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One prediction about the 2024 political season has already come true. The election year, to the delight of Donald Trump’s superfans and the dread of just about everyone else, is all about the former President: his trials, his feuds, his insufferable family. We learned this week that he wants his daughter-in-law, Lara, to become the […]

Green “Star Wars” sage: four letters.

Republicans famously hate “snowflakes”—overly fragile liberals who can’t handle any political heat. Some of the un-American, lily-livered ideas that snowflakes support include early-voting periods and mail-in ballots. The Republican Party, thanks to Donald Trump’s insistence that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen, actively discourages its supporters from voting in these easy and convenient ways. And […]

In Karina Dandashi’s short film, a reunion between two cousins takes a chaotic turn when an ex-girlfriend enters the scene.

The G.O.P. unleashes the power of negative thinking.

Recently, a man whom I’ll call Cyrus, who has spent the past several years in Georgia prisons, told me a story. It was about a cellmate whom I’ll call Timmy, who had borrowed Cyrus’s cell phone. Cell phones are ubiquitous in U.S. prisons, despite prohibitions against their use by inmates. Guards who smuggle them in […]

Did you really think that the Kansas City Chiefs were not going to win the Super Bowl? It’s true that they struggled offensively this season, and entered the playoffs as a wild card, forcing them to compete in an extra game while the San Francisco 49ers enjoyed a first-round bye. It’s true that the Chiefs […]

Valentine’s Day cartoons for the lovestruck.

On January 28th, after the San Francisco 49ers won the N.F.C. Championship game, against the Detroit Lions, the 49ers’ tight end George Kittle came to the postgame press conference with something he wanted to say: “Why do analytics people say that momentum isn’t a real thing?” Kittle mentioned a conversation he’d recently had with the […]

How did you come to May of 2020 as your unifying theme? Well, the first season of “Things Fell Apart” was my lockdown project. First time I’ve ever done any journalism where I didn’t travel—I just did all the interviews remotely from my laundry room upstate. It was fantastic. It was also a bit of […]

Emil Ferris’s début graphic novel, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” published when she was fifty-five, was a breakout hit, garnering praise from critics and peers for its intricately cross-hatched drawings, its gripping plot, and its marriage of gothic-pulp aesthetics and sharp social commentary. The story is presented as the diary of Karen Reyes, a ten-year-old […]

My first job in media was as an assistant at The American Prospect, a small political magazine in Washington, D.C., that offered a promising foothold in journalism. I helped with the print order, mailed checks to writers—after receiving lots of e-mails asking, politely, Where is my money?—and ran the intern program. This last responsibility allowed […]

More than a million Palestinians are currently sheltering in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza that has become a refuge of last resort within the territory. This week, Israel has announced plans to send ground troops into Rafah, raising fears about civilian casualties. The news has prompted warnings from the Biden Administration: the National Security […]

Today’s theme: Shirking your duties.

The end, when it came, was painful to watch. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans voted en masse to disavow a bipartisan deal on foreign aid and the border that they themselves had spent months demanding. Collateral damage could not have been higher—the credibility of the United States as an ally and partner, the credibility of the […]

High cards in a game of war: four letters.

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Seat Pants: Standing for an entire concert is a young man’s game. Thankfully, with these pants, you can rest between sets without losing your spot. Steel-Toed Crocs with Matching Compression Socks: Comfortably protect toes from getting stomped on and combat varicose veins. Private Air-Filtration System: Sure, smoking indoors is illegal, but when has that ever […]

Say what you will about Mitch McConnell—over the years, I’ve said plenty. The eighty-one-year-old Senate Minority Leader has an unerring sense for internal Republican Party politics. Last month, at a closed-door meeting of the Senate G.O.P. caucus, he told his colleagues that Donald Trump’s hostility to a political deal on the southern border had left […]

“I don’t really know how competitive I am by nature, because if you can’t consciously acknowledge something you can’t see where you are in relation to it.” I wrote this sentence to an acquaintance with whom I was having a long e-mail exchange about Elena Ferrante’s novel “My Brilliant Friend,” which follows the early phase […]

