The Crossword: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 16th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Where Political Violence Comes From
This past week, the right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, was thirty-one years old. Tyler Robinson, a twenty-two-year-old Utah resident, has been accused of the murder. It…
Restaurant Review: Bong | The New Yorker
Bong (the name comes from a Khmer term of kinship and respect) is run by the Cambodian chef Chakriya Un, who was born in a Thai refugee camp and grew up in the U.S., and her partner, Alexander Chaparro, who…
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The Pool,” from the September 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. A…
A Campus Mourns Charlie Kirk
Reagan Hurly, the president of Texas A. & M.’s political-science club, was at his apartment in College Station, Texas, when he heard that Charlie Kirk had been killed while speaking on a college campus in Utah. Hurly went “deep in prayer,” he…
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV
There’s little worse than watching a nervous actor onstage—especially when the poor guy isn’t just skittish but seems genuinely unprepared for the role that he’s playing. Incompetence has a way of unnerving its witnesses. An insecure performer robs an audience…
Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the fatal shooting of the right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk, who…
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. For decades, the United States backed efforts to achieve a two-state…
Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left?
In the hours immediately after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in front of a large crowd of students at a Utah university on Wednesday, there was no word on who had actually done it and no…
MAGA Reacts to the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Late last summer, I spent the early hours of a weekend morning walking through suburban Phoenix with volunteers for Turning Point Action, Charlie Kirk’s political-advocacy organization. Donald Trump had just been in town for a huge rally, during which Robert…
The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era
Donald Trump’s second term has turned the fight over facts into a war over the authority to define reality itself.
One of Chantal Akerman’s Best Films Is in Legal Limbo
Much of direction is production: the material conditions under which a movie is made plays a major role in the creative process. Movie lovers tend to think of producers as dictators of formulas, oppressors of originality, the enemies of art,…
Being Sigmund Freud’s Great-Granddaughter | The New Yorker
The power of the talking cure. The podcaster and fashion designer Bella Freud, a great-granddaughter of Sigmund—and daughter of Lucian—has had a lot to unpack. Plus: Bella Freud. Photograph by Felicity McCabe for The New Yorker Rebecca MeadA staff writer…
Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye
How did this happen? To begin with, Shore had an uncommonly encouraging and generous family. His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that his nephew was a budding tinkerer and gave him a Kodak photo-chemistry set for his sixth birthday….
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 8th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Consider the Quarterback | The New Yorker
Jalen Hurts, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, is a Super Bowl champion, the reigning Super Bowl M.V.P. He has played in two of the past three Super Bowls; in his first one, in 2023, he had put on one of the…
Bryan Washington Reads “Voyagers!” | The New Yorker
Bryan Washington reads his story “Voyagers!,” from the September 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among others, Washington is the author of three books of fiction,…
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The Mystery of the Cat Mystery
Mid-pandemic, I was speaking with a semi-stranger at a playground where our children were playing semi-together. Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to the top of the park’s lampposts. On seeing her son…
Donald Trump, Architecture Critic | The New Yorker
News of Donald Trump’s recent executive order concerning architecture, and particularly about preserving and protecting hallowed traditional styles, will have come as a surprise to anyone who recalls that one of his first appearances in the architectural realm occurred while…
Trump Has Grabbed Emergency Powers. How Will He Use Them?
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable—hosted by the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—is back in season….
The Political Trickery of “Eddington”
With this humiliation, Joe snaps, and, in short order, commits several shocking acts of deadly violence. His brazen maneuvers to cover his tracks soon give rise to tense standoffs with another sheriff (William Belleau), a Native American, and who makes…
What to Do About COVID Now
COVID continues to mutate, and a new strain is causing spikes in cases across the country. A conversation with the physician and New Yorker contributor Dhruv Khullar about how we should think about the virus now, and what people can…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 4th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Why Pam Bondi Is the Attorney General of Trump’s Dreams
The upheaval under Bondi has left the Justice Department hollowed out, with consequences likely to outlast her tenure and reshape the institution itself.
“The Paper” Is Old News
The new workplace sitcom from Greg Daniels, who co-created the U.S. version of “The Office,” borrows its predecessor’s mockumentary format—but pales in comparison to what came before.
