Reading for the New Year: Part Four - Recommendations from New Yorker writers. (www.newyorker.com)
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A Début Novel About the Quest for Eternal Youth - In Madeline Cash’s “Lost Lambs,” the distinction between responsible adult and dependent child has frayed. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Books of 2026 So Far - Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 21st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Battle for One of the Richest and Smallest Counties in Texas - A few families have been duelling for control of Loving County for decades. Then the followers of a hustle-culture influencer moved in. (www.newyorker.com)
Bringing Zohran Mamdani to the Big Screen - In 2023, Julia Bacha began filming a backbench state assemblyman. Little did she know that she was making a documentary about the next mayor of New York City. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch - The ephemeral nature of contemporary music consumption has made it much harder to elevate an album—even a very good one—into the category of an event. (www.newyorker.com)
An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West” - In Stephen Michael Simon’s documentary, Lala Abaddon leaves New York City and finds peace and creativity in her new hardscrabble desert home. (www.newyorker.com)
How Europe Can Respond to Trump’s Greenland Imperalism - The President’s obsession with acquiring the Danish territory has put the transatlantic alliance at risk. (www.newyorker.com)
Can American Churches Lead a Protest Movement Under Trump? - The Sanctuary Movement was led by clergy, and many religious leaders are activists today. But, as congregations have shrunk, dissent has diminished. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 20th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
An Unhappy Anniversary: Trump’s Year in Office - The toll of a destructive twelve months—and what can be done to repair the damage. (www.newyorker.com)
I Am the Person Who Controls Your Appliances - Speaking of, it’s time for me to turn your gas stove off. (www.newyorker.com)
The Overlooked Deaths of the Attack on Venezuela - To many on the ground, civilian fatalities were simply the cost of ousting Nicolás Maduro. (www.newyorker.com)
“Snow Falling,” by Marianne Boruch - “What does a single flake know / of its big/little fate?” (www.newyorker.com)
Faulty Gas Valve? Call the Famous Stove Lady! - Carlita Belgrove is the go-to stove whisperer, restoring the appliances of N.Y.C. élites and Hollywood actors. On a trip to the Hamptons, can she save her client’s Magic Chef? (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Scavengers,” “Some Bright Nowhere,” “Atlas’s Bones,” and “Everything Is Photograph.” (www.newyorker.com)
Small-Talk Road Map - Enter through Pleasantries and take a right at A.I. Watch out for the Gaps in Your Knowledge! (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News - The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation” - Staying warm. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Psalm for the Slightly Tilted,” by Ilya Kaminsky - “This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.” (www.newyorker.com)
From Selma to Minneapolis - On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others. (www.newyorker.com)
When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills - Early in his life, Sanders left the streets of Brooklyn for the woodlands of Vermont. What did the man bring to the state—and what did the state bring to the man? (www.newyorker.com)
For This Palisades Toymaker, Fire Safety Is No Game - Jeremy Padawer, whose company owns Squishmallows, is one of thousands devastated by last year’s fire. At a rally for the anniversary, he’s more passionate than ever about reform. (www.newyorker.com)
Ask Xander & Mariluisa - Relationship advice from the internet: on Friday Afternoon Sex Clubs, adoption, and synchronized waterskiing. (www.newyorker.com)
Mark Strong, on the Clock - On a break from playing Oedipus in the new Broadway production, the British actor stops by Federal Hall to chat politics, family dynamics, and being mistaken for Stanley Tucci. (www.newyorker.com)
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees - LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison. (www.newyorker.com)
“Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck,” Reviewed - At the Met, the Finnish artist’s spare, melancholic work has the strange effect of jolting your senses. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Kill a Fish - The Japanese chef Junya Yamasaki mastered a butchery technique that results in tastier seafood—and he’s taught some Southern California fishermen how to do it, too. (www.newyorker.com)
What Makes a Good Mother? - We keep revising the maternal ideal—and keep falling short of it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Ice Curtain - Since Putin invaded Ukraine, the short distance between Nome, Alaska, and Russia seems wider than ever. (www.newyorker.com)
“Light Secrets,” by Joseph O’Neill - Everyone’s done something good that’s hidden—the opposite of a dark secret. (www.newyorker.com)
Acts of Self-Destruction - On the most irreversible form of dissent, in art and in real life. (www.newyorker.com)
Joseph O’Neill Reads “Light Secrets” - The author reads his story from the January 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies - The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing to the role of a woman possessed by faith. (www.newyorker.com)
Vinson Cunningham on Barry Blitt’s Obama “Fist Bump” Cover - Here’s one big risk a public satirist of racism takes: by displaying tropes and crude imagery, he reveals just how well he knows and can deploy them himself. (www.newyorker.com)
Joseph O’Neill on Why a Story Should Be Like a Poem - The author discusses his story “Light Secrets.” (www.newyorker.com)
Helen, Help Me: On the Phenomenology of Cheeseburgers - A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. (www.newyorker.com)
