The Finale of “The Rehearsal” Is Outlandish and Sublime

Nathan Fielder, like Andy Kaufman before him, makes performance-art comedy that does not only poke fun at the world but experimentally perturbs it, and he plies this trade in the…

Alba de Céspedes’s Broadcasts Against Fascism

On September 8, 1943, Italy surrendered to the Allies, and the Germans, who already effectively controlled the north of Italy, turned on their former partners and moved to take over…

How American Photography Came Into Its Own

The earliest photography was voracious and encyclopedic. There was a whole world of things that had never been seen in this particular, startlingly realistic way. People were especially intrigued by…

Is “Thunderbolts*” Marvel’s Attempt to Salvage the Superhero Genre?

In the run-up to the première of “Thunderbolts*,” on May 2nd, Marvel earned some light mockery for the art-house vibe of one of its trailers. Over an edgy E.D.M. beat,…

In Daniel Kehlmann’s Latest Novel, Everyone’s a Collaborator

Can a historical novel be morally serious, even tragic, and also playful at the same time? For a writer of fiction, history is a dangerous thing to play with—one doesn’t…

Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging

Considering Donald Trump’s many outrages, his theatrically hostile reception of Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, in the Oval Office on Wednesday may soon be forgotten. Or perhaps it…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 22nd

A major milestone.

Has the U.S. Given Up on Sudan?

From the daily newsletter: Nicolas Niarchos reports from Khartoum. Plus: the radical courage of Noor Abdalla; and Justin Chang reviews the latest “Mission: Impossible” movie.

“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” Goes Hard on Valediction

“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” has a running time of just under three hours. Within those three hours, alas, I’d say that Tom Cruise has a running time of only a…

Behind the Scenes of In the Dark Season 3

The creators of the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series talk about reporting on the military, elevating the testimony of survivors, and the challenges of visualizing what happened that day in Haditha.

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 20th

“I’ve been giving this standing ovation since last year’s Cannes Film Festival.”

Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 19th

“I understand it just as much as any other European election.”

What’s Really Startling About the Bill Belichick Affair

Bill Belichick, one of the winningest coaches in N.F.L. history, and currently the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took the title of his…

Kenny Smith Isn’t Going Fishing Yet

Last July, the National Basketball Association announced a new eleven-year media-rights agreement with Amazon, NBC, and ESPN, set to take effect at the start of next season. Notably left out…

The Everyday Dramas of Manhattan Rush Hour

Salacuse is the kind of person who always seems to have a project or five under way. I first met him in 2000, and we’ve been friends ever since. (We…

“The Encampments” and the American College Student

The institution has not neglected to commemorate the history of agitation against it. The year 2018 marked five decades since students occupied the halls of Columbia University, demanding that the…

Pepe Mujica’s Long Revolution | The New Yorker

The fight for political change was fierce, at least at the beginning. As a member of the Tupamaros, Mujica participated in battles and sustained wounds. He was captured several times,…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 15th

“This book is banned, but the internet is fair game.”

When a Writer Takes to the Stage

Writers who contemplate going onstage tend to fall into two camps: those who know better and those who should but don’t. Of the second kind, The New Yorker has, over…

“It was like watching someone who was not alive.”

“He totally fucked us.” Biden cost Democrats the 2024 race, Party insiders tell Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Plus: Illustration by Jared Bartman How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to…

How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump

President Joe Biden got out of bed the day after the 2024 election convinced that he had been wronged. The élites, the Democratic officials, the media, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama—they…

The Astonishing Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus

The White House driveway is an unlikely venue for announcing plans to upend the Constitution. But, strolling up to the bank of microphones on a sunny spring afternoon, the White…

Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 12th

I said I’m fine.

Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?