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 2nd
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Play Laugh Lines No. 35: Back to School
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
The Crossword: Monday, September 1, 2025
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Restaurant Review: Lex Yard at the Waldorf-Astoria
Waldorf has brought in Michael Anthony, the longtime executive chef of Gramercy Tavern (where he remains), to create the menu. A hotel restaurant—especially a high-end one, especially a high-end one that wants to bring in diners beyond hotel guests—is a…
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America
For months, President Donald Trump’s Administration has launched a full-scale attack, led by his Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on America’s public-health system. In the past week, however, the efforts escalated: Kennedy, who rose to…
What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department
Ghislaine Maxwell first met Jeffrey Epstein for tea in his Madison Avenue office. What she remembers most vividly about the encounter, Maxwell told the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, in an interview in late July, which was released last week,…
The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time
Marcus Brown’s voice is a crooner’s voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some spot in his body deeper than his chest. Biologically speaking, this is impossible. But taking in his vocal, its dark timbre and real dimensionality, one feels perplexed…
Pictures of Life on a Christian Commune
Kate Riley’s ambitious début novel, “Ruth,” opens in 1963, the year that its protagonist, Ruth Scholl, is born into a scrupulously managed Christian commune in Michigan. She grows up with two brothers, a working father, and a homemaker mother, who…
The Sycophancy for Donald Trump Must Be Televised
When Donald Trump began to speak on Tuesday, during what would become the longest televised Cabinet meeting ever, he did not exactly advertise his plans to make history. There was a lot of the usual Trump palaver about how windmills…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 28th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
The Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis
The Democratic strategist Lis Smith joins the guest host Clare Malone, a New Yorker staff writer, to discuss the state of the Democratic Party, and how a decade of reliance on anti-Trump rhetoric has left Democrats reactive and directionless. They…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 27th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 26th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
The Endless August Recess | The New Yorker
In the dog days of August in Washington, D.C., with Congress off on its district-work period, the House still convenes biweekly pro-forma sessions, in which a handful of straggler representatives assemble in front of an empty chamber. When I watched…
The Creator of “Subway Takes” One Hundred Per Cent Disagrees
“Subway Takes” is the TikTok version of the “Tonight Show”: wholesome, relatable comedy, even if some episodes do acknowledge the existence of opioids and dick pics. The premise is exactly what it sounds like. The host, Kareem Rahma, sits on…
Restaurant Review: Santo Taco | The New Yorker
Santo Taco, one of the newest of the newcomers, opened this spring, in a sliver-slim SoHo space that previously housed La Esquina’s taqueria, whose primary function was as a street-facing decoy for the glamorous restaurant hidden downstairs. La Esquina abajo…
What’s Life Like in Washington, D.C., During Trump’s Takeover?
On Thursday evening in Washington, D.C., the weird juxtapositions of life in this city, eleven days into the Trump Administration’s unprecedented takeover of the District’s local law enforcement, were on full display. Around dinnertime, Donald Trump made a rare foray…
The Vibrant, Disappearing World of India’s Photo Studios
The Jagdish Photo Studio in Manori appeared to Ketaki Sheth as a kind of apparition. A photographer from Mumbai, Sheth owns a home in the coastal village, about a sixty-kilometre drive north of the city, and had made innumerable visits…
The Unsurprising F.B.I. Investigation into John Bolton
“There is a certain awful predictability” to the F.B.I. search of former national-security adviser John Bolton’s home. Plus: Photograph by Pedro Ugarte / AFP / Getty The Retribution Phase of Trump’s Presidency Has Begun There was a certain awful predictability…
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 22nd
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
The Food Scientists Working to Change the Colors You Eat
During Biden’s final week in office, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Red No. 3, a synthetic dye that Americans have consumed for nearly a century, would be banned starting in 2027. It cited studies showing that large quantities…
Dear Pepper: I’d Rather Be Drawing
But it’s certainly simpler than the feeling of powerlessness one experiences when given an entire day, week, lifetime to make one’s art—and still not knowing exactly how to do it. Chekhov famously referred to his writing as his mistress, his…
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s Self-Dealing and the Question of Kleptocracy
Trump’s eagerness to profit from office may be putting the U.S. on a path resembling that of an oligarchy.
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 20th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
There’s No Easy End to the War in Ukraine
It wasn’t a “worst-case scenario,” Joshua Yaffa says of yesterday’s White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. But negotiations to end the war remain mired in misunderstandings. Plus: Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump in the Oval Office on…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 19th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Does the Attorney General Represent the People or the President?
