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)
06-28 Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” Goes West but Gets Nowhere - The actor-director’s three-hour Western, the first installment of a planned tetralogy, rushes through its many stories and straight past American history. (www.newyorker.com)
06-28 “Music” Gives the Tragedy of Oedipus an Elusive but Hypnotic Retelling - In unfurling the story of a boy who becomes a killer, a lover, and a singer, the German director Angela Schanelec continues to move to her own inimitable beat. (www.newyorker.com)
06-28 Some Faint and Likely Temporary Relief on Abortion Rights - The Supreme Court has, for now, refrained from restricting access to urgently needed abortions. (www.newyorker.com)
06-27 “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” Lands on Its Feet - The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect. (www.newyorker.com)
06-27 Do the Democrats Have a Gen Z Problem? - Young people were critical to Biden’s victory in 2020, but recent polls indicate that loyalty might be fraying. Voters of Tomorrow, which was founded by a teen-ager, is trying to get the kids back on board. (www.newyorker.com)
06-27 California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels - For part of almost every day this spring, the state produced more electricity than it needed from renewable sources. (www.newyorker.com)
06-27 Summer Obsessions - The season often gives our relationships with art room to flourish. What do we make of those associations years down the line? (www.newyorker.com)
06-27 What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions - In some of its most consequential cases, the Court is trying to clarify the sweeping decisions it previously made in Bruen and Dobbs. (www.newyorker.com)
06-27 “The Boys” Gets Too Close for Comfort - The Amazon Prime series started as a fantastical, darkly funny sendup of the superhero genre. Now it’s set in a political landscape that looks distressingly like our own. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas - The documentary “Love to the Max” captures one family’s determination to live authentically in an anti-trans political climate. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 26th - “And then, for the last question, we’ll ask them to repeat the five words we gave them at the start.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 What Can Biden and Trump’s 2020 Debates Tell Us About Their Chances? - One of the many asymmetries of the Presidential race is that incoherence helps Trump and hurts Biden. (www.newyorker.com)
06-26 “Janet Planet”: Melt the Icebergs - The playwright Annie Baker’s first feature conceals its depth of experience under a narrow array of details. (www.newyorker.com)
06-25 The Unfiltered Charm of Jet’s Beauties of the Week - Decades before Instagram, the magazine’s legendary column democratized the thirst trap. (www.newyorker.com)
06-25 The Politics That Derailed Congestion Pricing in New York - Governor Hochul’s last-minute decision to pause the program feels like a pivot, a fateful flinch, for the city. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 An Around-the-World Eco-Voyage Makes a Pit Stop Near Wall Street - Energy Observer, a ship equipped with solar panels and a hydrogen fuel cell, has spent the past seven years circumnavigating the globe, powered by sun, water, and salads. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 From “Adam,” by Gboyega Odubanjo - Weaving together the Genesis myth, Yoruba culture, and contemporary Black British culture, a young poet explores the haunting reverberations of an unsolved killing with an unidentified victim. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Neal ElAttrache, Doctor for Tom Brady and Leonardo DiCaprio - Neal ElAttrache, the surgeon to the stars of sport and screen, can fix anything. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Would You Clone Your Dog? - We love our dogs for their individual characters—and yet cloning implies that we also believe their unique, unreproducible selves can, in fact, be reproduced. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Troye Sivan Wants to Sell You a Bottomless Bowl - The Grammy-nominated Australian singer surveyed the Nolita pop-up store where, for three days, fans snapped up his oil burners, candles, and dreidels. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Guillaume de Machaut’s Medieval Love Songs - The fourteenth-century composer’s expressions of longing can still leave an audience spellbound. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 The Radical Faith of Harriet Tubman - A new book conveys in dramatic detail what America’s Moses did to help abolish slavery. Another addresses the love of God and country that helped her do so. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 The Mail - Readers respond to Eyal Press’s piece on state constitutions, Merve Emre’s essay on Freud biographies, and Rebecca Mead’s review of “Catland.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 The Dominican Election That Took Over Upper Manhattan - A newly elected representative of the Dominican Republic’s overseas population gives advice to the U.S. on orderly elections and muses on the Yankees star Juan Soto. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 The Right Side of Now - Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about speaking—and feeling—in the present tense? (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Biden’s Moment to Show Who the Real Economic Populist Is - In Thursday’s debate, the President should highlight his Administration’s efforts to check the power of big corporations and eliminate some of their exploitative practices. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 The Sun Ra Arkestra’s Maestro Hits One Hundred - Marshall Allen, the musical collective’s sax-playing leader, is celebrating with a deep-spacey video installation at the Venice Biennale. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 Parents in a Chain - The great zucchini-bread disaster of 2024 and other mishaps, on a group text of moms and dads after the library bake sale. (www.newyorker.com)
