02:23 What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats - The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment. (www.newyorker.com)
00:00 Claudia Rankine Plays Dead - In “Triage,” the writer explores how we should respond—or, perhaps, not respond—to a world in crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
08-12 What to Read After “Lonesome Dove” - The Larry McMurtry novel is back in rotation; we asked our critics what book to pick up next. (www.newyorker.com)
08-12 Perez Hilton and Our Live-Streaming Nightmare - There is nothing that speaks more to our perma-tabloid social environment than the advent of the live stream, which has allowed ordinary people to become both the celebrity and the paparazzi of their own lives. (www.newyorker.com)
08-12 America!: Newly Declassified Secrets from the C.I.A.’s Ice-Cream Archives - Orange-creamsicle lovers and a cult of soft-serve radicals, revealed. (www.newyorker.com)
08-12 What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North - Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun. (www.newyorker.com)
08-11 An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy - Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views. (www.newyorker.com)
08-11 Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film? - A young auto racer brings speed and passion to small-town life in an unsung American auteur’s latest work. (www.newyorker.com)
08-11 Minnesota Primary Map - The Democratic race for the Senate nomination offers another contest between the Party’s establishment and progressive wings. (www.newyorker.com)
08-11 If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React? - The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise. (www.newyorker.com)
08-11 Instructions for Pet-Sitting My Dog, Cerberus - It’s just an old habit for him to block the front door. If he’s stationed there, do not order delivery. (www.newyorker.com)
08-11 South Carolina Primary-Election Map: Live Results - A special election to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July. (www.newyorker.com)
08-11 Wisconsin Primary-Election Map: Live Results - Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, is the presumptive front-runner in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 Inside Russia’s New Gulag - Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 Are You a Human? - From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 The Delusions of John Roberts - The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 “Cereus,” by Henri Cole - “After the box wine, the chicken thighs, and Nancy’s spice cake, / we lounged around talking of poetry, manure, and flowers.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 Eat the Lotus! - Times editors realized that, unless emergency procedures were initiated, the next day’s edition would contain not a single article about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”! (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 The Great Delegalization - More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 The World’s Borough Gets a New Slogan - In 2007, local artists painted a mural decreeing “Queens is the future.” Now the tagline is proudly displayed on welcome signs—right above the name of Astoria’s own Zohran Mamdani. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 I Spy with My Little Eye . . . a Spy - Atlanta has more street cameras per capita than anywhere outside of China. On a walking tour of the city, can anti-surveillance vigilantes spot—and dodge—them all? (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 Pope.L’s Pleasing Refusal to Be Interpreted - Whether crawling through New York in a suit or painting with peanut butter, the artist remained loyal to his own impish curiosity. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble? - The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 The Many Masks of Dan Hoyle - The actor performs real people’s stories onstage—from loyal Trump voters to superfans of the band Phish. Now he’s bringing his “journalistic theatre” back to Joe’s Pub. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 Hannah Einbinder’s Tricks and Treats - At a year-round Halloween store, the “Hacks” actress dishes on her new film, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” in which she couples up with Gillian Anderson and is chased by a psycho killer. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 “Horses,” by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated, from the Persian, by Siavash Saadlou) - “Whatever part of Tehran / I place a hand on, it is aching.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It? - Cold War policymakers pushed for a unified Continent. Their MAGA successors are trying to undo all that. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 Hannah Arendt’s American Education - The writer’s political ideal—citizens appearing before one another as equals, engaging in dialogue and debate—had a counterpart in her spirited gatherings on the Upper West Side. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 The Doulas Who Help Us Die - In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Melanie Thernstrom’s profile of the gynecologist Sally Greenwald, Nikhil Krishnan’s review of “How to Kill a Language,” by Sophia Smith Galer, and Louis Menand’s piece about Andres Serrano’s photograph “Piss Christ” and America’s culture wars. (www.newyorker.com)