This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled “Why I am publishing a novella on Substack.” This novella,…

The Next Phase of Trump’s Retribution

On the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which pardoned more than fifteen hundred…

Cut Right Through the Boat and Illuminate Everything

Nguan moved back to Singapore many years ago—his pastel images of apartment dwellers, and of streets thick with bougainvillea, are well known—but still spends a couple of months in New…

One Hundred Years of New York Movies

This magazine’s ongoing centenary celebration has included a cinematic component: a series at Film Forum, “Tales from The New Yorker,” which featured movies connected to The New Yorker’s history, whether…

The Dynamics Behind the Current India-Pakistan Clash

Early on Wednesday morning, India launched military strikes against Pakistan, killing more than thirty people, according to the Pakistani government. Yesterday, the Indian government claimed that Pakistan had responded with…

A Day in the Live-Streamed Life of Donald Trump

In Donald Trump’s first term, he reinvented many things about how the job of President was done. The strictly scheduled day of his predecessors—the rigid procession of fifteen-minute meetings, the…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 8th

“I don’t really mind the government’s new death ray, because it hasn’t hit me yet.”

Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery

The President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the “statements of intent” of a budding authoritarian.

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 7th

For real this time.

The Most Important Job at the Met Gala

Leather, feathers, and capes—oh, my! The glamour of the Met Gala promenade honoring Black dandyism. And, then, Ian Frazier takes a deep dive into the hazardous lives of New York…

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 6th

The trickle-down effects of Trump’s trade war.

The Day-to-day Difficulties of Life as a Migrant in New York City

A hundred years ago, when The New Yorker was founded, New York City had a gravitational pull—and it still does. People come from all over to “make art, money, trouble,…

Daily Cartoon: Monday, May 5th

“Actually, place the spoils at the feet of my adult children. I’m trying to look less corrupt.”

“The Rehearsal” Finally Achieves Liftoff

The second season of “The Rehearsal” is instantly better than the first because it’s about something. In the show’s previous season, Nathan Fielder developed and applied his methodology—the so-called Fielder…

Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics

Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world. So what do you think your responsibility is? My responsibility is to make you laugh. And, if I’m being…

The Secrets of Physique Magazines

I remember the first time I saw a physique photograph, and I remember being both excited and upset at the sight of it. I was probably eight or nine, a…

Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the unprecedented corruption of…

Trump Threatens NPR and PBS

“Journalists’ work is under fire.” Donald Trump is yanking federal funds from public media. Leaders at NPR-affiliate stations around the country explain why this attack feels different, and what the…

Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 2nd

“Lassie—help! Get me another glass of rosé.”

A Joyfully Chaotic Tribute to Pavement in “Pavements”

Rock documentaries and bio-pics have been parodied for nearly as long as they have existed, but there’s a reason for their ingrained absurdity that’s even weightier than fan service: music…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 1st

“Let me tell you why this thing I felt like doing anyway is also a radical act of resistance.”

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 30th

“I worry about my mom’s screen time, but it’s the only thing that seems to soothe her.”

“In case of emergency, break open a book.”

“I had found my doomscrolling methadone.” In this week’s issue, Lepore turns to her stack of Penguin Little Black Classics, which has become her way to cope with the darkening state…

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 29th

“For too long, we’ve all suffered the bizarre and oppressive policies that I installed last week.”

For Watchers of “The Clock,” Time Is Running Out

“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November, and some of us have become transfixed Clockwatchers, returning week…

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 28th

“Quick! Somebody get Chuck Schumer to write a strongly worded letter!”

Francis, the TV Pope, Takes His Final Journey

Shortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his last testament: how and where he should be buried, how…

Restaurant Review: A Georgian Restaurant’s Mother of All Dumplings

The restaurant’s head chef, Manuchar Tsikolia, is joined in the kitchen by Ruslan Giorgberidze, a dedicated khinkali cook (and an alumnus ofKhinkali House, a Guliani Group restaurant in Moscow), as…

Catholic Tradition Remains at Pope Francis’s Funeral

In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: Photograph by Antonio Masiello / Getty Paul ElieReporting from Vatican City I watched the funeral for Pope…

Requiem for a “Drunk Dad”

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

“April” Is an Unflinching Portrait of a Doctor’s Fight for Reproductive Justice

Before watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other fictional film that featured a real childbirth. It was “Staying…

Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 25th

“I have nothing positive to cheers to, so I don’t think I should cheers at all.”

Where Are Trump’s Big, Beautiful Deals?

This week in Washington, the rare convergence of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and the White House Correspondents’ dinner has been an event…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 24th

“It’s not the pollen—it’s the political climate.”

“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government

At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts the workings and responsibilities of government front and…

The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas

In late March, Leecia Welch, a deputy litigation director at Children’s Rights, a legal nonprofit that represents children in government custody, visited a family jail in Texas that the Trump…

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 22nd

“You do realize that just because you stopped watching the news doesn’t mean it stopped happening.”