Everything about Joe Biden’s reëlection effort tends to be pretty quiet, and so it was with a characteristic mutedness that the campaign greeted its best week in a long time. Much of the good news had to do with the economy, as the stock market broke rec­ords and prices have come under control. “The war […]

I think of myself as a morning person, but, still, I groaned and grumbled as I rolled out of bed before sunrise on a recent morning just to get breakfast. My destination was the Screen Door, a tiny ice-cream shop in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint that is currently serving as the host of Border Town, a peripatetic […]

The writer-director Molly Manning Walker perched on a stool at the Bushwick bar Mood Ring the other night, trying to talk her way out of doing karaoke. “I’m not a singer,” she said, apologetically, after the bartender encouraged her to make an attempt. “I’m pretty tone-deaf.” Growing up in London, in the two-thousands, she’d filmed […]

For almost twenty years, Grigely has made an annual pilgrimage to Wilmington, New York, to think, to write, and, above all, to fish. He stays in a small cabin on the Ausable River, and when I visited, this past May, he smoked us a brown trout he’d caught that morning with his vintage Paul Young […]

“Wow.” “Great!” “Holy Moly.” These were some of the online commentariat’s initial reactions to the U.S. Labor Department’s announcement on Friday that employers created three hundred and fifty-three thousand jobs in January, far more than Wall Street was expecting. The government statisticians also revised the December job figure, first reported at two hundred and sixteen […]

There are certain images that slither past good taste and politics and sink their teeth straight into the subconscious. For instance: a man dressed in a tuxedo and a Ronald Reagan mask, using a gasoline pump as a flamethrower. He is torching his getaway vehicle and taking his time; the scene isn’t shot in slow […]

According to Hegel, the slow march of human civilization was intermittently disrupted and shifted by “Heroes,” singular figures “whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit,” as he wrote. Such heroes interfere in and remake the world; their deeds produce “a complex of historical relations which appear to be only their interest, […]

[gentle tone] 10 grand? Yeah. I mean, it could be less if I did a Kickstarter or an Indiegogo. An Indie what what? It’s this website where filmmakers get funding. Okay. And, you know, I feel weird like if I put it on GoFundMe because that’s for people who actually need help. Huh. I’d like […]

Says Kaddish, e.g.: six letters.

Even after all these years, every picture feels new, and newly seen, like he’d just caught sight of these people in this place and had barely stopped to snap the shot before moving on. When Szarkowski, a crucial supporter, organized “Winogrand: Figments from the Real World,” the first major posthumous Winogrand show, at MOMA, in […]

A challenging puzzle.

Jannik Sinner was once a skiing prodigy. He grew up in a small town in the Italian Alps, near Austria, and was one of the country’s top prospects in the giant slalom, an event that requires speed, quick feet, and technical mastery. But he was afraid. Skiing is unforgiving: one small mistake, and you lose […]

Although Mads Mikkelsen has been knighted by two separate countries for his services to the arts, he first came to the stage almost by accident. Born and raised in working-class Copenhagen, he trained as a gymnast and spent ten years as a dancer before realizing that what most appealed to him was the drama of […]

On Friday, the International Court of Justice, in The Hague—one of the six principal parts of the United Nations—found that Israel must take action to prevent genocidal violence by its armed forces; “prevent and punish” the incitement to genocide; and insure that humanitarian aid to Gaza is increased. South Africa had accused Israel of committing […]

On a recent evening, my children and I were watching “The Iron Giant,” the animated cult classic about a robot from outer space who, in 1957, crash-lands in the woods outside a small town in Maine, befriends a young boy, and wages battle against both a murderously stupid G-man and his own robo-programming as a […]

Iranian cinema has risen to international prominence in recent decades, largely through the meticulous realism of such directors as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, who probe ordinary people’s lives in passionate detail. Mani Haghighi is somewhat different. Now in his fifties and one of Iran’s most distinguished and distinctive filmmakers, he’s a specialist in tales […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Everyone loves to rail against the élites. But to whom does the term refer? For right-wing politicians and pundits, it’s the mainstream media and the Ivy League-educated. For progressives, it’s corporate honchos. The […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Marcus Jackson Richie Hofmann joins Kevin Young to read “Twilight,” by Henri Cole, and his own poem “French Novel.” Hofmann is the author of two collections of poetry and the recipient […]

