Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 12th - I said I’m fine. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post? - How the paper that brought down Richard Nixon is struggling to survive the second term of Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Spare a Thought for the Snitch - In “Spotlight: Snitch City,” the Boston Globe skillfully reveals how police abused confidential informants in a Massachusetts port town. (www.newyorker.com)
Three Faces of American Capitalism: Buffett, Musk, and Trump - As the Sage of Omaha announces his retirement, the Trump family’s crypto ventures and Musk’s DOGE cuts illuminate darker aspects of the system. (www.newyorker.com)
Why End Energy Star? - Many of the Trump Administration’s proposed rollbacks of climate policies run counter to its own goals. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Kind Is the Perfect Second Banana - The inveterate character actor discusses Don Quixote, his time as George Clooney’s roommate, and his latest gig: m.c.ing John Mulaney’s absurdist talk show. (www.newyorker.com)
The Next Phase of Trump’s Retribution - What the replacement of Ed Martin, who punished his own prosecutors for bringing cases against January 6th rioters, signals about the President’s signature campaign promise. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack? - Professional writers and passionate amateurs are using the platform to experiment with new forms. (www.newyorker.com)
One Hundred Years of New York Movies - Ten lesser known films from the past century have captured the city just as indelibly as modern classics by the likes of Martin Scorsese or Spike Lee. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Head Start Survive the MAGA Era? - A sixty-year consensus on the War on Poverty program is at risk of finally coming undone. (www.newyorker.com)
The Paradoxes of Feminine Muscle - In a new book, the author Casey Johnston argues that pumping iron helped her “escape diet culture.” But a preoccupation with strength can take many forms. (www.newyorker.com)
Cut Right Through the Boat and Illuminate Everything - The Singaporean photographer Nguan spent a decade capturing New York via the Staten Island ferry. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Asylum Still Possible?: The Story of Edgarlys Castañeda Rodríguez - A young democracy activist fled Venezuela, where the government threatened to arrest her for treason. Now in ICE custody, she knows that she may be quickly deported. (www.newyorker.com)
Percival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer - The writer and National Book Award winner on his book “James.” (www.newyorker.com)
Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English” - The Michigan senator on what she thinks Democrats have been getting wrong, and why her state elected Donald Trump and her at the same time. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dynamics Behind the Current India-Pakistan Clash - How internal politics in both countries could escalate the conflict in the wake of a tourist massacre in Kashmir. (www.newyorker.com)
Will the First American Pope Be a Pontiff of Peace? - Leo XIV’s pontificate will likely be defined by his approach to the violent conflicts rending the globe, which his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, referred to as “a third world war in pieces.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 9th - “Good conclave, good conclave, good conclave. . . .” (www.newyorker.com)
The Resistance Will Be Fragmented - What an overhaul at MSNBC suggests about the state of anti-Trump defiance. (www.newyorker.com)
I Never Thought the Trolley Problem Would Happen to Me - Ugh, I wish I had binoculars to see if one of them is Hitler! (www.newyorker.com)
Our Favorite “Only in New York” Spots - New Yorker writers muse on sui-generis spots around New York City. (www.newyorker.com)
A Day in the Live-Streamed Life of Donald Trump - America’s TV-obsessed President has made his rambling Oval Office press gaggles the signature of his second term—chaotic, self-aggrandizing, random, and frequently nasty. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Root for the Home Team - The other guys’ dreams go up in smoke. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 8th - “I don’t really mind the government’s new death ray, because it hasn’t hit me yet.” (www.newyorker.com)
Podcasts by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Improv with the antichrist, an accusatory interview with a klepto demon, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Brazil’s President Confronts a Changing World - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Trump, Putin, and a collapsing global order. (www.newyorker.com)
I Need a Critic: May, 2025, Edition - The hosts of Critics at Large issue recommendations on TV shows to watch while eating, how to ease the guilt of unread books, and texts to take the edge off of current events. (www.newyorker.com)
Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery - The President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the “statements of intent” of a budding authoritarian. (www.newyorker.com)
Rediscovering a Great Film Critic of Hollywood’s Golden Age - In his brief, brilliant career, Andre Sennwald witnessed the coming of Technicolor, snarked at the implementation of the Hays Code, and advanced a visionary view of cinema. (www.newyorker.com)
Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint - The award-winning author of “The Friend” explains why some of the recent books that she admires most are ones in which not much happens. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 7th - For real this time. (www.newyorker.com)
How Cory Arcangel Recovered Michel Majerus’s Digital Legacy - Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Russia and Ukraine Are Playing Trump’s Blame Game - With the President intent on delivering a speedy end to the war, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are competing to make each other the subject of his ire. (www.newyorker.com)
The Spectacle of a Boxing Match in Times Square - Eager to make the sport feel relevant again, promoters staged a series of fights in one of the most crowded places in America. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 6th - The trickle-down effects of Trump’s trade war. (www.newyorker.com)
How Is Elon Musk Powering His Supercomputer? - Fast and loose in Memphis, as in D.C. (www.newyorker.com)