Pope Francis’s Tangled Relationship with Argentina

No one is a prophet in his own land, Jesus warns in the Gospel of Luke—not even, apparently, the Pope. Francis was broadly popular around the world, especially among liberals.…

The Down-to-Earth Pope: Pope Francis Has Died at Eighty-eight

Pope Francis smiled a lot, easily and broadly. He thrived on direct, informal encounters: phone calls, penned notes, hugs, audiences with small groups. He was impatient with protocol: he carried…

Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?

On Sunday night, the post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” had its grandest chapter to date. After the events of the first season, the HBO series’ dual protagonists—Joel (Pedro Pascal),…

Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession | The New Yorker

Three years ago, in El Salvador, after the MS-13 gang killed eighty-seven people in a span of seventy-two hours, President Nayib Bukele called on his loyalists in the legislature to…

Who Wants a Second Helping of “The Wedding Banquet”?

It takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event of the title, but it’s worth the wait. The bride,…

Mistaking Mary Magdalene | The New Yorker

Over the phone, Frykholm read aloud to me some of the passages that she had translated. “I am going to go up into one of those boats they have hired,…

Why the Tech Giant Nvidia May Own the Future. Plus, Joshua Rothman on Taking A.I. Seriously

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The…

Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 18th

“Too much for hiding eggs in a field?”

This Easter, with the Pope Ailing, Will the Catholic Church Stand Up to Donald Trump?

Every morning, a line forms at about six outside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, on West Thirty-first Street, near Penn Station, as it has done (with a few…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 17th

“Just wait till 2028 and things will go right back to how they were.”

I’m Really Dating Myself Here

I listened to music on a Walkman. I read books in elementary school so that I could earn free personal-pan pizzas from Pizza Hut. I had a subscription to Tiger…

Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump

In a thrillingly delightful surprise—and that’s understating it—to many of us who’ve been working in universities for much of our adult lives, Harvard chose not to accede to the Trump…

The Crossword: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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The Rise of the Fetal-Personhood Claim in the Anti-Abortion Movement

“I believe this is the civil-rights violation of our lifetime.” In a startling new investigation, Sarah Stillman reports on the people who are neglected and starving to death in prison—and…

Bagels, Ranked

Jalapeño and Cheddar: This is not a bagel. This is what you order to signal to the guy at the counter that you need him to call a cop.

The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan

In the immediate aftermath of a sports fan’s heartbreak, there is that sliver of time during which all the emotion passes across their face. The features are contorted or frozen…

Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Adam Levin reads his story “Jenny Annie Fanny…

Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul?

On the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler Logan Paul mounts a PowerPoint pitch for his fiancée, the…

So You Want to Be a Dissident?

Another key strategy, ironically, is compliance—as in compliance with as many laws as possible. Tax laws. Traffic laws. Sandor Lederer, who runs K-Monitor, a corruption-watchdog group in Hungary, recalled being…

Trump and the Courts Have Abandoned Deportees

“They’ve effectively disappeared.” A report on forty-eight people arrested by ICE in New Mexico, in early March—whose identities and whereabouts remain unknown. But, first, a breakdown of this week’s Supreme…

Elizabeth Warren Is Trying to Stop “The Dumbest Financial Crisis Ever”

When I caught up with Elizabeth Warren, the senior Democratic senator from Massachusetts, by telephone on Wednesday evening, it seemed like she didn’t know whether to laugh or scream. Hours…

Trump’s Do-Over Presidency | The New Yorker

Amid the chaos of a week when the world nearly witnessed its first global depression caused by the caprice of a single man, Donald Trump took some time to reflect…

Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism

The former senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the tumult that Donald Trump’s tariffs have inflicted on the global economy, and why progressives should not merely…

“A Minecraft Movie” Is a Tale of Two Cinematic Universes

I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess, the director of “A…

The Civilians on the Other Side of Signalgate

“They have hearts broken into pieces.” A report on the recent U.S. air strikes in Yemen, where more than fifty people, including children, were killed, after plans were discussed in…

An A.I.-Generated Article on How to Tell If the Article You’re Reading Is A.I.-Generated