An Indigenous Community’s Spiritual Haunting - In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth suicides. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Trump Really Use the Insurrection Act? - An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities. (www.newyorker.com)
Bob Weir’s Feral Radiance - The Grateful Dead guitarist had the nature of a well-meaning cowboy, and a lasting capacity to access wonder and deep engagement. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis - During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically. (www.newyorker.com)
When a Man Loves a Cello - For the concert soloist Steven Isserlis, the perfect instrument is a blessing—and a curse. (www.newyorker.com)
A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan - Can American democracy come back from the brink? (www.newyorker.com)
Erich von Stroheim’s Spectacular Art Is Back - A new restoration of Stroheim’s unfinished 1929 drama “Queen Kelly” spotlights his reckless directorial career, which, though brief, is one of the greatest of all. (www.newyorker.com)
Nia DaCosta Injects New Blood Into “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” - In this gory sequel to Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” an undead threat that has ravaged Britain turns out to be no match for the reality of living human evil. (www.newyorker.com)
With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics - A left-wing, atheist reality-TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channelling outrage with MAGA and with Democrats she views as complacent. (www.newyorker.com)
How Betting Took Over Sports - The reporter Danny Funt discusses his new book, “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What It’s Like to Be Trump’s Closest Ally Right Now - Britain still relies on the U.S. for so much. How long can it hold on? (www.newyorker.com)
The Mental Pratfalls of Anne Gridley, in “Watch Me Walk” - Also: Jodie Foster’s new movie, New York City Ballet’s winter season, music inspired by the poetry of the Black Arts Movement, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
A D.H.S. Shooting Puts Portland Back Under the Microscope - After a year under siege, the city’s police department contends with the tactics of federal immigration agents. (www.newyorker.com)
The Minnesota War Zone Is Trump’s Most Trumpian Accomplishment - The President may have started out by trash-talking America; one year into his second term, he is simply trashing it. (www.newyorker.com)
A President with His Finger on the Nation’s Pulse - Lewd, rude, and dangerous to know. (www.newyorker.com)
Album Review: Zach Bryan’s “With Heaven on Top” - The singer-songwriter has become one of the most popular musicians in America without much changing his no-frills approach. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Jay Powell, the Prepster Banker Who Is Standing Up to Trump - The seventy-two-year-old Fed chairman put to shame the heads of law firms, universities, and public companies who have caved to the White House. (www.newyorker.com)
Have You Saved Enough for Retirement If Your Life Culminates in Decades of Escalating Misfortune? - You need assets that grow in value constantly, like original paintings by legendary artists, or houses that haven’t been carried away by drones or invaded by mastermind insects. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Football Matters - It remains far and away the most popular sport in the U.S., even in the face of growing concerns about players’ safety. What do we get from the spectacle? (www.newyorker.com)
How Colombia’s President Reached an Uneasy Détente with Donald Trump - After the attack in Venezuela, its neighbor state reckons with U.S. aggression. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Has Transformed ICE - A former D.H.S. oversight official on what, legally, the agency can and can’t do—and the accountability mechanisms that have been “gutted beyond recognition.” (www.newyorker.com)
Is Everything Going According to Marco Rubio’s Plan? - The Secretary of State is often described as the architect of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. How much control he actually exercises remains uncertain. (www.newyorker.com)
In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence - In “All That’s Left of You” and “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” medical emergencies beget agonizing moral conundrums. (www.newyorker.com)
Reading for the New Year: Part Three - Recommendations from New Yorker writers. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lights Are Still On in Venezuela - After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another. (www.newyorker.com)
Reality Shows for Your Thirties - “My Super Sweet 36th Birthday” and “Punk’d: Medical Bills” available for streaming now. (www.newyorker.com)
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Grok and the A.I. Porn Problem - Elon Musk’s X is living up to its name. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Chronology of Water” Is an Extraordinary Directorial Début - Kristen Stewart’s first feature, based on a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, packs great emotional power into its boldly original form. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What Comes After the Protests - The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis will continue to bring people to the streets. Can it bring change? (www.newyorker.com)
George Clooney’s Duolingo - Je vais à la bibliothèque avec mon ami Brad Pitt. (www.newyorker.com)
Iran’s Regime Is Unsustainable - Political repression and a teetering economy have sparked widespread protests and chants of “Death to the Dictator.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 12th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Supreme Court Gets Back to Work - The Justices are heading into a busy, contentious season. The mood seems brittle. (www.newyorker.com)
The New York Shooting That Defined an Era - On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the city. Are we still living in its wake? (www.newyorker.com)
