A Woman with a Past
The New Yorkerby Judith Thurman3d ago
When my cousin Danny introduced me to his new wife, almost forty years ago, Laura was in her early thirties, a radiant beauty of Taíno heritage with a lithe figure and a model’s cheekbones.
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top 75%Maternal Intelligence: An Open Letter
The New Yorkerby Nell Freudenberger3d ago
I have been working in Maternal Intelligence for the past eighteen years, because of a profound belief that, with care and attention, human offspring can grow to accomplish important things—such as...
Trudie’s Tavern Is Equal Parts Sleekness and Schmaltz
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner4d ago
Gertrude Aronow, the grandmother of the restaurateur Nate Adler, was, by Adler’s account, an eccentric woman of uncommon charisma, the sort of person who made any room feel like a party.
The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax
The New Yorkerby Nicholas Lemann4d ago
It wasn’t so long ago that Silicon Valley was, to use its own language, a major node in the Democratic Party’s network.
ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity
The New Yorkerby Jonathan Blitzer4d ago
It has taken the Trump Administration less than two years to make violent encounters with federal immigration agents a regular fact of American life.
Rachel Heng on Safety and the Power of the Child’s-Eye View
The New Yorkerby Deborah Treisman4d ago
In your story “A Very Safe Place,” a boy and his father, in Singapore, find a man on the beach who has clearly swum to the island in the hope of establishing a better life.
“A Very Safe Place,” by Rachel Heng
The New Yorkerby Rachel Heng4d ago
Shawn and his father found the man on the easternmost coast of their island shortly after dusk, when the sky was drained of almost all its orange light and the waves had grown dark, topped with an...
Christa Pike and the Absurdity of Humane Execution
The New Yorkerby Doreen St. Félix4d ago
Doctors in Tennessee are attempting to save the life of a woman whom the state just tried to kill.
Let Cathy Ames Be a Monster
The New Yorkerby Alexandra Schwartz5d ago
Cathy Ames, the villain of John Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden,” is not what E. M. Forster, or anyone else, would call a round character, the kind who grows and changes over the course of a story.
The Constant Rediscovery of the Cult Novelist Barbara Trapido
The New Yorkerby Sam Knight5d ago
When Barbara Trapido was in her late twenties, a friend told her that she was lazy: she told such good stories, but she never wrote them down. Trapido did not think that she was lazy.
Olive Garden Is the Real True North
The New Yorkerby Zach Helfand5d ago
A lot of people recently have been wondering whether our technology will murder us all. But it’s not all bad.
Gerald Cyrus’s Magnificent Images of Black Life
The New Yorkerby Gioncarlo Valentine5d ago
When I look at Gerald Cyrus’s jazz photographs, I can hear the music. I can smell the stale-moldy-acid-floral scent of beer, of cigarettes on breath, of the air strained by sweat and White Diamonds...
“The Swan” Gets a Superficial Reckoning
The New Yorkerby Naomi Fry5d ago
Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve adored a good makeover montage. There was Disney’s Cinderella, transformed, by a pixie-dust-wielding fairy godmother, from a rags-wearing drudge into a...
Highlights from Week Two of the New York Film Festival
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody6d ago
The New York Film Festival is a feast of many parts, but its divisions are mainly symbolic. Such major festivals as those in Cannes, Berlin, and Venice are competitive; they offer prizes and make a...
Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs?
The New Yorkerby Joshua Rothman6d ago
Suppose that your company wants to launch a new product. A substantial budget is available to fund a prototype. You think you have a good idea; so do Frank and Jill, your workplace frenemies.
Justine Kurland’s Photographs Keep Us on Edge
The New Yorkerby Vince Aletti, Mengfei Chen, Brian Seibert, Sheldon Pearce, Emily Nussbaum, Zoë Hopkins, Richard Brody, Hilton Als6d ago
As one of the most arresting, provocative, and unpredictable photographers around, Justine Kurland, at fifty-six, deserves to have her mid-career retrospective in a museum.
The Well-Funded Fight to Keep Latinos Voting Republican
The New Yorkerby Jesús Rodríguez6d ago
One Saturday morning in late August, Ricardo Alfaro, an immigrant from El Salvador, approached a low-slung white house in Holland, Michigan.
The Quiet Unravelling of a Haitian Life in America
The New Yorkerby Ruby Cramer6d ago
On an afternoon in August, in a small, cluttered office in Brooklyn, two women gathered a stack of flyers, printed in English and Creole. “PREPARE. DON’T PANIC,” the pages read.
Why the War in Iran Is Likely to Heat Up Again
The New Yorkerby Isaac Chotiner6d ago
The war against Iran, launched earlier this year by the United States and Israel, has caused a spike in energy prices around the world, and this strain on the global economy was exacerbated by Iran...
Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War
The New Yorkerby Susan B. Glasser6d ago
On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth convened hundreds of the U.S. military’s junior officers and enlisted service members in a cavernous auditorium on a military base in Virginia to hear what he called the...