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Cindy Sherman’s Grotesque Digital Creations
This kind of heavy digital intervention is a first for Sherman in a gallery context, but for years…
“The Runaway Princesses,” Episode 4: Hostage
After Latifa was captured, her supporters heard nothing until one day, more than a year later, her friend…
The New Yorker’s Luke Mogelson and Masha Gessen Win Polk Awards
Two New Yorker writers were announced on Monday as winners of this year’s Polk Awards in Journalism, which…
What Turned Crossword Constructing Into a Boys’ Club?
In July, 2013, Will Shortz, the New York Times’ longtime puzzle editor, asked me to be his assistant.…
The Bartender and the Lost Literary Masterpiece
In 2021, Jack Chadwick, a twenty-seven-year-old barman and part-time go-go dancer, was browsing the shelves of the Working…
The Swagger of Caitlin Clark
Coming into the game between the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan, on Thursday night, Iowa’s…
Trump’s Wild Pursuit of Presidential Immunity
In an application to the Supreme Court filed on Monday in a federal criminal case related to January…
Ladies, Lunch | The New Yorker
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What Jennifer Lopez Has to Say About Bennifer
I have to believe that somewhere in the multiverse, where a dancer of the supa-fly variety can climb…
Trump’s Threat to NATO Is the Scariest Kind of Gaffe: It’s Real
One prediction about the 2024 political season has already come true. The election year, to the delight of…
“ ’Round Midnight,” Revisited: A Feast of Music and Acting
Don’t trust the credits. Just as producer credits are sometimes handed out like bonuses, screenwriter credits often fail…
Do Democrats Have a Biden Backup Plan?
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Migrant-Crisis Fearmongering Wasn’t Enough to Hold George Santos’s Old Seat
Republicans famously hate “snowflakes”—overly fragile liberals who can’t handle any political heat. Some of the un-American, lily-livered ideas…
The Party of Nope
The G.O.P. unleashes the power of negative thinking.
“Argylle,” Reviewed: The I.P. Ouroboros That Hollywood Hath Wrought
The word “content” is a workhorse of the digital era, referring to any form of culture or media…
The Argument Over a Long-Standing Autism Intervention
When Tiffany Hammond was growing up in Texas, in the nineteen-nineties, other children teased her for how she…
How the Chiefs Became the Last Great American Dynasty
Did you really think that the Kansas City Chiefs were not going to win the Super Bowl? It’s…
Jon Ronson’s Guide to the Culture Wars
How did you come to May of 2020 as your unifying theme? Well, the first season of “Things…
Horse Crap, Momentum, and the Super Bowl
On January 28th, after the San Francisco 49ers won the N.F.C. Championship game, against the Detroit Lions, the…
Diary of an Abomination | The New Yorker
Emil Ferris’s début graphic novel, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” published when she was fifty-five, was a breakout…
Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
My first job in media was as an assistant at The American Prospect, a small political magazine in…
Can Joe Biden Squash Concerns About His Age?
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The Artist Holding Valuable Art Hostage to Protect Julian Assange
The project is called “Dead Man’s Switch,” and the “dead man” in question is the Australian WikiLeaks founder,…
The Supreme Court and the Risks of January 6, 2025
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday about Donald Trump’s possible disqualification from the Presidency as an insurrectionist,…
Greg Abbott’s Anti-Migrant Standoff at the Border
One of the first people I ran into at the “Take Our Border Back” convoy in Quemado, Texas,…
Why the Trump Ballot Case Is the Ultimate Test of Originalism
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What SCOTUS Has to Decide About Trump and Disqualification
Here is a look at how the Supreme Court Justices might view the text of Section 3 of…
Annals Of War News, Opinion, and Analysis—The New Yorker
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Donald Trump’s Chaos, Straight to Your In-Box
The epistolary novel, a literary genre that has included, among its entries, works like Samuel Richardson’s “Pamela” and…
Why Trump’s G.O.P. Sock Puppets Are Sinking a Bipartisan Effort to Tighten Up Border Security
Say what you will about Mitch McConnell—over the years, I’ve said plenty. The eighty-one-year-old Senate Minority Leader has…
The Dark Delights of a Millennial “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”
In the opening minutes of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s minor-key remix of the 2005…
Lily Gladstone Is Holding the Door Open
Life was different for Lily Gladstone in the summer of 2020. She had built up a small but…
The Secret Ingredient Behind a Breakfast-Taco Pop-Up
I think of myself as a morning person, but, still, I groaned and grumbled as I rolled out…
When the Party’s Over | The New Yorker
The writer-director Molly Manning Walker perched on a stool at the Bushwick bar Mood Ring the other night,…
The Deaf Artist Reinventing Conversation
For almost twenty years, Grigely has made an annual pilgrimage to Wilmington, New York, to think, to write,…
The Immigration Battle in Washington, and the Real Crisis at the Border
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An Impressive Jobs Report Shows the U.S. Economy Powering Into an Election Year
“Wow.” “Great!” “Holy Moly.” These were some of the online commentariat’s initial reactions to the U.S. Labor Department’s…
Noise Dept. | The New Yorker
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 1st
“Looks like another six centuries of winter.”
