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Some critics have dubbed it “murder insurance,” but it’s colloquially known as self-defense insurance—and around two million gun-owning Americans have signed up. A report on the companies that provide subscribers low- or no-cost legal representation after incidents of violence. Plus: Illustration by Tyler Comrie Your First Call After You Shoot Someone In the era of […]

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 […]

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

If I’d been oblivious to the multidimensional dangers seething below the surface of suburban life, the kids and the pool and the hillside out back brought them home to me.

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 […]

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 […]

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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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 […]

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 […]

Donald Trump’s second term has turned the fight over facts into a war over the authority to define reality itself.

Much of direction is production: the material conditions under which a movie is made plays a major role in the creative process. Movie lovers tend to think of producers as dictators of formulas, oppressors of originality, the enemies of art, but that just reflects the unfortunate history of studio filmmaking in Hollywood and elsewhere. In […]

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 […]

How did this happen? To begin with, Shore had an uncommonly encouraging and generous family. His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that his nephew was a budding tinkerer and gave him a Kodak photo-chemistry set for his sixth birthday. (In an essay for the new book, Shore recalls, “It was as though this gift […]

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable—hosted by the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—is back in season. The co-hosts reflect on the news of this summer: President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on […]

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 […]

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 […]

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The upheaval under Bondi has left the Justice Department hollowed out, with consequences likely to outlast her tenure and reshape the institution itself.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Just before midnight on Friday, August 22nd, insects circled the bright lights outside the Texas state capitol and sprinklers watered the lawn. Inside, lawmakers milled around the Senate chamber as a long day threatened to be prolonged. A few weeks earlier, at the behest of President Donald Trump, Texas Republicans had introduced a mid-decade redistricting […]

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

[Alex] The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that in order to have a hit, you need to appeal to all four quadrants. Men, women, and people over and under the age of 25. A24’s model does not rely on that kind of mass appeal. When the studio was first starting out, a lot of the […]

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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This morning, a gunman opened fire into a Catholic church in Minneapolis. Two children are dead. How did we get here? And then: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sits on steps of the Annunciation Church’s school as police respond to a reported mass shooting. Photograph by Abbie Parr / AP Jessica WinterA staff writer covering family […]

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“The Man can’t bust our music,” an advertisement in the underground newspaper Berkeley Barb proclaimed, in November, 1968. The accompanying image showed seven presumed radicals huddled in a jail cell. “The Establishment’s against adventure,” the text continued. “And the arousing experience that comes with listening to today’s music.” The advertiser was Columbia Records, and, surprisingly, […]

“Twelve Churches,” “My Childhood in Pieces,” “Women, Seated,” and “World Pacific.”

“Subway Takes” is the TikTok version of the “Tonight Show”: wholesome, relatable comedy, even if some episodes do acknowledge the existence of opioids and dick pics. The premise is exactly what it sounds like. The host, Kareem Rahma, sits on a New York subway and asks, “So, what’s your take?” The guest slings a take—“The […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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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Earlier this month, the wellness entrepreneur Calley Means delivered opening remarks at a symposium called “The Future of Farming: Exploring a Pro-Health, Pro-Farmer Agenda,” held in Washington, D.C., at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank. Means is prominent in Make America Healthy Again, the clean-eating, vaccine-skeptical movement that opposes corruption in the food, pharmaceutical, […]

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers. Plus: • How Alcaraz and Sinner became tennis’s Big Two• The Holocaust historian defending Israel• The lure of the Labubu Paternity has historically been tricky […]

“A person’s tennis,” John McPhee writes in “Levels of the Game,” from 1969, “begins with his nature and background and comes out through his motor mechanisms into shot patterns and characteristics of play.” Your style is an expression of your innate self, a product of small decisions, such as the way you hold your racket, […]

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 […]

The town of Schliersee, about an hour south of Munich in the Bavarian Alps, has long been a favored holiday retreat, both for summertime pursuits on its lake and as a ski resort in winter. There are hiking trails, too, leading up mountains, from which one can see the neighboring territory of Austria, less than […]

