Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film?
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy industrialist’s attempts to realize a grandiose infrastructure project. Anderson’s signature is instantly recognizable in the movie’s decorative production…
“Love Letters,” Received Forty Years Too Late
The vast spectrum of streaming platforms is like so many libraries: countless treasures line the shelves but little attention is paid to them. One of the virtues of the Criterion Channel, however, is that its track record of presenting canonical…
The Crossword: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
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Trump’s Government of Billionaires | The New Yorker
“We are a government of billionaires.” Donald Trump started selling the illusion of exclusivity half a century ago. Now his second Administration is selling access to the White House. Evan Osnos reports. Plus: The White House’s exchange of influence for…
The Crossword: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
When It All Burns, by Jordan Thomas (Riverhead). Centered on the author’s experience with an élite team of firefighters, this analysis of California’s wildfires entwines an account of the state’s 2021 fire season with an appraisal of its record of…
Inspired by “The Crucible,” Miniatures, and “Harriet the Spy”
Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero.
Julian Lucas on Hilton Als’s “The Islander”
The literary Profile comes into the world facing a double skepticism. Most people don’t care enough about books to read about authors—unlike, say, pop stars or tech titans. And those who do care often look down their noses at the…
Alba de Céspedes’s Broadcasts Against Fascism
On September 8, 1943, Italy surrendered to the Allies, and the Germans, who already effectively controlled the north of Italy, turned on their former partners and moved to take over the rest of the country. A few days later, they…
How American Photography Came Into Its Own
The earliest photography was voracious and encyclopedic. There was a whole world of things that had never been seen in this particular, startlingly realistic way. People were especially intrigued by imperial, foreign, and exotic subjects: queens, presidents, and maharajahs; Gothic…
Is “Thunderbolts*” Marvel’s Attempt to Salvage the Superhero Genre?
In the run-up to the première of “Thunderbolts*,” on May 2nd, Marvel earned some light mockery for the art-house vibe of one of its trailers. Over an edgy E.D.M. beat, closeups of the Academy Award-nominated cast members Florence Pugh and…
Pee-wee Herman and the Cost of Dividing Yourself in Two
One of the pivotal turns in Paul Reubens’s life happened years before Pee-wee Herman, years before the “Playhouse,” years before the arrests. It was the mid-seventies, and Reubens was in his early twenties, a bohemian art freak just out of…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, May 22, 2025
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Has the U.S. Given Up on Sudan?
From the daily newsletter: Nicolas Niarchos reports from Khartoum. Plus: the radical courage of Noor Abdalla; and Justin Chang reviews the latest “Mission: Impossible” movie.
How “Andor” Injects Contemporary Politics Into “Star Wars” I.P.
It’s rare to hear the word “genocide” uttered unequivocally on television, let alone on the streaming service Disney+. So it was a bit of a shock to encounter the term in a late episode of the second season of “Andor,”…
The Crossword: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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Larry David’s Notes from a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Production Meeting
Before filming each episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” we held a production meeting. These are similar in format to a Presidential Cabinet meeting. The heads of each department, the producers, and the cast would sit around a big conference table…
Kenny Smith Isn’t Going Fishing Yet
Last July, the National Basketball Association announced a new eleven-year media-rights agreement with Amazon, NBC, and ESPN, set to take effect at the start of next season. Notably left out of the seventy-six-billion-dollar deal was Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner…
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and the Challenges of Covering an Aging President
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses new information that has emerged about Joe Biden’s decline while in office, and his…
“The Encampments” and the American College Student
The institution has not neglected to commemorate the history of agitation against it. The year 2018 marked five decades since students occupied the halls of Columbia University, demanding that the school’s board sever ties to the defense industry during the…
The Everyday Dramas of Manhattan Rush Hour
Salacuse is the kind of person who always seems to have a project or five under way. I first met him in 2000, and we’ve been friends ever since. (We are now colleagues-in-law, too: his wife, Stacey, is a photo…
What the Pope Was Like as a Kid
FOX NEWS HOST: He had to have been a bad kid at some point. Or was he really that good? LOUIS PREVOST: I’m going to refuse to answer that question so I don’t get him in trouble. . . . Over all, no,…
The Mideast Is Donald Trump’s Safe Place
The first thing I ever said to Donald Trump was about Air Force One. When we met for an interview, in the spring of 2021, in the lobby of his Mar-a-Lago club, the only visible sign of his time in…
Robert Macfarlane on Books That Hold Water
The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his passion for each extends to his writing. Over the years, he has found an “idiom for mountains” that continues…
“It was like watching someone who was not alive.”