08-10 The Pyrrhic Victories of “House of the Dragon” - Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel ends with yet more bloodshed—and less of the charm that’s made Westeros worth visiting. (www.newyorker.com)
08-09 A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue - As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-09 How Caro Claire Burke Wrote the Biggest Book of the Year - The début novelist behind “Yesteryear” on researching trad wives, wading into the discourse, and Anne Hathaway’s plans to adapt her best-seller for the screen. (www.newyorker.com)
08-09 A Short Song for a Long and Precious Season - Jason Isbell’s “Something to Love” is the song of summers past and summers to come. (www.newyorker.com)
08-09 “The Blight,” by Emma Cline - You weighed the future anger of others against the present trouble, and then you pretty much said, O.K. Kick the can down the road. (www.newyorker.com)
08-08 Ariana Grande and the Disappointment of Diagnosis - The pop star’s appearance has prompted fans to speculate that she’s suffering from an eating disorder. How should we talk about famous women’s bodies? (www.newyorker.com)
08-08 My Birthright - When you immigrate, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why I can’t stop writing about where I’m from? (www.newyorker.com)
08-08 Andrew Weissmann Thinks Donald Trump Can Be Held to Account - The President believes he’s above the law. A former federal prosecutor disagrees. (www.newyorker.com)
08-08 The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General - A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse. (www.newyorker.com)
08-08 How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains - Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-08 Sam Smith on Their New Album, “Hazel Eyes” - The Grammy-winning singer talks about “Hazel Eyes,” which marks a departure for them: these love songs are very much requited. (www.newyorker.com)
08-08 “Tony,” “Late Fame,” and the Rocky Road to Literary Stardom - The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies. (www.newyorker.com)
08-07 Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured? - For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause. (www.newyorker.com)
08-07 Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now? - How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub. (www.newyorker.com)
08-07 The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose - Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
08-06 The Godmother of the “Conspiracy Mom” - Sixty years ago, a J.F.K.-assassination buff in Oklahoma provided a preview of a contemporary archetype. (www.newyorker.com)
08-06 “Tributaries,” by Kyle Edwards - He heard her crying out in the dark. He couldn’t be sure if it was in sadness or joy or both. (www.newyorker.com)
08-06 G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost - A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are. (www.newyorker.com)
08-06 Critics’ Cult Classics: Hanif Abdurraqib on Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday Night” - The 1997 album marked a crossroads for hip-hop, as the genre was being torn between elaborate mythmaking and a kind of true crime. (www.newyorker.com)
08-06 A Mostly True History of Marco Rubio - No one knows Marco Rubio’s age. It’s part of his mystery. So is his height. Look it up. No one knows. (www.newyorker.com)
08-06 Max Miller’s Victim Mentality - The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible. (www.newyorker.com)
08-05 Ryan Murphy’s Sanded-Down Version of “The Shards” - The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material. (www.newyorker.com)
08-05 The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed - The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment. (www.newyorker.com)
08-05 Stella Lefty and the Rise of Nepo-Baby Musicians and “Industry Plants” - There’s a story we tell ourselves on social media any time a child of money or fame vaults into public life. (www.newyorker.com)
08-05 What Makes an Adaptation Good? - The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema. (www.newyorker.com)
08-05 How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era - This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir? (www.newyorker.com)
08-05 Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves - Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand. (www.newyorker.com)
08-04 Michigan Primary-Election Map: Live Results - A closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party. (www.newyorker.com)
08-04 What My Life Would Be Like If All of Those Spam Texts Were Legit - I’d have dozens of packages shipped to me from USPSS, USP, and FidEx that only require my signature to obtain. (www.newyorker.com)