Why You Keep Seeing Biden Falling on Instagram
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The Risks in Attacking the Houthis in Yemen
Late on Monday of last week, the United States and the United Kingdom staged attacks on Yemen, bombing…
Letter From Nepal News, Opinion, and Analysis—The New Yorker
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A Pediatrician’s Two Weeks Inside a Hospital in Gaza
Dr. Seema Jilani is currently a senior technical adviser at the International Rescue Committee, where she leads their…
Is Sundance Playing It Safe?
This year’s edition of Sundance concluded yesterday, and, though I saw some films of great merit there, I…
What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color
Even after all these years, every picture feels new, and newly seen, like he’d just caught sight of…
How Mads Mikkelsen Generates Sympathy for the Devil
Although Mads Mikkelsen has been knighted by two separate countries for his services to the arts, he first…
Jannik Sinner Soars with Courage at the Australian Open
Jannik Sinner was once a skiing prodigy. He grew up in a small town in the Italian Alps,…
The Importance of the I.C.J. Ruling on Israel
On Friday, the International Court of Justice, in The Hague—one of the six principal parts of the United…
At the Australian Open, Aryna Sabalenka Offers a Master Class in Power Tennis
Power tennis is an assault on time. It robs an opponent of the time to react, to reach…
New Roommates Dept. | The New Yorker
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For Journalists, “Gaza Is Unprecedented,” and Deadly
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How Co-regulation Became the Parenting Buzzword of the Day
On a recent evening, my children and I were watching “The Iron Giant,” the animated cult classic about…
“Subtraction”: A Masterwork of Realistic Fantasy
Iranian cinema has risen to international prominence in recent decades, largely through the meticulous realism of such directors…
How “the Élite” Became the Most Convenient Straw Man in Politics
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Can an American Hold the United Arab Emirates Responsible for a Smear Campaign?
Foreign governments can generally spy on, steal from, or even kill Americans with impunity, at least in the…
The 2024 Republican Primary Was Over Before It Began
So much for suspense. As soon as the polls closed at 8 P.M. in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire…
Now That the Oscar Nominations Are in, Here’s What Deserves to Win
If the Oscars are meant to display the film industry’s ideal image of itself, the choice of “Killers…
Will the Race Against Trump End in New Hampshire?
Last Tuesday, with a week to go before the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump was in a Manhattan…
Americans Are Finally Starting to Feel Better About the Economy
While the political world is focussed on the G.O.P. primary in New Hampshire, the financial markets have been…
The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave
When Beatriz Flamini was growing up, in Madrid, she spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom.…
The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, January 21, 2024
Form a twosome with young dog carrying melody (4,2).
Nineteenth-Century Clickbait
The exhibition “Mermaids and Monsters” explores hoaxes of yore.
If You Build It | The New Yorker
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Dept. of Knots | The New Yorker
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 19th
“Everyone on this stage is committed to a future of net-zero income-tax payments.”
Francis Ford Coppola’s “One from the Heart” Is Exactly What Its Title Says
It has been a while since Francis Ford Coppola made a new feature—and a very long while since…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 18th
“Don’t worry—this stretch of extreme cold means there’s an unseasonably warm day ahead.”