How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler - As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe. (www.newyorker.com)
Planes, Trains, and Maduro-mobiles - The Venezuelan politician is taking New York’s V.I.P. transit—Justice Department helicopter—from prison to court. But would it be quicker to take a pedicab? (www.newyorker.com)
The I.R.S.’s Money Pit - A mysterious hole on the sidewalk outside the agency’s headquarters hasn’t been filled for years. One lawsuit is seeking seven million dollars in damages. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Serve Like Marty Supreme - The costume designer Miyako Bellizzi has worked with the Safdie Brothers for years. Picking out Timothée Chalamet’s boxers was a new challenge. (www.newyorker.com)
The Backcountry Rescue Squad at America’s Busiest National Park - In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and rafting adventures go wrong. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Tatiana Schlossberg’s personal essay about her leukemia diagnosis, Adam Gopnik’s review of a book about the origins of incarceration, and John Seabrook’s report on how stadiums are changing. (www.newyorker.com)
The Dangerous Paradox of A.I. Abundance - Silicon Valley envisions artificial intelligence ushering in an era of economic plenty. But what if the benefits are largely confined to corporations and investors that own the technology itself? (www.newyorker.com)
How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation - The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there? (www.newyorker.com)
Peter Doig’s Histories of Ink - The artist camps out in a British warehouse to sign more than eight hundred works. Will chatting about Zohran Mamdani help pass the time? (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Sitting Bull’s War,” “Homeschooled,” “Lightbreakers,” and “Before I Forget.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Men’s Beds,” by Richie Hofmann - “I was promiscuous / With my feelings most of all.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Changing Table,” by Meghan O’Rourke - “The thing about children is: / they disappear.” (www.newyorker.com)
Reflections - Do you see what I see (in this guy’s sunglasses)? (www.newyorker.com)
How to Recover from Caring Too Much - If you laugh at unfunny jokes, raise your hand too quickly, or can’t decide on your favorite color, you may be exhibiting a fawn response. (www.newyorker.com)
Mom and Dad: The Performance Review - Accomplished: Mom made partner and ditched skinny jeans; I quit cello and started seventh grade; Dad looked for a job. (www.newyorker.com)
The Bloody Lesson the Ayatollah Took from the Shah - With demonstrations in dozens of cities across Iran, Ali Khamenei and his regime are faced with a dilemma. (www.newyorker.com)
Sadia Shepard Reads “Kim’s Game” - The author reads her story from the January 19, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Kim’s Game,” by Sadia Shepard - She didn’t much care for him or his video camera. But then, she’s never much cared for anthropologists. (www.newyorker.com)
Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump - The U.S., once Denmark’s closest ally, is threatening to steal Greenland and attacking the country’s wind-power industry. Is this a permanent breakup? (www.newyorker.com)
Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” - Capote’s journalistic transgressions were serious, but there is no denying the awesome influence of his work. (www.newyorker.com)
Sadia Shepard on Loss, Faith, and the Web Between Stories - The author discusses her story “Kim’s Game.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Cove - With Cove, his fourth restaurant, in Hudson Square, the twenty-seven-year-old wunderkind chef cooks with a new expansiveness. (www.newyorker.com)
What Makes the Iranian Protests Different This Time - Unrest has spread across the Islamic Republic as it faces economic disaster at home and a profound weakening of its network of regional allies. (www.newyorker.com)
Lagos Is a Vortex of Energy - In a recent book, “Èkó,” the photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare captures the messiness and hope of the Nigerian city. (www.newyorker.com)
The Robot and the Philosopher - In the age of A.I., we endlessly debate what consciousness looks like. Can a camera see things more clearly? (www.newyorker.com)
TV Review: “Heated Rivalry,” Streaming on HBO Max and Crave - The show, a sexy romance between two closeted hockey players, began on a small Canadian streaming platform, but has become a huge, unexpected hit. (www.newyorker.com)
How an Attack on Obamacare Saved Abortion in Wyoming - In the most conservative state in the U.S., libertarianism can lead in surprising directions. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist - He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a preference for power freed from the pretense of principle. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Donald Trump Creating the Conditions for Another World War? - “What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says. (www.newyorker.com)
“Dead Man’s Wire” Is a Tangle of Loose Threads - In dramatizing a real-life hostage crisis from 1977, Gus Van Sant teases out enticing themes that remain undeveloped. (www.newyorker.com)
Minneapolis Reacts to ICE’s Killing of Renee Nicole Good - The city where George Floyd was murdered finds itself again at the epicenter of a national crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism - The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.” (www.newyorker.com)
Does Every Marriage Need a Prenup? - The staff writer Jennifer Wilson explores why prenuptial agreements have boomed in popularity among millennial and Gen Z couples. (www.newyorker.com)
