Zoe Kazan’s Heady and Bighearted “East of Eden”
The New Yorkerby Inkoo Kang7d ago
Early in Netflix’s heady new adaptation of “East of Eden,” two young half brothers are set on a course of lifelong competition by their father.
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top 89%How the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National Scandal
The New Yorkerby Jessica Winter7d ago
Close to midnight on October 19, 2024, a young woman arrived at the Chi Phi fraternity house, a twelve-thousand-square-foot Tudor Revival on the campus of Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.
Voter Fraud We’ve Identified So Far
The New Yorkerby Eli Grober7d ago
After scouring billions of ballots, we have identified countless instances of voter fraud. They are countless, in part, because we are unwilling and unable to count past thirty-four.
Why Trump Delayed Cancelling Legal Status for Salvadorans
The New Yorkerby Jonathan Blitzer7d ago
For more than a hundred and seventy thousand Salvadorans who have been in the United States for decades, September 9, 2026, was supposed to mark a cataclysmic event.
“Verity” Is a Criminal Waste of Talent
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody8d ago
Melodrama is perched on the edge of laughter because it’s intrinsically a parody of tragedy, an infusion of heroic grandeur into workaday lives.
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement
The New Yorkerby Becca Rothfeld8d ago
In the past year, data centers have emerged as a central issue in both American politics and the gyre of discourse swirling around American politics.
What Barbara Kingsolver Is Reading
The New Yorkerby Casey Cep8d ago
Barbara Kingsolver’s books have been everywhere since the nineties: your neighbor’s bookshelf, your college lounge, your grandmother’s coffee table, your schoolteacher’s desk, every lake house in...
Tom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger”
The New Yorkerby Justin Chang8d ago
Digger Rockwell is a funny name to give an oil tycoon. Like nearly every joke and jab in “Digger,” a doomsday-themed comic fantasia from the director Alejandro G.
The Mayors Defending Democracy
The New Yorkerby Ishaan Tharoor8d ago
The political theorist Benjamin R. Barber, in the final years of his life, championed cities as the polities that could fix the world’s problems.
When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime
The New Yorkerby S. C. Cornell9d ago
A girl is in love with a boy who has the winsome name of Kye Fortune. On Facebook, Kye is cute and muscular: he posts videos of him dancing and the lyrics of romantic songs he’s written.
New Kinds of Trad Wife I Could Be
The New Yorkerby Blythe Roberson9d ago
“Yesteryear” was the book of the summer, leaving the nation divided into three camps: people trying to discuss the end of “Yesteryear,” people forced to walk around wearing shirts that say “Don’t...
Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools
The New Yorkerby Jay Caspian Kang9d ago
Ten years ago, the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones started a small revolution in education when she wrote an essay for the Times Magazine about finding the right school in New York City for her...
Is What We’re Watching True or False?
The New Yorkerby Vinson Cunningham9d ago
The other day, I was watching a commercial and, before long, became sorely afraid. There was something about the person selling me the product—some supplement called Fatty15—facing the camera full...
Why America Looks the Way It Does
The New Yorkerby Daniel Immerwahr10d ago
To Europeans, the early United States was a curiosity: rich in resources yet poor in history. They were used to a storied landscape, where it was impossible to go for a stroll without tripping over...
Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons
The New Yorkerby Nick Paumgarten10d ago
We walked single file through the snow to Lasker Rink, escorted by the coaches. Central Park at night, 1977: in the swirl of a storm, the Park was desolate and pristine.
Caleb Hammer’s Humiliation Economy
The New Yorkerby Brady Brickner-Wood10d ago
When Caleb Hammer, a thirty-one-year-old personal-finance YouTuber, gets particularly exasperated, his voice enters a shrill upper register.
The Cellmate Who Taught Me the Codes of Russian Prison
The New Yorkerby Evan Gershkovich10d ago
In the library of Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, my fellow-inmates and I could choose from great novelists such as Charlotte Brontë and Marcel Proust or existentialists such as Samuel Beckett and...
More Sunshine with Joey Arias and Basil Twist
The New Yorkerby Sarah Larson10d ago
Recently, at the HERE Arts Center, near SoHo, the puppeteer Basil Twist, the performance artist Joey Arias, and six unseen puppeteers (“They’re wearing black velvet, hood on, like ninjas,” Twist...
Detecting Notes of . . . Citi Field?
The New Yorkerby Arthur Holland Michel10d ago
On a moonless Friday night at Citi Field, Ryan Goydos, one half of the popular social-media account known as SuperVinoBros, stood at a security entrance reserved for staff, press, mascots, players...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The New Yorkerby Eyal Press10d ago
On March 7, 2025, Celia Cohen, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, was finishing up a meeting at 26 Federal Plaza, in lower Manhattan, when she learned...