What Can We Learn from Broken Things? - The smashed, fractured, and non-functional can frustrate us—and illuminate who we are. (www.newyorker.com)
How I’ll Become Pope - While they’re asleep, I’ll use a Sharpie to scrawl “NOT ME” on the front-runners’ faces. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker Wins Three 2025 Pulitzer Prizes - The awards honor Mosab Abu Toha’s commentary on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; Moises Saman’s photographs of Syria after Assad, and the third season of the In the Dark podcast. (www.newyorker.com)
On “Hacks” and “The Studio,” Hollywood Confronts Its Flop Era - The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 5th - “Actually, place the spoils at the feet of my adult children. I’m trying to look less corrupt.” (www.newyorker.com)
No-Parking Zone: The Perils of Finding a Spot in N.Y.C. - Why do city drivers waste two hundred million hours a year circling the block? (www.newyorker.com)
Lena Dunham on Why She Broke Up with New York - Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took me several decades to realize that I could go my own way. (www.newyorker.com)
Christoph Niemann’s “Spotted in New York City” - Small moments that span a century. (www.newyorker.com)
“her disquietude absorbed.,” by C. D. Wright - “By an attendant memory she is walking / alongside the child on his cycle.” (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Manvir Singh’s article about growth curves, Adam Iscoe’s investigation of the wedding website the Knot, and Adam Gopnik’s piece on Jesus’ life. (www.newyorker.com)
Keith McNally’s “I Regret Almost Everything,” Reviewed - The Manhattan restaurateur’s new memoir shows a canny instinct for the finer aspects of dining. (www.newyorker.com)
If the Mets Are No Longer Underdogs, Are They Still the Mets? - New York’s other baseball team has the league’s richest owner and just poached one of the game’s best hitters from the Yankees. They may never be the same. (www.newyorker.com)
Kathy Hochul’s Turf War with a Reality-TV Star - When he was on “The Real World,” Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, joked about a roommate’s “crusty undies.” What can New York’s governor learn by watching reruns of her congestion-pricing opponent? (www.newyorker.com)
The Promise of New York - Other cities have better infrastructure, fewer rats, cleaner streets, plentiful public toilets, more elbow room. Yet people continue to flock here. (www.newyorker.com)
My New York City Tour of Tours - Things I learned by embedding with the tourists: the Ramones loved Yoo-hoo, Peter Stuyvesant was uptight, and how to do “a quick Donald Trump dance.” (www.newyorker.com)
Twelve Migrants Sharing a Queens Apartment - In New York City, a shadow economy helps new arrivals find a place to sleep. Sometimes it’s just a bed and a curtain. (www.newyorker.com)
Is This the End of the Separation of Church and State? - The Justices, who have steadily eroded prohibitions on government sponsorship of religious schools, now seem ready to end them entirely. (www.newyorker.com)
Pity the Barefoot Pigeon - Bumblefoot, string-foot, and falcons are just a few of the hazards that New York’s birds have to brave. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Can’t New York Have Nice Mayors? - As the Trump Administration encroaches on the city, Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams try to salvage their political careers. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Versus Barbie - Can the Administration retain public support for a trade policy that could force Americans to buy less stuff? (www.newyorker.com)
“What Happened to New York,” by Anne Carson - “On the table in my room, cigarettes, knife, notebook, 7 P.M. I sit down to write so my head don’t blow up.” (www.newyorker.com)
Photo Portfolio: Living Rooms of Notable New Yorkers - Inside the living rooms of notable New Yorkers. (www.newyorker.com)
Great Moments in the Papacy - Who can ever forget Wyatt VII, the Cowboy Pope, or Gary III, the Secular Pope? (www.newyorker.com)
The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker - A host of accounts by the magazine’s staffers covers a full century of its history, but the trove of recollection is fraught and jumbled. (www.newyorker.com)
How Lorna Simpson Broke the Frame - Simpson’s wryly evasive photos, films, collages—and now paintings—peel back the layers of our looking. (www.newyorker.com)
Ed Helms Dives Into Disaster - In a new book, the boundlessly curious “Hangover” star probes history’s greatest blunders—like how the C.I.A. tried to make Castro’s beard fall out—as a way to face the present. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Ghosts of Iron Mountain,” “Turning to Birds,” “The Imagined Life,” and “My Name Is Emilia del Valle.” (www.newyorker.com)
Why I Can’t Quit the New York Post - The city’s least self-conscious, Rupert Murdoch-owned daily newspaper sticks to its story, new information be damned, yet holds real clout in liberal New York. (www.newyorker.com)
The Man to Call When You Need a Cimbalom. (A What?) - Chester Englander is a big name in a small world: he is playing the cimbalom, a jumbo hammered dulcimer that resembles an inside-out piano, in John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the Met. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Rehearsal” Finally Achieves Liftoff - The new season of Nathan Fielder’s HBO series takes a bold conceptual leap—and, with Sunday night’s episode, it went from an assemblage of stunts to a work of art. (www.newyorker.com)
“Travesty,” by Lillian Fishman - No thought was so devastating to Prima as the thought that she was ascribing wisdom and seriousness to something that would turn out to be stupid. (www.newyorker.com)
Michael Schulman on Lillian Ross’s “The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue” - The piece runs sixteen hundred words—long for Talk of the Town, short for an instant classic. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: The Caribbean Restaurant Reinventing the Momofuku Empire - At Kabawa, the chef Paul Carmichael gets scholarly without sacrificing the fun. (www.newyorker.com)
Lillian Fishman Reads “Travesty” - The author reads her story from the May 12 & 19, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Lillian Fishman on Sexual Politics and Wanting to Grow Up - The author discusses her story, “Travesty.” (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Syme on Kennedy Fraser’s “As Gorgeous as It Gets” - The article, about the launch of a new perfume, treats what might be considered a frivolous subject with exhaustive attention. (www.newyorker.com)
Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics - Or does he? (www.newyorker.com)
What the Tariffs Have Done to a Fledgling Small Business - Lei Nichols, who came to the United States thirty years ago, was in the early stages of starting her own tea company. Then the costs of her products started to soar. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich - “The amount of money flowing into the Trump family coffers is of a scale and scope that just sort of blows the mind in any context,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. (www.newyorker.com)
My Brain Finally Broke - Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension. (www.newyorker.com)
The Secrets of Physique Magazines - The mid-century publications didn’t need to announce themselves as gay, even if they had been able to. Their readers understood the necessity of balancing discretion and seduction. (www.newyorker.com)
Pick Three: Kraftwerk’s Best Tracks - Kelefa Sanneh on the electronic-music group and their enduring legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism - The financial columnist John Cassidy on America’s turn to tariffs, and his new book “Capitalism and Its Critics.” (www.newyorker.com)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food - The nutrition researcher Marion Nestle on the health impact of America’s diet, and whether the Trump Administration will take on the food industry. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Situation Now Is So Beyond Imagination” - A relief worker on how, exactly two months since Israel suspended all aid to Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people in the territory have grown desperate for food and are struggling to survive. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 2nd - “Lassie—help! Get me another glass of rosé.” (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts - Even as the Administration refuses to reveal the names of those it has deported under the Alien Enemies Act, a network of lawyers and advocates is fighting to keep their cases alive. (www.newyorker.com)
Disco Balls and Roller Skates, at Xanadu - Also: indie-rock legacy in “Pavements,” Jonathan Groff crooning Bobby Darin in “Just in Time,” the teeming embroideries of Madalena Santos Reinbolt, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Is Expanding His Authority While Shrinking the Government - With cuts comes leverage comes power. (www.newyorker.com)
Andrea Long Chu Owns the Libs - The writer is known for her acerbic criticism of liberals. Is she one herself? (www.newyorker.com)
“Caught by the Tides” Is a Gorgeous Vision of Loss and Renewal - More than two decades in the making, Jia Zhangke’s mostly archival film embodies the sweeping transformations of modern China in its very construction. (www.newyorker.com)
A Joyfully Chaotic Tribute to Pavement in “Pavements” - The band Pavement, big in the nineties and bigger in memory, returns to help celebrate themselves wryly in Alex Ross Perry’s loving, metafictional rock-bio-pic parody. (www.newyorker.com)
What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t - The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the Prime Ministership, was won by defying Trumpism. (www.newyorker.com)
Mike Waltz Learns the Hard Truth About Serving Donald Trump - On the national-security adviser’s sudden ouster. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker’s In the Dark Wins a 2025 Peabody Award - The narrative podcast was honored for its four-year investigation of a deadly rampage by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 1st - “Let me tell you why this thing I felt like doing anyway is also a radical act of resistance.” (www.newyorker.com)
This Bouquet of Branches Will Change Everything - Before, I was unremarkable. Now my very being begs a litany of questions, such as, “Wait, why does she have all those sticks?” (www.newyorker.com)
Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner''s Wives,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. (www.newyorker.com)
How “Sinners” Revives the Vampire - The myth of the vampire has been with us for centuries—and undergone some dramatic transformations along the way. What does its latest incarnation have to say? (www.newyorker.com)
How Bad Is It?: Andrew Marantz on the Health of Our Democracy - After a hundred days of Trump 2.0, has America tipped into authoritarianism? (www.newyorker.com)
Rumaan Alam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Female Protagonist - The author of “Leave the World Behind” and “Entitlement” discusses the merits of unpleasant characters. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 30th - “I worry about my mom’s screen time, but it’s the only thing that seems to soothe her.” (www.newyorker.com)
Will the Trump Tariffs Devastate the Whiskey Industry? - In the face of uncertainty, an award-winning distillery in Atlanta hits pause. (www.newyorker.com)
The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures - Millions of American children were denied regular in-person instruction for more than a year after the virus emerged. What did we get right—and wrong? (www.newyorker.com)
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How the Internet Left 4chan Behind - The anonymous forum thrived when edgelord content wasn’t acceptable on more mainstream social media. Today, it can be found most anywhere. (www.newyorker.com)
What To Do When Your Friend Unfollows You - Is it the cat photos?! (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 29th - “For too long, we’ve all suffered the bizarre and oppressive policies that I installed last week.” (www.newyorker.com)
Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? - Now that machines can think for us, we have to choose whether to be the passengers or pilots of our lives. (www.newyorker.com)
Turbulence at the Airport - T.S.A. workers protect America’s transportation systems. Now their own protections are being stripped away. (www.newyorker.com)
B.D.S.M. for the Middle-Aged - Now you’re going to sit in that chair and watch me load the dishwasher my way. And you’re not going to say a single word. (www.newyorker.com)
The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump - Grace Byron on President Donald Trump’s anti-trans policies and a recent executive order that declares government-issued I.D.s must reflect one’s sex assigned at conception. (www.newyorker.com)