Reading is one of the main ways to stay informed and entertained in an increasingly busy world to live in. Consider that you have used your computer to click on…

How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market

As President Donald Trump golfed in Florida over the weekend, his hefty new tariffs, which target everywhere from China to the Falkland Islands, started to go into effect, and businesses…

The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever

The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than London’s Sir John Soane museum, broader in scope and more…

At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History

In the very first paragraph of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual for a second Trump Administration, battle lines over history are drawn: “America is now divided between two…

The Shameless Redemption Tour of Jonathan Majors

What decade is “Magazine Dreams,” a spiritually stifled drama about a bodybuilder driven to fits of chemically induced rage, set in? In the early moments of the film, written and…

Capturing the Spirit of a City on Fire

Online, personal accounts of loss gave way to stories about helping those in distress. Friendly, who’d been feeling helpless as he watched the apocalyptic news, observed this shift in his…

A Win for Democracy in South Korea

South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of the country’s President, removing him from office. E. Tammy Kim, who covered Yoon Suk-yeol’s brief declaration of martial law, in December, and…

The Mini Crossword: Friday, April 4, 2025

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Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy

By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable. Trump opened the affair, which he had billed as America’s…

Corrections and Clarifications to Everything I’ve Ever Said

When I was sixteen, my friend Miriam texted me to say that she’d failed our English exam and I replied, “OMG Miriam failed English.” I didn’t have time to explain—before…

The Truth About Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”

After weeks of nervous anticipation in the financial markets and in the capitals of America’s trading partners, Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have arrived, and, even by his standards, they…

You Love the Office | The New Yorker

Congratulations, Floor B13! It’s officially time for you all to come back into the office. It’s been years since all that sneezing, and we miss you. You have to come…

Today on “Tariff, Conquer, or Buy”

Spinning out of control.

How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy

Albert Mohler, the longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is one of the best-known evangelicals in the United States, famous for his writings on faith, and now for…

Letters from Our Readers | The New Yorker

Take One Kelefa Sanneh’s insightful deep dive into the world of Mike White omitted mention of White’s first solo TV creation, a short-lived prime-time soap called “Pasadena,” from 2001 (“Trouble…

“Marseille,” by Ayşegül Savaş

Alba stretched her arms dramatically. “I mean, I guess it would be fun to have an amoureux in Marseille. Handy for holidays.”

Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point

Keith Meister, in the operating room of his private practice, draws a six-centimetre line on the elbow of a baseball pitcher. He slices the elbow open and stares into a…

Why Do We Want to Believe That Jim Morrison Is Still Alive?

There’s something that has always struck me as undeniably teen-age about loving the Doors, and particularly its lead singer, Jim Morrison. The rock group, which was active for only eight…

An Ingénue’s Intimate Snapshots of the New Hollywood

Candy Clark came to Hollywood at the dawn of the seventies, a spunky twentysomething who’d fled her conservative Texas home town and taken up modelling in New York. Though she…

Inside the Homes of the Ultra-Rich

Secret-keepers of the rich and famous. Reporting from Palm Beach, Florida, where power is amassing among the affluent—and among their staff. Plus: Illustration by Nicholas Konrad Illustration by Nicholas Konrad…

Richard Brody’s New Directors/New Films Picks

Beguiling blends of fiction and nonfiction are the highlights of this year’s edition of the New Directors/New Films series, at Film at Lincoln Center and MOMA, April 2-13. “Fiume o…

A Playlist for Spring | The New Yorker

About that group chat … it’s bad. And the spectre of autocracy is even worse, David Remnick argues. But, first, put on our playlist to help you navigate the atmospheric…

Joe Rogan, Hasan Piker, and the Art of the Hang

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. The first episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” released…

The Cinematic Glories of Manoel de Oliveira’s Endless Youth

The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who died in 2015, at the age of a hundred and six, is the Benjamin Button of filmmaking, precocious in reverse. He made only…

The Crossword: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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The Crossword: Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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Why The Police Refused to Investigate a Serial Rapist

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused sexual predator, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. A report from Johnson City, Tennessee. Plus: The former federal prosecutor Kat Dahl.…

Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker

Seeking Shelter, by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner). This moving real-life saga opens with a family—Evelyn and her five, soon to be six, children—living in a small city in California. They move…

Is March Madness All Luck?