The Gospel According to Emily Henry - How the best-selling author of “People We Meet on Vacation” channelled her love of rom-coms—and her religious upbringing—into a new kind of romance novel. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Zealous Voyagers of “Magellan” and “The Testament of Ann Lee” - In two portraits of seafaring religious zealots, the directors Lav Diaz and Mona Fastvold employ bold formal devices to hold their protagonists at a compelling remove. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Life a Game? - In “The Score,” the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues that play is the meaning of life. (www.newyorker.com)
Dances of the Georgian Court and Countryside - Also: Bang on a Can and St. Vincent in Richard Foreman’s “What to Wear,” the celestial folk of Cassandra Jenkins, Jennifer Wilson and Richard Brody on comfort in the cold weather, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
What “The Pitt” Taught Me About Being a Doctor - It’s as if the show’s creators absorbed every important conversation in health care today—and somehow transfigured it into good television. (www.newyorker.com)
In Tracy Letts’s “Bug,” Crazy Is Contagious - A Broadway revival arrives at a moment when paranoia plots are everywhere. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else) - There’s no Trump Doctrine, just a map of the world that the President wants to write his name on in big gold letters. (www.newyorker.com)
Béla Tarr’s Unbroken Visions - In muckily deliberative masterworks such as “Sátántangó” and “The Turin Horse,” the Hungarian director monumentalized the process of decay and the passage of time. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Aggressive Ambitions of Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” - After his assault on Venezuela, the President is turning his attention to the rest of the Western Hemisphere. (www.newyorker.com)
AllTrails Guide to Cringe Mountain - The lower section of this trail is gentle and promises landscape features familiar to most millennials, including plenty of heckin’ puppers and doggos, the crying-laughing emoji, and adulting. (www.newyorker.com)
Mr. Mamdani’s (New) Neighborhood - The corner of the Upper East Side the Mayor will call home is both far and not so far from Astoria. (www.newyorker.com)
Do We Need Saints? - Divinely inspired figures have become a cultural fixation, appearing in prestige films, pop albums, and fashion. What explains this modern hunger for holiness? (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “Guzzler” - Trump’s thirst for Venezuela. (www.newyorker.com)
Reading for the New Year: Part Two - Recommendations from New Yorker writers. (www.newyorker.com)
The Former Trump Skeptics Getting Behind His War in Venezuela - A onetime adviser to Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney argues that the U.S. has been “too cautious” in its use of force since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Perils of Killing the Already Dead - Fear of what the dead might do to us didn’t start with Dracula, and it didn’t end with him, either. (www.newyorker.com)
What Will Become of Venezuela’s Political Prisoners? - Jésus Armas, a prominent opposition leader, has been in prison in Caracas for the past year. With the country in turmoil, his mother worries about his fate. (www.newyorker.com)
ICE’s New-Age Propaganda - With its string of “wartime recruitment” ads, often featuring pop songs and familiar meme formats, the agency has weaponized social media against itself. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 6th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
J. D. Vance’s Notable Absence on Venezuela - Was the Vice-President’s exclusion from the operation in Venezuela an expression of his anti-interventionist ideology—or a political calculation? (www.newyorker.com)
The Dramatic Arraignment of Nicolás Maduro - By forcibly bringing the ousted President and his wife into jurisdiction of U.S. federal courts, Trump will now have to accept that at least two Venezuelans deserve the basic right to due process. (www.newyorker.com)
Updated Rules for Children at Our Brewery - Our chairs are for sitting on, not for constructing elaborate forts. (www.newyorker.com)
What a Viral YouTube Video Says About the Future of Journalism - A streamer’s investigation of fraud in Minnesota garnered millions of views. His content was questionable, but his methods will likely inspire scores of imitators. (www.newyorker.com)
How Did Astoria Become So Socialist? - One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic.” (www.newyorker.com)
Special Episode: After Maduro’s Ouster, What Are Trump’s Plans for Venezuela? - The President says the United States will “run” Venezuela. What that entails—and how far Trump will go in the country and in the broader region—remains unclear. (www.newyorker.com)
The Maduro Regime Without Maduro - A political scientist explains how the Venezuelan President ran the country, why he was so unpopular, and, after his seizure by the Trump Administration, who might take over. (www.newyorker.com)
Jack Smith’s Closing Argument - The former special prosecutor has no regrets about pursuing a case against Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 5th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Who’s Running Venezuela After the Fall of Maduro? - The country’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, is in the awkward position of having to appease two hard-line, opposing audiences: the Trump Administration and what remains of the Venezuelan regime. (www.newyorker.com)
The Making of the First American Pope - Will Pope Leo XIV follow the progressive example of his predecessor or chart a more moderate course? His work in Chicago and Peru may shed light on his approach. (www.newyorker.com)
Catch Marc Shaiman If You Can - On the eve of his new book, “Never Mind the Happy,” the composer dishes on his career ups and downs—from touring with Bette Midler to getting caught in Twitter wars. (www.newyorker.com)
Meet the Artist Keeping MetroCards Alive - Nina Boesch has been making art out of the cards for twenty-five years. What is she going to do now that they’re gone? (www.newyorker.com)
