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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.

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Donald Trump’s Assault on Disability Rights

Eight years ago, Sara Fernandez flew into Newark, New Jersey, on her way back from the Dominican Republic, where her boyfriend lived. As she was going through airport security, she heard a T.S.A. agent say to one of his colleagues, “Do I need to pick her up and put her through the scanner?” Fernandez has […]

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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 emigrated from Venezuela. For eight years, Un operated Kreung, an acclaimed pop-up whose explorations of […]

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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 winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Prize in the […]

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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 told me, and began organizing a vigil. He enlisted the help of his best friend, […]

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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 of its belief in both the character and the entire enterprise. Take, for instance, Friday […]

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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 was killed on Wednesday during a speech on a college campus. The panel considers whether […]

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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 solution—in which Israel would exist side by side with the Palestinian state, with both states […]

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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 explanation for why it had happened. But, in Washington, those who profess certainty no longer […]

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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 F. Kennedy, Jr.—a surprise guest—endorsed him. Gold streamers made to look like they were on […]

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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.

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The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist

The judges for the category this year are Kate Daniels, author of the recent poetry collection “In the Months of My Son’s Recovery”; Terrance Hayes, whose collection “Lighthead” won the 2010 National Book Award; H. Melt, author of “There Are Trans People Here”; Anis Mojgani, who recently served as Oregon’s tenth poet laureate; and Caridad […]

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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 who has contributed reporting and criticism since 1997. Sometimes when interviewing a subject, particularly a […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 9th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 8th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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“Voyagers!,” by Bryan Washington

You didn’t want to go on this trip, Ronny said. You just wanted to get away from your boring husband.

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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, including “Memorial” and “Family Meal.” A new novel, “Palaver,” will be published later this year.

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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 some thirty feet in the air, the woman shrugged and said that it was unfortunate […]

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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 tearing down an Art Deco treasure, the old Bonwit Teller building, and replacing it with […]

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Anna Wintour Doesn’t Look Back

“Nobody at Vogue moves at a glacial pace.” Anna Wintour speaks with David Remnick about how the magazine she’s helmed for decades is about to change. Plus: Illustration by Diego Mallo Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue The longtime editor and executive talks about appointing her successor, the arc of her career, and […]

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The Ministry of Joyce McDonald’s Sculptures

Terence Davies, who died in 2023, at the age of seventy-seven, is the most original modern British director. He was in his forties when he made his first feature, “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” an autobiographical drama about his harsh childhood in nineteen-fifties Liverpool, which is filled with spontaneous singing—and with the looming menace of an […]

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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 do to protect themselves this fall. Plus: For many patients, COVID vaccines will be harder […]

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Ranking Things from Quiet Luxury to Loud Luxury

A Loro Piana sweater. Wearing a Loro Piana sweater on a yacht. Wearing a Loro Piana sweater on a yacht that’s strategically anchored in international waters so as to avoid any criminal financial culpability. Organic blueberries. Buying organic blueberries from a weekday farmers’ market. Buying organic blueberries from a weekday farmers’ market after laying off […]

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Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced

As I watch the Trump White House and its orbiting debris field of oddballs and charlatans, a single long-ago movie scene keeps returning to my mind. In “Annie Hall,” waiting in line in a movie theatre, Woody Allen’s character becomes irritated by a guy behind him, an academic blowhard pontificating to his date about the […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 2nd

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 1st

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 tough trick to pull off. The kitchen needs to turn out three meals a day […]

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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 fame in part owing to his conspiracy theories about vaccinations, pushed to fire Susan Monarez, […]

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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, is Epstein’s tie. “It had a giant, seemed like a ketchup stain on it,” she […]

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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 and forced to come up with an explanation. Occasionally, Brown, who makes mesmerizing, lovelorn music […]

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Fred Armisen on “100 Sound Effects”

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 comedian Fred Armisen has a thing for sound. He’s a former punk musician and a master of accents, and he is now releasing a new […]

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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 are “ruining our country” and about the transformative power of his tariffs, which, he insisted, […]

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A Letter from Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, told a top administration official she never saw President Trump engage in improper or illegal acts during his long friendship with Mr. Epstein, according to transcripts. —The Times. From: Inmate #02879-509, Federal Prison Camp, Bryan I’m writing this at 3 A.M. in my cell, since […]

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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 consider why groups that Democrats once counted on—from young people to communities of color—are shifting […]