The beauty of March Madness is that anything can happen. The horror of March Madness is that, really, anything can happen. Unlike the college-football playoffs—which are highly restrictive, and weighted…

Bryan Washington Reads “Hatagaya Lore”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Bryan Washington reads his story “Hatagaya Lore,” from…

Disney’s “Snow White” Remake Whistles But Doesn’t Work

Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during the early days of pandemic lockdown, may recall the video…

Your A.I. Lover Will Change You

A mother is currently suing Character AI, a company that promotes “AIs that feel alive,” over the suicide of her fourteen-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III. Screenshots show that, in one…

Trump’s Vivisection of the Department of Education

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it was laying off thirteen hundred employees of the U.S. Department of Education, in addition to the hundreds of workers who had…

Can I find a lightweight used laptop for sell for travel?

lightweight used laptop for sell for travel Finding a lightweight used laptop for sell that is suitable for travel is entirely possible with the right approach. Travelers require a laptop…

Donald Trump, Producer-in-Chief | The New Yorker

On Monday, Donald Trump attended his first board meeting at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since installing himself as its chairman and firing its leadership. During the session,…

Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness

Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist at Yale, teaches the most popular course in the university’s three-hundred-year history, Psychology and the Good Life. One of her central messages—in the class, and…

Jonathan Anderson’s Confidence and Ambition

In today’s newsletter, Rebecca Mead with a deeply reported portrait of Jonathan Anderson, the creative director who just announced his departure from the luxury brand Loewe. And then, E. Tammy…

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 18th

“I’m sorry, we did everything we could before Elon cut our funding.”

And Deliver Us from Elon

It was St. Blaise Day, when Catholics go to church to get their throats blessed. St. Blaise (San Blas in Mexico, Saint-Blaise in Canada) is the patron saint of throat…

Naomi Fry on Jay McInerney’s “Chloe’s Scene”

As a teen-ager, long before I lived in New York, I felt the city urging me toward it. N.Y.C., with its art and money, its drugs and fashion, its misery…

Joyce Carol Oates on a New Jersey Adventure

Your story “The Frenzy” describes a weekend trip to Cape May, New Jersey, taken by a married father in his forties and the nineteen-year-old woman he calls his “teen-aged mistress.”…

The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the ideological underpinnings of…

The Unsettling Cheer of “The Baldwins”

Early on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young innocent Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) arrives in Los Angeles from…

What Happens When Elvis Goes Missing

In today’s newsletter, what the case of Mahmoud Khalil tells us about the Administration’s attitude toward free speech. But, first, inside the mystery of a stolen Elvis bust.   Illustration…

Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do?

If there’s one truth Donald Trump seems to have absorbed in his seventy-eight years, it is that there are advantages to lying all the time—foremost among them that no one…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 13th

“Maybe we should fight some of our international conflicts the old-fashioned way, like with a chess match, or a race to the moon?”

“Mayhem,” Reviewed: Lady Gaga’s Return to Form

In the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length studio album, “Born This Way,” did something unexpected—at least for…

Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections

So far, it’s a tossup which of the Trump Administration’s wrecking balls will prove most destructive: the one that accelerates global warming, the one that abandons our allies, the one…

“The Empire” Goes Beyond Good and Evil—to Rural France

The approach of springtime in New York means the arrival of French movies, whether via the annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series in early March, the release soon afterward of…

Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 10th

“Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.”

Can Ukraine—and America—Survive Donald Trump?

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. The…

Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,”…

The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies

A warrior is in a prison cell. His guard approaches and shows him the wooden sword that he will receive once he has earned his freedom. The warrior grabs it,…

Travelling Through India on the Himsagar Express

These young men had very little education. With some difficulty, Kumar, who was twenty-six, could write in Hindi his name and a brief description of the work that he did.…

The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking

Like many medications, the wakefulness drug modafinil, which is marketed under the trade name Provigil, comes with a small, tightly folded paper pamphlet. For the most part, its contents—lists of…

Canada, the Northern Outpost of Sanity

When I was a boy, the company that my father worked for transferred him from Los Angeles to Toronto, so I lived in Canada for most of my elementary-school years,…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 6th

Sarah Kempa’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Elon Musk and DOGE’s firing of federal workers and conflicting orders regarding five accomplishments.