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School - The classroom staple turns a hundred. (www.newyorker.com)
For Watchers of “The Clock,” Time Is Running Out - Christian Marclay’s addictive masterpiece, soon ending its run at moma, offers an escape from our time into time itself. (www.newyorker.com)
The Return of “My Favorite Season,” a Great Modern Melodrama - This elegantly passionate tale of long-stifled family conflicts is a thrilling showcase for its star, Catherine Deneuve. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 28th - “Quick! Somebody get Chuck Schumer to write a strongly worded letter!” (www.newyorker.com)
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy? - Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “The First Hundred Days” - A beacon extinguished. (www.newyorker.com)
From “America First” to “Sell America” - Donald Trump’s first hundred days have been an unprecedented economic fiasco. (www.newyorker.com)
A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated the world’s longest-running diabetes trial. (www.newyorker.com)
The Rise of Megan Moroney, Emo Cowgirl - The country singer, on her first headlining tour, plays achy-breaky songs about love and its failure to be respectfully reciprocated by various dudes. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Careless People,” “A Fractured Liberation,” “The Float Test,” and “Your Steps on the Stairs.” (www.newyorker.com)
Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners” - The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires. (www.newyorker.com)
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump - Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace. (www.newyorker.com)
A Lawyer Freed Young Thug. Now He’s Defending Diddy - Since the Young Thug trial, Brian Steel has modelled for the rapper’s fashion brand and had a Drake song named after him. Sean Combs took note. (www.newyorker.com)
Meet the City’s New Compost Cops - Chicken bones? Nope! Greasy pizza boxes? Uh-uh. For two weeks in April, the Department of Sanitation sent inspectors to rifle through your trash and fine landlords for failure to compost. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Jennifer Wilson’s piece about housing insecurity, Jill Lepore’s essay on Ruth Stout, and Helen Shaw’s review of “Ghosts.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Henry’s Ode,” by John Berryman - “Ladderless. Here it is again.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Fugue,” by Ishmael Reed - “He has enough in his I.R.A. to fly first class to / Byzantium.” (www.newyorker.com)
Jeremy Jordan Mines “Floyd Collins” for Its Sonic Gems - Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s 1996 musical about a trapped caver resurfaces on Broadway, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Mona Pirnot play metaphysical games. (www.newyorker.com)
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain - Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours. (www.newyorker.com)
Cinema was Claude Lelouch’s Nanny - The eighty-seven-year-old French director, in town for a rerelease of “A Man and a Woman,” his swinging-sixties “make-out movie,” ponders what he believes will be his final film. (www.newyorker.com)
Military Decorations, Pete Hegseth-Style - A new lineup of distinguished-service medals, rewarding Martial Lawlessness, Laughing at All of Elon Musk’s Jokes, and Outstanding Bone Spurs. (www.newyorker.com)
When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas - At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston instead. (www.newyorker.com)
Updated U.S. Customs and Border Protection Questionnaire - Q.: What is the purpose of your return to the United States? A.: I’m asking myself this question, too. (www.newyorker.com)
Creating a New Fire Island from Scratch - Plotting the next gay utopia—less expensive than Long Island, with fewer children—an architect scours Europe for a site, and searches for Speedo-friendly investors. (www.newyorker.com)
Francis, the TV Pope, Takes His Final Journey - He built his lovable persona not on the page but via pictures and improvised chat, the stuff of screens. (www.newyorker.com)
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Cockroaches and Commitment - The author discusses his story “Nocturnal Creatures.” (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Hundred Days of Ineptitude - Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. (www.newyorker.com)
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nocturnal Creatures” - The author reads his story from the May 5, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Nocturnal Creatures,” by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh - This is the way infestations work: first gradually and then all at once. He will never be able to eradicate. He can only hope to contain. (www.newyorker.com)
Dhruv Khullar on Oliver Sacks’s “The Case of Anna H.” - Wonder and observation propelled not only Sacks’s writing but also his doctoring. He wanted to chronicle even when he couldn’t cure. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: A Georgian Restaurant’s Mother of All Dumplings - Laliko, in the West Village, finds memorable ways to bring the Eastern European country’s cuisine to the world. (www.newyorker.com)
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? - Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring. (www.newyorker.com)
A Politics of Fear Defines Trump’s First Hundred Days in Office - “The whole country is going through this kind of enormous, disruptive, destabilizing experience,” Susan B. Glasser says. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Is the Emperor of A.I. Slop - It makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human. (www.newyorker.com)
Requiem for a “Drunk Dad” - Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore. (www.newyorker.com)
“April” Is an Unflinching Portrait of a Doctor’s Fight for Reproductive Justice - In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an unshakable moral imperative. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s Legally Allowed In War - How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China. (www.newyorker.com)
A Historical Epic of the Chinese in America - Chinese immigrants in the U.S. have been fighting for centuries against racial prejudice, the author Michael Luo says; their story should be seen as an American epic. (www.newyorker.com)