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Racing Mount Pleasant Makes Quiet Emotions Sound Grand

The Frank O’Hara poem “Katy” features seven lines of self-assessing declarations. It is the fifth line that I get the most mileage out of: “I am never quiet, I mean silent.” When I am teaching writing workshops, specifically with young writers, teen-agers who—in many cases—have not let their sense of wonder be battered by waves […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 26th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 one unfold on a recent morning, the Speaker pro tempore presided over the customary reading […]

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Nathan Heller on E. B. White’s Paragraph About the Moon Landing

The New Yorker was in its infancy when it discovered Elwyn Brooks White, who made his first contribution in 1925, the year of the magazine’s founding. By the following spring, he was writing everything from cartoon captions to editorials, all of which would help establish its manner and voice. The New Yorker’s founding editor, Harold […]

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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 remains open, but Santo Taco, unlike its predecessor, is very much its own raison d’être. […]

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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 outside the White House into the streets—though only as far as a U.S. Park Police […]

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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 there without ever knowing of the studio’s existence. One afternoon in 2014, she was out […]

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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 about the F.B.I.’s Friday-morning raids targeting the former Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton. By […]

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 22nd

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 of the coloring caused cancer in rats. (According to a 1960 law, no food additive […]

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 21st

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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.

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The Redemption of Chance the Rapper

When Chance the Rapper declared “I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail” on “Ultralight Beam,” the opener from West’s 2016 album, “The Life of Pablo,” the sentiment seemed self-evident. West was at the height of his cultural influence and had handpicked Chance, a fellow Chicago native, as his protégé—the successor to the soul-drenched, […]

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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 Monday. Photograph by Aaron Schwartz / CNP / Bloomberg / Getty Ian CrouchNewsletter editor Volodymyr […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 19th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 of antisemitism• May the best Met win Bondi, one former official said, is turning the […]

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 18th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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A Season of Unease at the Edinburgh Festival

For a few weeks each August, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe fill every theatre, student center, lecture hall, and pub basement in the Scottish capital with performances. Visitors and artists are encouraged to binge in every sense: in just six days, I was able to see twenty-eight shows—I know stronger, better […]

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“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 said, No, not in a million years. What on earth am I doing here? It […]

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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, that Dijon, a thirty-three-year-old songwriter, so casually tempers this talent, tucking his voice into lo-fi, […]

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Always Inadequate | The New Yorker

In the late nineteen-sixties I lived for a year, with my then husband, in the middle of an apple orchard in northern New Mexico, some miles from the glorious Rio Grande Gorge. Our adobe house was equipped with nothing but electricity—no plumbing, no running water—so a fair amount of physical labor was necessary to get […]

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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 followed by multiple friendly handshakes, a cordial pat or two on the arm, and a […]

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 15th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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“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 in Moscow,” a film that otherwise does not overflow with amusements. In this gripping, fiercely […]

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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 and state-run facilities, the changes to long-standing arrest protocols, and the strategic transfers designed to […]

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 13th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 test?• A.I. might not get much better than this• How virtual-reality furries helped save a […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 12th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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, Marc Fisher on D.C.’s nonexistent crime emergency. And, then: Letter from the Editor Illustration by […]

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 11th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 military has taken control of seventy-five per cent of the rest of the territory. Netanyahu’s […]

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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 rubric Letter from Paris. Instead of telling readers what they needed to know—that was what […]

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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.

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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 take it personally. Or maybe do. You profit-drunk, hubris-crazed humans probably brought this on yourselves. […]

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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 summer, most movie theatres were air-conditioned: even as characters sweated, viewers chilled. Here are a […]

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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 you on the roof?” one journalist asked, when the President suddenly appeared on the flat-top […]

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 7th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 law for Vanity Fair and elsewhere. It is now India’s turn to face a fresh […]

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The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.

