Bake Off” - The show captures disastrous custard-making, quintessentially British faux-modesty, and the blistering hubris of bakers—including me. (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 “70,” by Patricia Smith - “I stare at my reflection, and I see / my melody is waning—no surprise, / but only blues take root and hold.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-25 A24’s Empire of Auteurs - The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too. (www.newyorker.com)