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership” - The senator talks with David Remnick about his record-breaking speech in Congress, and why he resists calls for Democrats to act alone in standing up to Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
A Long, Hard Look at America - As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of perspectives. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 25th - “I have nothing positive to cheers to, so I don’t think I should cheers at all.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Conservative Lawyer Defending a Firm from Donald Trump - Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that. (www.newyorker.com)
Rema and the Evolution of the Afrobeats Sound - Also: reviews of Broadway’s “Smash” and “John Proctor Is the Villain”; New York’s financial crisis of 1975 in “Drop Dead City”; and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Where Are Trump’s Big, Beautiful Deals? - Whether a trade pact with China or a peace accord with Russia, the President doesn’t seem to know what he’s actually asking for, never mind how to actually achieve it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk - As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash a Model S. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 24th - “It’s not the pollen—it’s the political climate.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Show Can’t Go On - Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts. (www.newyorker.com)
Thinking of You - So horrible, I heard the news. Well, I heard an echo of the news from aboveground—the sinkhole gets neglected by the media. (www.newyorker.com)
“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government - This documentary examines the economic changes and managerial missteps that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975 and the political creativity and enduring cost of the rescue. (www.newyorker.com)
Pope Francis’s Legacy and the Coming Conclave - “The traditionalist side of the Catholic Church in the United States has tolerated Francis, resented him, denigrated him, ignored him,” the writer Paul Elie says. “But also attached themself to his popularity when it suited their purposes.” (www.newyorker.com)
Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over - During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be. (www.newyorker.com)
Renzo Piano’s Light Touch - The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses the beauty of weightlessness. (www.newyorker.com)
David St. John Reads Larry Levis - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard,” by Larry Levis, and his own poem “The Shore.” (www.newyorker.com)
What America Means to Latin Americans - In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 23rd - “It’s not a popularity contest—that’s what the Oscars are for.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Torment of a Neighbor’s Noise in “Beeps” - Kirk Johnson’s documentary short follows two young men, one of whom is driven to distraction by a nearby dying smoke alarm, on their quest to make things right. (www.newyorker.com)
The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas - Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States. (www.newyorker.com)
What “America First” Could Cost Us - As the Trump Administration forces the U.S. to retreat from labor-protection programs abroad, American workers might end up suffering, too. (www.newyorker.com)
The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations - Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle antisemitism. (www.newyorker.com)
Personal Ads from the One Horse in This One-Horse Town - Me: happy-go-lucky, helpful, healthy, honest, handsome, hopeful. You: a horse. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 22nd - “You do realize that just because you stopped watching the news doesn’t mean it stopped happening.” (www.newyorker.com)
Pope Francis’s Tangled Relationship with Argentina - Amid the extreme political polarization in his home country, the Pope found himself at odds with nearly every President. (www.newyorker.com)
The Supreme Court Finally Takes on Trump - In an overnight ruling, the Justices defended the rule of law. Will their toughness last? (www.newyorker.com)
The Cost of Defunding Harvard - If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and treatment. (www.newyorker.com)
The Down-to-Earth Pope - In a historic moment characterized by autocrats and would-be autocrats, Francis was the antithesis of a strongman. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Harvard Can Afford to Stand Up to Donald Trump - The university’s 53.2-billion endowment has positioned it to resist the bullying tactics of an increasingly authoritarian President. (www.newyorker.com)
Subtitling Your Life - Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display real-time speech transcription on their lenses—are a game-changing breakthrough. (www.newyorker.com)
Curb Alert! Junk Lugging for Art’s Sake - Ser Serpas, a trash-art “assemblagist” who has been in the Whitney Biennial, takes her pick of New York’s litter, ahead of a new show at MOMA PS1. (www.newyorker.com)
Activism for Introverts! Copying the Constitution - Every month at the Old Stone House, in Brooklyn, citizens are invited to find consolation in troubled times by writing out the nation’s founding document, by hand. (www.newyorker.com)
Billy Idol: Still in Leather, Still Hot in the City - With a big year ahead, the British rocker visited his old West Village haunts and remembered the bourbon-soaked night when Mick and Keith didn’t think much of his idea for a song title, “Rebel Yell.” (www.newyorker.com)
Our University’s Commitment to You - To students, faculty, and staff who may be wondering, Will our endowment face law-enforcement raids as it goes about its business, accruing further wealth? Absolutely not. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Dhruv Khullar’s essay on the Trump Adminstration’s threat to scientific progress and to Carrie Battan’s piece about Zyn. (www.newyorker.com)
Amanda Hess’s “Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age,” Reviewed - In “Second Life,” the journalist Amanda Hess navigates the stratified landscape of contemporary reproductive technology. (www.newyorker.com)
Adrian Tomine’s “Lucky Dogs” - At least some of us are happy. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington - The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty. (www.newyorker.com)
