The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane

The writer explains how she took up quilting to help her cope with terrible news, and the science behind why it works.

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving

“The Thanksgiving Play” is a comedy on an awkward subject, and a sendup of liberal good intentions. The staff writer Vinson Cunningham speak...

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the decline in public trust and questions about the Court’s ethics code, and how Ju...

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Donald and Elon Pull Strings

But who’s playing whom?

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 22nd

You in?

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

“The Franchise” Gives Hollywood the “Veep” Treatment

Satirizing the superhero-blockbuster business, HBO’s new comedy finds mostly easy targets, but eventually something more.

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

The Pain Creating a New Coalition for Trump

Despair permeates white, Black, and Latino working-class life. Democrats will have to find a new way to speak to it.

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Donald Trump’s Administration Hopefuls Descend on Mar-a-Lago

Since Election Day, the Florida club has played host to a rotating cast of characters from MAGA world, all vying for positions of power.

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Faustian Bargains in “Death Becomes Her” and “Burnout Paradise”

The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show abo...

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes

A second Trump Administration could give impunity to American soldiers who commit atrocities.

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

Dalí, Basquiat, Haring, and Hockney at Luna Luna

Also: Interpol’s “Antics” turns twenty, Kyle Abraham fills Drill Hall, new work by the photographer Jeff Wall, and more.

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

The Electable Female Candidate: Part 2

She gets every cultural reference, from brat to Brat Pack, from simp to “The Simpsons,” from skibidi to yabba dabba doo.

The New Yorker

November 22, 2024

The Explosion of Matt Gaetz and Other Early Lessons in Trump 2.0

There are many more manic Thursdays to come.

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

What Can We Learn from the Historical Fight for Birth Control?

From the daily newsletter: Margaret Talbot on the modern relevance of early contraception activism. Plus: reporting from Lebanon; Sarah Moss...

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, November 21, 2024

Lipa who appeared in the film “Argylle”: three letters.

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some of the artist’s...

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

Can Shostakovich Ever Escape Stalin’s Shadow?

Endless debate over whether the ending of the composer’s Fifth Symphony represents a capitulation to Soviet demands or a secret dissent obsc...

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

Frank Auerbach’s Raw Truths

“I find it all very difficult,” the late German-born British artist said, and few painters have done as much to show the struggle of creativ...

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

Will Kids Online, In Fact, Be All Right?

A new documentary reveals social-media platforms’ iron grip on the lives of teen-agers, one that’s increasingly being linked to a slew of me...

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

The Price Lebanon Is Paying for the Hezbollah-Israel War

The group’s supporters remain steadfast in the face of widespread displacement and thousands of deaths.

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

A Novelist’s Unnerving Memoir of Disordered Eating

In “My Good Bright Wolf,” Sarah Moss recounts a dangerous romance with self-deprivation.

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

Description of a Guy in a Fantasy Romance Novel

In his human form, Algor resembled a mix of George Clooney, Tom Cruise, and a Boeing 747. In his magical form, Algor resembled a demon rhino...

The New Yorker

November 21, 2024

What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?

Matt Gaetz has “gone to Washington to burn it down,” says the staff writer Dexter Filkins. “And he’s been remarkably successful.”

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

Is Your Data Safe from the Government?

From the daily newsletter: Ronan Farrow on new spyware tech. Plus: the Northeast is becoming fire country; what Trump means for Ukraine; and...

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Offer Nostalgic, Half-Satisfying Showdowns

With a musical return to Oz and a bloody epic of ancient Rome, Hollywood studios double down on blockbuster spectacle.

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Offer Nostalgic, Half-Satisfying Showdowns

With a musical return to Oz and a bloody epic of ancient Rome, Hollywood studios double down on blockbuster spectacle.

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

Why Josh Brolin Loves James Joyce

On the occasion of his new memoir, the “Dune” actor reflects on some of his formative reading experiences.

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

The Fantasy of Cozy Tech

From the “cozy gaming” trend to a new generation of A.I. companions, our devices are trying to swath us in a digital and physical cocoon.

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone

Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable...

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 20th

“I want to be in the moment, just not this moment.”

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

The Northeast Is Becoming Fire Country

Maps of recent fires across the region resemble California in August, with hundreds of red dots.

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

The Crossword: Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Cooking-competition show featuring Tom Colicchio as a judge: seven letters.

The New Yorker

November 20, 2024

The Complex Politics of Tribal Enrollment

How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”?

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

“Nightbitch” and the National Mood

From the daily newsletter: getting to know the director Marielle Heller. Plus: a timely triennial of Latino art; Donald Trump’s U.F.C. victo...

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

How Trump Could Change the Trajectory of the War in Ukraine

Any deal will likely be favorable to the Russians, though the clock on Putin’s ability to sustain a wartime economy may be running out.

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 19th

It’s on the tip of my tongue . . .

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

Why Do We Talk This Way?

Why Do We Talk This Way?

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

Donald Trump’s U.F.C. Victory Party

Dana White, the C.E.O. of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, helped Trump reach young male voters. Now White says he’s done with politics:...

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

El Museo del Barrio Offers a Timely Triennial of Latino Art

The unique history of El Museo has allowed it to be at the vanguard of what is now more widely accepted as the purpose of museums.

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

The Crossword: Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Flower in a Walt Whitman elegy for Abraham Lincoln: five letters.

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

A Visit to Planet Koren

A new exhibition celebrates the work of the late cartoonist Edward Koren.

The New Yorker

November 19, 2024

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November 18, 2024

The Secrets of California’s Death Team

From the daily newsletter: Jennifer Gonnerman reports. Plus: understanding Latino support for Trump; a casting call for lesbians over sixty;...

The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 18th

The unspoken bond between human and dog.

The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

Cartoon Caption Contest

This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest. Enter your submission for the latest caption-less cartoon, then rate other readers' captions, vote o...

The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

Letters from Our Readers

Readers respond to Nicholas Lemann’s article on Bidenomics, Kathryn Schulz’s essay on animal mortality, and Jazmine Hughes’s piece on Alpha...

The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?

From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.

The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks t...

The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

“Before I Can Exist, I Have to Enter the Gift Shoppe”

“America, like hope’s sharp pencil, / winks brightly beyond a gantlet of elegant shill.”

The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

I.S.O.: Ten to Fifteen Lesbians Over Sixty. Nudity Optional

The artist Samantha Nye tries to drum up models for a shoot of a female-only “pleasure party” at the Belvedere Guest House, the all-male gay...