“He totally fucked us.” Biden cost Democrats the 2024 race, Party insiders tell Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Plus: Illustration by Jared Bartman How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama,…
In “Jetty,” a Grand Infrastructure Project Becomes Both Visually and Politically Compelling
The algorithm has been feeding me industrial-strength A.S.M.R.: short videos of computer-controlled lathes, in extreme closeup, doing elaborate milling of wood or metal rods. Sam Fleischner’s modest yet ambitious documentary “Jetty” (which opens Wednesday at Anthology Film Archives) is, at…
The Astonishing Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus
The White House driveway is an unlikely venue for announcing plans to upend the Constitution. But, strolling up to the bank of microphones on a sunny spring afternoon, the White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller seemed delighted to…
Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?
This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled “Why I am publishing a novella on Substack.” This novella, Kanakia wrote, was fifteen thousand words long. She was proud…
The Next Phase of Trump’s Retribution
On the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which pardoned more than fifteen hundred people who were charged or sentenced for their participation in…
Cut Right Through the Boat and Illuminate Everything
Nguan moved back to Singapore many years ago—his pastel images of apartment dwellers, and of streets thick with bougainvillea, are well known—but still spends a couple of months in New York every spring or summer. In 2013, after his father…
One Hundred Years of New York Movies
This magazine’s ongoing centenary celebration has included a cinematic component: a series at Film Forum, “Tales from The New Yorker,” which featured movies connected to The New Yorker’s history, whether because the source material was published here or because contributors…
Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”
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. When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last…
A Day in the Live-Streamed Life of Donald Trump
In Donald Trump’s first term, he reinvented many things about how the job of President was done. The strictly scheduled day of his predecessors—the rigid procession of fifteen-minute meetings, the early-morning starts—was not for him. Instead, much of his “executive…
Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery
The President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the “statements of intent” of a budding authoritarian.
Rediscovering a Great Film Critic of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Sometimes there’s light at the end of the rabbit hole. When Josef von Sternberg’s film “The Devil Is a Woman,” from 1935, was recently screened, I was curious about how it was received in its first run and found a…
The Most Important Job at the Met Gala
Leather, feathers, and capes—oh, my! The glamour of the Met Gala promenade honoring Black dandyism. And, then, Ian Frazier takes a deep dive into the hazardous lives of New York City pigeons. Plus: • Elon Musk’s supercomputer is polluting Memphis•…
The Spectacle of a Boxing Match in Times Square
On Friday evening, I was texting with a friend when I happened to mention where I was: sitting in the middle of Times Square, watching a boxing match. He wrote back immediately: “What is the boxing match about? Like what…
The Day-to-day Difficulties of Life as a Migrant in New York City
A hundred years ago, when The New Yorker was founded, New York City had a gravitational pull—and it still does. People come from all over to “make art, money, trouble, love, a name,” Alexandra Schwartz writes. “They stay because they…
The New Yorker Wins Three 2025 Pulitzer Prizes
The New Yorker was named the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, for work focussed on the effects of war throughout the Middle East. The Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha received the award for commentary, for four…
“The Rehearsal” Finally Achieves Liftoff
The second season of “The Rehearsal” is instantly better than the first because it’s about something. In the show’s previous season, Nathan Fielder developed and applied his methodology—the so-called Fielder Method of role-playing amid elaborate simulations—to situations in which the…
Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics
Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world. So what do you think your responsibility is? My responsibility is to make you laugh. And, if I’m being malicious, people know. People know if you mean it or…
The Secrets of Physique Magazines
I remember the first time I saw a physique photograph, and I remember being both excited and upset at the sight of it. I was probably eight or nine, a child of the postwar boom, and on vacation with my…
Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the unprecedented corruption of the federal government, including Trump Administration members’ self-enrichment through cryptocurrency…
Trump Threatens NPR and PBS
“Journalists’ work is under fire.” Donald Trump is yanking federal funds from public media. Leaders at NPR-affiliate stations around the country explain why this attack feels different, and what the consequences of defunding would be. Plus: • The Trump deportees…
A Joyfully Chaotic Tribute to Pavement in “Pavements”
Rock documentaries and bio-pics have been parodied for nearly as long as they have existed, but there’s a reason for their ingrained absurdity that’s even weightier than fan service: music rights. Without the coöperation of musicians or of their estates,…
The New Yorker’s In the Dark Wins a 2025 Peabody Award
The New Yorker’s longform investigative podcast, In the Dark, has won a 2025 Peabody Award, one of the highest honors in journalism. The series received the prize, in the Podcast & Radio category, for its third season, a nine-episode series…
Rumaan Alam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Female Protagonist
The writer Rumaan Alam has noticed that readers, especially as of late, can be quick to dismiss novels that have characters they find unpleasant. But “when a character on the page is able to get under the reader’s skin, it’s…
“In case of emergency, break open a book.”
