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The New Yorkerby Jesse Dougherty5 Sept 2026
Short on writers and needing to fill pages last October, Ava Harvey did what any sports editor for a small newspaper would have done: she assigned herself a football story.
The New Yorkerby Hua Hsu5 Sept 2026
Jerry Hsu grew up in San Jose, about an hour south of San Francisco, and, for a time, he assumed he would never leave. He didn’t need to.
The New Yorkerby Bruce Handy5 Sept 2026
Ambiguity is generally not welcome on the subway. Are those seats empty for a neutral reason or an unpleasant reason? Is the person sitting across from me dangerous or just eccentric?
The New Yorkerby Eren Orbey4 Sept 2026
Some sort of resolution to the Lindsay Clancy trial seemed finally within reach on Thursday afternoon when, after six days of deliberations and two reports of deadlock, word came from the jury...
The New Yorkerby Rhoda Feng, Brian Seibert, Sheldon Pearce, Emily Nussbaum, Dan Stahl, Richard Brody, Rachel Syme4 Sept 2026
Like a nervous freshman passing test answers to a neighbor who’s shaking her down, the title of Jocelyn Bioh’s “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play” eagerly proffers its influences...
The New Yorkerby Antonia Hitchens4 Sept 2026
On January 2nd, just hours before ordering U.S. forces to execute a nighttime raid on the compound of President Nicolás Maduro, of Venezuela, Donald Trump left his Mar-a-Lago estate and headed...
The New Yorkerby Ruth Marcus4 Sept 2026
In June, as a federal appeals-court panel considered whether to halt construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, Judge Patricia Millett posed a fanciful-sounding hypothetical to...
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody4 Sept 2026
In a way, the most important review of “By Any Means” is a synopsis, because the film, as a title card declares, is “based on true events,” and the events themselves are unspeakable and need to be...
The New Yorkerby Joshua Rothman4 Sept 2026
Early in the psychologist Peter Gray’s new book, “Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety,” he proposes a thought experiment.
The New Yorkerby Justin Chang4 Sept 2026
At the start of the giddily entertaining monster movie “Hope,” the director and screenwriter Na Hong-jin serves up a load of bull. No, really.
The New Yorkerby Gloria Steinem4 Sept 2026
I always say I became a writer so I wouldn’t have to talk. But, once I started writing about my own personal experiences, I was surprised to receive invitations to speak on campuses or to women’s...
The New Yorkerby Emily Nussbaum3 Sept 2026
The strangest, most beautiful thing I saw at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe felt less like theatre than like mass hypnosis.
The New Yorkerby Akhil Sharma3 Sept 2026
Radha’s son, Kookoo, had died of alcoholism. Near the end, he turned yellow and his feet swelled and even in winter he could wear only slippers.
The New Yorkerby Ishaan Tharoor3 Sept 2026
Few figures better embody the morality—or its absence—of the Trump Administration than the Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt.
The New Yorkerby Claire Friedman3 Sept 2026
Hi, kids! I’m Charlotte’s mom, and I’m here to tell you about my job. My typical day begins with me waking up in a cold sweat around 3 A.M.
The New Yorkerby Isaac Chotiner3 Sept 2026
In the summer of 1951, Neal Ascherson, not yet twenty years old, enlisted in the Royal Marines. Following the Second World War, the United Kingdom had introduced a new National Service Act; in the...
The New Yorkerby Lauren Michele Jackson2 Sept 2026
A music festival ostensibly unfurls itself for music fans, but the experience of one can give lovers cause for doubt. Its contemporary format impresses, firstly, as an altar to capital.
The New Yorkerby Merve Emre2 Sept 2026
“Half the campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,” Randall Jarrell writes in his 1954 satire, “Pictures from an Institution.” In the novel, the university is...
The New Yorkerby Brady Brickner-Wood2 Sept 2026
What do we hope to communicate when we film and photograph food? In his 1957 collection, “Mythologies,” Roland Barthes argued that food photography was often an exercise in whitewashing: the highly...
The New Yorkerby Robert Rubsam2 Sept 2026
Why dance? To celebrate and to revere; to let go and to hold on; to be with others and to withdraw into yourself; to unite the individual and the collective, the immediate and the ultimate; to...
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