It’s what Donald Trump always wanted: an Attorney General willing to harness the law in service of his agenda. Is Pam Bondi just getting started? Plus: • Wall Street needs to stand up for honest data• Columbia’s troubling new definition…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 18th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
“Something Has Come to Light,” by Miriam Toews
I trust I’ll be in Heaven when you read this, although God, in His wisdom, may have other things in store for me. Just yesterday afternoon Cor asked me if I had ever thought I’d live this long, and I…
The Hyped Revival of Mixed Doubles
Last year, after Carlos Alcaraz beat Miomir Kecmanović in the fourth round of the Australian Open, Jim Courier asked Alcaraz, in an on-court interview, who his favorite players were. “Well, I’m a huge fan of tennis,” Alcaraz began. He reeled…
The Texas Democrats’ Remote Resistance
When it came time for Mihaela Plesa, the vice-chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, to decide whether to flee the state with dozens of her fellow Democratic legislators, earlier this month, she felt torn. On the one hand, Texas’s…
The Fiery Mania of Dijon’s “Baby”
Dijon Duenas has one of those voices that’s meant for televised singing competitions and gospel choirs, swooning ballads and achy slow jams. It preens and jilts, wails and whimpers, often stretching and straining into strange, improbable territory. It’s curious, then,…
Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin
Nothing says standing up to Russian aggression quite like welcoming the aggressor on a red carpet and applauding him. On Friday, Donald Trump did both at the start of his summit in Alaska with Vladimir Putin. This triumphant greeting was…
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 15th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I” Is a Staggering Portrait of Russian Journalists in Dissent
Because the Russian alphabet has no direct equivalent of the letter “H,” speakers often substitute a “G” sound; “Harry Potter” thus becomes “Garry Potter.” We’re reminded of this funny detail early and often in “My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air…
What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?
The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda has shifted from border enforcement to an unprecedented campaign of interior deportations. They talk about the expansion of detention through military bases…
Coming of Age in Panic Mode
The books of Michael Clune, or at least the ones written for a nonacademic audience, have focussed on very particular chapters of his life. “White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin” is a memoir about Clune’s addiction to the drug…
The Great Migraine Mystery | The New Yorker
Chronic headaches are an unnerving and often debilitating condition experienced by more than a billion people worldwide. Why do we know so little about them? Jerome Groopman explores the lingering mystery of migraines. Plus: • Could Trump pass his fitness…
Can President Trump Run a Mile?
Not to be fussy about it, but the Presidential Fitness Test, which Donald Trump plans to reinstate in schools, could use some shaping up of its own. The name promises so much. What is this, a fitness test for Presidents?…
Trump’s Presidential Jackpot | The New Yorker
Bitcoin mines, Saudi deals, a luxury jet—since his first term, Trump and his family have been accused of brazen profiteering through a wide range of schemes. David D. Kirkpatrick tallies up an estimate of how much they’re really making. Plus,…
“I Was a First Alto in the 1980s,” by Deborah Garrison
I used to sit for hoursat an electric typewriter.I remember well its hum. I used to drink glasses of wine—well, anyway,I would drink one. I used to sing in a chorus.I remember my voiceentering the blend, the anonymous shallows clean…
What Is Benjamin Netanyahu Really After?
On Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government approved a plan for Israel to take control of Gaza City, where about a million Palestinians—about half of the population in all of Gaza—are now living. Many have been forced to shelter there; the Israeli…
Andrew Marantz on Janet Flanner’s “Führer”
Janet Flanner’s job was never easy, exactly, but for the first decade it wasn’t all that morally freighted. Beginning in October of 1925, using the pseudonym Genêt, she mailed her editors at this magazine a fizzy bimonthly column under the…
The Futility of Simulating Nature
In “The Anthropocene Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.
Our Age of Zombie Culture
It’s not alive, but it’s not dead, either. It consumes a vast amount of resources. It’s mindless: what presents as its will is really a drift toward the mean, toward the unconsciousness of crowds. It will devour you, but don’t…
Richard Brody’s Summertime Movie Picks
The recent heat wave may be only a memory—but enshrining memories is what movies do, and many of them rely on harsh summer climates as crucial elements of drama. In the mid-twentieth century, when few residences were cooled during the…
Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air
That Donald Trump would end up shouting from the rooftops of Washington is not, in and of itself, all that surprising; that he did so in actuality and not just metaphorically was a bit of a shock. “Sir, why are…
How Zohran Mamdani Became the Main Character of New York City
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. On paper, a thirty-three-year-old socialist would seem an unlikely contender for mayor of New York City. But Zohran Mamdani’s…
Can the Courts Stop Trump’s Tariffs?