Where Does Ron DeSantis Go from Here?
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The Donald Trump Doom Loop
At Donald Trump’s first criminal arraignment, in April, the security measures were out of a Hollywood action movie.…
James Baldwin’s Anguished Prescience in “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
There are films that, by the force of style, get their ideas onto the screen as if the…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 16th
“Well, this is a remake that nobody asked for.”
Donald Trump Coasts to Victory in the Iowa Republican Caucuses
Donald Trump spent 2023 working to insure that the Republican primaries would be organized around him—that within the…
“Night Sea, 1963,” by Victoria Chang
“In this room, my loneliness doubles because the edges of the painting are no longer white.”
Trump Receives a Warm Embrace in Frigid Iowa
Donald Trump was having travel difficulties. He couldn’t make it to Iowa in the snow. On Friday night,…
Reviving the Classic American Burger
On one of my visits to Hamburger America, no fewer than three employees mentioned, unprompted, that the hot…
Naomi Osaka Is Returning to Tennis Right When the Game Needs Her
“And I don’t want to be here,” Naomi Osaka said, almost six years ago, to Sascha Bajin, her…
Three Great Football Coaches Crossed Paths for Years, and Now They’re Leaving Together
In 1979, Pete Carroll, then twenty-eight years old, was a secondary coach at Ohio State. One former colleague…
Look and Listen | The New Yorker
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 12th
“How much longer until Dry January ends?”
The Elusive Promise of a Real 2024 Republican Race Against Donald Trump
This is it. The pre-game show is over. The reality of 2024 is finally here and inescapable: Republicans…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 11th
“You ready for 2024?”
The Shareable Feast of Jeremy Allen White’s Calvin Klein Ad
On January 4th, a TikTok user with the handle @aaliyarae uploaded a video of three friends on an…
Watch The Barber of Little Rock: One Man’s Fight to Close the Racial Wealth Gap | The New Yorker Documentary
Economic justice is actually having the opportunity, a real opportunity. How you create generational wealth. How you teach…
When Lee Miller Took a Bath in Hitler’s Tub
On April 30, 1945, the photojournalist Lee Miller took a bath in Hitler’s tub. A correspondent for British…
Coffee Nation | The New Yorker
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Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election
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What’s Behind Israel’s Crackdown in the West Bank?
Last week, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report on the…
Joe Biden Makes Saving Democracy the Center of His Campaign
An election year has begun, and the signs point toward a tight Presidential contest. Of the three national…
Could a Trump Win Put His Running Mate in Office?
How have we allowed one man to wreak so much havoc on our democracy? Years after Donald Trump…
Gaza Is Starving | The New Yorker
Last month, a United Nations report on hunger described a catastrophic situation in Gaza, where more than ninety…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 2nd
“When I was your age, we had to walk ten miles inside our apartments because we were quarantined.”
Bold of You to Assume I Need to Drink Water
I could go for an iced coffee, though.
The Crossword: Monday, January 1, 2024
Calypso, for one: five letters.
Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert”
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The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Pair of kissers discussed flowers (6).
Justin Torres’s Art of Exposure and Concealment
According to the author Justin Torres, “backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why…
Could They Be Ghosts?
The world exists because we are observing it. Reality is constructed in our heads.
The Border Crisis | The New Yorker
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Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops
The Jay Stephen Hooper Memorial Heliport sits on top of a brutalist brick-and-concrete building, the C. Erwin Piper…
The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump
Four years ago, on the threshold of a critical election year that would decide whether Donald Trump won…
The Crossword: Thursday, December 28, 2023
Hairy “Addams Family” cousin: three letters.
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 27th
“I keep it on so that everyone will know I went skiing that one time six years ago.”
A Sense of Mystery and Wonder in a New “Color Purple”
The prime success of the new movie version of “The Color Purple” is its tone: it plays like…
The Crossword: Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Tristan’s love, in a Wagner opera: six letters.