The app Tea is a kind of digital whisper network for women. No men are allowed to join. Those who wish to be members must submit evidence, including selfies, in order to prove that they are women. Once they’ve been admitted, users have access to profiles of men annotated with information such as background checks […]

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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 immediately, to insure that greater quantities of aid are allowed into the territory. American negotiators […]

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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 crockery vender; by the turn of the twentieth century, he had made millions as a […]

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 4th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 aboard what looks like a private jet. They vary in size—Hugo is a petite tawny […]

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Kiran Desai Reads “An Unashamed Proposal”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Kiran Desai reads her story “An Unashamed Proposal,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” and “The Inheritance of Loss,” […]

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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 in sorrow. Brown’s jaw gently churns, his eyes go glassy, and the muscles around his […]

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The Crossword: Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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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 saw that President Donald Trump issued an order, which was subsequently suspended, imposing blanket tariffs […]

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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.) I’ve also visited John F. Kennedy’s library, in Boston, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s, in Austin, […]

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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 as himself: there is “real starvation” happening in Gaza as a result of Israel’s continuing […]

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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 “Have I Got News for You,” on CNN. The group discusses the significance of CBS’s […]

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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, so tiny and malnourished that I initially mistook her for a newborn. The phrase ‘skin […]

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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 yesterday in Manhattan remain so hard to prevent. Plus: • Training cops to be like […]

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Worlds in Rooms | The New Yorker

I think that sometimes, when we look at art, we’re hoping to recapture a piece of our past—a golden time when we had a deep and unforgettable experience with a painting, a photograph, or a drawing, when we were struck not only by its beauty but by its power to make us feel included in […]

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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 satire makes it to the Wednesday matinée, it will do so by being so precisely […]

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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 the world seriously, available in mainstream magazines. That was the ocean in which Rachel Carson […]

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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 a sentence of one to twenty years. He was Michael Hardwick, a twenty-eight-year-old bartender who […]

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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 coverage of DOGE, and what Elon Musk’s experience in Washington taught Silicon Valley leaders. “They […]

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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 new edition confirms the collection’s status not merely as a beautifully constructed document of its […]

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 25th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 way through an English Catholic family is beautifully and heartbreakingly rendered in prose, but listening […]

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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 through shadowed walls and along hallways, seeing briefly framed in the recesses of a room […]

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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 volatile, rapidly changing hazard.Photograph from ABC affiliate KSAT / Reuters Erin NeilNewsletter editor At the […]

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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 not a regular physician, I’m a little special. Have you heard of DEI? Kind of, […]

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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 against a very male theatre season• Why Trump is attacking pro-Palestinian students• Louisa May Alcott’s […]

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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, and Alcott put down her manuscript to care for her. “Wrote on a new book—‘Success’—till […]

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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 to consider whether to grant a preliminary injunction—which, in the normal course, would put a […]

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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 author of four books of fiction, including “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat […]

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“The Chartreuse,” by Mona Awad

She could feel the mirror shining in her dark bedroom closet. Waiting for the offering.

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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 the right-field bleachers, several rows behind Ted Williams’s red seat. I can see the bulge […]

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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. The building was riddled with shrapnel scars; its hallways were dark and cluttered with debris, […]

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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 write a late-night show. I eat seven hundred words for breakfast.” In actuality, I host […]

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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, spoken word, electronic music, soul. A self-described “identity crisis” left him searching for something that […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 15th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 USA” finale (warning: spoilers ahead). Plus: As new ways of fighting are being invented in […]

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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 match of his life, one of the best ever, and was crowned champion; only five […]

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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, often scribbled in pencil by a junior officer—and placed advertisements in Bradford newspapers, asking to […]

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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 the author of the story collection “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021 and […]

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The Annual Agony of Yearning for a Homegrown Wimbledon Champion

Murray was like Banquo’s ghost at this year’s Wimbledon. He retired from tennis last summer, nineteen years after his début at the championships. Two days before this year’s tournament began, he drove past the venue and, for the first time since he put away his racquet, he wished that he were playing. The following evening, […]

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Earth’s Poet of Scale | The New Yorker

If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and consuming: the transformation of the atmosphere. Nothing else comes close in scale to the chemical disruption of the air—the flood of CO2 now rapidly overheating the Earth and producing a series […]

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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: Since The New Yorker’s founding, the magazine’s Fiction department has sought out stories from celebrated […]

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Carrie Brownstein on a Portrait of Cat Power by Richard Avedon

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 The New Yorker’s series Takes, Carrie Brownstein—the co-creator of Sleater-Kinney and “Portlandia”—writes about an enduring rock-and-roll image. In the summer of 2003, the musician Chan […]

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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: • Lena Dunham’s “Too Much” revitalizes the rom-com genre• What should a museum smell like?• […]

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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 judge hearing the case to ignore the unpleasant fact that, as a candidate, Donald Trump […]

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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.