“I had found my doomscrolling methadone.” In this week’s issue, Lepore turns to her stack of Penguin Little Black Classics, which has become her way to cope with the darkening state of the Republic. Plus: The bureaucratic nightmares of being trans…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 29th
“For too long, we’ve all suffered the bizarre and oppressive policies that I installed last week.”
For Watchers of “The Clock,” Time Is Running Out
“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November, and some of us have become transfixed Clockwatchers, returning week after week to witness as many hours of it as…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 28th
“Quick! Somebody get Chuck Schumer to write a strongly worded letter!”
Francis, the TV Pope, Takes His Final Journey
Shortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his last testament: how and where he should be buried, how the proceedings should be handled. The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his…
“Nocturnal Creatures,” by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
This is the way infestations work: first gradually and then all at once. He will never be able to eradicate. He can only hope to contain.
Catholic Tradition Remains at Pope Francis’s Funeral
In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: Photograph by Antonio Masiello / Getty Paul ElieReporting from Vatican City I watched the funeral for Pope Francis from atop the braccio, or “arm,” extending up and…
Requiem for a “Drunk Dad”
Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.
“April” Is an Unflinching Portrait of a Doctor’s Fight for Reproductive Justice
Before watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other fictional film that featured a real childbirth. It was “Staying Vertical” (2016), from the French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie, and although…
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”
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 in-box. As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on…
Where Are Trump’s Big, Beautiful Deals?
This week in Washington, the rare convergence of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and the White House Correspondents’ dinner has been an event planner’s nightmare—part party gridlock, part panel-discussion overload—and a networker’s fever…
“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts the workings and responsibilities of government front and center, in a meticulous reconstruction of New York City’s fiscal…
The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas
In late March, Leecia Welch, a deputy litigation director at Children’s Rights, a legal nonprofit that represents children in government custody, visited a family jail in Texas that the Trump Administration had recently reopened. The immigrant children Welch met were…
The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations
After Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, and the ensuing war in Gaza, a protest movement roiled college campuses across the country. The movement was primarily focussed on the enormous death toll in Gaza, and the United States’s…
Pope Francis’s Tangled Relationship with Argentina
No one is a prophet in his own land, Jesus warns in the Gospel of Luke—not even, apparently, the Pope. Francis was broadly popular around the world, especially among liberals. Toward the end of his life, though, his approval ratings…
The Cost of Defunding Harvard
It did not take long for Harvard’s leadership to realize that the university would have to stand up to the Trump Administration. On March 31st, the White House announced that the status of nine billion dollars in multiyear federal funding…
Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?
On Sunday night, the post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” had its grandest chapter to date. After the events of the first season, the HBO series’ dual protagonists—Joel (Pedro Pascal), a grizzled smuggler, and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), his impetuous surrogate…
Domenico Starnone on Lies and Storytelling
Your story “Tortoiseshell” draws on a controversy about Giuseppe Trevisani, who, in his Italian translation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The First Forty-nine Stories,” from 1947, is known to have taken liberties with Hemingway’s style and, in some spots, to have mistranslated…
Who Wants a Second Helping of “The Wedding Banquet”?
It takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event of the title, but it’s worth the wait. The bride, Wei-Wei (May Chin), and the groom, Wai-Tung (Winston Chao), look…
Mistaking Mary Magdalene | The New Yorker
Over the phone, Frykholm read aloud to me some of the passages that she had translated. “I am going to go up into one of those boats they have hired, and they will take care of me, even if they…
The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies
But it was Patient No. 7, treated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (chop), who altered the history of T-cell therapy. In May, 2010, a five-year-old girl named Emily Whitehead, from central Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)….
Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game
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 in-box. In the past few years, the comedian Nikki Glaser has breathed…
This Easter, with the Pope Ailing, Will the Catholic Church Stand Up to Donald Trump?