Was the Civil War Inevitable? - Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump - Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy? (www.newyorker.com)
New York to Ford: NOT DEAD - After a screening of “Drop Dead City,” a new documentary on N.Y.C.’s 1975 fiscal crisis, a crew of old union stalwarts—sanitation workers, Bernie Sanders’s art teacher—reminisced about saving the city from bankruptcy. (www.newyorker.com)
The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar - A great number of Americans wish to optimize their diets—and their lives. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 21st - “Great Scott! The past is no longer distinguishable from the future.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Beforetimes,” by Margot Kahn - “And there were pieces / of love but it wasn’t love—it was the right / thing for the moment.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Madrigal,” by Spencer Reece - “Minnesota, I hardly know you anymore.” (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Crumb,” “When the City Stopped,” “Mỹ Documents,” and “dd’s Umbrella.” (www.newyorker.com)
Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero? - The series’ most exhilarating episode yet ended with the brutal murder of a beloved character. Where does the show go from here? (www.newyorker.com)
“Tortoiseshell,” by Domenico Starnone - The most elaborate—and the most fragile—lie I’ve ever come up with is me. (www.newyorker.com)
Carrie Brownstein on Richard Avedon’s Portrait of Cat Power - The space between the singer and the photographer’s lens is slippery, inaccessible; you’re not sure you were even invited. (www.newyorker.com)
Domenico Starnone on Lies and Storytelling - The author discusses his story “Tortoiseshell.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak - At Danny & Coop’s, the actor and director partners with a Philadelphia restaurateur to bring that city’s beloved sandwich to New Yorkers. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession - Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical. (www.newyorker.com)
Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World - Cig Harvey’s “Emerald Drifters” is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies. (www.newyorker.com)
Mistaking Mary Magdalene - The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith. (www.newyorker.com)
Who Wants a Second Helping of “The Wedding Banquet”? - In Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 crowd-pleaser, two gay couples strike a bargain that turns both Faustian and farcical. (www.newyorker.com)
The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele - An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador. (www.newyorker.com)
201. 尼基-格拉瑟（Nikki Glaser）的人生巔峰--勝利並沒有讓這位喜劇演員頹廢，也沒有消除她的不安全感。"她說："這種不安全感從未消失過--那種沒有價值的感覺，或者被認為不如別人的感覺。
Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game - Triumph hasn’t spoiled the comedian, or settled her insecurities. “It just never goes away—that feeling of not being worthy, or being thought of as less than,” she says. (www.newyorker.com)
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE - Jill Lepore says that the SpaceX C.E.O., an avid sci-fi fan, misreads cautionary tales as instruction manuals—and that his obsessions will shape America’s future. (www.newyorker.com)
The Power and Stakes of #TeslaTakedown - An organizer in the grassroots protest effort discusses why she joined the movement, and describes protesters’ fears of government interference. (www.newyorker.com)
The Decline of Outside Magazine Is Also the End of a Vision of the Mountain West - After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself. A letter signed by its illustrious contributors says as much about a way of life as it does about the media industry. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 18th - “Too much for hiding eggs in a field?” (www.newyorker.com)
The Last Hospitals in Gaza - Doctors are delivering lifesaving care in a ravaged health-care system—and risking their own lives in the process. (www.newyorker.com)
“Invention” Probes the American Mind in the Post-Truth Era - In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and paranoia. (www.newyorker.com)
The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion - Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges on stage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Youssou N’Dour; and more. (www.newyorker.com)
This Easter, with the Pope Ailing, Will the Catholic Church Stand Up to Donald Trump? - Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may need to find new ways to sustain its commitments. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 17th - “Just wait till 2028 and things will go right back to how they were.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Sinners” Is a Virtuosic Fusion of Historical Realism and Horror - Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in nineteen-thirties Mississippi. (www.newyorker.com)
London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory - New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
War Movies: What Are They Good For? - “Warfare” reconstructs an ill-fated 2006 mission in Iraq from the memories of the Navy SEALs involved. Does this method bring us closer to the reality of combat? (www.newyorker.com)
China’s Plan to Fight Trump’s Trade War - A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power. (www.newyorker.com)
It’s the Economy, Idiom! - You are all magnetic and user-centric examples of how, when we benchmark blue-sky thinking, even in a pre-tax, low-hanging-fruit environment, we leverage actionable, best-of-breed streamlining, period. (www.newyorker.com)
Clare Carlisle and the Genre-Bender - The philosopher and biographer analyzes works of life-writing that straddle fact and fiction, and what makes them art. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 16th - “Today, the Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case of People v. Guy Who Will Ignore the Ruling.” (www.newyorker.com)
Recession Indicators Are Everywhere - Kyle Chayka writes about the various indicators, psychological and economic, of a potential recession. (www.newyorker.com)
I’m Really Dating Myself Here - My hair is parted to the side—it looks so nerdy parted in the middle! I know I’m still dating myself, but what do I care? At least the person I’m dating thinks I look hot. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump - Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Supreme Court Misunderstands Donald Trump - A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 15th - “Brace yourself—here come the C.P.A.s!” (www.newyorker.com)