06-24 America!: Republican Vice-Presidential Candidates Compete for Trump’s Favor in the Thunderdome - It’s the same as the real world, but more steampunk—so, worse. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 What Can We Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate? - Until recently, it wasn’t clear that the two men would ever share a stage again. Now there’s a potential for even greater stakes and strangeness than four years ago. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Tessa Hadley on Channelling Postwar Britain - The author discusses “Vincent’s Party,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 Diane von Furstenberg Will See You Now - The fashion icon is still starring in the story of her life, dispensing wisdom on our age of prudishness, the “three types of women,” and why “only losers don’t feel like losers.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 “Vincent’s Party,” by Tessa Hadley - Probably she’d get in trouble for this tomorrow, but she didn’t care; she was too full of agitated happiness. Anything could happen between now and tomorrow. (www.newyorker.com)
06-23 The Supreme Court Issues a Sensible Decision on Guns - The new ruling upheld a law barring those under certain domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing firearms—but the Court’s stance on gun laws remains trapped in ambiguity. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin - “If anybody’s wondering whether debates matter,” Evan Osnos says, “the truth is that the history on this is pretty eloquent, which is that they do matter in very tight contests.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 It’s Mourning in America - In the past century, grief has shifted from a public process to a private problem—something meant to be solved. Is there a better way? (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 “Green Border” Confronts the Horror and Heroism of the Refugee Crisis - With pulse-pounding sweep and moral fury, the veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland turns her camera on injustice at the Polish-Belarusian border. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV - The staff writer picks three pioneering entries to the genre. “If you hate reality television,” she says, “I’m trying to talk to you.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures - The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare. (www.newyorker.com)
06-22 Project Trump, Global Edition - Cut off all economic ties with China? End all aid to Ukraine? The ex-President’s men have a plan. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 The Polite Therapy of the “Inside Out” Movies - The premise of the Pixar series demands a model for our emotional lives, and the films deliver the standard, secular consensus. It’s mildly depressing. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 How a Homegrown Teen Gang Punctured the Image of an Upscale Community - The authorities didn’t seem to pay attention to the Gilbert Goons until one boy was dead and seven others were charged with murder. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Searching for the Star of the N.B.A. Finals - This year’s series, between the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks, featured many wonderful players but no obvious main character. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Biden Is the Candidate Who Stands for Change in This Election - The oldest-ever President has been a groundbreaking leader. The debate gives him a chance to get that message across. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 South Africa Mirrors the American West in “Dark Noon” - Also: Cynthia Erivo sings Sondheim, “The Bikeriders” reviewed, the still-lifes of Laura Letinsky, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 The Monotonous Miseries of “Kinds of Kindness” - Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film casts the same set of actors in a trio of stories, all of them cruel. (www.newyorker.com)
06-21 Why Is South America’s Leading Soccer Tournament Being Played in the United States? - Argentina will be defending its title in Atlanta, and its first opponent will be Canada. (www.newyorker.com)
06-20 Self-Help Books from Ancient Times - “The Ultimate Detox from Feudalism,” “Stop Overthinking and Start Impaling,” and other gems. (www.newyorker.com)
06-20 Britain’s Embrace of the Bomb - The country’s nuclear-weapons program is in bad shape, yet it is one of only two nations actively rearming. What’s it all for? (www.newyorker.com)
06-20 The Therapy Episode - Therapy has come to shape our entertainment, our language, and even our relationships. How did we get from treatment to a life style? (www.newyorker.com)