Every morning, a line forms at about six outside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, on West Thirty-first Street, near Penn Station, as it has done (with a few exceptions) since 1930; on average, there are two hundred and…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 17th
“Just wait till 2028 and things will go right back to how they were.”
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 16th
“Today, the Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case of People v. Guy Who Will Ignore the Ruling.”
Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump
In a thrillingly delightful surprise—and that’s understating it—to many of us who’ve been working in universities for much of our adult lives, Harvard chose not to accede to the Trump Administration’s threats to its federal funding and announced on Monday…
The Rise of the Fetal-Personhood Claim in the Anti-Abortion Movement
“I believe this is the civil-rights violation of our lifetime.” In a startling new investigation, Sarah Stillman reports on the people who are neglected and starving to death in prison—and the private companies and government officials behind the crisis. But,…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 14th
“No need to worry about our retirement funds—have you seen what these Trader Joe’s tote bags are reselling for?”
Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Adam Levin reads his story “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” from the April 21, 2025, issue of the magazine….
Restaurant Review: Gjelina Imports the Fantasy of L.A.
Is Gjelina, with its three locations, a chain now? It’s certainly more than just a restaurant. Lett left the Gjelina Group in 2019, selling his stake back to the founder, Fran Camaj (whose mother is the restaurant’s namesake). The company…
What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week
Just after 1 p.m. this past Wednesday, President Trump posted a statement on Truth Social saying that he was pausing, for ninety days, the historically steep, economically nonsensical Liberation Day tariffs on virtually the entire world, which he had announced…
Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul?
On the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler Logan Paul mounts a PowerPoint pitch for his fiancée, the Danish supermodel Nina Agdal, in order to convince her that…
Why the Tech Giant Nvidia May Own the Future. Plus, Joshua Rothman on Taking A.I. Seriously
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. The microchip maker Nvidia is a Silicon Valley colossus. After years…
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 11
“Sure, the superintelligence has its flaws. But think about how much the technology will improve even just a year from now.”
Trump’s Do-Over Presidency | The New Yorker
Amid the chaos of a week when the world nearly witnessed its first global depression caused by the caprice of a single man, Donald Trump took some time to reflect on another recent demonstration of Presidential power—his January order for…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 10th
“It was at this point, gentlemen, that the President decided it was his plan all along to reverse course.”
Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism
The former senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the tumult that Donald Trump’s tariffs have inflicted on the global economy, and why progressives should not merely oppose the President’s trade policy but offer a clear alternative….
The Civilians on the Other Side of Signalgate
“They have hearts broken into pieces.” A report on the recent U.S. air strikes in Yemen, where more than fifty people, including children, were killed, after plans were discussed in the Administration’s infamous group chat. Also in today’s newsletter: The…
The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever
The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than London’s Sir John Soane museum, broader in scope and more distinguished than Paris’s Jacquemart-André—that its return after a few years…
At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
In the very first paragraph of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual for a second Trump Administration, battle lines over history are drawn: “America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the…
The Shameless Redemption Tour of Jonathan Majors
What decade is “Magazine Dreams,” a spiritually stifled drama about a bodybuilder driven to fits of chemically induced rage, set in? In the early moments of the film, written and directed by Elijah Bynum, everything about the fashion, the setting,…
Capturing the Spirit of a City on Fire
Online, personal accounts of loss gave way to stories about helping those in distress. Friendly, who’d been feeling helpless as he watched the apocalyptic news, observed this shift in his feed. “I was seeing all these donation sites and volunteer…
A Win for Democracy in South Korea
South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of the country’s President, removing him from office. E. Tammy Kim, who covered Yoon Suk-yeol’s brief declaration of martial law, in December, and the protests that followed, reflects on the challenges to democracy…
Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy
By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable. Trump opened the affair, which he had billed as America’s “Liberation Day,” with a rant about the dire state of…
The Truth About Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”
After weeks of nervous anticipation in the financial markets and in the capitals of America’s trading partners, Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have arrived, and, even by his standards, they are shockingly high and wide-ranging. “For decades our country has…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 2nd
“Wow—I’d just assumed your profile picture was A.I.-generated.”