What Do You Remember? - The more you explore your own past, the more you find there. (www.newyorker.com)
Just How Badly Does Donald Trump Want Access to Critical Minerals? - Nick Niarchos reports on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s attempts to use its vast mineral resources as leverage in foreign policy amid military threats. (www.newyorker.com)
The Plight of the Taxman - As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers. (www.newyorker.com)
Existential Kids - How did I get inside my body? (www.newyorker.com)
Will the Supreme Court Stop Donald Trump? - By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the deference typically shown to the executive branch. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 14th - “No need to worry about our retirement funds—have you seen what these Trader Joe’s tote bags are reselling for?” (www.newyorker.com)
“Midnight Nest,” by Arthur Sze - “Instead of parts / of a world, I carry worlds within this world.” (www.newyorker.com)
What Comes After D.E.I.? - Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framework known as pluralism. (www.newyorker.com)
Starved in Jail - Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? (www.newyorker.com)
R. Crumb Looks Back - The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own psychedelic skulls, placemat sketches, and muscly women. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Tariffs and the Price of Calm - The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope. (www.newyorker.com)
Does a Fetus Have Constitutional Rights? - After Dobbs, fetal personhood has become the anti-abortion movement’s new objective. (www.newyorker.com)
Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” - The chaos on Capitol Hill. (www.newyorker.com)
Kurt Weill Kept Reinventing Himself - Fresh New York stagings of “The Threepenny Opera” and “Love Life” show off the composer’s daring and range. (www.newyorker.com)
David Byrne Takes the Stairs - The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a glamorous blob—on the stairwell walls. (www.newyorker.com)
The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished - Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her reputation. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “The Maverick’s Museum,” “The Franklin Stove,” “The Dream Hotel,” and “Hunchback.” (www.newyorker.com)
After Forty Years, Phish Isn’t Seeking Resolution - People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor. (www.newyorker.com)
“Fireflies,” by Maya C. Popa - “The new air is empty, and who knew / we’d miss even what afflicted us?” (www.newyorker.com)
How to Survive the A.I. Revolution - The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s piece about the near-universality of declining birthrates. (www.newyorker.com)
Bagels, Ranked - Jalapeño and Cheddar: This is not a bagel. This is what you order to signal to the guy at the counter that you need him to call a cop. (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Levin on How to Exacerbate Trauma - The author on his story “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” by Adam Levin. - “Terminator 2” was a good choice. Throughout the whole movie I forgot about the groping. (www.newyorker.com)
Jeff Bridges Is Digging It - The actor and musician discusses how to “let it do you,” why almost dying was a gift, and his new album, “Slow Magic.” (www.newyorker.com)
Steve Martin on Marshall Brickman’s “Who’s Who in the Cast” - From Brickman, I learned that satire can be friendly, even cheerful, and that anything was a suitable target. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Gjelina Imports the Fantasy of L.A. - The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration. (www.newyorker.com)
Michael Gandolfini Worries About Brawn and Bravado - To prepare for his role on the TV show “Daredevil: Born Again,” the son of Tony Soprano gave Staten Island a try. (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie” - The author reads his story from the April 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
The Miraculous Fate of a Photographer of Miracles - Kate Friend set out to make a series about the places where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared. Her pilgrimage took a curious turn. (www.newyorker.com)
Living Through the Market Crash? Ask a Centenarian - Charlie Duncan, a hundred-and-five-year-old Georgia resident, recalls the mood in 1929. (www.newyorker.com)
What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week - The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market - “His tolerance for chaos is perhaps going to end up running up against China’s tolerance for pain,” the staff writer Evan Osnos says. (www.newyorker.com)
So You Want to Be a Dissident? - A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul? - On their new show, “Paul American,” the controversial influencers try to show a softer side. (www.newyorker.com)
Ryan Coogler on “Sinners” - The director talks with the staff writer Jelani Cobb about his influences and mentors, and how he made a vampire story “uniquely personal.” (www.newyorker.com)
Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump? - The contributor Ruth Marcus looks at federal judges’ resistance to executive orders—and whether the Supreme Court will ultimately allow the President to remake the government in his image. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 11 - “Sure, the superintelligence has its flaws. But think about how much the technology will improve even just a year from now.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism - What’s most striking about the show, now in its final season, is not its hysteria but its lack of conviction. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests - In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown. (www.newyorker.com)
The Pop Heartthrob Nick Jonas on Broadway - Also: Whitney White in “Macbeth in Stride,” Ani DiFranco’s dramatic return, Takeshi Kitano’s inventive new film, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
264. "裹屍布》是一個棺材案例，也是對技術狂熱的令人不安的想象 - 在大衛-柯南伯格這部被稱為其最個人化作品的電影中，文森特-卡索扮演了一位悲痛欲絕的丈夫，他想出了一種新穎的方法，讓自己永不放手。
“The Shrouds” Is a Casket Case—and an Unsettling Vision of Techno-Paranoia - In David Cronenberg’s film, billed as his most personal work, Vincent Cassel plays a grieving husband who has devised a novel way of never letting go. (www.newyorker.com)