A Poet’s Contemporary Twist on the Bildungsroman

Between 2000 and 2006, nine men, nearly all of Turkish origin, were killed across Germany, shot with a silenced Česká CZ 83 pistol. Among the victims were a locksmith, a…

Can Higher Education Survive? | The New Yorker

Trump’s trade war has officially begun. In today’s newsletter, a breakdown on what the tariffs might mean. But, first, reporting on a year of protest at university campuses—and what will…

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 4th

It’s called multitasking.

The Oscars Go Indie | The New Yorker

In today’s newsletter, our critics take in a silly, and strikingly apolitical, night at the Oscars. And then: Mikey Madison. Photograph by Kevin Winter / Getty Erin Neil Newsletter editor The…

An Oscars Night Divided Against Itself

Although Oscar night’s clear victor, Sean Baker’s “Anora,” received awards in five categories, all major—Best Picture, Actress, Directing, Editing, and Original Screenplay—its producers were the biggest winners, because the underlying…

The New Yorker Film “I’m Not a Robot” Wins a 2025 Academy Award

A film released by The New Yorker was among the winners at Sunday’s Academy Awards. “I’m Not a Robot,” a darkly comic portrayal of a woman trying to convince her…

Oscars 2025 Live Updates: The Nominees Gather in Los Angeles

Photograph by Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty The Academy Awards will take place this evening in Los Angeles, and The New Yorker is covering all of the action. Michael…

Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Steve McCurry Paul Theroux joins Deborah…

Roberta Flack’s Musical Transformations | The New Yorker

The expansive machinery of loss contains many moving parts, interconnected tragedies that occasionally become interconnected blessings. There is the tragedy and blessing of time, which opens up to the tragedy…

Trump and Zelensky’s Stunning Fight

In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump and J. D. Vance berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on live television today. The moment marks a pivotal shift in foreign policy. Plus: • What…

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 28th

“What’s wrong? If I order it today, with one-day shipping, I’ll get it the day after the boycott!”

Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered

Widespread news reports on Wednesday said that the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has recommended the reversal of the long-standing federal position that carbon dioxide and…

Czy Dell oferuje zniżki dla studentów?

zniżki dla studentów Aktywacja systemu Windows na laptopie Dell jest kluczowym krokiem, który pozwala na pełne korzystanie z funkcji systemu operacyjnego oraz zapewnia dostęp do regularnych aktualizacji zabezpieczeń. W większości…

Renewed “Dreams” at the Berlin Film Festival

Film-festival juries are consistently inconsistent, and often arbitrarily assembled. Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film world—directors, screenwriters, actors, and, on occasion, critics—are brought together to…

Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?

“Obviously, it’s a biological phenomenon, but it also is largely a cultural phenomenon,” the staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus says.

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 26th

“Best I can do right now is warmer weather.”

The Apocalyptic Decline in Birth Rates

In today’s newsletter, Jon Lee Anderson’s personal experiences with U.S.A.I.D. But, first, a new story from Gideon Lewis-Kraus digs into how nobody is having children anymore. Plus: If current trends…

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 25th

“Look, I totally get it. But it’s been two days now—maybe it’s time to get out of the bath?”

A Moment of Dizzying Upheaval in the Ukraine War

In today’s newsletter, a report on the Ukrainian spy who is accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. But, first, reflections on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, at…

Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 24th

“Elon Musk says I have to justify my job, then forward his e-mail to ten federal employees, or I’ll have bad luck.”

The New Trump-Family Megaphone | The New Yorker

Late last month, after President Donald Trump suggested that diversity initiatives were to blame for a plane crash in Washington, Lara Trump, who is married to Trump’s son Eric, went…

Restaurant Review: Sunn’s and Ha’s Snack Bar Lay Down Roots

Lee opened Sunn’s in partnership with the wine maven Grant Reynolds, of Parcelle, who oversees the quite excellent wine program; as befits such a petite restaurant, the list is small…

Before He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in Ohio

Back in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in Kansas City, in the nineteen-sixties: the Crystals, the Drifters, Booker…

Texas’s Barbecue Schism | The New Yorker

Seventeen years ago, on assignment for The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin travelled through central Texas on a barbecue-themed road trip. He was with editors from Texas Monthly, which had just…

How the Tiger Really Got His Stripes

Imagine grasshoppers distributed evenly across a dry field. As the temperature rises, the grasshoppers start to sweat. The field catches fire in a few spots and starts to spread. But…

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 21st

“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to star in a series of increasingly bland spinoffs and TV shows that have significant viewership decline after the first episode.”