The Fired Student-Debt Relievers at the Department of Education
Like many employees of Ed and the F.S.A., Gittleman had her critiques of the system. “A society should not be forcing people into an untenable financial situation in order to get ahead,” she said. The Ombudsman Group was necessary because…
The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act
Throughout the fall and winter, Alexis Romero de Hernández struggled to accept a grim new routine. She lived in a small town in central Venezuela called Capacho, with her husband and the younger of her two sons. Her eldest, a…
Li’l Kayla Endures It All
“Precious Rubbish,” a début graphic novel by Kayla E., a book designer turned cartoonist, delivers an unflinching look at the author’s coming-of-age in a rural fundamentalist community in Texas. “Li’l Kayla,” who divides her time between her estranged parents, grapples…
The Second Season of “Wolf Hall” Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor
In the first season of the Tudor-era drama “Wolf Hall,” Anne Boleyn’s brief queendom was undone by rumors. Just three years after she became the second of Henry VIII’s six wives, in 1533, Anne (played by Claire Foy) landed in…
Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point
Keith Meister, in the operating room of his private practice, draws a six-centimetre line on the elbow of a baseball pitcher. He slices the elbow open and stares into a mix of ligaments, tendons, and bone—any of which could be…
Welcome to the Preschool Plague Years
Last September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and the particular high-wattage, full-dimple grin she usually reserves for dashing gleefully into our bedroom at seven-thirty in the morning. Like…
Why Do We Want to Believe That Jim Morrison Is Still Alive?
There’s something that has always struck me as undeniably teen-age about loving the Doors, and particularly its lead singer, Jim Morrison. The rock group, which was active for only eight years, from 1965 until two years after Morrison’s death, at…
Inside the Homes of the Ultra-Rich
Secret-keepers of the rich and famous. Reporting from Palm Beach, Florida, where power is amassing among the affluent—and among their staff. Plus: Illustration by Nicholas Konrad Illustration by Nicholas Konrad Emily Witt Witt has been writing about politics, culture, sexuality, and…
Richard Brody’s New Directors/New Films Picks
Beguiling blends of fiction and nonfiction are the highlights of this year’s edition of the New Directors/New Films series, at Film at Lincoln Center and MOMA, April 2-13. “Fiume o Morte!” (April 4-5), by the Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović, is…
Will Trump’s Gulf of America Power Trip Break the White House Press Corps?
Is there any stupider—or more revealing—scandal of the many that Donald Trump has already unleashed in his second term than the President’s sudden, arbitrary decision last month to ban the Associated Press from the White House press pool because its…
Will Trump’s Obsession with Space Save NASA?
The writer David W. Brown, who has long covered NASA and the space industry, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Elon Musk’s takeover of NASA, the agency’s increasingly complicated relationship with SpaceX, and whether Donald Trump’s interest in sending people to…
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2025 So Far
Carter, a former editor of Spy, the New York Observer, and Vanity Fair, has been held up over the years as a force of style, both in his personal taste and in his expansive vision of creative work, which grew…
Is Turkey’s Declining Democracy a Model for Trump’s America?
Last week, Turkish authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and the expected leading challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the country’s next Presidential election, scheduled for 2028. Imamoğlu, who is a member of the Republican People’s Party (C.H.P.),…
The Long Shadow of the Kennedys
Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely worth a baleful look that more of the so-called Kennedy files, which the National Archives released last week, on Donald…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 24th
“I called you here to share my ‘White Lotus’ theories.”
Is March Madness All Luck?
The beauty of March Madness is that anything can happen. The horror of March Madness is that, really, anything can happen. Unlike the college-football playoffs—which are highly restrictive, and weighted toward bigger schools from powerhouse conferences—the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament features…
Bryan Washington Reads “Hatagaya Lore”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Bryan Washington reads his story “Hatagaya Lore,” from the March 31, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner…
Disney’s “Snow White” Remake Whistles But Doesn’t Work
Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during the early days of pandemic lockdown, may recall the video montage she beamed out of herself and other celebrities, all…
Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
A mother is currently suing Character AI, a company that promotes “AIs that feel alive,” over the suicide of her fourteen-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III. Screenshots show that, in one exchange, the boy told his romantic A.I. companion that he…
How a Liquor-Store Assistant Manager Became Trump’s Liaison to NASA
In today’s newsletter, startling discoveries while reporting on Trump’s efforts to remake NASA in his own image, and then: Illustration by Todd St. John Inside Trump and Musk’s Takeover of NASA David W. BrownBrown has been writing about NASA and…
Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 21st
“Business is bad because no one wants to know the future.”