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Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism

Since its inception, in 2000, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which works with local governments to bring vaccines to low-income countries, has helped administer 1.9 billion vaccines and reached a billion children. Global vaccination work has nearly halved the global infant-mortality rate, saved more than a hundred and fifty million lives, prevented innumerable costly hospitalizations and […]

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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 Guadalupe River, at Camp Mystic, Hunt, Texas.Photograph by Marco Bello / Reuters Erin NeilNewsletter editor […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 8th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 also about how often the camp sends photos, in which your child may or may […]

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Bonus Daily Cartoon: Catching Up

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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Restaurant Review: JR & Son

JR & Son is a new-old establishment that conjures the past while deliciously disrupting expectations.

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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. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, […]

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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 it is so complex.” Papageorge is drawn to formally challenging scrums, which his photos transform […]

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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.

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U2’s Bono on the Power of Music

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. In 2022, The New Yorker published a personal history about growing up in Ireland during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. It covers the interfaith marriage of the […]

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The Tragedy of the Diddy Trial

Sean Combs mouthed “thank you” to the jurors, his hands clasped in prayer. The intricacies of their deliberations will be revealed later on, in the requisite television interviews, but, as of Wednesday morning, what mattered was that Combs had been acquitted of the racketeering and sex-trafficking charges that would have put him away for life. […]

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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 myths that make up her identity• Mussolini’s pet propagandist and, later, a literary cult hero […]

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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. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Eileen,” for which […]

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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 and graduate students at U.C.L.A., many of whom are the first in their families to […]

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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” from the author about the work that inspired her. Plus: June 17 & 24, 2002 […]

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“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.

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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 the East Coast turned to afternoon, word would spread. Something was happening, something not to […]

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The Grim State of Trans Health Care

This weekend, as raucous parties and strident Pride marches take place across New York City, many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community are in a less than celebratory mood. At best, the vibe is ambivalent, with local political victories overshadowed by ominous national news. Trans people, in particular, are grappling with the painful political disappointments of the […]

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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 to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities more than a week into Israel’s war against Iran. Members […]

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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 Guevara that her husband, who had just been detained by ICE agents, had walked into […]

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 27th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 suck-uppery—the more egregious, the better, and ideally combined with a few strategic rounds of golf […]

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 26th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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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 polling station during the New York City mayoral Democratic primary. Photograph by Christian Monterrosa / […]

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The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”

Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical attack: the kind that instinctively finds fault with the derivative. This is a subset of splatter cinema that endures, in no small part, by feeding on its own touchstones. The sinewy, politically charged masterworks of […]

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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. Plus: “Trump’s election as President has been considered a bigger threat to our security than […]

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 24th

“As New Yorkers cast their ballots today, the current leader in the polls is a four-billion-B.T.U. air-conditioner.”

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Trump and Co. Mask Up Like ICE

Why take any chances?

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 23rd

“We have no concrete idea what we did, what comes next, or what it means for the globe, but other than that it was a spectacular military success!”

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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 the families of Israeli hostages languishing in the tunnels of Gaza. Under previous Israeli Prime […]

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The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in Iran

On Saturday, President Donald Trump brought the United States into Israel’s war against Iran. American planes and submarines struck three sites in Iran, including two nuclear enrichment facilities—at Natanz and Fordow—and a complex near Isfahan that was believed to contain stores of uranium. The Israeli government had been pushing for Trump to strike, in part […]

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Donald Trump Bombs Iran, and America Waits

The United States joined Israel in its war against the Islamic Republic of Iran on Saturday night as President Donald Trump ordered American bombers to destroy three key nuclear sites. Just before 8 P.M., Trump went on Truth Social to deliver the news: We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites […]

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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 vacant retail space in Tribeca. The man, wearing a black polo and slacks, looked up […]

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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 means. On the issue of gender-affirming medical treatments for trans children and adolescents, both sides […]

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 20th

“Hopefully we can have a productive dialogue, now that the Americans are sitting at the kids’ negotiating table.”

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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious. I got lucky—when I was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told me, explicitly and proudly, why I’d been pulled out of the customs line. “Look, we both know […]

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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 Saturday, it had reached ninety-five million. Dawn Nettles started getting worried. For the jackpot to […]

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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 of the Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and the growing […]

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 18th

“Does attending a Bruce Springsteen concert count as political activism now?”