So much for suspense. As soon as the polls closed at 8 P.M. in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, the Associated Press called the race for Donald Trump. Sometimes, it turns out, the conventional wisdom is actually right. With a sizable, if not overwhelming, victory over Nikki Haley, Trump has very likely […]

If the Oscars are meant to display the film industry’s ideal image of itself, the choice of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Barbie” among the year’s best movies is evidence that the spirit of artistic audacity has survived the age of superheroic domination. Those two films are high on my list of favorites, too, […]

After Latifa was captured, her supporters heard nothing until one day, more than a year later, her friend Tiina received a message—a handwritten letter from Latifa, smuggled out of the villa where she was being held prisoner. Latifa’s supporters managed to equip her with a secret phone, which she used to make recordings that documented […]

The waiting room was heavily perfumed, with soaring wood ceilings that reminded me of upscale hotels. As I helped myself to a free seltzer, a shelf full of health books caught my eye. One was dubiously titled “Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever.” After I donned Prenuvo scrubs, […]

When Beatriz Flamini was growing up, in Madrid, she spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom. “I really liked being there,” she says. She’d read books to her dolls and write on a chalkboard while giving them lessons in math or history. As she got older, she told me, she sometimes imagined being […]

Form a twosome with young dog carrying melody (4,2).

The exhibition “Mermaids and Monsters” explores hoaxes of yore.

In a remembrance, the poet Sergei Gandlevsky, one of the people who knew Rubinstein best, called him “implausibly sociable.” He was not indiscriminate—he didn’t suffer fools, careerists, and narcissists—but he had a vast range of social possibilities. He accepted every birthday-party invitation, most dinner-party invitations, and many invitations to go grab a drink. He was […]

It has been a while since Francis Ford Coppola made a new feature—and a very long while since he made his greatest ones. (I’m hoping that his forthcoming “Megalopolis” proves to be a late-career masterwork.) Meanwhile, he has been tinkering with some of his earlier works, including ones that deserve to be considered classics but […]

“Don’t worry—this stretch of extreme cold means there’s an unseasonably warm day ahead.”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. On Monday, Ron DeSantis lost the Iowa caucuses to Donald Trump by thirty points, despite dedicating a great deal of his campaign funds and time to the state. Yet the Florida governor still […]

On Tuesday afternoon, fresh off the previous day’s victory in Iowa, Donald Trump headed to a snowy Atkinson, New Hampshire, as the seemingly inevitable Republican candidate in November’s Presidential election. The Granite State’s G.O.P. primary will be taking place next Tuesday, and many political experts believe that Trump is one more big win away from […]

There are films that, by the force of style, get their ideas onto the screen as if the images came from as deep within the filmmakers themselves as do their voices. The documentary “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” from 1982, by the husband-and-wife filmmakers Dick Fontaine (who died last October) and Pat Hartley, is […]

The Presidential hopeful bows out, backlit by sunset.

Donald Trump spent 2023 working to insure that the Republican primaries would be organized around him—that within the closed circuit of the G.O.P., at least, he could run as if he were actually the incumbent, with the prerogatives still intact. He ducked the debates, draining them of drama; persuaded some Republican officials in states around […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a […]

Donald Trump was having travel difficulties. He couldn’t make it to Iowa in the snow. On Friday night, he recorded a brisk ninety-second video dispatch, from Palm Beach to Des Moines: “I’m leaving very shortly for your beautiful state. I love that state . . . One way or the other I’m getting there. You have the worst […]

On Tuesday, during a walloping Iowa snowstorm, less than a week before the caucuses, the Florida governor and U.S. Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, who’s been campaigning doggedly across Iowa, flew to Tallahassee, delivered a speech, then returned without his coat. Schools were closed, cars veered into ditches, and DeSantis did his best to bond with […]

“And I don’t want to be here,” Naomi Osaka said, almost six years ago, to Sascha Bajin, her coach at the time. “Here” was a tennis stadium in Charleston, South Carolina, in April, 2018, midmatch, during a changeover. Osaka was down a set and a break and she had had it, not just with the […]

In 1979, Pete Carroll, then twenty-eight years old, was a secondary coach at Ohio State. One former colleague remembered how he’d sit at his desk, listening to the Beach Boys with a smile on his face. But behind the smile was a ruthless competitor, a student of aggressive defensive schemes, and, the next year, he […]

“How much longer until Dry January ends?”