Donald Trump, Producer-in-Chief | The New Yorker
On Monday, Donald Trump attended his first board meeting at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since installing himself as its chairman and firing its leadership. During the session, he surveyed board members about which musical was better—“Les Misérables”…
Could We Store Our Data in DNA?
A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year. It all adds up: PowerPoints and selfies; video captured by cameras; electronic health records;…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 19th
“Oh, and try to have everyone fill out one of these.”
Jonathan Anderson’s Confidence and Ambition
In today’s newsletter, Rebecca Mead with a deeply reported portrait of Jonathan Anderson, the creative director who just announced his departure from the luxury brand Loewe. And then, E. Tammy Kim looks at the DOGE cuts that could harm military…
Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog
Scott grew up in Baltimore, in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, “thinking that the government was an honorable place to work.” His grandfathers were Westinghouse engineers who conducted state-funded research. His parents were public-school music teachers. “Kids used to make fun…
The Girl Who Gave Me Hope for Gaza
In late 2024, shortly before a ceasefire curbed the violence in Gaza, I was on a monthlong medical mission to Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza, lending my emergency-medicine expertise to local doctors. Most of these doctors were displaced themselves, their…
The Case of Mahmoud Khalil
Last Saturday evening, a recent Columbia University graduate student named Mahmoud Khalil was greeted in the lobby of his apartment building, in Morningside Heights, by four plainclothes agents from the Department of Homeland Security. They said that his student visa…
Joyce Carol Oates on a New Jersey Adventure
Your story “The Frenzy” describes a weekend trip to Cape May, New Jersey, taken by a married father in his forties and the nineteen-year-old woman he calls his “teen-aged mistress.” How did the story begin for you? Did the idea…
The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the ideological underpinnings of Elon Musk’s DOGE with the former Democratic operative and San…
The Unsettling Cheer of “The Baldwins”
Early on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young innocent Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) arrives in Los Angeles from small-town Ontario to pursue her dream of becoming an actress….
What Happens When Elvis Goes Missing
In today’s newsletter, what the case of Mahmoud Khalil tells us about the Administration’s attitude toward free speech. But, first, inside the mystery of a stolen Elvis bust. Illustration by Antonio Giovanni Pinna The Case of the Missing Elvis…
The Strange Experimental-Theatre Experience Giving New Meaning to “Show, Don’t Tell”
Somewhere in London’s theatre district—I can’t say where—there’s a nondescript office building with a neon sign in the lobby that reads, in blue cursive script, “You Me Bum Bum Train.” The illuminated sign, and the handful of nervous-looking people that…
Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do?
If there’s one truth Donald Trump seems to have absorbed in his seventy-eight years, it is that there are advantages to lying all the time—foremost among them that no one knows when you’re bluffing and when you actually mean what…
Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Recession?
The staff writer John Cassidy joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the recent meltdown of the U.S. stock market, Donald Trump’s long-standing support for tariffs, and what the potential death of an American-dominated free-trade system could mean for the global economy….
“Mayhem,” Reviewed: Lady Gaga’s Return to Form
In the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length studio album, “Born This Way,” did something unexpected—at least for a pop star of snowballing fame. I’m not talking about…
The Maddening Disconnect of Phone Therapy in “Happy to Help You,” featuring Amy Sedaris
Two individuals, each with plenty of issues and their own communication quirks, collide on opposite ends of a mental-health helpline in Jeremy Beiler’s short film “Happy to Help You.” Amy Sedaris plays Nora, who reluctantly calls in after losing her…
The Past and Future of Greenland
When President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress last week, people in Greenland listened very closely. Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, is holding a general election on March 11th, and Trump’s interest in annexing or purchasing the…
Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits
When, last month, the preposterously gifted twenty-year-old pianist Yunchan Lim played Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, in Costa Mesa, California, the crowd responded with one of the loudest noises I’ve lately heard in a…
Louisa Thomas on John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”
The original idea was an assignation. On a dreary Wednesday in September, 1960, John Updike, “falling in love, away from marriage,” took a taxi to see his paramour. But, he later wrote, she didn’t answer his knock, and so he…
Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li…
America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived?