08-04 What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi? - A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate? - The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 Why Donald Trump Talks So Much About Foreign Election Interference - The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 Kevin Warsh Is Facing More Than a Communication Problem - The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 “I Who Have Never Known Men” and “We Were Forbidden,” Reviewed - Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything - The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 Robb Moss Is Still Going with the Flow - The documentarian returns to the Grand Canyon for “The Bend in the River,” the third film in his unofficial series on friendship, nature, and the passage of time. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again - At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 Shouts & Murmurs by Larry Doyle: Freelance Headlines Stupid Onion Editor Rejected - Married Man Still Able to Drink at Collegiate Level; Sloppy Eater Dog’s New Best Friend; and more. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 Battle of the Dans - Dan J. Sullivan and Dan S. Sullivan are both vying for a Senate seat in Alaska. Who will take the Last Frontier? (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 The Future, Made in China - Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 Eric Wareheim, Plant Dad - The “Master of None” actor and half of the duo Tim and Eric turned his post-divorce hobby—collecting Dr. Seussian trees and shrubs—into a hipster business, with Martha Stewart and Kelly Wearstler as clients. (www.newyorker.com)
08-03 The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice - Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again. (www.newyorker.com)
08-02 “The Promise,” by Rachel Yoder - You couldn’t be certain, in the night, what sort of world the doors might open onto, were you to turn the knob. (www.newyorker.com)
08-02 When “Get Lucky” Took Me Back to the Years of Disco - The 2013 Daft Punk track was uncannily evocative of the late nineteen-seventies, when I was young and dancing was my creed. (www.newyorker.com)
08-02 Antonio Banderas’s Acts of Faith - The actor on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 What If We Can Never Trust A.I.? - Like humans, the technology will never be perfect. The question is what imperfections we’re willing to tolerate. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 Forget Albums—Pop Stars Measure Their Careers in Eras Now - Since the earthshaking success of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, artists from the Weeknd to Ariana Grande have tried to imbue their live shows with a sense of history. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 The Flawless Surface of Yves Saint Laurent - A new exhibition at the International Center of Photography presents the designer precisely as he wanted to be seen. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 The Failures of the Fauci Hearing - Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 Why Is Europe Burning? - “We put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker, and the result is massive fires that far exceed the extinguishing capacity of firefighting teams,” a Spanish firefighter said. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 Obsession-Worthy Stories: A Washington Summer Roundtable - The co-hosts compare notes on the most captivating political dramas of the summer, from Fauci’s Senate hearing to China’s rise on the international stage. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories - Both as a young busker and as a famous singer-songwriter, Hansard understood how to make people stop and listen and feel one single thing. (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party - The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.” (www.newyorker.com)
08-01 The Democratic Socialist Running for Mayor of Los Angeles - The city-council member Nithya Raman was an ally of Karen Bass, but Raman launched a challenge against her to bring more “urgency” to fighting the city’s housing crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
07-31 The Outlandish Case Against James Comey - The prosecution’s central claim “would be laughable,” one former federal judge noted, if it weren’t intended “to deprive a man of his liberty.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-31 Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play - Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
07-31 In “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” Desire and Terror Meet - Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, which follows a celebrated young filmmaker tapped to reboot an old horror franchise, is a cinematic manifesto that examines how art can inspire both love and fear. (www.newyorker.com)
07-31 How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars - The oak processionary caterpillar, which is spreading as Europe warms, fills the air with microscopic hairs that inflict excruciating rashes. (www.newyorker.com)
07-31 “The Samurai and the Prisoner” Fits a War Epic Into an Elegant Puzzle Box - In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s historical drama, a series of puzzling crimes at a besieged fortress yields even more confounding questions about faith, war, and leadership. (www.newyorker.com)
07-31 The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain - Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the raw material that every major A.I. chatbot was trained on. (www.newyorker.com)
07-31 Inside OpenAI’s Hack of Hugging Face - Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