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 […]

In 2005, a “working definition” of antisemitism was posted on the website of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, a research institute founded by the European Union. It described antisemitism, somewhat vaguely, as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” Even less precise were the eleven examples […]

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 […]

Last year, after Carlos Alcaraz beat Miomir Kecmanović in the fourth round of the Australian Open, Jim Courier asked Alcaraz, in an on-court interview, who his favorite players were. “Well, I’m a huge fan of tennis,” Alcaraz began. He reeled off a few names: Daniil Medvedev, Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner. Courier pressed him: What about […]

When it came time for Mihaela Plesa, the vice-chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, to decide whether to flee the state with dozens of her fellow Democratic legislators, earlier this month, she felt torn. On the one hand, Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, had proposed a radical plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps to […]

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, […]

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. Spike Lee and Denzel Washington first worked together on “Mo’ Better Blues,” released in 1990. Washington starred as a trumpet player trying to make a living […]

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. If one lesson has emerged this travel season, it’s that you really, really don’t want to be on vacation in the vicinity of Vice-President J. D. Vance. Last month, with the Trump Administration continuing to conduct sweeping immigration raids in […]

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Nineteenth-century Americans regarded Paris as a libertine paradise: a smorgasbord of food and fashion, of night life and sex. Today, the pull toward France endures, though the precise nature of its appeal has shifted. […]

In the summer of 2009, a shambolic Los Angeles band called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros released a single titled “Home.” A romantic duet between the group’s founder and lead singer, Alex Ebert, and his bandmate and sometime girlfriend, Jade Castrinos, it sounded like a parody of a folk standard, with whistling, jangling tambourine, […]

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 […]

Not to be fussy about it, but the Presidential Fitness Test, which Donald Trump plans to reinstate in schools, could use some shaping up of its own. The name promises so much. What is this, a fitness test for Presidents? We could do worse than election via athletic competition; that alone might alleviate the whole […]

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 […]

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. On paper, a thirty-three-year-old socialist would seem an unlikely contender for mayor of New York City. But Zohran Mamdani’s campaign proved compelling enough to make him the front-runner to lead the largest city in […]

“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 […]

Dear Hiring Manager, I am writing to express my feigned enthusiasm for the ambiguous position of—I think it was something like “Global Strategy Content Execution Associate”? A job title that contains bewilderingly vague descriptors and existential despair in equal measure. While I won’t say that this role is beneath me (I will, however, type it), […]

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 […]

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 […]

At the Abundance conference, Diamandis’s audience seemed receptive to his reminders that “the two biggest wealth-creation opportunities are A.I. and longevity.” Part of his appeal is his insistence that extending your own life and growing richer in the process will ultimately benefit the species. He conceived of an “accredited-patient program,” an F.D.A.-backed system that would […]

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 […]

The young Donald Trump was the Nelson Muntz of Jamaica Estates. (Or was he its Draco Malfoy? Scholars will debate such questions for generations.) In any case, Trump was, from his formative years, a spoiled bully. The Trump family, whose fortune was made in outer-borough real estate, had a cook and a chauffeur, and “Little […]

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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 […]

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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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 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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“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 […]

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 […]

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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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I became hellbent on getting my old job back. Until the previous fall, I had been a cook at Greens, a restaurant run by Zen Buddhists in a converted Army warehouse by the bay. In those years, it […]

—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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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 […]

[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, […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The golden age of the shed—New York City’s outdoor-dining boom, circa summer, 2020—produced some impressive structures. At Carbone, the fancy Italian place, people ate rigatoni in a cabin made of navy-blue wood siding with red velvet curtains. Balthazar outfitted its shed with antique pendant lights, to make diners “feel like you’ve taken a train to […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

From the daily newsletter: the immigration reporter Jonathan Blitzer on the Florida detention facility.