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable speaks with Jeffrey Rosen, the president and C.E.O. of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan…
Travelling Through India on the Himsagar Express
These young men had very little education. With some difficulty, Kumar, who was twenty-six, could write in Hindi his name and a brief description of the work that he did. In the years preceding independence, while in a British jail…
Menopause Is So Hot Right Now
In today’s newsletter, the shock of menopause—and why each generation thinks they’re the first to experience it. And then: A growing number of physicians are studying and treating menopause. They’re known, among themselves at least, as the “menoposse.” Photo illustration…
The Mini Crossword: Friday, March 7, 2025
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 6th
Sarah Kempa’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Elon Musk and DOGE’s firing of federal workers and conflicting orders regarding five accomplishments.
How Many Immigrants Will Die in U.S. Custody?
A cluster of Customs and Border Protection jails stretches from the Rio Grande to the Pacific; farther north, they dot the woods and mountains along the Canadian frontier. Most of the jails are austere, even by the grim standards of…
What Putin Wants Now | The New Yorker
Last week’s calamitous meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky made clear the disdain Trump has for Zelensky, and Trump’s determination to end the war in Ukraine on terms favorable to Vladimir Putin. Afterward, Zelensky rushed back across the Atlantic,…
Can Higher Education Survive? | The New Yorker
Trump’s trade war has officially begun. In today’s newsletter, a breakdown on what the tariffs might mean. But, first, reporting on a year of protest at university campuses—and what will happen now that the President has threatened to cut federal…
David Johansen’s Debauched, Preening Brilliance
This past Friday, the singer David Johansen, perhaps best known as the debauched, preening front man of the New York Dolls, a band essential to the genesis of punk rock in New York City in the nineteen-seventies, died of cancer,…
The Oscars Go Indie | The New Yorker
In today’s newsletter, our critics take in a silly, and strikingly apolitical, night at the Oscars. And then: Mikey Madison. Photograph by Kevin Winter / Getty Erin Neil Newsletter editor The ninety-seventh Academy Awards began with an homage to Los Angeles,…
Join My Matreon! | The New Yorker
Family, here’s some big news: I have just launched a Matreon account, and I’m inviting you to be a part of this exciting community! I know what you’re thinking: Mom, why should I pay for all the great content I’ve…
Can Hallucinations Be Completely Eliminated in AI?
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Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Colm Tóibín reads his story “Five Bridges,” from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Tóibín, a…
Oscars 2025 Live Updates: The Nominees Gather in Los Angeles
Photograph by Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty The Academy Awards will take place this evening in Los Angeles, and The New Yorker is covering all of the action. Michael Schulman is our on-the-ground correspondent at the Dolby Theatre, where…
Roberta Flack’s Musical Transformations | The New Yorker
The expansive machinery of loss contains many moving parts, interconnected tragedies that occasionally become interconnected blessings. There is the tragedy and blessing of time, which opens up to the tragedy and blessing of memory. I find myself wandering through a…
How Cyber Weapons Are Changing the Landscape of Modern Warfare
In the weeks before two Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers were attacked, on June 13th, in the Gulf of Oman—acts which the United States attributes to Iran—American military strategists were planning a cyberattack on critical parts of that country’s digital…
Trump and Zelensky’s Stunning Fight
In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump and J. D. Vance berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on live television today. The moment marks a pivotal shift in foreign policy. Plus: • What will Democratic resistance look like?• David Remnick in conversation with…
Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered
Widespread news reports on Wednesday said that the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has recommended the reversal of the long-standing federal position that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public. That recommendation is, on…
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Renewed “Dreams” at the Berlin Film Festival
Film-festival juries are consistently inconsistent, and often arbitrarily assembled. Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film world—directors, screenwriters, actors, and, on occasion, critics—are brought together to manufacture the illusion of consensus. Even so, certain organizing principles…
Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?
“Obviously, it’s a biological phenomenon, but it also is largely a cultural phenomenon,” the staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus says.
Jericho Brown Reads Elizabeth Alexander
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Jericho Brown joins Kevin Young to read “When,” by Elizabeth Alexander,…
The Apocalyptic Decline in Birth Rates
In today’s newsletter, Jon Lee Anderson’s personal experiences with U.S.A.I.D. But, first, a new story from Gideon Lewis-Kraus digs into how nobody is having children anymore. Plus: If current trends hold, each generation in Korea will be a third the…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 25th
“Look, I totally get it. But it’s been two days now—maybe it’s time to get out of the bath?”
A Moment of Dizzying Upheaval in the Ukraine War
In today’s newsletter, a report on the Ukrainian spy who is accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. But, first, reflections on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, at a perilous geopolitical moment. Plus: A memorial ceremony marking the…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 24th
“Elon Musk says I have to justify my job, then forward his e-mail to ten federal employees, or I’ll have bad luck.”