07-30 How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America - The agency was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its journalists being paid to stay home, it’s delivering a very different message. (www.newyorker.com)
07-30 Memorandum from the National Review Committee for National Day Designations - The Committee continues to recognize National Pizza Day, but denies the petition for a distinct New York-Style Pizza Day. (www.newyorker.com)
07-30 “Furious” Is a Crime Drama for a Post-Epstein World - Elizabeth Meriwether’s new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny. (www.newyorker.com)
07-30 Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November? - Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former. (www.newyorker.com)
07-30 The Irony and the Ecstasy of Colson Whitehead - The author of “Cool Machine” has become one of our most important writers without ever seeming to stretch for importance. (www.newyorker.com)
07-30 The Woman Who Took On the N.R.A. After Two Gun Suicides - A devastating personal story reveals why firearm suicide has remained a blind spot in America’s gun debate. (www.newyorker.com)
07-30 Richard Blanco Reads Elizabeth Bishop - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-29 Fairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World - The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him. (www.newyorker.com)
07-29 The Department of Labored Content - Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok, but the White House is about to learn that controlling the platform isn’t the same as being good at it. (www.newyorker.com)
07-29 Dear Pepper: How to Have Some of It All? - Liana Finck writes a humorous advice column about the choices a couple faces after having their first born. (www.newyorker.com)
07-29 The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie” - The new adaptation, though visually exquisite, swaps the story’s much-loved comfort for dutiful tedium. (www.newyorker.com)
07-29 Charli XCX and the Strokes Are (Sort of) Making Rock Music - Both artists have released new albums—“Music, Fashion, Film” and “Reality Awaits”—that seesaw between raw sincerity and punkish insouciance. (www.newyorker.com)
07-28 The Kids Are Kind of Alright - Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on? (www.newyorker.com)
07-28 Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race - The United States risks becoming a theme park of internal combustion, as the rest of the world moves on. (www.newyorker.com)
07-28 Bari Weiss Is On It - Our first goal, as with “60 Minutes,” is balance. Lake Mead has been on the north side of the Hoover Dam for too long. When we’re finished, it will be on the south side, too. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 How Bots Took Over Our Lives - During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time. Now, just a decade later, it feels like they’re everywhere. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 The Myth of the Food Desert - Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem? (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 Exit Memo - Following a review, I have decided to dissolve our relationship. This decision reflects a strategic realignment of my emotional resources and should not be interpreted as a comment on your over-all market value. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect - The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 “Tick Check,” by Michael Dickman - “A living freckle / That knows your name and knows / That it is spring and feels a kind of imaginary privacy.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 What Would It Mean to See a New Color? - Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 Fab Morvan Takes Back His Voice - Decades after Milli Vanilli’s lip-synching scandal, the singer is still reclaiming his legacy—with a documentary, an EP, and an almost-performance at Trump’s state fair. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 Take Me Out to the Brainball Game - Hundreds of neurosurgeons gathered in Central Park for inter-hospital softball. Who took home the skull-shaped trophy? (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 Get Yer Statue of Liberty Here! - The Hamptons Fine Art Fair recently exhibited a ten-foot Lady Liberty. Noble, solemn, and—wait, how much? (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow - The “Ice Age” actor steals Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” as a loyal swineherd to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. Back in New York, he bought the director a two-thousand-year-old thank-you gift. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief - What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation. (www.newyorker.com)
07-27 How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger - Gadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi. (www.newyorker.com)
07-26 Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now? - It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging? (www.newyorker.com)
07-26 Restaurant Review: Somssi - Somssi, from a veteran of the restaurant group behind Atomix, knows how to reel you in without trying too hard. (www.newyorker.com)