The finale of “The Curse,” the oddest and most original show on television right now, opens with Asher and Whitney Siegel, the grin-and-bear-it married couple played by Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone, in the midst of a press push for their new HGTV reality series. Last we saw the Siegels, on the previous episode of […]

“You ready for 2024?”

Heading into Wednesday’s fifth Republican Presidential debate, the question was whether we would see a different, less careful Nikki Haley. The field has essentially narrowed to three, with Haley coming from the back of the pack to edge into second in most recent polls, just ahead of Ron DeSantis and still far behind Donald Trump. […]

“On the plus side, you probably won’t need an umbrella today.”

On April 30, 1945, the photojournalist Lee Miller took a bath in Hitler’s tub. A correspondent for British Vogue, Miller had posted up in the Führer’s abandoned apartment in Munich along with a group of G.I.s from the 179th Regiment. That morning, she had been among the first to enter the newly liberated Dachau. Her […]

Half of life is spent dealing with details: the numbers, the paperwork, the dozens of discussions upon which any shared activity, professional or private, is based. (The other half of life is dealing with the results.) Many filmmakers leave such practicalities behind, feeding escapist desires with alluring realms of fantasy. The better ones understand that […]

Today’s theme: Carry-on items.

In the fall of 2016—the year in which the proportion of online adults using social media reached eighty per cent—I published an Op-Ed in the Times that questioned the popular conception that you need to cultivate a strong social-media brand to succeed in the job market. “I think this behavior is misguided,” I wrote. “In […]

Surface on a cut gemstone: five letters.

When the French director Justine Triet’s first feature, “Age of Panic,” screened in New York—in 2014, the year after its Cannes première—it felt as if the movie might herald a new energy in French cinema. Blending fiction and documentary in a daringly original framework, it held out a promise that rough contact with real life […]

My grandmother first told me some version of this story when I was too young to have any conception of what the poem was about. I recall being impressed that someone I was related to had written something that was admired by Grover Cleveland, whose name sounded familiar. According to Lewis L. Gould, who wrote […]

“When I was your age, we had to walk ten miles inside our apartments because we were quarantined.”

Calypso, for one: five letters.

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. On a special, archival New Year’s episode, Greg Jackson reads his story “Wagner in the Desert,” from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine, in which a group of old friends convene […]

Pair of kissers discussed flowers (6).

According to the author Justin Torres, “Backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why his first novel, “We the Animals,” which is told from the shared perspective of three young brothers in upstate New York, unfolds not as a narrative but as a string of vignettes. The semi-autobiographical novel describes a […]

The world exists because we are observing it. Reality is constructed in our heads.

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. A record number of migrants crossed the southern border of the U.S. this year, and accounts have emerged throughout the year of cities struggling to provide services to an influx […]

It was hard not to see, and to feel, the joy. To judge from the swell of sound at the end of the Memphis Grizzlies’ last-second win over the New Orleans Pelicans, as cries of “Defense!” gave way to a low roar, it was hard even for some in the opposing New Orleans crowd. Joy […]

Four years ago, on the threshold of a critical election year that would decide whether Donald Trump won another term in the White House, I asked a German friend, Constanze Stelzenmüller, of the Brookings Institution, to come up with one of those long Teutonic words for the state of constant, gnawing anxiety that Trump’s disruptive […]

Hairy “Addams Family” cousin: three letters.

“I keep it on so that everyone will know I went skiing that one time six years ago.”

The prime success of the new movie version of “The Color Purple” is its tone: it plays like legend, filtered through the pleasure and the pain of the telling. It’s a musical, adapted from Alice Walker’s novel and from Marsha Norman’s book for the stage play (which is also a musical and provides the new […]

Tristan’s love, in a Wagner opera: six letters.