06-20 Could the 2024 Election Be Decided by Memes? - Supporters of the Trump and Biden campaigns are trying to engineer viral moments to win the election through social media. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 “The Morningside,” Reviewed: When the Apocalypse Is Just Another Day - In “The Morningside,” Téa Obreht depicts humdrum life in a fallen world, as seen through the eyes of a child. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 What Modi’s Plan for Gandhi’s Old Home Reveals About India’s Future - At stake is more than how this particular site will look—it’s whether the Prime Minister will succeed in draining the Mahatma’s legacy of its political substance by funnelling it into his own. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 Six Eerie Predictions That Early Sci-Fi Authors Got Completely Wrong - The Turbo Fridge, a shoe that does your taxes, and other future-tech that never came to be. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 The Black Mothers Fighting to Get Their Kids Back, in “To Be Invisible” - Myah Overstreet’s film follows two women trying to regain custody of their children and explores the injustice of family separation. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 Apple Is Bringing A.I. to Your Personal Life, Like It or Not - The iPhone maker’s introduction of Apple Intelligence marks a step into a new technological era—call it the domestication of generative A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 “The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur - Jeff Nichols’s adaptation of the photographer Danny Lyon’s 1968 book about a Chicago motorcycle club is a tough, turbulent, but airbrushed drama. (www.newyorker.com)
06-19 The American Election That Set the Stage for Trump - In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact. (www.newyorker.com)
06-18 “Inside Out 2”: Once More, with Feelings - In Pixar’s latest animated sequel, a thirteen-year-old girl nearly succumbs to the troublesome pubescent emotions of Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment. (www.newyorker.com)
06-18 Andrew O’Hagan’s Bonfire of the Vanities - In real life, the author is the toast of London society, a knowing presence at parties and polo matches. In his new book, he skewers the scene’s hypocrisies. (www.newyorker.com)
06-18 What Does Benny Gantz Want for Israel? - The former general, who resigned from Israel’s wartime cabinet this month, seemingly has the ability to oppose Netanyahu while remaining above the political fray. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 The Mail - Readers respond to Idrees Kahloon’s piece about economic growth, Kathryn Schulz’s essay about suspense, and Justin Chang’s review of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Trump’s Brazen Pact with the 0.001 Per Cent - After reaping huge profits in the Biden years, some Wall Street billionaires and tech barons are throwing their support behind the President’s rival, who is desperate for their money. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 The Best Scammy Self-Help Books of the Summer! - “Let’s Save Our Trees” (hardback edition!), the minimalist shopping guide, and other best-sellers by hypocrites. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 The Strange Journey of John Lennon’s Stolen Patek Philippe Watch - For decades, Yoko Ono thought that the birthday gift was in her Dakota apartment. But it had been removed and sold—and now awaits a court ruling in Geneva. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Deaccessioning the Delights of Robert Gottlieb - The eminent editor’s wife and daughter sift through a lifetime’s worth of collectibles: quirky plastic purses, a porcelain Miss Piggy, and many, many books. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Lizzy McAlpine Wants to Go Offline - The artist, who got famous by going viral, discusses refusing to play the TikTok game with her new record, turning to a life of slowness and privacy, and maybe auditioning for a musical. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Matthew Rhys Was Into Dylan Thomas Before It Was Cool (Again) - The actor, who starred in the play “Dear Mr. Thomas,” tours the poet’s old haunts with his partner, Keri Russell, and finds them disappointingly not crummy. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 How the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity - Enlightenment liberalism fragmented the world by neglecting the social nature of the self, Taylor contends, but the Romantics can tell us how to restore a shared sense of meaning and purpose. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Brad Pitt Likes It Softer - A holistic celebration of God’s True Cashmere, Brad Pitt and Sat Hari’s line of “quiet luxury” shirts with gemstone buttons. Gong bath, anyone? (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos - Does President Daniel Noboa’s campaign against drug gangs imperil the democracy he claims to defend? (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Anthony Fauci’s Side of the Story - The former NIAID director has been both lauded and demonized for his work during the COVID pandemic, but his autobiography insists that his career needs to be seen whole to be understood. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 The Era of the Line Cook - In a dinner series called the Line Up, line cooks, sous-chefs, and chefs de cuisine from buzzy New York restaurants get to be executive chefs for a night. (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Middle-Age Fantasies - Which is hotter? Talking geopolitics with the sexy nurse, or finding that the alluring young babysitter likes your unpublished novel? (www.newyorker.com)
06-17 Inside the Slimy, Smelly, Secretive World of Glass-Eel Fishing - Glass eels are mysterious creatures—and worth a fortune to those who catch them. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Roddy Doyle on How an Idea Makes It to the Page - The author discusses “The Buggy,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 “The Buggy,” by Roddy Doyle - The next wave or the one after, the buggy was going to be on its side and the baby—if there was one—would be strapped in and helpless. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 After the European Elections, President Macron Makes a Gamble - The rise of the far right in Europe might help Americans deprovincialize their own crisis. The single wave has struck many coastlines. (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Restaurant Review: One Weird Night at Frog Club - If a self-consciously clubby restaurant suddenly becomes easy to get into, what’s the point of going at all? (www.newyorker.com)