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Ari Aster’s wildly divisive new movie “Eddington” drops audiences back into the chaos of May, 2020: a moment when the confluence of the coronavirus pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives […]

“Grok styling itself as a genocidal dictator is the kind of flaw that should make the entire A.I. industry take pause.” What Elon Musk’s rogue chatbot tells us about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Plus: How Bad Is It? Kyle ChaykaStaff writer covering technology and internet culture. A couple of weekends ago, Grok, the A.I. […]

In the course of Justin Bieber’s nearly twenty-year career, his music has come to be somewhat immaterial to his celebrity. For many, he is an almost Kardashian-like figure, whose songs are encountered in environments of poor taste: the grocery store, an Uber, a child’s birthday party. Controversy follows him, as does tabloid coverage of these […]

When Varda shot portraits on location, her practice was both observational and interventionist. She took subjects around town in her car in search of suitably photogenic sites and then framed and posed them with a meticulous eye and firm guidance. One of the highlights of the Carnavalet exhibition is a video screen showing an excerpt […]

C H E A T Your husband’s habit of exchanging Instagram Reels with his co-worker might, in fact, reflect a simmering mutual attraction—one that could be fully consummated at their upcoming offsite in Telluride. B R I N K Your grouchy grandfather recently survived a heart attack, during which he was technically dead for three […]

“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 […]

The Compound, by Aisling Rawle (Random House). In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV competition. There, a cast of attractive young men and women are recorded with hidden cameras as they complete “tasks”—some innocuous, some sadistic—concocted by the show’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tropical Storm Barry developed in the Gulf of Mexico, as this magazine still calls it, on the morning of June 29th. It was the second named storm of the season and, as such, it arrived unusually early; historically, tempests with names like Bonnie or Bob didn’t form until mid-July. Later that day, Barry made landfall […]

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 […]

On July 3rd, Lee Pool, the chief of the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department, was heading home to Texas from a vacation in Colorado with his family when his wife, Stephanie, showed him the weather forecast. Severe storms were predicted in the Hill Country that night. Pool warned the members of the department to stay alert. […]

Donald Trump finally called “bullshit” on Vladimir Putin this week, though nobody seems to quite know what it means. One explanation, and perhaps the best one, is that Trump, belatedly, recognized what has long been apparent to the rest of us: that Putin has been playing him, pretending to talk peace while escalating Russia’s war […]

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“I believe that [Zohran Mamdani] won that primary for the same reason that Donald Trump won the Presidential election,” the governor of Kentucky says.

All this suggests that there is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word “power,” offering a plausible check to not only the climate crisis but to autocracy. Instead of relying on scattered deposits of fossil fuel—the control of which has largely defined geopolitics for more […]

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work. Von Arnim, an Australian brought up in England, married her first husband, the Count von Arnim, in 1891, and had three daughters in quick succession (the couple eventually had five children). The family […]

In the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse prepares to give his three hundredth climate-warning speech; Elizabeth Kolbert reports. And, then, John Cassidy on the economic consequences of Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill.” Plus: Photograph by Haiyun Jiang / NYT / Redux Heavy rain was again forecast to fall in parts of […]

Sometimes, the small details tell a larger story. On February 6th, a couple of weeks after Donald Trump returned to the White House, he met with Republican lawmakers to discuss his tax and spending plans. He was looking to extend the huge pro-business tax cuts that Republicans had pushed through during his first term and […]

When I arrived at the novelist Richard Price’s five-story, nineteenth-century brownstone, in East Harlem, in December, the doorbell was broken. Price and his wife, the writer Lorraine Adams, had left the door unlocked, in anticipation of my visit. The couple have lived in East Harlem since 2008. They’ve worked hard at being good neighbors, but […]

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, […]

For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Lorde is contemporary pop’s greatest demystifier, and also its greatest mystic. This contradiction has animated her music from the beginning. “We aren’t caught up in your love affair,” she declared in 2013’s “Royals,” taking a defiant stance against the world of pop-culture glamour—only to spend the rest of her début album making her own inverted […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The sequel, which adds more A.I.-endowed robots and increases their powers, diminishes its dramatic impact.

