Shirley Clarke Lived Her Art to the Fullest
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody·26 Aug 2026
The publication of Laurence Kardish’s book “Shirley Clarke: The Passionate Life and Radical Works of an Exceptional Filmmaker” (University Press of Kentucky) is a major event, and one I’ve been...
What We’re Reading
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker·26 Aug 2026
The Best Books of 2026 So Far All Books Nonfiction Fiction & Poetry - From Our PagesThe Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright)NonfictionIn this wide-ranging history...
The Books Behind Peter Heller’s “The Dog Stars”
The New Yorkerby Hannah Jocelyn·26 Aug 2026
You may be aware that Jacob Elordi is in a new movie out this week: “The Dog Stars,” directed by Ridley Scott, and also starring Josh Brolin and Margaret Qualley.
The Quest to End Hangovers
The New Yorkerby Shayla Love·26 Aug 2026
A few months ago, while watching Instagram stories, I came across a provocative advertisement. A man with scruffy brown hair said, “What if I told you alcohol is not actually bad for you?” He...
Adam Hamilton and Taking Back Religion from the Right
The New Yorkerby Bill McKibben·26 Aug 2026
As a longtime Methodist, I can attest that—at least from a distance—it is not the most dramatic of the world’s religious operations.
He Gave the Knicks Their Name. Why Was He Forgotten?
The New Yorkerby Eric Lach·26 Aug 2026
Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein,” once developed a terrific little crush on Washington Irving, the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” This was in 1824, in London, and Shelley...
How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation
The New Yorkerby Jay Caspian Kang·25 Aug 2026
Youth sentiment is a notoriously hard thing to track. Polling is a fraught enough enterprise without having to deal with flaky kids, occasionally impenetrable survey questions, and the real...
The Least-Wanted Items at My Parents’ Estate Sale
The New Yorkerby Brian Braiker·25 Aug 2026
My parents lived in the same brutalist-Art Nouveau home for fifty-one years. (They never could agree on an aesthetic.)
Stumped by a Medical Mystery? Try Metagenomics
The New Yorkerby Jason Liebowitz·25 Aug 2026
In 2019, Nichol Cano, an otherwise healthy mother of three in Fresno, California, began experiencing worsening headaches.
Is R.F.K., Jr., Winning or Losing the War on Vaccines?
The New Yorkerby Dhruv Khullar·25 Aug 2026
This month, at an Oval Office event resounding with outlandish statements, President Trump signed an executive order called “Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for...
On Jackie the Eagle and the Nature of the Soul
The New Yorkerby Alex Ross·24 Aug 2026
It has been a tumultuous year on the Big Bear Valley eagle cam. For more than a decade, a live feed has documented events at a bald-eagle nest near Big Bear Lake, in the San Bernardino Mountains...
Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians
The New Yorkerby Isaac Chotiner·24 Aug 2026
Violent attacks by Israeli settlers have accelerated across the West Bank in recent weeks, adding to what has already been a horrifying year for Palestinian communities in the territory.
Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas
The New Yorkerby Cora Engelbrecht·24 Aug 2026
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 Humbling of Scott Bessent
The New Yorkerby John Cassidy·24 Aug 2026
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.
Does Anybody Know Who Darline Graham Is?
The New Yorkerby Charles Bethea·24 Aug 2026
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.
Drake’s “Janice STFU” on Every Corner
The New Yorkerby Vinson Cunningham·23 Aug 2026
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...
Sean Duffy in the Real World
The New Yorkerby Jon Allsop·23 Aug 2026
I am a sucker for a travel show—if it involves people going to a place and doing a thing, count me in.
Meg Stalter Commits to the Bit
The New Yorkerby Rachel Syme·23 Aug 2026
When the play “Oh, Mary!” opened on Broadway, in the summer of 2024, it was in no way guaranteed to be a hit.
Consider the Oyster Bar
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner·23 Aug 2026
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...
Why People Want to Believe the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Theories
The New Yorkerby Jessica Winter·22 Aug 2026
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...
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