Willem de Kooning’s Excavations of Intimacy
The New Yorkerby Hilton Als·7 Sept 2026
Drawings, like dreams, can often feel open-ended, prompting a multiplicity of thoughts. As painting’s poor cousins, they usually command a lesser fee in the art market, and their position somewhat...
What Carla Lalli Cooked After Her Divorce
The New Yorkerby Hannah Goldfield·7 Sept 2026
In 2012, the poet Sharon Olds published a collection, which would later win the Pulitzer Prize, about the dissolution of her thirty-two-year marriage.
The Scourge of A.1.
The New Yorkerby Ian Frazier·7 Sept 2026
Rather than devote this space to humor, as I sometimes do, this week I want to speak about a very serious subject: A.1.
The Prolific Storytelling of This Is Lorelei
The New Yorkerby Amanda Petrusich·7 Sept 2026
In the summer of 2024, Nate Amos released a record called “Box for Buddy, Box for Star” under the sobriquet This Is Lorelei.
Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?
The New Yorkerby John Cassidy·7 Sept 2026
Nearly three years ago, shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT-4, Sam Altman, the company’s C.E.O., suggested that the artificial-intelligence revolution could eliminate up to half of all existing...
Can You Feel the Dub Tonight?
The New Yorkerby Daniel Alarcón·7 Sept 2026
Unlike the tourists pushing strollers and browsing bedazzled “Frozen” T-shirts at the midtown Disney Store on a recent morning, the activist and voice actor Fernando Valencia and the filmmaker...
Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History
The New Yorkerby Vinson Cunningham·7 Sept 2026
Check out a dance floor the next time you get a chance. Take note at the point in a song when the real dancers stop messing around.
The Art of American Sophistication
The New Yorkerby Adam Gopnik·7 Sept 2026
The prompt, let’s say, is “American sophistication.” What does it make the L.L.M. in our heads, trawling the riverbed of our old reading and viewing, produce? Whom do we think of first?
Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?
The New Yorkerby Jennifer Wilson·7 Sept 2026
Martin Luther King, Jr., once observed that one of the “most segregated hours” in American life is Sunday at eleven in the morning, referring to church service.
Tom Sachs Channels Chanel
The New Yorkerby Rachel Syme·7 Sept 2026
In the winter of 1994, Barneys, the former high-end Manhattan department store known for its daring storefront displays, unveiled its Christmas windows: three hundred and nine original works by...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker·7 Sept 2026
The Breakup, by Kurt Andersen (Random House). This comic novel is set in a hysterical vision of the year 2045, in which what was once the United States has been split apart by a civil war between...
Helen Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner·6 Sept 2026
My partner and I moved in together recently, and she was horrified to learn that I cook with bottled citrus juice—you know, the little plastic lemons and limes that are on the grocery shelf near...
The America That 9/11 Made
The New Yorkerby Jill Lepore·6 Sept 2026
I was jammed into an elevator in Minneapolis this summer, heading for the fiftieth floor, up like a shot, when someone tapped my shoulder. I wiggled in place, craned my neck around.
“Ode to Being Born with Teeth and Sharpening Them Every Day”
The New Yorkerby Barbara Hamby·6 Sept 2026
If you like surprises, being born has to be the best, one minute swimming in nothing, and the next popping out into a hot late July day in New Orleans like a gumbo of sweat and bad news, because...
A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation
The New Yorkerby Jesús Rodríguez·6 Sept 2026
One recent Sunday in August, Daysi González addressed a crowd of about seventy people in a sterile conference room in New York’s financial district.
“New Shoes,” by Hisham Matar
The New Yorkerby Hisham Matar·6 Sept 2026
All of a sudden, with no reason or warning, my brother began to hear from friends he had introduced me to or others we still had in common, those few I had somehow retained over the twelve years...
Hisham Matar on the Outsider in London
The New Yorkerby Cressida Leyshon·6 Sept 2026
The narrator of “New Shoes” is a man who left his home in Cairo when he was eighteen, and, after four years living and working in various places in Italy and France, has been in London for eight...
The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
The New Yorkerby John Phipps·5 Sept 2026
In July, in northern France, an enormous folding screen was stored in a crate, which was suspended in a cage, which was delicately loaded into a special truck, which was accompanied by a police...
The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond
The New Yorkerby Michael Schulman·5 Sept 2026
On Wednesday, the feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem died, at ninety-two. The news broke on Thursday morning. By 5 P.M.
The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans
The New Yorkerby Doreen St. Félix·5 Sept 2026
A man buys a drawing. A terrible friction materializes between the two of them, the man and the drawing, the latter of which might have been a vision on paper of existence on another plane—a flat...
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