How to Disappear Your Partner’s Ugly Sweater
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Rivka Galchen on the Inner Lives of the Dead
In “Crown Heights North,” your story in this week’s issue, a dead man downloads a running app—that’s the…
Play a Pack of Name Drop Quizzes About 2023 Newsmakers
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The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, December 24, 2023
Ludicrous display right in front (5).
What’s the Story with Sustainable Sushi?
Bar Miller, a three-month-old omakase counter in the East Village, is the creation of Jeff Miller, the chef…
When Philosophers Become Therapists | The New Yorker
Amir is one of a small but growing number of philosophers who provide some form of individual counselling.…
A Forgotten Book of Christmas Poems
What makes a Christmas poem? It could be a drift of snow or some evergreen trees, a box…
Bruce Springsteen Has a Gift He Keeps on Giving
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Michael Mann’s Beguiling “Ferrari” | The New Yorker
Near the beginning of the new Michael Mann film, “Ferrari,” we are treated to a fine visual gag.…
Should the Fourteenth Amendment Be Used to Disqualify Trump?
“We travel in uncharted territory,” the Colorado Supreme Court observed on Tuesday, as it ruled that Donald Trump’s…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 21st
“These ornaments have been in the family since the Great Target Clearance Sale of 2012.”
The Year in Getting “Chotinered”
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How Netanyahu’s Right-Wing Critics See Israel’s Future
According to opinion polls, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is losing popularity, and voters want him…
The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library
At 9:54 A.M. on October 28th, an apologetic message appeared on the X account of the British Library,…
When a Border Closure Hits Americans
Puerto Peñasco was once a sleepy fishing village in the Mexican state of Sonora. But, beginning in the…
Deconstructing Paul Ryan’s Condemnation of Donald Trump
Last week, Paul Ryan, the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, did an online video interview…
The Year Picasso Haunted Us
Before we enter the room, let’s talk elephants. This year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s death,…
“Maestro” Honors the Chaotic Charisma of Leonard Bernstein
In 1955, Leonard Bernstein explored the art of conducting on an episode of the CBS show “Omnibus.” After…
University Presidents Under Fire | The New Yorker
On a wet afternoon in late September, Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard University, delivered her…
What Would It Mean to Treat Animals Fairly?
Singer’s answer is “speciesism,” or “bias in favor of the interests of members of one’s own species.” Like…
The Splendor of Wordless Picture Books
In an essay that accompanied the 2021 exhibit “Speechless: The Art of Wordless Picture Books,” at the Eric…
Watching Rudy Giuliani Self-Destruct at a Defamation Trial in Washington
When Rudy Giuliani finally arrived at Elijah Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, in Washington, D.C., on Monday—stiff-legged, about ten…
Can a Memoir Say Too Much?
“Should I be allowed to make this said?” Blake Butler writes in his new memoir, “Molly.” By the…
A Congressional Christmas Gift to Putin
A year ago, when Volodymyr Zelensky received a hero’s welcome in Washington, Joe Biden stood beside him and…
Understanding the Laws of Cricket
Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, with some two and a half billion fans…
What Did COP28 Really Accomplish?
Three decades after agreeing to avoid “dangerous” warming, the nations of the world today acknowledged that this would…
Watch Echo: A Pioneer of Echolocation for the Blind | The New Yorker Documentary
I wanna get 3D-printed eyes that glow. Ah, glow in the dark. That’s cool. Like, actual glowing eyes.…
Colorado Reconsiders Letting Trump on the Ballot
There is only one real conclusion to draw from the oral arguments before the Colorado Supreme Court last…
The Crossword: Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Part of a Tuskegee-trained force in the Second World War: six letters.