07-26 “Padam Padam” Separates the Party People from the Homebodies - Kylie Minogue’s 2023 hit belongs to a category of solid, danceable pop music that barely penetrates the eardrums of self-professed thirtysomething old folks. (www.newyorker.com)
07-26 Gregg Araki Thinks It’s Good to Get Your Heart Broken - The director of “I Want Your Sex” discusses whether Gen Z is having enough of it, casting Charli XCX and Johnny Knoxville, and the importance of “weird, scary, confusing experiences.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-25 The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future - In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future? (www.newyorker.com)
07-25 Whoopi Goldberg Was and Always Will Be the Whole Show - Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses. (www.newyorker.com)
07-25 One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention - In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down. (www.newyorker.com)
07-25 A Democrat and a Republican in Congress on the Blowback from Mass Detention - The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer speaks with two lawmakers in Congress about the immigration crackdown: the Democrat Jason Crow, of Colorado, and the Republican Maria Salazar, of Florida. (www.newyorker.com)
07-24 The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity - How much of the former Senate candidate’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war? (www.newyorker.com)
07-24 The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era - Kent Nishimura’s photographs capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on. (www.newyorker.com)
07-24 Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island - Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and friends drop in on Brooklyn, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
07-24 The Kinky Comedy of “I Want Your Sex” - In Gregg Araki’s film, a B.D.S.M. workplace relationship opens up a cross-generational debate about carnal mores. (www.newyorker.com)
07-24 Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea - The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 The Golden Age of the American Idiot - A new game show features celebrities competing for the title of “Nation’s Dumbest.” How did stupidity become a badge of honor? (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 Jane Wickline Is Down to Clown in “Dukes” - The “S.N.L.” cast member partners with Liva Pierce in a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 Inside an Immigration Arrest That Sparked a Neighborhood Protest - In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust - In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North County. He’s been in jail upstate ever since. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 Marco Rubio Takes Aim at Globalists and the Left - Primary among the Secretary of State’s targets is the International Criminal Court. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 “No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency - Health-care workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are fighting the third-largest outbreak in history—and trying not to get infected themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 “The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory,” Reviewed - French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 “Lost Chapters” Weaves Literary Mysteries Into Family Bonds - The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature, starring her own relatives in a fictional drama, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 “The Window,” by Helen Phillips - Yes, pulling the shade was my nightly task, and she’d never think to do it, but already I was half an hour away from home. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 What Biden Officials Wish They Had Done Differently in Gaza - New interviews with former Biden officials reveal early signals that Israel wasn’t prioritizing civilian lives in Gaza. So why was the Administration so reluctant to use its influence? (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 There’s Nothing Provincial About This Three-Volume Icelandic Saga - Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s “Trilogy About the Boy” is set in the remote Westfjords but its ambition is universal. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 Maine’s Mad Scramble to Replace Graham Platner - The state’s Democratic primary was dominated by an unlikely left-wing insurgent—it became a three-week sprint for Party insiders to select the next best thing. (www.newyorker.com)
07-23 Aparna Nancherla and Josh Gondelman Enter the Cartoon Caption Contest - The comedians try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. (www.newyorker.com)
07-22 A Colson Whitehead Starter Pack - The final book in the author’s Harlem Trilogy is out now; read our recommendations from his œuvre. (www.newyorker.com)
07-22 Christopher Nolan’s Plot to Change the Way We Watch Movies - We used to worry about people going to the cinema at all; now film lovers are making pilgrimages to one of the twenty-five theatres in the country equipped to project “The Odyssey” in its intended format: IMAX 70-mm. (www.newyorker.com)
07-22 Welcome to the Age of Broke TV - Soulless moguls and wealth porn are out. Amid a real-life economic downturn, the greatest shows of 2026—from “Beef” to “The Comeback”—are all about scraping by. (www.newyorker.com)