“Bear,” by Linda Gregerson - “I can’t quite tell, so muddy / is the newsprint, whether he’s looking // toward us or away.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Boyosphere - On today’s episode of the podcast, why mommies are obsolete and naps are for the weak. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Rebecca Mead’s Profile of Stephen Fry and Rivka Galchen’s piece about geothermal energy. (www.newyorker.com)
“Approaching Sundown,” by Jorie Graham - “There is suddenness / to all surfaces.” (www.newyorker.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Big Breakup - The congresswoman split with the President over the Epstein files, then she quit. Where will she go from here? (www.newyorker.com)
Kathryn Bigelow, Catastrophe Connoisseur - At the Intrepid Museum, the “House of Dynamite” director chats with an arms-control expert about duck and cover, radioactive subs, and how close we are to the end. (www.newyorker.com)
Book Recommendations for Men - Maybe the fellas should pick up “Belch! An Oral History of the Burp.” (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Heiresses,” “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing,” “A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls,” and “Estate.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex - The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward? (www.newyorker.com)
Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix” - Braving the cold. (www.newyorker.com)
Can We Save Wine from Wildfires? - The industry has lost billions of dollars, largely because smoke makes the drink taste like licking an ashtray. Now a team of scientists is chasing a solution. (www.newyorker.com)
The Folly of Trump’s Oil Imperialism - The President has made clear he wants to exploit Venezuela’s vast oil reserves; history suggests that it won’t be easy. (www.newyorker.com)
Allegra Goodman Reads “Deal-Breaker” - The author reads her story from the January 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Amanda Petrusich on Katy Grannan’s Photograph of Taylor Swift - Looking at this image is like seeing a picture of yourself taken just before something seismic happened. (www.newyorker.com)
“Deal-Breaker,” by Allegra Goodman - When he takes her in his arms, she wants to be with him forever. She wants everyone to know that they’re together, everyone except her mother. (www.newyorker.com)
All Hail the Jamaican Patty - A pastry as ubiquitous in New York City as pizza or bagels is getting its turn on the higher end. (www.newyorker.com)
What Will New York’s New Map Show Us? - Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be. (www.newyorker.com)
Allegra Goodman on Writing a Serial Novel in Stories - The author discusses her story “Deal-Breaker.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation - A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. (www.newyorker.com)
Regime Change in America’s Back Yard - What comes after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela? (www.newyorker.com)
Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud - A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it. (www.newyorker.com)
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad - In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. (www.newyorker.com)
Gaza After the Ceasefire - A Palestinian businessman on the persistent humanitarian crisis in the territory, and what he hopes might change. (www.newyorker.com)
Demi Moore Talks with Jia Tolentino - The star discusses some of her demanding roles from decades of filmmaking. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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How Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game - For decades, couples were told to value a certain kind of rarity. The jewelry designer Kindred Lubeck, with the help of her most famous client, is popularizing the unique qualities of old-mine-cut stones. (www.newyorker.com)
January Festivals Bring the Weird, Wonderful Shows - Also: “Tartuffe” mania, the guitar stylings of William Tyler and Yasmin Williams, Justin Chang’s movies for a new year, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers - In Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s latest drama, set in and around a Belgian maternity home, several teen-age moms seek to break through cycles of poverty, addiction, and neglect. (www.newyorker.com)
Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Small Flame,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. (www.newyorker.com)
A Day in My Highly Optimized, Convenient Life - With a single tap on the screen, I open the blinds, with another, I turn on the espresso machine, and with a third, I review the footage from my Ring camera. (www.newyorker.com)
What Zohran Mamdani and Michael Bloomberg Have in Common - As mayors, the socialist and the plutocrat each embody outsized ideas of the city—and distinct forms of capital. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Reading for the New Year - The first installment in a series of recommendations by New Yorker writers. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 31st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful - A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport—and Leave Their Kids Behind - Can undocumented parents elude ICE capture for one more year, until their youngest turns eighteen? (www.newyorker.com)
Finishing School: Hands Off Our Pencils - Given the wild fluctuations in the market, I did what anyone with a crippling dependence on pencils would do: I took inventory. (www.newyorker.com)
A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan - A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 29th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music - The former teen pop star has become a new emblem of “Veracruz sound.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Ice-Skater,” by Kanak Kapur - The man from Kabul had warned about the number of men assigned to each room. “I won’t lie to you,” he had said. “You’ll be uncomfortable. You’ll have to adjust.” (www.newyorker.com)