Restaurant Review: Sunn’s and Ha’s Snack Bar Lay Down Roots
Lee opened Sunn’s in partnership with the wine maven Grant Reynolds, of Parcelle, who oversees the quite excellent wine program; as befits such a petite restaurant, the list is small but mighty, and by-the-glass options are limited to one red,…
The New Trump-Family Megaphone | The New Yorker
Late last month, after President Donald Trump suggested that diversity initiatives were to blame for a plane crash in Washington, Lara Trump, who is married to Trump’s son Eric, went on Fox News to defend her father-in-law. “We should never…
Before He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in Ohio
Back in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in Kansas City, in the nineteen-sixties: the Crystals, the Drifters, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Ike & Tina Turner. There were…
Texas’s Barbecue Schism | The New Yorker
Seventeen years ago, on assignment for The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin travelled through central Texas on a barbecue-themed road trip. He was with editors from Texas Monthly, which had just published its top fifty barbecue joints in the state, a…
How the Tiger Really Got His Stripes
Imagine grasshoppers distributed evenly across a dry field. As the temperature rises, the grasshoppers start to sweat. The field catches fire in a few spots and starts to spread. But the perspiration of the hoppers (profuse!) inhibits the fire’s growth….
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Donald Trump’s Putinization of America
No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming from the President of the United States. In 2018, at a press conference in Helsinki, Trump announced that he accepted…
We’d Never Had a King Until This Week
I grew up in the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, the self-styled “birthplace of American liberty,” and my first summer job was giving tours of the Battle Green. I would plunk my tricorne hat atop my head and meet the incoming…
Jak skonfigurować pocztę e-mail na komputerze Dell?
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The Consequences of Trump’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care
In today’s newsletter, the trans kids losing access to care, and then: Photograph by John Trotter Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here? Families in New York and beyond are considering whether even liberal cities are safe. The executive order…
Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women
In “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee’s best-selling début novel, the protagonist, Casey Han, is the ambitious daughter of Korean immigrants, who struggles to balance her aspiration with the pressures of tradition as she rises through the world of…
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The Humans Teaching Birds to Migrate
In today’s newsletter, Nick Paumgarten on his reporting about the painstaking, quixotic efforts to save an endangered species, and then: Our devastation of nature is so extreme that to fix it can take quixotic efforts.Photograph by Mathias Depardon Nick PaumgartenPaumgarten…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 18th
“We’ve replaced all our screens at home with relentless immersion in the here and now.”
The Crossword: Monday, February 17, 2025
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The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and Rachel Aviv Win Polk Awards
Two New Yorker staff writers were announced on Monday as winners of this year’s George Polk Awards, among the highest honors in journalism. Jane Mayer, the magazine’s chief Washington correspondent, was recognized in the political-reporting category for an exposé revealing…
Restaurant Review: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch
There’s something almost ritualistically precise about the Hawaiian plate lunch. A scoop of pale macaroni salad, almost quietly radical in its steadfast, defiant plainness, nestles next to two scoops of white rice (it must be two, never three, never one)….
The Tragedy and Farce of Luka Dončić’s Trade
There have been worse trades than the one that sent Luka Dončić from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis, along with Max Christie and a future first-round draft pick. Here’s one: in 1919,…
The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes
Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly alike. I remember this idea blowing…
The A.C.L.U. vs. Trump 2.0
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 in-box. In Donald Trump’s first term in office, the American Civil Liberties…
The Strategy Behind Trump’s Defiance of the Law
In an essay from 1897 that has been read by generations of law students, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., describes the law simply as “the prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious.” In other words,…
What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts
Since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, scholars of authoritarianism have warned that American democracy is under grave threat. On various occasions, that threat has been defined as a “constitutional crisis,” which generally refers to a branch of…
J. D. Vance Brawls with the Bishops Over the Trump-Musk Agenda
Since Inauguration Day, as President Trump has sought to break the federal government, Christian leaders—tangling with Trump and, particularly, with his Vice-President, J. D. Vance have wound up in a public dustup over the nature of charity. The dispute was…
A Glow of Discovery in the Chill of Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work from bold new filmmakers into a fickle, yet potentially receptive, movie-loving world. But, for some of us, its mere mention…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 10th
“Weather forecast in a moment, but, first, here’s Jen with the latest in sports.”