06-16 Susan Seidelman Knows What It’s Like to Be in “Movie Jail” - The groundbreaking director of “Desperately Seeking Susan” on proving people wrong, learning from Nora Ephron, and the upshot of making a movie without realizing you’re pregnant. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 A Succession Battle Over America’s Largest Ren Faire - A new HBO documentary series follows King George, the eighty-six-year-old overlord of the Texas Renaissance Festival, and the vicious competition to replace him. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024 - “It defies imagination to think that this is a case that would have existed in any other context than the context of Biden being in the White House,” Susan B. Glasser says. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 When Dads Cry: A Memoir in Man Tears - My wife sees it as an expression of feelings-friendly masculinity to be modelled for our two still-impressionable boys. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 Bela Borsodi’s Luminous Images of Children and Their Drawings - First, the kids drew their dreams. Then they posed next to them, in bed. The resulting black-and-white photos reveal the emotional realism that lies behind the fantastical. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV - The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 “Shoeshine” Marked a New Era of Political Cinema - Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 neo-realist drama helped put Italian movies at the center of world cinema. (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies - The co-host of “How Did This Get Made?” enlightens David Remnick on the art of terrible film. Plus, the New Yorker film critic Justin Chang praises Coppola’s divisive “Megalopolis.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-15 Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World? - Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament, explains the upcoming U.K. elections, the “catastrophic” Brexit, and the soul-crushing sham of a life in politics. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 14th - “For Father’s Day, Daddy would like you to make that lasagna you cooked for us on Mother’s Day.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Annie Baker’s “Janet Planet” Is an Exquisitely Moving Film Début - Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler play a mother and her eleven-year-old daughter in a story that quietly sidesteps coming-of-age drama conventions. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 We’re All Tiger Moms Now - Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” prompted controversy thirteen years ago, but, among the upper middle class, variations on her parenting style have proliferated. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 T-Pain’s Redemption Arc - Also: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Carnegie Hall celebrates Juneteenth, the film “Naked Acts,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Dry Ice and Rose Petals: An Entrance Fit for the Father of the Bride - And did I mention the fireworks? Lighting your way down the aisle! (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President - If ever there were a case for age-related diminishment of a candidate, Donald Trump is it. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 Keep Willem de Kooning Weird - At the Gallerie dell’Accademia, in Venice, the painter’s eloquence can sometimes overshadow the sheer freakiness of his work. (www.newyorker.com)
06-14 The Decline of the Rio Grande - When the water runs out, there are no good options. One of the poorest regions in Texas faces an uncertain future. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Is Travel Broken? - Global tourism is projected to reach an all-time high this year. How do we square our zeal for exploration with increasingly pressing reasons to stay put? (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Sandra Oh and a Cast of Downtown All-Stars Illuminate a Period Thriller - The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” exorcises the jury-room drama. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 How Will Nanomachines Change the World? - Nanotechnology can already puncture cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria. What will it do next? (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Biden’s Executive Order on Immigration and the Politically “Toxic” Puzzle of the Border - After a bipartisan immigration bill failed in the Senate, the President went out on his own with an even stricter policy. Is immigration inevitably a losing battle for the Democrats? (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 The Rediscovery of “Naked Acts” Expands Film History - Bridgett M. Davis’s 1996 drama centers the art of movies on the legacy and the experiences of Black actresses. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 An Unexpected Turn in the Evangelical Culture Wars - A proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from serving as pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote, signalling that the far right has not yet consolidated its control of the Church. (www.newyorker.com)
06-13 Is Google S.E.O. Gaslighting the Internet? - Leaked documents provide a glimpse into the inner workings of Google Search—and contradict the company’s public claims. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 A New Book About Plant Intelligence Highlights the Messiness of Scientific Change - In “The Light Eaters,” by Zoë Schlanger, the field of botany itself functions as a character—one in the process of undergoing a potentially radical transformation. (www.newyorker.com)