“They want the madness to stop.” The court case challenging Trump’s tariff chaos. Plus: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Donald Trump in February. Photograph by Andrew Harnik / Getty Cristian Farias A legal journalist who writes about courts and the…
Cover Letter for a Job I Don’t Want but Will Be Offended Not to Get
Dear Hiring Manager, I am writing to express my feigned enthusiasm for the ambiguous position of—I think it was something like “Global Strategy Content Execution Associate”? A job title that contains bewilderingly vague descriptors and existential despair in equal measure….
How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza
In July sixty-three people, including more than twenty children, died of starvation in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. More have been dying this week. Israel is now facing increased international pressure to end the war, and, more…
King Princess’s Homecoming | The New Yorker
After the Civil War, the German-born Jewish businessman Isidor Straus moved with his family to New York City. Straus was enterprising and handsome, with small round spectacles, an angular nose, and a coarse, peppery beard. He started off as a…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 4th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
What Is Lost in Luka Dončić’s Glow-Up
Luka Dončić has three dogs: Hugo, Gia, and Viki. The trio have their own Instagram account, on which they’re shown lounging on an Alpine meadow in the mountains above the cloud line, or wearing adorable little Dončić jerseys, or sitting…
The Politics of Fear | The New Yorker
The young Donald Trump was the Nelson Muntz of Jamaica Estates. (Or was he its Draco Malfoy? Scholars will debate such questions for generations.) In any case, Trump was, from his formative years, a spoiled bully. The Trump family, whose…
The Banal Provocation of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans
Two American blondes have recently hawked denim. Beyoncé, an ambassador for Levi’s, dressed in outlaw drag, arrives at a semi-deserted laundromat. She slinks out of her 501s, revealing her white briefs to a couple of stunned onlookers. The jeans go…
Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype
There’s a certain face that only Sterling K. Brown can make. It is yoked to no particular emotional state, and emerges just as often when the actor is conveying deep glee or charming irony as when his character is lost…
Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies
Georg Riekeles knows about hardball trade negotiations: during the long and arduous talks about the terms on which Britain would leave the European Union, he was an adviser to Michel Barnier, the E.U.’s chief negotiator. Back in April, when Riekeles…
Stacks of Cash | The New Yorker
Because I am uncool, I enjoy visiting Presidential libraries. The first one I went to was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, in Hyde Park, New York. (In an Instagram post, I described the experience as “historiographically engaging.” Told you I was uncool.)…
On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel
On Monday, during a visit to one of his two Trump-branded golf courses in Scotland, Donald Trump sat alongside the U.K. Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and stated a fact that should be painfully obvious to an avid cable-news watcher such…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, July 31, 2025
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How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of American democracy. Their guest is Roy Wood, Jr., the host of the satirical program…
How the Israeli Right Explains the Aid Disaster It Created
Last week, in a piece for the Guardian, Nick Maynard, a volunteer surgeon at a hospital in southern Gaza, wrote, “I’ve just finished operating on another severely malnourished young teenager. A seven-month-old baby lies in our paediatric intensive care unit,…
Americans Are Fixing Their Teeth in Mexico
“Nothing is more memorable, for better or worse, than a trip to the dentist.” Los Algodones, Mexico—known as Molar City—attracts scores of Americans from across the border seeking cheaper dental work. And Michael Luo on why shootings like the one…
The Crossword: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this, one might add a further principle: even if a piece of…
Play Laugh Lines No. 30: Fashion, Part 3
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Bill McKibben on Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
To call something “middlebrow” seems to dismiss it as unserious, but, when America was arguably at its intellectual peak, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, this was the territory in which its writers excelled: distinguished work, aimed at readers who took…
What to Do When the Supreme Court Is Wrong
In February, 1983, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia faced a dilemma. After years of looking, they believed that they had found the ideal plaintiff to challenge a state law against “the offense of sodomy,” which carried…
Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable’s Evan Osnos interviews Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired, about the publication’s scoop-filled…
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Nowadays, a secondhand, first-edition copy can sell for hundreds of dollars; in August, the book will be reissued by D.A.P. as “Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” in an expanded, handsome hardback form, with a price tag to match. The…
The Semi-Fictional Book That Transformed the Culinary World
It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I became hellbent on getting my old job back. Until the previous fall, I had been a cook at Greens, a restaurant run…
Audiobooks to Save Your Road Trip
—Leo Lasdun, editorial production associate “Brideshead Revisited,” by Evelyn Waugh, narrated by Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons puts his “Lion King” voice-actor skills to impressive use in the audiobook version of “Brideshead Revisited.” Evelyn Waugh’s story of a man navigating his…