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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, then, Robin Wright on Donald Trump’s statements about Iran. Plus: Each year, the United States […]

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James Frey’s New Novel, “Next to Heaven” Is as Bad as It Sounds

The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American Literature by The New York Times.” The copy does not discuss where this reputation came from—cigarettes? Motorcycles? You imagine Frey holding up a liquor store […]

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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 to be its Act Three, subtitled “Thanks Chuck,” an apocalyptic story centered on a schoolteacher, […]

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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.”

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Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and […]

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The Military’s Birthday Parade Rolls Quietly Through Trump’s 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 ceremony, before the big parade at night. Walking down Independence Avenue, a little before noon, […]

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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 film is all skin and id, meaner than any “Shaft” film, for the obvious reason, […]

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Trump Makes a Big Show of Military Force

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses President Trump’s deployment of uniformed troops in Los Angeles, the Administration’s attempt to blur the distinction between the military and law enforcement, and this weekend’s parade in D.C. to […]

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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 Mamdani, a democratic socialist who has served four years in the State Assembly. One is […]

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 13th

“And while all the grownups are busy freaking out about the erosion of norms and the rank partisanship that has crippled our democracy, we’ll steal all the candy!”

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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 cheering uniformed troops at what amounted to a political rally, and planned to hold a […]

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 12th

“Aren’t you excited that it’s finally summer?”

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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 history behind the Trump Administration’s threats to revoke Chinese students’ visas, how the COVID pandemic […]

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 11th

“Whaddya call a hundred lawyers suing the government? A good start.”

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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 Gritchen / The Orange County Register / AP Caroline Mimbs NyceNewsletter editor Much of the […]

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Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies

With movie adaptations of books, the essential virtue is audacity, the readiness to transform the source material. That’s equally true of documentaries, as seen in “Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s teeming new film about video stores (which is playing June 10th-12th at the Tribeca Film Festival). “Videoheaven” is inspired by “Videoland: Movie Culture at the American […]

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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 editor Parts of downtown Los Angeles are currently under lockdown. Police cars are everywhere and […]

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Immigration Protests Threaten to Boil Over in Los Angeles

On Friday and Saturday, federal officers descended on streets and workplaces across Los Angeles County to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants. There was a large raid at Ambiance Apparel, in the fashion district, and a showdown, thick with tear gas and flash-bang grenades, between protesters and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Paramount, in […]

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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 all manner of comment and complaint, as the host of “The Brian Lehrer Show,” which […]

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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. What drew you to this time and place? As our sense of norms and national […]

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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 the gym with the text “POV: doing bulgarian split squats.” A man with a mustache […]

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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 between maximalist rulers and the mega-wealthy have unfolded in history, and how this week’s fighting […]

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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 Tolkien gets going about Balin, son of Fundin, and Aragorn, son of Arathorn, I have […]

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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 that they either never happened or were actually proof of great success. On Wednesday, the […]

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 5th

Batten the hatches, check the gift registry, and don’t forget the DEET!

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The Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be King

The New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kofman’s recent Profile of the iconoclastic right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin. They discuss Yarvin’s desire to end American democracy by installing a monarch, whether his provocations can be seen as trolling, and how his writings have found a receptive audience among conservative politicians and […]

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 4th

“I’m just a bill, a big, beautiful bill, la-la-la, you get it, I’m cutting Medicaid.”

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Genius on the Half Shell

Portrait of a President.

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 3rd

“It buzzes when the President is ready to pardon me.”

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 2nd

“None of them thought to thank me when they won during the regular season, so this is as far as they go in the playoffs.”

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Jon Fosse on Writing as an Act of Listening

Your story “Elias” (translated, from the Norwegian, by Damion Searls) is the internal monologue of a man in a small village in Norway, a loner, with only one friend, from whom he is somewhat estranged. Elias is one of three narrators in your forthcoming novel “Vaim.” He plays a minor role in the actual plot […]

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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 Village,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Danticat, a […]

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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 photographs behind him. Salgado had a smooth shaved head and wild white eyebrows. In conversation, […]

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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 first of Austen’s novels to be written but among the last to be published. Austen […]

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The Mini Crossword: Friday, May 30, 2025

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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 social-media network he owns and had sought to weaponize in service of a radical cost-costing […]

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Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint

He poured the paint in layers and combed through it with an Afro pick. Or he froze and shattered it, reassembling the shards into new wholes. Like an alchemist, he altered its consistency with precisely calibrated tinctures. Like a hoodoo man, he infused it with ash, blood, and fragments of bone. His studio on Lispenard […]