06-12 Is Biden’s Israel Policy Cynical or Naive? - Evaluating eight months of the President’s attempts to moderate Netanyahu’s bombing campaign in Gaza. (www.newyorker.com)
06-11 Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 11th - “We’d never know how Supreme Court Justices really felt if it weren’t for secret recordings and every single other thing they do.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-11 How Members of the Chinese Diaspora Found Their Voices - In the past few years, many Chinese people living abroad have found themselves transformed by the experience of protest. (www.newyorker.com)
06-11 Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home - The filmmaker mined their suburban upbringing for “I Saw the TV Glow,” a trans allegory that became a word-of-mouth hit—and captured Hollywood’s attention. (www.newyorker.com)
06-11 Is Hunter Biden a Scapegoat or a Favored Son? - The portrait that has cohered at his Wilmington trial is of a precious commodity, a man whom others conspire lovingly to shield. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 10th - “The captain has informed us that our arrival will be somewhat delayed because of Europe’s ongoing shift to the right.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Spandex and Sweatbands at the Louvre - To mark the upcoming Olympics, Paris’s grandest museum has invited exercisers to get down among the marble caryatids. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Pawns in the Park” - The artist captures a corner of calm contemplation in the midst of New York’s hustle and bustle. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Richard Linklater Unmasks Glen Powell in “Hit Man” - The director dissects a pivotal scene in his noir-inspired screwball comedy, which is loosely based on the real-life story of a fake hit man who helped detectives bust people soliciting murderers. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Pandemic Novels, Reviewed - The early pandemic was a painful, lonely, and disorienting era in American life. It was also a chance to get some writing done. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Notes on a Last-Minute Safari, by David Sedaris - We saw every animal that was in “The Lion King” and then some. They were just there, like ants at a picnic, except that they were elephants and giraffes and zebras. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Rod Blagojevich’s Tips for Prison Survival, Just in Time for Trump - The former governor of Illinois, who served time for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat, advises buffing up, finding a cool nickname, and watching out for crazies urinating in the oatmeal. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 “H.M.S. Pinafore” Uptown, on Repeat - A century ago, some Manhattan blue bloods in Blue Hill, Maine, decided that performing Gilbert and Sullivan would keep the kids out of trouble. They’re still at it. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 How a Palestinian/Jewish Village in Israel Changed After October 7th - Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom was founded on a total belief in the power of dialogue. In the wake of Hamas’s attack and amid Israel’s war in Gaza, a “very loud silence” has fallen. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Kanye West’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 The Immigration Story Nobody Is Talking About - The United States does need a more orderly border. It also needs more immigrants, who are critical to the country’s economic strength. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention - The animation juggernaut is now streamed for billions of hours each year, including on Netflix and its own YouTube channel. Should we be worried about that? (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 What Are You Fond of, Samuel Alito? - My wife is fond of expensive men’s watches, Norwegian death metal, and private jets. I am not. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 “A Big Red Shiny Apple,” by Yusef Komunyakaa - “He slowly peeled / off the glossy paper, & he just / held the apple as if it were / golden.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 “Half Hour to Aberdour,” by David Biespiel - “Late August, your estuary, now / Flattens gray, and the eroded / Pilings stagger from landfall / Like upside-down legs.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Should We Kill Some Wild Creatures to Protect Others? - Where humans have tilted the game in favor of one species, some believe we should cull predators to save their prey. Others think it’s a mistake to pick sides. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 When the C.I.A. Messes Up - Its agents are often depicted as malevolent puppet masters—or as bumbling idiots. The truth is even less comforting. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 The Mail - Readers respond to Sarah Stillman’s piece on changes to jail visits and Anthony Lane’s article on the abridgment app Blinkist. (www.newyorker.com)
06-10 Charli XCX Toys with Stardom on “BRAT” - The artist has often treated pop music as a game—something to play with so she doesn’t get bored, and something that reliably creates winners and losers. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 A Striking Setback for India’s Narendra Modi - The truly disquieting thought was that the cult of personality around the Prime Minister had become suffocating and seemingly impossible to pierce—until now. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen - In the playwright’s début film, “Janet Planet,” Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter—and everyone else—over the course of a long, hot summer in the Berkshires. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 “Chicago on the Seine,” by Camille Bordas - Occasionally, I had to send a body home. What I’d noticed was that death abroad was more common on package tours. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 Restaurant Review: A Pitch-Perfect Ode to Korean “Drivers’ Restaurants” - Kisa is a brand-new spot on the Lower East Side that does an astonishingly good job of seeming like it’s been there forever. (www.newyorker.com)