07-22 The New Yorker Festival Offers a First Look at Its 2026 Lineup - Early tickets are now on sale, with events taking place October 23rd through 25th and featuring leading figures from the worlds of literature, entertainment, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
07-22 Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs - His new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a screen. (www.newyorker.com)
07-22 The End of the Aqueduct Racetrack - The closure of the scrappy New York landmark is just one of the signs that U.S. horse racing is running out of track. (www.newyorker.com)
07-21 A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids - For two decades, Emily Shur, who shot for glossy magazines in the early two-thousands, has been sitting on a trove of images from a bygone era of fame. (www.newyorker.com)
07-21 Arizona Gubernatorial-Primary Map: Live Results - The G.O.P. is picking a nominee to challenge the state’s Democratic incumbent governor, Katie Hobbs, and a Republican congressional race is upended by allegations of sexual impropriety. (www.newyorker.com)
07-21 Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love - The World Cup halftime show, which also featured Justin Bieber, BTS, and Shakira, was premised on the idea that music—and celebrity—can serve as a cross-cultural panacea. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 David Rothenberg Arrives at the Punch Line - The ninety-two-year-old theatre producer and prison activist stopped by 54 Below to make a career pivot—standup comedy, dishing on Charles Laughton and Peggy Lee. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 The Man Who Green-Lighted Trump’s Ballroom - Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., a Presidential sidekick from Atlanta and a triumphal-arch enthusiast, is just back from Russia, where he hung out with Putin and Steven Seagal. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 María Corina Machado’s Opposition in Exile - The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran - Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail - In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die - When cultural preservationists cast every extinction as murder, they can ignore speakers’ decisions—and the costs of keeping a fading tongue alive. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 The Divine Red-Carpet Looks of “The Odyssey” Press Tour - Zendaya, with the help of the unerring instincts of her stylist Law Roach, led the way as she and her castmates put on a goddess-themed celebration of high fashion. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 Can Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism Save the U.K.’s Center Left? - With a populist touch, and a focus on affordability and raising up left-behind communities, Britain’s new Prime Minister has drawn comparisons to Zohran Mamdani. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 Il Paradiso Italiano di Julian Schnabel - At his pink palazzo, in the West Village, the artist packs up paintings for a Pace exhibit and discusses his new movie, about Dante—produced by, and guest-starring, Martin Scorsese. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 Florentina Holzinger’s Naked Ambition - The artist’s extreme use of the body has caused viewers to puke, faint, and leave her shows. At the Venice Biennale, though, her vision has made her a star. (www.newyorker.com)
07-20 I Give My Kid the Talk - Don’t believe what the other kids have to say; Dad is the one to tell you about the importance of Stephen Sondheim. (www.newyorker.com)
07-19 How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope - The genre extolls the virtue of staying close to your home town. “Five O’Clock Somewhere” was part of a wave of hits that envisioned an escape to the seaside. (www.newyorker.com)
07-19 Eric Bogosian’s Killer Gig - The actor plays a journalist in AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire.” In the story’s latest installment, his beat has become a lot bloodier. (www.newyorker.com)
07-19 “Testing,” by Min Jin Lee - In less than twenty-four hours, he would take the Suneung again, and, for the past three years, he had done little but sleep, eat, and study for this exam. (www.newyorker.com)
07-19 Restaurant Review: Sanwits - Sanwits, in the old Rowdy Rooster flagship spot, serves a glorious mashup of American sandwich styles and frank Filipino flavors. (www.newyorker.com)
07-18 Trump’s War on Journalists - The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him. (www.newyorker.com)
07-18 The Voice of Google - I cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality. Then I lost faith in what the company was selling. (www.newyorker.com)
07-18 Donald Trump Can’t Quit the 2020 Election - As Republicans confront a challenging midterm environment, the President can’t stop talking about an election he lost. (www.newyorker.com)
07-18 Trump’s Election-Fraud Bait and Switch - The President promised “really, really big news” before his prime-time speech. What he delivered—padded by heavily redacted declassified documents—felt more like Pam Bondi’s bogus Epstein binders than any true revelation. (www.newyorker.com)