Sniffies Translates Cruising for the Digital Age
In the literature about cruising from the late twentieth century, what stands out is the physical choreography of it. David Wojnarowicz, in his 1991 memoir, “Close to the Knives,” describes walking through abandoned warehouses on Manhattan’s west-side waterfront and “passing…
We’re Living in an Age of Floods
Climate change has made the most dangerous floods more frequent, and we are simply not prepared to handle what’s to come, John Seabrook reports. Plus: On July 4th, the floodwaters of the Guadalupe were like a tornado or a wildfire—a…
Watch It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam | Daily Shouts
[upbeat music] Hi, I am here for my exam. Hi, I’m Dr. Black, have a seat. What seems to be the problem? Oh, no problem, just a routine eye exam. Before we get started, I should let you know I’m…
The Man Behind Trump’s Tariffs Strategy
“I pitch these ideas, and he says, ‘Let’s do it.’ ” Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, has forged a tight relationship with the President, and put himself at the center of the Administration’s chaotic tariff rollout. Plus: • The backlash…
Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel
In January, 1861, Louisa May Alcott began writing a novel that she planned to call “Success.” Alcott was twenty-eight and living at Orchard House, the family home in Concord, Massachusetts. That same month, her mother became briefly yet seriously ill,…
A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students
In April, U.S. District Judge William Young, who sits in Boston, made a procedural ruling from the bench that seemed to catch the lawyers in the courtroom by surprise. Like many other judges these days, Young had convened a hearing…
The Crossword: Monday, July 21, 2025
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Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Mona Awad reads her story “The Chartreuse,” from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. Awad is…
“The Chartreuse,” by Mona Awad
She could feel the mirror shining in her dark bedroom closet. Waiting for the offering.
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black at Fenway
I have a recurring dream about my father and me, one of the few welcome dreams I have about him. We’re both in our late thirties, though he’s fitter than I remember him ever being. We’re at Fenway, out in…
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Another Doctor Is Dead in Gaza
Five months ago, when I was on a medical mission in northern Gaza, a Palestinian cardiologist named Marwan Sultan showed me what was left of the Indonesian Hospital, a hundred-bed facility that had been shelled and raided by Israeli forces….
Stephen Colbert on Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson
When Mr. Remnick asked me to write a seven-hundred-and-twenty-five-word Take on Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 Profile of Johnny Carson, I said, “My honor, cher David.” (New Yorker editors love when you use foreign words. They’re weak for anything italicized. Anything.) “I…
The Sophisticated Kitsch of Blackpink
The London-based Nigerian singer Obongjayar has been steadily drifting toward his distinct sound. Initially discovered by XL Recordings head Richard Russell for a freestyle over the Kendrick Lamar song “u,” his musical evolution sent him spiralling in many different directions—Afrobeat,…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 15th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
The Future of Warfare Comes to America
“While the future of warfare is being invented in places like Ukraine, U.S. officials are looking on with a growing sense of urgency.” A report on the new technology of global conflict. And, then, Vinson Cunningham on the “Love Island…
Wimbledon in the Age of Sincaraz
In tennis, it is not enough to win; you have to keep winning. It is not even enough to be the greatest of all time; someone new is coming. In early June, at the French Open, Carlos Alcaraz played the…
The First World War, in Sharp Focus
The war would not leave Tempest. Although he was demobilized in February, 1919, the Old Comrades Association commissioned him to write the history of the battalion between 1915 and 1918. Tempest borrowed the unit’s diary—a day-by-day chronicle of its actions,…
Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Natural History,” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is…
What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise?
If a recent crop of commercials touting the benefits of artificial intelligence is any indication, lots of Americans these days feel unduly burdened by the demands of everyday cognition. Apparently, it’s asking way too much to expect a human to…
Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison
It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security state prison. There are sixteen students in the class. They are white, Black, Latino. A couple of…
Inside The New Yorker’s Fiction Department
In the wake of disaster in Texas, one community is relying on its volunteer fire department, the backbone of the Hill Country, Rachel Monroe reports. But, first, Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, answers readers’ questions about writing. Plus:…
The Lawyer Turned Trump Whistle-Blower
Erez Reuveni worked as a lawyer for the Department of Justice for nearly fifteen years, largely on immigration cases. After refusing to make claims that he considered unsupported about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he was fired. Now he’s speaking out. Plus:…
Why a Devoted Justice Department Lawyer Became a Whistle-Blower
In the early days of the first Trump Administration, Erez Reuveni, a lawyer for the Department of Justice, went to court to defend the new President’s travel ban on foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries. He told the federal…
Andy Beshear Has a Plan for the Democratic Party
“I believe that [Zohran Mamdani] won that primary for the same reason that Donald Trump won the Presidential election,” the governor of Kentucky says.