Kanak Kapur on Migrant Labor and Skating in Dubai - The author discusses her novella “The Ice-Skater.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok - The app might wreak havoc on users’ mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content. (www.newyorker.com)
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Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 - This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered. (www.newyorker.com)
Bill Clinton’s M10: The Story Behind My Favorite Cartoon - When the cartoon appeared, it attracted immediate attention. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What to Do on New Year’s Eve - Also: Vinson Cunningham on his favorite songs of the year. (www.newyorker.com)
What Kind of New World Is Being Born? - A Christmas essay. (www.newyorker.com)
“All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Edited by Someone in Couples Therapy - Oh, I won’t ask for much this Christmas, mainly because “asking” suggests that you’re doing me a favor, when, in actuality, I’m setting some healthy boundaries. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How Should We Approach A.I. in 2026? - The rapid normalization of artificial intelligence is forcing a reckoning with how much of the future is being shaped by hype rather than utility. (www.newyorker.com)
What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us? - Two recent books follow young religious converts down the winding back roads of belief. (www.newyorker.com)
Thelma Golden on the Literature of Harlem - The director of the Studio Museum chooses some of her most beloved books about the neighborhood—both as a place and as an anchor for Black cultural consciousness. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump, Epstein, and the Women - The Epstein files are a vast trove of documents and will take time to absorb, but Trump made his attitude about women clear long ago. (www.newyorker.com)
“No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style - In Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s crime novel, Lee Byung-hun plays a newly laid-off executive who launches his own campaign of mass termination. (www.newyorker.com)
Americans Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media. What Can We Do Instead? - Free-speech norms and powerful tech companies make legal restrictions unlikely—but social changes are already taking place. (www.newyorker.com)
Dear Pepper: Slaying the Self-Doubt Dragon - It is easier for me to write my truth than to speak it. (www.newyorker.com)
The Right Wing Rises in Latin America - The new President of Chile joins a new class of leaders trying to seize the future by rewriting the past. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 23rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “Love Poem Like We Used to Write It.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Waiting to Exhale,” Thirty Years On - The 1995 classic became as much a sociological phenomenon as an artistic one—but its designation as a “chick flick” belies its emotional sophistication and intelligence. (www.newyorker.com)
“It’s Getting Lighter,” by Mary Jo Bang - “O Holy Mother of Moths, brighten the light / that fills the scene where I fall.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Psychology of Fashion - Our garments offer glimpses of the unconscious; we may also choose them because they feel nothing like us—because they allow us, briefly, to become someone else. (www.newyorker.com)
The Biggest Threat to the 2026 Economy Is Still Donald Trump - Many analysts are predicting an election-year upturn, but they aren’t accounting for the President’s ability to cause more chaos. (www.newyorker.com)
Mona Fastvold Knows Her Way Around a Chair - The director’s new movie, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” stars Amanda Seyfried as the Shakers’ founder. But the film’s furniture alone is worth a trip to the theatre. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Dictionary Done For? - The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution. (www.newyorker.com)
A Puppet Called Paddington - Tahra Zafar has made creatures for “Harry Potter” and “Star Wars.” Her latest project? Bringing the beloved bear to the stage. (www.newyorker.com)
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Goodbye to All That” - Onward and upward into 2026. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Antonia Hitchens’s piece about Laura Loomer, Jill Lepore’s article about the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, and Amanda Petrusich’s Profile of David Byrne. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 22nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Memory Palace,” by Bianca Stone - “Every memory palace should have a damp basement / with frozen pipes and mouse bones, / shreds of pink insulation, you dare not enter.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Peter Navarro, Trump’s Tariff Cheerleader, Became the Ultimate Yes-Man - The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials. (www.newyorker.com)
How Willie Nelson Sees America - On the road with the musician, his band, and his family. (www.newyorker.com)
The Re-Assemblage of Joseph Cornell - Wes Anderson and Jasper Sharp teamed up to re-create the artist’s famous Flushing studio—only this time it’s at a Gagosian gallery in Paris. (www.newyorker.com)
“Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep,” Reviewed - In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. (www.newyorker.com)
Premeditated - Close your eyes. Breathe in. Experience “Titanic” and “The Wizard of Oz” the Chloé Zhao way. (www.newyorker.com)
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars - Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them? (www.newyorker.com)
The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films - Early on, movies had no sound, but musicians provided live accompaniment. The tradition continues. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Millennials Love Prenups - Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people—including many who don’t have all that much to divvy up. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted - “Daring to Be Free,” “The Second Estate,” “Best Offer Wins,” and “A Love Story from the End of the World.” (www.newyorker.com)