07-18 Pick Three: Richard Brody on “The Odyssey” and Other Summer Films - The film critic discusses three notable movies of this summer: Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster “The Odyssey,” the quirky comedy “I Love Boosters,” and the personal documentary “Remake.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-18 Rahm Emanuel Says Israel’s Path Is “Not Sustainable Politically” - A likely Democratic Presidential candidate says the U.S. must end unconditional support for Israel. Emanuel explains his proposal for Middle East peace, and his position on trans rights. (www.newyorker.com)
07-17 Donald Trump’s Ad-Lib Strategy on Iran - The President promised to end what had been a quarter century of forever wars in the Middle East. Now the U.S. is mired in an intractable conflict of his own making. (www.newyorker.com)
07-17 How Mudlarking Became London’s Hottest Hobby - Searching for ancient objects in the Thames used to be a niche pastime. Then came Instagram, permits, and a desperate desire for connection with the past. (www.newyorker.com)
07-17 Christopher Nolan Has Always Been Making “The Odyssey” - In a starry, stirring adaptation of Homer’s epic, the director’s signature realism grounds, without dispelling, the drama’s emotional and mythological power. (www.newyorker.com)
07-17 Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art - Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 The A.I. Gender Gap Meets the Parenting Gender Gap - Women use A.I. less than men and do more of the cognitive work at home. The A.I. “family assistant” promises to bridge both divides. (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 An Idea for Democrats to Keep It Together in 2028 - What if a candidate picked a running mate from another faction of the Party right away, and they ran on a unified vision? (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 I Won’t Cry for You, Argentina - The team is headed back to the World Cup final, but one lifelong fan has fallen out of love. (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 Who Owns the Odyssey? - The director Christopher Nolan has been accused of “woke-ifying” Homer’s epic. But finding new resonance in ancient texts is part of the art of translation itself. (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 The Odyssey 3: IMAXimum Impact - Speak now, muse, of the ministrations of Damon, friend of Affleck and foe of Kimmel, who bravely grew out his beard for a year. (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 Can California Actually Make Billionaires Pay? - The architect behind a new initiative saw no path to passing a wealth tax through the legislature. Instead, he’s taking it to California voters, sparking an expensive political fight. (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 How Mary Kay Built an Empire Out of Other Women’s Dreams - The founder of the global cosmetics empire feminized the sale of cure-all lotions and potions—and gave the girlboss her first shot of good press. (www.newyorker.com)
07-16 Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Leaves the Gods in the Outtakes - The director’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms. (www.newyorker.com)
07-15 Graham Platner’s Very Online Undoing - He rose to prominence partly through selfie videos that allowed him to provide confessional-style, improvisational-seeming direct addresses to his base—and he ended his campaign with one, too. (www.newyorker.com)
07-15 How Ukraine Brought the War to Russia - Long-range drone and missile strikes on Russian soil have shifted the balance of the conflict—will they be enough to end it? (www.newyorker.com)
07-14 An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre - Shiva Naipaul’s newly reissued book of reportage, “Journey to Nowhere,” from 1980, is far less interested in the trope of the charismatic cult leader than in the mechanisms of belief. (www.newyorker.com)
07-14 V.A.R. and the Rise of Our New Tech Overlords - The World Cup replay system has fostered a very contemporary kind of paranoia about who controls the machines. (www.newyorker.com)
07-14 How to Write When You’re Feeling Stuck - If you focus on writing a thousand words a day, you won’t feel overwhelmed by the fact that you’ve been trapped in a submarine for the past year and a half. (www.newyorker.com)
07-14 Democratic Schadenfreude and the Latino Vote - Trump’s once strong approval rating among Latinos has collapsed, but Democrats can’t count on their support. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 Donald Trump’s Needless War with Iran Is His Biggest Economic Blunder - As the midterm elections approach, gas prices have started to rise again, and the President’s poll ratings are in the cellar. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 Meet the Minion-Maker - Off the release of “Minions & Monsters,” the director Pierre Coffin reflects on creating the language of Minionese, partly inspired by Indian food. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 Madonna Wants to Take You There - The pop star launched her new album, “Confessions II,” at a party in London, complete with watery drinks and nostalgic hits. Her co-host for the evening? Grindr. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 New York Is a Pickle Kind of Town - The Dutch authors of a new book, “The Pickled City: The Story of New York Pickles,” stop by the brined-delicacy staple Russ & Daughters. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 The Met Turns Orientalism Inside Out - In a new show, exotic colonial fantasies are set beside paintings that depict the so-called East from within. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Melanie Thernstrom’s piece about a concierge women’s-health doctor, Burkhard Bilger’s piece about the lone-star tick, and Adeline Goss’s piece about the potential connections between frontotemporal dementia and criminality. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 Voting Rights, Updated - To run for office in New York, you must play pickleball with the guy they call Zohran the Man and be able to wear a yarmulke, a crucifix, and a rainbow Pride wig simultaneously. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 Franz Wright’s Final Poems, Reviewed - In his final days, Franz Wright tapped into a rich vein of material, recording dark, beautiful, and self-deprecating poems on tape and in scribbles all over his apartment. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 The Lost Art of the Bromance - New books, articles, and shows lament a crisis of connection among American men. But the picture of friendship that emerges can feel romanticized and brittle. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center - On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb - The fight over Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the National Endowment for the Arts became a preview of the politics that followed. (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 “Review to Remember,” by Terrance Hayes - “You argued whether one had to lie to dream, / the tensions between charm & narcissism, / & the existence of Time with everyone younger than you.” (www.newyorker.com)
07-13 The Remaking of Lindsey Graham - Once a harsh critic of Donald Trump, the South Carolina senator became one of the President’s most dependable allies—a sign of what it takes to remain influential in today’s Republican Party. (www.newyorker.com)
07-12 An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like - Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda. (www.newyorker.com)
07-12 “Gatekeeping,” by Bryan Washington - My brother answered the phone. He told me that there’d been an accident but not to panic. (www.newyorker.com)
07-12 The Summer I Surrendered to Wilson Phillips - In 1990, three daughters of rock royalty—nepo babies before the term was invented—released “Hold On,” a song so wholesome and unguarded that it could disarm even the angstiest teen. (www.newyorker.com)
07-12 Restaurant Review: Zoli - Zoli, which now anchors the sprawling East Williamsburg art space Amant, earns its experimental flourishes by delivering pleasure at every turn. (www.newyorker.com)
07-12 The Art of Ana Mendieta Comes Into Focus at the Tate Modern - Four decades after her death, her bold innovations are finally coming into focus. (www.newyorker.com)
07-11 The Great American State Flop - Was Donald Trump’s fair for the country’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth more funeral than party? Swing by the Washington, D.C., booth to find out. (www.newyorker.com)
07-11 Can Office-to-Residential Conversions Survive the Pfizer-Building Crisis? - The thirty-seven-story tower in midtown was stabilized, after almost falling over earlier this week. Now Nathan Berman, the real-estate developer behind its renovation, will have to deal with the fallout. (www.newyorker.com)
07-11 Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare - As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying. (www.newyorker.com)
07-11 The Platner Implosion, and What It Means for Democrats - With the Maine nominee’s Senate campaign in shambles, Democrats are scrambling to find candidates who can win in this year’s midterms—and in 2028. (www.newyorker.com)
07-11 How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts - Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and Elon Musk. (www.newyorker.com)
07-11 The World Cup, the Knicks, and LeBron James’s Fate: An All-Time Summer in Sports - The staff writer Louisa Thomas on the U.S. men’s national soccer team, the N.B.A. off-season, and Serena Williams. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 The Story of France vs. Morocco - The match began as a snooze, then became a romp. But the brilliance of the French team, and of its biggest star, Kylian Mbappé, shone through. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 Michigan Is the Next Big Test for the Democratic Party - The Senate primary race between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed reflects the Party’s growing ideological schism, but it’s also a contest of competing campaign styles. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 The Race to Be the First Democratic Primary State - How the debate over the first-in-the-nation primary became a battle over the future of the Democratic Party. (www.newyorker.com)
07-10 “Remake,” Reviewed: The Film Confronts a Father’s Grief and a Filmmaker’s Responsibility - The documentarian Ross McElwee’s new feature is an anguished reflection on the life and death of his son, Adrian, who was a frequent subject of his films. (www.newyorker.com)