newyorker.comadded August 2026
The New Yorkerby Cora Engelbrecht7h ago
Pouria Zeraati, an Iranian dissident who was living in London, spent nearly two years collecting evidence that the regime in Tehran had dispatched agents to silence him.
The New Yorkerby John Cassidy7h ago
Before becoming Treasury Secretary when Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, Scott Bessent had a long career as a hedge-fund manager.
The New Yorkerby Charles Bethea7h ago
The lobbyist Jim Merrill’s long tenure as a Republican state representative in South Carolina means that he knows pretty much every person of relevance to the state’s politics.
The New Yorkerby Vinson Cunningham1d ago
A couple of months ago, on Juneteenth, back when summer was still in its early phase of surging innocence—flowers opening, grass blades freshly sprung from the dirt—I was sitting on a wide lawn at...
The New Yorkerby Jon Allsop1d ago
I am a sucker for a travel show—if it involves people going to a place and doing a thing, count me in.
The New Yorkerby Rachel Syme1d ago
When the play “Oh, Mary!” opened on Broadway, in the summer of 2024, it was in no way guaranteed to be a hit.
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner1d ago
Lately, I have been considering the oyster. It’s a creature whose life, as M. F. K. Fisher so indelibly put it, is “dreadful but exciting,” and whose arc of birth, existence, death, and consumption...
The New Yorkerby Jessica Winter2d ago
Near the start of the year, Lindsay Clancy, the woman at the center of the criminal trial in Massachusetts that has mesmerized many chambers of social media, filed a civil action against eight...
The New Yorkerby Doreen St. Félix2d ago
On September 1, 1987, a military train loaded with munitions coursed out of Diablo Valley, in the East Bay of Northern California.
The New Yorkerby Kelefa Sanneh2d ago
Thirty-two years ago, in the summer of 1994, Courtney Love staged a remarkable comeback. Earlier that year, her band, Hole, had released a furious and galvanizing album called “Live Through This,”...
The New Yorkerby Ledio Cakaj2d ago
Time had stopped in Calais. The Albanians in Paris who had helped me plan my crossing had said that the train would remain at the station for five minutes, ten at most.
The New Yorkerby Elise Broach3d ago
If your idea of a perfect board book for people under the age of three is Sandra Boynton’s 1982 classic “Moo, Baa, La La La!,” you might be surprised to discover what’s passing for toddler...
The New Yorkerby Rozina Ali3d ago
Abdeen Jabara stretched out his crimson-stained fingers. Balancing on his toes, the eight-year-old boy met a tree branch that his elder brother Khalid had lowered for him.
The New Yorkerby Taran Dugal3d ago
For the past two hundred years, summer in New York has best been spent by the water. “Circumambulate the city,” Melville writes in “Moby-Dick,” and you’ll find “thousands upon thousands of mortal...
The New Yorkerby Alexandra Schwartz3d ago
In February, I went to see Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” at my local movie theatre, in Brooklyn. Next to me sat a man and a woman in their twenties.
The New Yorkerby Joshua Rothman3d ago
In mid-June, I rode my electric scooter into a sinkhole, which had emerged, after some roadwork, on a residential street near my house.
The New Yorkerby Julian Lucas3d ago
Earlier this month, when I visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (N.M.A.H.), President Trump’s signage warning of its “ideological capture” had yet to be installed.
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker4d ago
When The New Yorker published a Shouts & Murmurs titled “Guy Walks Into a Bar,” by Simon Rich, back in 2013, Conan O’Brien tweeted a link to the piece, anointing it “the funniest thing I’ve read in...
The New Yorkerby Libby Flores4d ago
Every weekday at 4:45 P.M. the man comes in—he never brings a list. She is usually behind the counter at the deli slicing turkey, her brown hair held back in a net underneath a maroon visor, the...
The New Yorkerby Madeline Goetz, Viktoria Shulevich4d ago
Two-Piece You’re fine with sunburning your midriff. One-Piece with Flirty Cutouts You’re fine with sunburning a few awkward little squares on your lower back.
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