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MAHA Country - Follow the Ivermectin River to the Swamp of Unemulsified Mayonnaise. (www.newyorker.com)
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life - Jim Jarmusch’s three-part drama, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, casts such notables as Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett in wry, ironic probes of grown children’s relationships with their parents. (www.newyorker.com)
The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.” - Rachel Sennott, the HBO series’ creator and star, may be a relative newcomer to Los Angeles, but she’s a native of the show’s true setting: the internet. (www.newyorker.com)
The Burgled Louvre’s Stolen-Art Expert - Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, she’s bringing her ideas to the Louvre. (www.newyorker.com)
The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover - Whatever became of Don Sample? (www.newyorker.com)
What Zohran Mamdani Is Up Against - When the thirty-four-year-old socialist is sworn in as mayor, he will have to navigate ICE raids, intransigent city power players, and twists of fate and nature. (www.newyorker.com)
Nell Zink Reads “The Welfare State” - The author reads her story from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Great State” - For all the humor in his reporting, Liebling recognized Louisiana’s governor as something more than another political buffoon. That insight made the piece a classic. (www.newyorker.com)
Nell Zink on German and American Stereotypes - The author discusses her story “The Welfare State.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Welfare State,” by Nell Zink - Julia had longed to be an educated mother like Vroni, but there was never a serviceable father in view, so she had limited herself to being educated. (www.newyorker.com)
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025 - Consider this your personal year-end reading list, one that we hope provides hours of pleasure. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump Dishonors the Kennedy Center - A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts. (www.newyorker.com)
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Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board - The thirty-year-old star photographer became famous for his reference-rich images of Black beauty, but his strongest work suggests a tender eye for imperfection. (www.newyorker.com)
What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? - If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again. (www.newyorker.com)
Ten of My Favorite Cookbooks of 2025 - The year’s best culinary titles include a food history of the United States, a guide to being an excellent dinner-party guest, and a collection of recipes that people decided to take to their graves. (www.newyorker.com)
Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race - The veteran and Senate candidate from Maine talks about the affordability crisis, his campaign’s controversies, and why he isn’t ashamed about his past offensive comments. (www.newyorker.com)
Calvin Tomkins’s Century - The writer, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1958, has chronicled turning a hundred in the same year as the magazine’s centennial. (www.newyorker.com)
The Disruptors Behind Radiohead’s Art - Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood discuss how, for thirty years, they''ve crafted the visuals that helped define Yorke’s band, many of which are now on view at Oxford''s Ashmolean Museum. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Jim Jarmusch’s Ironically Optimistic Family Movie - Also: Graciela Iturbide’s tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in “Song Sung Blue,” the coke-rap of Clipse, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Reclaim Your Mind - To feel mentally alive, you have to do more than defeat distraction. (www.newyorker.com)
“Marty Supreme” ’s Megawatt Personality - In Josh Safdie’s hectic new film, Timothée Chalamet plays a gifted Ping-Pong player who’s also a born performer. (www.newyorker.com)
The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever - Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers. (www.newyorker.com)
Merry Christmas, America! The Checks Are in the Mail! - On Donald Trump’s insaaaane holiday message to the nation. (www.newyorker.com)
How America Gave China an Edge in Nuclear Power - Though the two countries are now in a race to develop atomic technology, China’s most advanced reactor was the result of collaboration with American scientists. (www.newyorker.com)
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A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm - A list of songs I loved in 2025. (www.newyorker.com)
The Delirious Cinematic Artifice of Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” - In the Chinese director’s third feature, the pop idol Jackson Yee plays a shape-shifting dreamer who gets lost in a densely allusive maze of stories and genres. (www.newyorker.com)
Isaac Chotiner Sums Up Politics in 2025 - The idea that Donald Trump is acting from a governing strategy or a conception of national interest “seems completely disconnected from reality,” Chotiner says. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized - For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com. (www.newyorker.com)
Matthew Broderick Stars as the Titular Grifter in “Tartuffe” - It’s been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown. (www.newyorker.com)
Holiday Movies We’re Going to Skip - “A Child’s Christmas in a Waymo,” “Alan Dershowitz Is Coming to Town,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Year of the Broken Mirror - In the biggest films of 2025, artists grappled with the country’s divided politics and increasingly fractured relationship to the truth. Can these works of fiction bring us closer to reality? (www.newyorker.com)