Elizabeth Warren Is Trying to Stop “The Dumbest Financial Crisis Ever” - The Massachusetts Democrat argues that Trumponomics is wrecking the American economy. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Do-Over Presidency - It’s not just tariffs—from ending low-pressure showerheads to pulling troops out of Europe, the President’s second-term obsession is pushing through the unfinished business of his first. (www.newyorker.com)
The Conservative Legal Advocates Working to Kill Trump’s Tariffs - The New Civil Liberties Alliance is mounting a constitutional challenge to one of the biggest policy questions of our time. Will others follow? (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker Wins Three National Magazine Awards - As it celebrates its hundredth anniversary, the magazine receives the most honors of any eligible publication, for criticism, photography, and documentary film. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 10th - “It was at this point, gentlemen, that the President decided it was his plan all along to reverse course.” (www.newyorker.com)
Are You There, Zeus? It’s Me, Hermes - I think the other gods see me as your assistant, rather than as an equal. And you know how they can be brats! (www.newyorker.com)
“The Studio” Pokes Fun at Hollywood’s Existential Struggle - The new Apple TV show follows a bumbling studio executive who’s caught between making great movies and making marketable ones. The industry itself faces a similar challenge. (www.newyorker.com)
Regrets, the YouTube Moms Have a Few - The parents who exploit their kids for clicks in Netflix’s “Bad Influence” want you to think they couldn’t have known better. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook - The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both. (www.newyorker.com)
Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism - The former Ohio senator thinks the President’s tariff platform, though disastrous, appeals to an increasingly desperate working class. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Donald Go Down with the Ship? - Dancing on the deck of the Titanic. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump and the Favoritism Grift - For this President, all policy is personal. (www.newyorker.com)
Merve Emre Ventures Into the Age Gap - The scholar and literary critic examines a relationship dynamic that has inspired some of the most significant, and provocative, novels of the past three centuries. (www.newyorker.com)
TikTok and the Retreat from Technological Globalization - Global technology companies are becoming table stakes in the struggle to establish whatever new world order is emerging. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 9th - “Of all the times not to be extinct.” (www.newyorker.com)
Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick? - Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote herself. (www.newyorker.com)
What Do Adopted Children Owe Their Birth Parents? - In “Filho,” the filmmaker Tomas Ponsteen, who was adopted from Brazil, grapples with whether or not to search for his biological mother. (www.newyorker.com)
“A Minecraft Movie” Is a Tale of Two Cinematic Universes - Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film’s stream of Minecraft in-jokes—but fans of the director Jared Hess may find something else to excavate. (www.newyorker.com)
What Pauline Kael Failed to See About Young Film Lovers - The first piece Kael wrote for The New Yorker, “Movies on Television,” suggests why she remains a vexing influence in cinema more than a half century later. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 8th - Tariffs, tariffs, go away. (www.newyorker.com)
“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated” - Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it. (www.newyorker.com)
An A.I.-Generated Article on How to Tell If the Article You’re Reading Is A.I.-Generated - If artificial intelligence wrote it, redundancies won’t be there. I repeat, if artificial intelligence wrote it, redundancies won’t be there. (www.newyorker.com)
The Other Side of Signalgate - The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center - Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years? (www.newyorker.com)
Will A.I. Save the News? - Artificial intelligence could hollow out the media business—but it also has the power to enhance journalism. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning - Inkoo Kang reviews the FX/Hulu miniseries “Dying for Sex,” starring Michelle Williams as a woman seeking erotic fulfillment amid a terminal cancer diagnosis. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 7th - Which is it? (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market - The President’s tariff policy isn’t strategic protectionism; it’s economic self-harm. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dire Wolf Is Back - Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. Is the woolly mammoth next? (www.newyorker.com)
Seth Rogen Has Some Notes - Over a power lunch with some of his castmates from “The Studio,” the actor considers the job description of a studio head: must love movies but be willing to ruin them. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Rebecca Mead’s review of menopause literature, Michael Cunningham’s piece about Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain,” and Namwali Serpell’s article about the New Literalism plaguing today’s biggest movies. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “The Crossing,” “Powers of Reading,” “Dream State,” and “Tilt.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Brazilian Judge Taking On the Digital Far Right - Alexandre de Moraes’s efforts to fight extremism online have pitted him against Jair Bolsonaro, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Another Round with Peter Wolf - In a corner of McSorley’s, the J. Geils Band survivor unspools some tales: sharing pants with Bob Dylan, being David Lynch’s art-school roommate, and putting away a record thirty-seven mugs of beer. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Handy Road Map to Authoritarianism - Turn right at Toxic Masculinity and continue straight through Weakening Checks and Balances. (www.newyorker.com)
Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They? - Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion. (www.newyorker.com)