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In “Crown Heights North,” your story in this week’s issue, a dead man downloads a running app—that’s the setup, both simple and deeply complicated. The man was in his mid-fifties when he died, and he now finds himself in an afterlife that bears a strong resemblance to the world he knew prior to his death. […]

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Bar Miller, a three-month-old omakase counter in the East Village, is the creation of Jeff Miller, the chef and co-owner of the pioneering sustainable-sushi destination Rosella. The new spot, an eight-seat counter in a very tiny, gorgeously designed room, is more or less a spinoff of Rosella’s omakase program. (The parent restaurant is now entirely […]

The welcome winter festival has been upon us, starting with the solstice of the sun and carrying on until those late-arriving gift-givers, the magi, finally show up, as they will, in all their many shapes and stylings and apparitions. The magi we know best first appear in the Gospel of Matthew—those three wise men, long […]

Amir is one of a small but growing number of philosophers who provide some form of individual counselling. In the United States, two professional associations for philosophical counsellors, the National Philosophical Counseling Association (N.P.C.A.) and the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (A.P.P.A.), list dozens of philosophers who can help you with your problems. Italy has multiple […]

What makes a Christmas poem? It could be a drift of snow or some evergreen trees, a box of candy canes or the baby Jesus. The best-known poem attending to the holiday is probably “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” also known as “ ’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” with characters such as quiet mice, clattering reindeer, […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. At seventy-four, Bruce Springsteen has been cementing his status as a rock-and-roll legend for almost fifty years: he released his widely heralded, but not initially widely heard, début, “Greetings from […]

Near the beginning of the new Michael Mann film, “Ferrari,” we are treated to a fine visual gag. The year is 1957, and the setting is a tranquil country house, where Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver), the founder of the company that bears his name, awakes beside his beloved. Having dressed, Enzo leaves the house as […]

“We travel in uncharted territory,” the Colorado Supreme Court observed on Tuesday, as it ruled that Donald Trump’s name cannot appear on that state’s Republican Presidential-primary ballot. Indeed, the court’s 4–3 majority found that Trump had taken part in an insurrection on January 6, 2021, and that Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment […]

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. In the highest-grossing movie of 2023, Barbie, a literal doll, leaves the comforts of Barbieland and ventures into real-world Los Angeles, where she discovers the myriad difficulties of modern womanhood. This arc from cosseted naïveté to feminist awakening is a narrative through line that connects some of […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. In 2023, Isaac Chotiner conducted more than sixty Q. & A.s for The New Yorker, on a wide array of international and domestic topics. He has gained a reputation for being a fearless […]

Banyai’s supporters encouraged defiance. One posted, “Time to stand against tyranny!” McLain, the YouTube interviewer, who talked about making ghost guns on a 3-D printer and titled one of his episodes “Become Ungovernable,” praised Banyai’s “civil disobedience.” Banyai told him, “I’m seeing the characteristics of where society is going, how I’m going to be able […]

At 9:54 A.M. on October 28th, an apologetic message appeared on the X account of the British Library, in London: “We are currently experiencing technical issues affecting our website. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to resolve it as soon as possible.” It was a Saturday, which, before I had kids, used to be […]

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“Young lady, as long as you live under my roof you’ll wear the matching sweater.”

Before we enter the room, let’s talk elephants. This year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s death, museums and galleries advanced every interpretation of the man but the big, unsayable one: he has been of weirdly little importance to the past half century of art-making, at least given how important he remains to art […]

In 1955, Leonard Bernstein explored the art of conducting on an episode of the CBS show “Omnibus.” After leading a studio orchestra through the opening bars of Brahms’s First Symphony, Bernstein walks away from the podium and turns to the camera, leaving the orchestra to continue playing behind him. “Well, you see, they don’t need […]

In an essay that accompanied the 2021 exhibit “Speechless: The Art of Wordless Picture Books,” at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the children’s-book author David Wiesner laid down milestones for the genre to which “Bunny & Tree” belongs. Wiesner started with “What Whiskers Did,” by Ruth Carroll, from 1932, a joyous work […]

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