newyorker.comadded August 2026
The New Yorkerby Emily Nussbaum8h ago
Else Went’s electrifying new play, “Degenerates,” at Playwrights Horizons, begins in darkness, with the audience eavesdropping on an anguished call to a suicide hotline.
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody8h ago
Film what you know, they say, and what Aaron Sorkin knows, above all, is show business. That’s why “Being the Ricardos,” his 2021 bio-pic about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, is one of the most...
The New Yorkerby Inkoo Kang1d ago
Of the sixteen novels that John Steinbeck published before his death, in 1968, “East of Eden” was his favorite.
The New Yorkerby Mosab Abu Toha1d ago
When I was growing up, in northern Gaza, my parents took my siblings and me to a stationery store about a week before each school year started.
The New Yorkerby David Remnick1d ago
In his desperate attempt to hold on to power as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to cast a spell on the electorate with a stark and profoundly cynical message: Forget the...
The New Yorkerby Oliver Whang1d ago
The Walter Smittle III Regional Responder Training Center sits at the end of a gravel road on a ridge just south of Ripley, West Virginia, in Jackson County.
The New Yorkerby Ishaan Tharoor1d ago
If talk of a collapsing “international order” can feel like a distant abstraction, look to the Horn of Africa for a sense of its reality on the ground.
The New Yorkerby Garth Greenwell2d ago
“Edinburgh” is the kind of book that readers talk about in whispers and pass from hand to hand. I mean this literally, at least in my case: I found it, only a year or two after it came out, because...
The New Yorkerby Greg Mania2d ago
At first, I took the alerts seriously. When the Food and Drug Administration announced that a multistate cyclospora outbreak was linked to a certain batch of iceberg lettuce from Mexico, I...
The New Yorkerby Rhoda Feng3d ago
After MacKenzie Scott quietly published her third novel—“Last Days in Two Nations,” a work of dystopian fiction set in a near-future America—in installments on Substack, in August, there was much...
The New Yorkerby Hermione Hoby3d ago
A hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf published her second most famous essay. “On Being Ill,” from 1926, cedes first place in the Woolf nonfiction canon to the feminist cornerstone “A Room of One’s...
The New Yorkerby Dan Greene3d ago
Pro-wrestling narratives are often driven by the villain, or heel—what Roland Barthes called “the bastard.” This figure “takes refuge behind the law when he considers that it is in his favor,”...
The New Yorkerby Brady Brickner-Wood3d ago
In the early twenty-tens, we distracted ourselves with lists—so many lists!—including a type newly native to the internet: the listicle.
The New Yorkerby Michael Schulman3d ago
Romanch Mahajan, an eighteen-year-old from Pathankot, India, visited New York City with his family in June to celebrate his high-school graduation.
The New Yorkerby Emma Green3d ago
A group of neatly dressed young people gathered in the auditorium of the Heritage Foundation headquarters this summer to observe the cherished rituals of the D.C. internship.
The New Yorkerby Emma Allen3d ago
Usually, an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” is a validation of cultural relevance, even coolness.
The New Yorkerby Nick Paumgarten3d ago
Ellen Allien is an electronic musician, d.j., and producer who has adopted the mantle “the matriarch of Berlin techno.” In 1992, she was one of the first women to play a set at Bunker, known as the...
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker3d ago
The Vanishing Family, by Robert Kolker (Doubleday). Unlike Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia often begins in midlife.
The New Yorkerby Gideon Lewis-Kraus3d ago
A run-in with human snacks transformed Kobuk the Destroyer’s mother into a “problem bear.” A native of the Alaskan wilderness, the grizzly was possibly ruined by a dumpster or a cache of campsite...
The New Yorkerby Zachary Fine3d ago
Is Arthur Jafa a rearguard artist or an avant-garde one in disguise? It’s hard to say. “I Am Tony,” a major retrospective at the New Museum, doesn’t frame him one way or the other, but it does make...
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