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America

No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming from the President of the United States. In 2018, at…

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 20th

“So, in all the nation’s founding documents, there’s not one single mention of a safe word?”

Jaka jest pojemność baterii laptopa komputera Dell?

baterii laptopa komputera Dell Pojemność baterii laptopa jest jednym z najważniejszych czynników, które wpływają na komfort użytkowania urządzenia, zwłaszcza dla osób, które często pracują w podróży lub w miejscach, gdzie…

The Consequences of Trump’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care

In today’s newsletter, the trans kids losing access to care, and then: Photograph by John Trotter Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here? Families in New York and beyond are…

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 19th

How to make a grand entrance.

The Humans Teaching Birds to Migrate

In today’s newsletter, Nick Paumgarten on his reporting about the painstaking, quixotic efforts to save an endangered species, and then: Our devastation of nature is so extreme that to fix…

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 18th

“We’ve replaced all our screens at home with relentless immersion in the here and now.”

Czy monitor Dell może być używany do produkcji muzycznej?

monitor Dell może być używany Monitory dostępne w firmie Dell są przeznaczone do różnych celów. Mogą być używane do pracy nad projektami graficznymi, grami i nie tylko. W zależności od…

The Crossword: Monday, February 17, 2025

© 2025 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships…

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and Rachel Aviv Win Polk Awards

Two New Yorker staff writers were announced on Monday as winners of this year’s George Polk Awards, among the highest honors in journalism. Jane Mayer, the magazine’s chief Washington correspondent,…

Restaurant Review: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch

There’s something almost ritualistically precise about the Hawaiian plate lunch. A scoop of pale macaroni salad, almost quietly radical in its steadfast, defiant plainness, nestles next to two scoops of…

The Tragedy and Farce of Luka Dončić’s Trade

There have been worse trades than the one that sent Luka Dončić from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis, along with Max Christie…

The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we…

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 14th

“Give it ten minutes before you hit her with the ick.”

Papa Elon or Donald, Sr.

Which father knows best?

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 13th

“Let me assure you that as an unpaid ‘special factory employee’ Mr. Monster stands to personally gain nothing from this work.”

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 13th

“Let me assure you that as an unpaid ‘special factory employee’ Mr. Monster stands to personally gain nothing from this work.”

Gaza Must Be Rebuilt by Palestinians, for Palestinians

When I first heard that President Donald Trump was making comments about the future of Gaza, I was in New York City, at a special screening celebrating the new season…

What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts

Since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, scholars of authoritarianism have warned that American democracy is under grave threat. On various occasions, that threat has been defined as…

The Second Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Climate

When Donald Trump was inaugurated for the first time, in January, 2017, Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law launched the Climate Deregulation Tracker. Four years and a hundred…

A Glow of Discovery in the Chill of Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work from bold new filmmakers into a fickle, yet potentially receptive,…

The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate

That summer, Schiffman, who had recently made a documentary for National Geographic about relocating giraffes, read a story in the Times about Fritz, the Waldrapp project (Waldrapp is the German…

The End of “END RACISM” in the End Zone

Racism has ended! Have you heard? Or maybe ending racism has ended. On Tuesday, it was reported that the N.F.L. would switch one of the slogans stencilled on the edge…

Lundy’s and the Risks of Restaurant Revivals

I’m not sure if the same can be said of the new Lundy’s, whose home is an odd little corner building, inset in a gated lot where the city’s yellow…

The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”

On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. The waiting room…

My Life with Left-Handed Women

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the…

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 7th

“Super Bowl? This is just my regular comfort food these days.”

Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror | The New Yorker

Nearly twenty years ago, the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a classic account of the shambolic American takeover of the Iraqi government, “Imperial Life in the Emerald City.” Most memorably,…

David Lynch’s Unsolvable Puzzles | The New Yorker

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. David Lynch, who died last month at seventy-eight, was…