06-09 What’s Behind Joe Biden’s Harsh New Executive Order on Immigration? - Neither the declining number of border arrivals nor the intransigence of congressional Republicans has improved the President’s standing on the issue. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 A G.O.P. Strategist on the Republican Voters Who Could Abandon Trump - Donald Trump’s grip on his supporters remains firm despite his felony conviction. What can the latest polling and focus-group data tell us about what Republican voters are thinking? (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 A Journey to the Center of New York City’s Congestion Zone - After Governor Kathy Hochul’s flip-flop on congestion pricing, a cop reconsiders his retirement while inching his Lexus through snarled-up traffic on the F.D.R. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 How the Fridge Changed Flavor - From the tomato to the hamburger bun, the invention has transformed not just what we eat but taste itself. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Great Migrations, in Two Plays - Samm-Art Williams’s “Home,” on Broadway, and Shayan Lotfi’s “What Became of Us,” at Atlantic Theatre Company, portray the politics and the emotions of leaving home. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names - Eric Smokes and David Warren were convicted as teen-agers. Even after serving their sentences, the “Times Square Two” argued their innocence. It took decades for prosecutors to agree. (www.newyorker.com)
06-08 Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle” - The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 What Is the Opposite of Oil Drilling? - A growing industry aims to remove carbon from the atmosphere—but it’s still in its infancy, and greenhouse-gas emissions remain dangerously high. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 “Flipside” Is a Treasure Trove of Music and Memory - Chris Wilcha’s documentary explores life, love, and art through his connection to a venerable record store. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 The Eccentric Silversmith Behind Tiffany & Co., at the Met - Also: A.B.T. kicks off its summer season, Maggie Siff in “Breaking the Story,” the documentary “Flipside,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 How Liberals Talk About Children - Many left-leaning, middle-class Americans speak of kids as though they are impositions, or means to an end. (www.newyorker.com)
06-07 Fighting Trump on the Beaches - Biden’s fiery D Day speech in Normandy warns against the ex-President’s isolationism, while Trump is back home, targeting “the enemy within.” (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 Käthe Kollwitz’s Raw Scrapes - The German printmaker, who took war and revolution as her subject, stretched the narrative boundaries of the form—putting women, especially mothers, at the center of the action. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 Malika Andrews Plays Through the Pressure - The ESPN star’s reporting on divisive subjects, including allegations of violence against women, has been as risky as it is refreshing. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 The Many Faces of the Hit Man - The figure of the sleek, practiced killer has been a fixture of the cinematic landscape, from “Pulp Fiction” to “John Wick.” A new film from Richard Linklater pokes fun at our collective obsession with the archetype. (www.newyorker.com)
06-06 What Do We Know About How the World Might End? - The field of existential risk examines climate change, nuclear warfare, and artificial intelligence—and the totalizing threats posed by things we don’t yet understand. (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 The Delicate Art of Turning Your Parents Into Content - Gen Z creators are learning the lessons of Scorsese and Akerman: putting mom and dad in your work brings pathos, complexity, and a certain frisson. (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 The Millennial’s Lament - Certain words have passed the Millennial by; he wonders if he messed up by not saying things like “phat” or “dope” when he had the chance. (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 What Doge Taught Me About the Internet - The death of the Shiba Inu behind one of the silliest memes of the twenty-tens is a reminder of how much digital culture has changed. (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22” - Drew de Pinto’s documentary explores the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history. (www.newyorker.com)
06-05 Could Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due? - A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career. (www.newyorker.com)
06-04 A Cartoonist's Origin Story - Our reasonable, inherent desire to be liked by our immediate circle has now morphed into the perverse, unattainable goal of receiving everyone’s love at all times. (www.newyorker.com)
06-04 A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps - An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike. (www.newyorker.com)
06-04 What Israel’s Leaders Can’t—or Won’t—Say About Biden’s Ceasefire Announcement - Netanyahu’s chief rival, Benny Gantz, has issued an ultimatum for the Prime Minister to come up with an exit strategy for the war. What options are available to him? (www.newyorker.com)
06-03 The Mail - Readers respond to Nina Berman’s photo portfolio of protests at Columbia University and Manvir Singh’s article about diagnosis and identity. (www.newyorker.com)