The Empty Magic of “Wonka”
Tom Luddy, who was the executive producer on Norman Mailer’s 1987 film “Tough Guys Don’t Dance,” once said…
Liz Cheney: Donald Trump Should Go to Jail if Convicted
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Wim Wenders’s Cinema of Sincerity
Partway through the 1989 documentary “Notebook on Cities and Clothes,” Wim Wenders reveals the philosophy that underpins his…
How Hamas Used Sexual Violence on October 7th
Earlier this week, the Israeli government presented evidence at the United Nations about rape and mutilation committed by…
Letter From The West Bank News, Opinion, and Analysis—The New Yorker
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Nature, Improved | The New Yorker
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“May December” Probes the Dark Assumptions Behind a Tabloid Scandal
Not long into “May December,” the slinky new Netflix movie directed by Todd Haynes and written by Samy…
A Land-Mine Survivor’s Resilience, in “Carpenter”
Khalil Sahragard’s documentary short follows an amputee in Kurdistan who carves prosthetics for others who, like him, have…
The Capital Has a Bad Case of Year-End Panic
Sometimes Washington needs to scare itself silly to get anything done. This year’s repeated threats of government shutdown…
How Old I Think Your Kid Is
I think that your kid is the same age she was when you and I first met. It…
The Post-Civil War Precedent for the Trump Trials
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The Euphoria of Cold-Water Immersion in “Swimming Through”
In Samantha Sanders’s documentary short, a group of Chicago women find pandemic solace, in a death-defying winter ritual.
Why Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Have a Prayer in Iowa
Those social conservatives had won big legislative margins in the 2022 midterms that had gone against Republicans in…
The Crossword: Tuesday, December 5, 2023
A moderately challenging puzzle.
Maybe We Already Have Runaway Machines
Most of us aren’t quite sure how we’re supposed to feel about the dramatic improvement of machine capabilities—the…
What Happened When the U.S. Failed to Prosecute an Insurrectionist Ex-President
A new trial date was set, for November 25th. No one expected the prosecution to be ready. Two…
The Difference That Sandra Day O’Connor Made
Sandra Day O’Connor, the Supreme Court Justice who over and over again provided the deciding vote on divisive…
Dolly Parton Salutes Rock and Roll
When we spoke last month, Parton—done up in nylon and lace, and seated before a glittery silver star—discussed…
Columbia Suspended Pro-Palestine Student Groups. The Faculty Revolted
It was a bright morning two Wednesdays ago, and Manan Ahmed, a professor of South Asian history at…
A Ruinous War and Peacemaking in Gaza
Even a temporary ceasefire displays the moral power of peacemaking. Last week, as a shaky truce to allow…
Shane MacGowan Leaves the Astral Plane
The Irish singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, a founding member of the punk-rock band the Pogues, died on…
Bidenomics Is a Political Bust for Biden
To hear President Biden tell it, everything is going great. G.D.P. is up, the deficit is down. Semiconductors…
Henry Kissinger’s Hard Compromises | The New Yorker
In the spring of 1969, shortly after Richard Nixon reached the White House, he and his national-security adviser,…
The French Are Not Happy About “Napoleon”
Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.”Photograph courtesy Apple TV+ Americans are so used to seeing history played by…
“Monster” Contains a Mini-Masterwork About the Lives of Children
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s drama of parents, teachers, and students forces its glorious main subject into a narrow plot.
An “Academic Transformation” Takes On the Math Department
About twenty years ago, Olgur Celikbas attended a conference on algebra in Turkey. He and his then girlfriend,…
The Dead Children We Must See
Here in the United States, we have our own procession of dead children, but they’re almost all unseen.…
The Mystery of Florida’s Flamingos
Two months ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, Anna Yu, a park ranger in western Florida, heard…
Chaos in the Cradle of A.I.
In the 1991 movie “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a sentient killer robot travels back in time to stop…
The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, November 26, 2023
Literary heroine involved in Whiskey Rebellion (4).
April Bloomfield’s Quietly Triumphant Return
The partnership is canny: Bloomfield, for all her prodigious talent, has never been much for publicity; Stulman, although…
Should People Have the Right to Say Awful Things Without Facing Legal Consequences?
Terrible times breed terrible words, and words have consequences—especially when what you say can be recorded and broadcast.…
The Road to Dubai | The New Yorker
For its part, the U.A.E., host of this year’s COP, has pledged to reduce its emissions by nineteen…
You Can’t Get In: An Evening at Rao’s
I call ahead. A recording announces that the reservation book is closed but doesn’t mention walk-ins. After putting…
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The Firefighters Battling the Northern California Wildfires
Our 360 Video takes you inside the efforts to contain the disaster.