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 9th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Devastation and Debris in Texas
“Everybody’s here trying to help.” A report from the scene in Hunt, Texas, where aid is incoming, and a reflection on the ruins of Camp Mystic. Plus: Campers’ belongings lie on the ground following the July 4th flooding of the…
The Texas Floods and the Lives Lost at Camp Mystic
The sleepaway camp where my ten-year-old daughter will live for a month this summer forbids phone calls for the first six days, except for emergencies. Then the kids get one brief call at an appointed time, once a week. That’s…
Richard Price’s Street Life | The New Yorker
When I arrived at the novelist Richard Price’s five-story, nineteenth-century brownstone, in East Harlem, in December, the doorbell was broken. Price and his wife, the writer Lorraine Adams, had left the door unlocked, in anticipation of my visit. The couple…
Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine….
Sink or Swim | The New Yorker
He was surprised by what he found in California: “I guess in your imagination you see four or five people wandering around, where in reality it’s piles, crowds of people moving around, so it’s much more enticing, engaging, exciting, because…
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How to Save a Dog
For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.
Far-Flung Local Gems | The New Yorker
In the spirit of summer travel, we’ve asked some of our writers living outside New York City to share a few of their favorite local spots. Read Lauren Collins on an irresistible Parisian toy store; Hannah Goldfield on her search…
We’ve Lost Direction | The New Yorker
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What Will Be the Song of the Summer?
A new story from Jhumpa Lahiri, inspired by Mavis Gallant’s writing. But, first, a summer playlist to kick off the season. And, then, Eric Lach on how Andrew Cuomo brings the chaos. Plus: • The new influencers-in-chief• Lorde examines the…
Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “The Comedian,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine….
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Erica Lubliner is a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who directs a clinic that offers mental-health services to Latinos. She provides care to a wide range of patients: first- to fourth-generation immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, and undergraduate…
Zadie Smith’s New Story Is Inspired by a Classic
As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were, in some way, inspired by fiction from the magazine’s past. Each new piece is accompanied by a “Take”…
“The Silence,” by Zadie Smith
She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky.
The Sincaraz Era Is Tennis Reborn
For years, many Grand Slam finals became, spontaneously, an event. When Rafael Nadal played Roger Federer, or Federer faced Novak Djokovic, or Djokovic took on Andy Murray, and the games stretched into sets, and sets into hours, and morning on…
How Eva Victor Reimagined the Trauma Plot
At one point in “Sorry, Baby,” a new film written, directed, and starring the actor and comedian Eva Victor, the main character, an English professor named Agnes, has an anxiety attack while driving. She pulls over into the parking lot…
Trump, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution
Two interrelated fears that have caused mounting public alarm with respect to the Trump Administration involve unchecked executive power and the erosion of the rule of law. These worries have intensified in debates about the legality of President Trump’s decision…
ICE Detains a Respected Immigrant Journalist
“La Boca del Lobo,” a 2019 Times short documentary, follows the work of Mario Guevara, a reporter based in the outskirts of Atlanta who has a large audience among Latino immigrants in the area. In one scene, a woman tells…
A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery
Over the past decade, as I watched ambitious, embattled, fearful, or just plain weak interlocutors deal with Donald Trump, it became obvious that many of them have reached the same conclusion about how best to manage the capricious President: with…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 26th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
A Stunning New York City Mayoral Primary
“New Yorkers didn’t know who Mamdani was just a few months ago.” We spoke with Eric Lach, who spent yesterday morning with the presumed winner of the mayoral primary, about the election results. Plus: Voters cast their ballots at a…
Zohran Mamdani Wins the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani barely slept the night before primary day. At 5:30 A.M. on Tuesday, the city’s hottest day in more than a decade, he welcomed reporters to a press conference in Astoria Park, Queens, a patch of green overlooking the…
NATO’s Existential Moment | The New Yorker
As the NATO summit kicks off in Brussels today, a look at how European leaders are preparing for Trump’s arrival and why the President is upending America’s commitment to the alliance. And, then, the consequences of funding cuts to NASA….