“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 / […]

In 2002, The New Yorker’s John Lahr visited Morningside Heights to write a Profile of the filmmaker Mira Nair, and took notice of her nine-year-old child: “Nair’s talkative doe-eyed son, Zohran, who exudes the charm of the well-loved, is known by dozens of coinages, including Z, Zoru, Fadoose, and Nonstop Mamdani.” Sometimes early observations are […]

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 […]

On Monday night, forty-eight hours after President Donald Trump ordered a series of strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, he announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Earlier that day, Iran had fired missiles at an American airbase in Qatar, an attack that came with advance warning and resulted in no casualties. The Trump Administration had […]

Why take any chances?

“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!”

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs.

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 […]

There’s a special kind of movie that’s inextricably linked to where it’s filmed. The locations aren’t just picturesque settings for action but part of the subject—as if the film were both a fictional drama and a documentary about the locale. One of the greatest such movies, “Columbus,” from 2017, directed by Kogonada, didn’t get the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

“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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

After the first cycle of attacks between Israel and Iran, on Friday, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made a direct appeal to Iranians to rise up against theocratic rule. Operation Rising Lion—the code name for Israel’s sweeping assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military leaders—was “clearing the path” for them, he said, in a […]

When Tyrese Haliburton shoots, his right hand almost cups the side of the ball. His right elbow is akimbo. He uses odd footwork, jabbing almost randomly, and sometimes skips and hops into his shots. In his shooting stance, his knees sometimes knock. He starts his shot with a quick little dip, then swings around, and […]

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, […]

Forty-nine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fifty-six, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit, and witnessed a scene that both bewildered and fascinated me. Our nineteen-seventies-era yellow-orange sink was covered in thick black streaks, as were parts of the countertop. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. Barbra Streisand has been a huge presence in American entertainment—music, film, and stage—for more than sixty years. She was the youngest person ever to achieve the […]

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 […]

In the fall of 1999, I interviewed Tony Blair, who was then the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, at 10 Downing Street. I asked Blair, a former barrister who had rebranded the vaguely socialist Labour Party as the explicitly pro-enterprise New Labour, if he believed socialism was dead. He hemmed and hawed. Eventually, he […]

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 […]

On Monday afternoon, news broke that seven hundred Marines were being deployed from their base in Twentynine Palms. The 2nd Battalion 7th Marines—known for their battles in Guadalcanal, during the Second World War; Incheon, in Korea; and Helmand Province, in Afghanistan—were now coming to support two thousand members of the California National Guard who had […]

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 […]

“The protesters seem to be doing some sort of joyful synchronized dance. Is it time to call in the Marines?”

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

Portrait of a President.

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

“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.”

I need to open the door now, it’s not the end of the world, it’s just that it’s been such a long time since anyone’s knocked on my door.

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 […]

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, […]

“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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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 […]

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 […]

This is the second installment of “How Bad Is It,” a recurring series in which the staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to conduct a health check on American democracy. They discuss how Donald Trump has bullied media companies, why it’s troubling that some outlets are seeking to settle lawsuits with the Administration, and […]

“Every time I start to think about the water, Trump comes up with another stupid distraction.”

When “It Was Just an Accident,” a new movie from the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, on Saturday, Panahi responded in a way that I’ve never seen from a winning filmmaker. As the audience inside the Grand Théâtre Lumière erupted in applause and leaped to their feet, […]

“Sure, baseball is boring, but if you learn how to keep score it’s also math.”

For the cover of the June 2, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson features Marshall W. (Major) Taylor leading a parade of bicyclists from eras past and present. “I wanted to pay tribute to the most celebrated cyclist in the nineteenth century—the first African American superstar of any sport—and to the epic six-day indoor cycling […]