What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia - Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that share a kinship with her new film, about actors working in a fake village where U.S. soldiers train. (www.newyorker.com)
Rob Reiner Made a New Kind of Fairy Tale - The director’s great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing? - A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research. (www.newyorker.com)
A Graphic Novel About Rage and Repression in Montreal - For the characters in Lee Lai’s “Cannon,” home is the place most resistant to real emotion. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Year in Slop - This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment. (www.newyorker.com)
The Party Politics of Sovereign House - Nick Allen’s venue in Dimes Square was a popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. Now, he’s opening a new club called Reign, an attempt to build a lasting cultural institution. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation - On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” Mostly Treads Water - In James Cameron’s latest 3-D science-fiction extravaganza, the Na’vi family tree gets more complicated, but our sense of wonderment flattens out. (www.newyorker.com)
Five Things That Changed the Media in 2025 - A.I., of course—but there were also other, less obvious stories and trends that are going to shape how we understand the news. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Performances of 2025 - In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts—from Sarah Snook’s one-woman “Dorian Gray” to Michael B. Jordan’s twin turn in “Sinners”—made their mark. (www.newyorker.com)
So You Want to Come to My New Vinyl-Listening Bar - You may get up to use the restroom, but only between sides. During songs, please remain still. Any movement above shoulder level will be interpreted as dance. (www.newyorker.com)
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Sarah Sherman Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest - The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. (www.newyorker.com)
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line - Preparing to take office, the Mayor-elect dabbles in performance art at the Museum of the Moving Image. (www.newyorker.com)
A Shooting at Brown - The first snow of the year often brings students out together. This year, they are being united “in a very different way,” one said. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 15th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Federal Judge at the Trump Rally - Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose. (www.newyorker.com)
Luci Gutiérrez’s “Inside Story” - The games we play. (www.newyorker.com)
Becoming a Centenarian - Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Hannah Goldfield’s Take about Anthony Bourdain and James Somers’s piece about whether A.I. is thinking. (www.newyorker.com)
Audrey Hobert Doesn’t Want to Be Described - The “Bowling alley” singer bowls a few frames and explains how her pal Gracie Abrams inspired her to switch from writing for Nickelodeon to writing songs. (www.newyorker.com)
Once a Rockette, Always a Rockette - As the group celebrates its hundredth year, former dancers gather to reminisce about the good old days—bingeing Advil, marrying Yalies—and what came after. (www.newyorker.com)
Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro - For the late Broadway composer, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as thrilling as writing musicals. (www.newyorker.com)
“Roller-Rink Nocturne,” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil - “When we try to pretend the moon moves / across our faces, we get a disco ball.” (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Hokinson, a Happy Woman - Her version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Ninette’s War,” “Bigger Than Fashion,” “The Award,” and “Analog Days.” (www.newyorker.com)
J. J. Sempé, Deity of Whimsy - His urban idylls are populated by bald businessmen who escape reality by biking and daydreaming. (www.newyorker.com)
Alice Harvey, Humor Pathfinder - My hand twitches with instinctive joy at how you draw a woman’s hat, coat, stance. (www.newyorker.com)
William Steig, Bursting with Joy - He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness. He also writes great female characters. (www.newyorker.com)
Gahan Wilson, Hilarious and Terrifying - He had his own world: a place where the funny and the horrific crossed paths. (www.newyorker.com)
Greetings, Friends! The Annual Holiday Poem by Ian Frazier - Re ’24: Let’s not forget / We’re all in brave Navalny’s debt. / He showed a soul can still be free / Whatever its surroundings be. (www.newyorker.com)
Going to Press Maze - Can you make your way through The New Yorker’s labyrinthine offices before our printer shuts down for the holidays? (www.newyorker.com)
Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food - Lifelike food replicas have long been a fixture of Japanese dining culture. Now, in an exhibition at Japan House, they are being spotlighted as art. (www.newyorker.com)
The Year in Trump Cashing In - In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money. (www.newyorker.com)
Kumail Nanjiani Lets It Out of the Bag - The comedian gets vulnerable in “Night Thoughts,” his first standup special in twelve years. But the real star of the show might be his elderly cat. (www.newyorker.com)
The Priest of the Mediterranean Diet - The mayor of the small community of Pollica, Italy, has dedicated his life to making people healthier. Will it get him a dinner with Zohran Mamdani? (www.newyorker.com)
The Crossword: Rough Copy - A puzzle with a few clues loose. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Cryptic Crossword: Sondheim Edition - An enigmatic tribute to the Broadway legend. (www.newyorker.com)
James Thurber, Consummate Doodler - It wasn’t until I started cartooning myself that I realized he only made it look easy. (www.newyorker.com)