Glory and Gore in “Afternoons of Solitude”
You don’t have to like bullfighting to watch “Afternoons of Solitude” with fascination, any more than you have to like crime to enjoy a film noir. Full disclosure: I squeamishly watch horror films through my fingers and, in real life,…
“South Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day,” by Terrance Hayes
“The comfort in the smell of bacon in the morning / is mostly burning fat & salt, but the taste is sweet / as the part of the pig that stores the soul.”
With His Eyes on History, Benjamin Netanyahu Aims for Political Resurrection
In the days after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, evaded any public admission of responsibility for the colossal security failure. He mostly avoided attending memorial services for the dead. He rarely met with…
John McPhee on His Childhood Appearance in The New Yorker
The first piece I ever read in The New Yorker was by Rogers E. M. Whitaker, under the rubric “Football,” in the November 22, 1941, issue. I was ten years old. Subscribers called my parents, who were not subscribers: “Johnny…
The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship
With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs.
Could New York City’s Next Comptroller Be a Punk Rocker?
A candidate meets voters wherever they can. The other day, Justin Brannan, a burly Democratic city councilman from Bay Ridge who’s running to be the Party’s nominee for city comptroller, surprised one constituent by opening a papered-over door at a…
Was a Right to Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Possible?
Preventing harm to children is a goal with which most people would agree. But the widening gulf between red and blue states has meant that, in a range of areas, there is no consensus—indeed, there’s extreme polarity—on what “harm” even…
Tales from the Abyss | The New Yorker
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Why We Turn Grief Into Art
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow” is a bracingly candid memoir of profound loss: one written in the…
The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery
On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, the Lotto Texas jackpot was seventy-three million dollars. There was no winner that night—there hadn’t been a winner for the past ninety-one drawings—and so the pool of money rolled over. By the next drawing, that…
The Rise And Fall of DOGE
The New Yorker staff writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the decline of DOGE, what Elon Musk’s exit from the White House means for the department’s work, and the initiative’s legacy in the long run. Plus, the assassination…
The Crossword: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Promises and Perils of Early Cancer Detection
“What if we could not only detect a cancer’s presence but divine its intent?” A science startup has developed an early-detection test for multiple cancers, using DNA found in blood samples. It’s a remarkable new technology—so what’s the catch? And,…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 17th
“We’re seeing a lot of patients with these symptoms. Have you been normalizing copious amounts of insanity?”
Apocalypse No: “The Life of Chuck” Stumbles at the Finish Line
It’s impossible to discuss “The Life of Chuck” without revealing the ending, because that’s where the movie starts. It’s built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which it’s based. A title card declares the beginning of the film…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 16th
“I’m ready for the exciting last thirty seconds of the basketball game which stretch into twenty-five minutes of fouls, time-outs, and commercials.”
Trump’s Military Birthday Parade Rolls Past Sparse Crowds in Washington
A soldier in a Revolutionary War uniform was sitting under a tree, vaping and scrolling on his phone. It was the Army’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary celebration in D.C., and I was looking for the entrance to their fitness competition and cake-cutting…
The Indiana Pacers’s Tyrese Haliburton Has Worn Me Down
When Tyrese Haliburton shoots, his right hand almost cups the side of the ball. His right elbow is akimbo. He uses odd footwork, jabbing almost randomly, and sometimes skips and hops into his shots. In his shooting stance, his knees…
Play It Again, Charles Burnett
One of Burnett’s earliest cinematographic efforts is the silent short “69 Pickup,” written and directed by Penick. Two Black men pick up a white woman hitchhiking on the boulevard. They lure her back to her apartment, and rape her. The…
Lessons of Later-in-Life Fatherhood | The New Yorker
Forty-nine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fifty-six, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit, and witnessed a scene that both bewildered and fascinated me. Our…
There Are No Perfect Choices in the New York Mayoral Race
This year’s mayoral race has so far been a strange, frustrating exercise. The Democratic primary, usually definitive, is looking like a two-man race between candidates who are not guaranteed to win in November: Andrew Cuomo, the former governor, and Zohran…
David Plunkert’s “On Parade” | The New Yorker
Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also squandering significant amounts of taxpayer money while he’s at it. For…
Donald Trump’s Dictator Cosplay | The New Yorker
Call it Donald Trump’s Strongman Week. Over the course of just a few days, the President has ordered the military into the streets of Los Angeles—over the objections of California’s Democratic governor—to curb protests against his immigration crackdown, appeared with…
Our Romance with Jane Austen
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Though Jane Austen went largely unrecognized in her own lifetime—four of her six novels were published anonymously, and the…
What Broke the U.S.-China Relationship?
Michael Luo, an executive editor of The New Yorker, joins the show as guest host. He sits down with Peter Hessler, a staff writer who spent more than a decade living in and writing about China. They discuss the Sinophobic…
An Inside Look at Gaza’s Chaotic New Aid System
Following the collapse, in early March, of the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israel essentially shut down all aid entering the Gaza Strip. The territory had already been facing a humanitarian crisis for nearly eighteen months. During that time,…
Why L.A. Became an Immigration Flash Point
As the showdown between the Trump Administration and California’s government escalates, E. Tammy Kim is on-the-ground in Southern California. Plus: • How to choreograph a sex scene• The victims of Trump’s China-bashing• Is it Addison Rae summer? Photograph by Jeff…
The Crossword: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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Trump’s Military Escalation in Los Angeles
Trump is deploying the Marines—risking further confrontation in L.A. with protesters and pushing the limits on Presidential power. • The Palestinian doctor treating Israelis• A family toy business takes on Trump’s tariffs• Pedro Pascal: a matchmaker’s “unicorn” Caroline Mimbs NyceNewsletter…
The Crossword: Monday, June 9, 2025
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Brian Lehrer and Errol Louis Take the Pulse of New York City
To be an informed New Yorker, or even an informed human being, you could do a lot worse than tuning into Brian Lehrer’s and Errol Louis’s respective daily broadcasts. Lehrer interviews political newsmakers and takes calls from New Yorkers with…
Jim Shepard on Catastrophes and Timing
This week’s story, “The Queen of Bad Influences,” opens in 1913, in the English county of Gloucestershire, and is about a young woman called Constance who has recently left an all-girls’ school and is making her first foray into adulthood….
The Oligarchs Are Fighting | The New Yorker
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout from the messy rupture between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, how battles…
Warped Ways of Seeing “P.O.V.”
You open your short-form online video platform of choice and see: A woman dancing in pointe shoes with London’s Tower Bridge in the background, overlaid by text that reads “POV: Dance is your happiness.” A man trembling through reps in…
What We’re Reading This Summer: Mega-Reads
Unlike Peter Thiel and Giorgia Meloni, I did not grow up with “The Lord of the Rings” in my life, and, reading it now with my son, it’s hard to pinpoint what about it he finds so entrancing. (Occasionally, when…
The Mini Crossword: Friday, June 6, 2025
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The Musk-Trump Divorce Is as Messy as You Thought It Would Be
Shamelessness, defined as brazen disregard for that which might deter anyone else, has always been one of Donald Trump’s superpowers. It’s part of the alchemy by which he can ignore his own defeats, reverses, missteps, and absurd overpromises, and pretend…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, June 5, 2025
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Amelia Earhart’s Turbulent Relationship | The New Yorker
In the years before Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, pressure from her husband, as well as her own appetite for risk, led the famed aviator to fly well beyond her limited abilities. And, then, Bill McKibben on FEMA’s lack of preparedness as…
Democracy Wins a Referendum in South Korea
Just before 11 P.M. this past December 3rd, the Korean legislator Lee Jae-myung issued a dire warning from a moving car. “My fellow-Koreans, you must come out to the National Assembly,” he said, in a live stream from his phone….
The Crossword: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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Play Laugh Lines No. 22: Heaven
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Lynn Savarese Edwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a…
“Elias,” by Jon Fosse
I need to open the door now, it’s not the end of the world, it’s just that it’s been such a long time since anyone’s knocked on my door.
Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity
Last year, on the occasion of Taschen’s reissue of “Workers” (originally published in 1993), I had the chance to interview Salgado over video chat. He was in Paris, sitting in his studio, with a mural-size print of one of his…
In Praise of “Northanger Abbey,” Jane Austen’s Least Beloved Novel
“Northanger Abbey” is the least beloved of Jane Austen’s six novels. It also appears frequently in university-level literature classes. These two things are related. Completed largely in 1798 and 1799, when Austen was in her early twenties, “Northanger” was the…
Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”
It’s an epic display of small ideas. But what gives the exhibition its coherence is Johnson’s consistent—if tonally varied—engagement with literature. “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” is named after a piece by the poet, playwright, and jazz critic Amiri Baraka,…
Elon Musk Didn’t Blow Up Washington, But He Left Plenty of Damage Behind
It ended, of course, with a tweet. Late on Wednesday evening, Elon Musk announced the official end of his short, traumatic tenure as the head of a made-up agency called the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s post on X, the…