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When the competition program of the seventy-eighth Cannes Film Festival was announced several weeks ago, I wasn’t alone in predicting…

On September 8, 1943, Italy surrendered to the Allies, and the Germans, who already effectively controlled the north of Italy,…

The earliest photography was voracious and encyclopedic. There was a whole world of things that had never been seen in…

In the run-up to the première of “Thunderbolts*,” on May 2nd, Marvel earned some light mockery for the art-house vibe…

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Considering Donald Trump’s many outrages, his theatrically hostile reception of Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, in the Oval…

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From the daily newsletter: Nicolas Niarchos reports from Khartoum. Plus: the radical courage of Noor Abdalla; and Justin Chang reviews…

Broligarchy: When they’re not busy fist-pumping, their gravitational pull sucks in government resources and spits out human-rights violations.

The creators of the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series talk about reporting on the military, elevating the testimony of survivors, and…

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Some toy ideas for kids lamenting their new two-doll allowance, including Dusty the Dust Bowl, Potato Princess, and more.

Last July, the National Basketball Association announced a new eleven-year media-rights agreement with Amazon, NBC, and ESPN, set to take…

Salacuse is the kind of person who always seems to have a project or five under way. I first met…

The institution has not neglected to commemorate the history of agitation against it. The year 2018 marked five decades since…

I met Alva Rogers years ago, through a mutual friend, and her various incarnations—actress, singer, artistic director, writer, puppeteer—have always…

Benny Scanlon, the protagonist of the new comedy “Overcompensating,” is the kind of boy mothers don’t know to warn their…

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“He totally fucked us.” Biden cost Democrats the 2024 race, Party insiders tell Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Plus: Illustration…

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The White House driveway is an unlikely venue for announcing plans to upend the Constitution. But, strolling up to the…

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On the first night of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he signed an executive order called “Ending the Weaponization…

This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled…

This magazine’s ongoing centenary celebration has included a cinematic component: a series at Film Forum, “Tales from The New Yorker,”…

Edgarlys Castañeda Rodríguez, a slight, delicate-featured twenty-seven-year-old from Venezuela, posted makeup tutorials and dance videos to her few thousand followers…

“Only in New York” may be a cliché, but only because it’s so true. For Goings On, in our New…

In Donald Trump’s first term, he reinvented many things about how the job of President was done. The strictly scheduled…

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The President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the…

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Leather, feathers, and capes—oh, my! The glamour of the Met Gala promenade honoring Black dandyism. And, then, Ian Frazier takes…

Since Elon Musk announced that he’ll be stepping back from his daily work with DOGE, perhaps you’ve been wondering if…

A hundred years ago, when The New Yorker was founded, New York City had a gravitational pull—and it still does.…

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If you ever had the pleasure of eating at Momofuku Ko, the wonderful, ambitious, and sometimes sort of compellingly bizarre…

Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world. So what do you think your responsibility is? My…

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I remember the first time I saw a physique photograph, and I remember being both excited and upset at the…

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From the daily newsletter: No one is secure. Plus: plotting the next gay utopia; and Canada’s rejection of Trumpism.

In a new recurring series on The Political Scene, the staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to assess the…

Is it the cat photos?!

“I had found my doomscrolling methadone.” In this week’s issue, Lepore turns to her stack of Penguin Little Black Classics, which…

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since…

“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November,…

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Shortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his…

The restaurant’s head chef, Manuchar Tsikolia, is joined in the kitchen by Ruslan Giorgberidze, a dedicated khinkali cook (and an…

In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: Photograph by Antonio Masiello / Getty Paul…

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

Before watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other…

For many years, the term Afrobeats, referring to a West African pop style that integrates dancehall, rap, and R. &…

Mathematician Paul known as a prolific collaborator: five letters.

In late March, Leecia Welch, a deputy litigation director at Children’s Rights, a legal nonprofit that represents children in government…

“You do realize that just because you stopped watching the news doesn’t mean it stopped happening.”

Crumb, by Dan Nadel (Scribner). In this diligently researched biography, the graphic novel finds its forebear in the cartoonist Robert…

Your story “Tortoiseshell” draws on a controversy about Giuseppe Trevisani, who, in his Italian translation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The First…

Three years ago, in El Salvador, after the MS-13 gang killed eighty-seven people in a span of seventy-two hours, President…

It takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event…

Over the phone, Frykholm read aloud to me some of the passages that she had translated. “I am going to…

Every morning, a line forms at about six outside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, on West Thirty-first Street,…

“Just wait till 2028 and things will go right back to how they were.”

Clare Carlisle, a British philosopher and an award-winning biographer, is fascinated by books that relate the inner lives and sensibilities…

In a thrillingly delightful surprise—and that’s understating it—to many of us who’ve been working in universities for much of our…

In March, the Trump Administration deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland with his…

“I believe this is the civil-rights violation of our lifetime.” In a startling new investigation, Sarah Stillman reports on the…

The Trump Administration is arguing that the Supreme Court did not mean what nine Justices unanimously ruled in the case…

In the immediate aftermath of a sports fan’s heartbreak, there is that sliver of time during which all the emotion…

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Just after 1 p.m. this past Wednesday, President Trump posted a statement on Truth Social saying that he was pausing,…

On the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler…

But it was Patient No. 7, treated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (chop), who altered the history of T-cell…

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Amid the chaos of a week when the world nearly witnessed its first global depression caused by the caprice of…

“Incident,” a short documentary directed by Bill Morrison and produced by Jamie Kalven, received the National Magazine Award for video.…

The former senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the tumult that Donald Trump’s tariffs have inflicted…

It is surely a reflection of our scattered and distracted era that the country sailed, this year, into a widely…

“They have hearts broken into pieces.” A report on the recent U.S. air strikes in Yemen, where more than fifty…

Tariffs, tariffs, go away.

In the very first paragraph of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual for a second Trump Administration, battle lines…

The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than…

Online, personal accounts of loss gave way to stories about helping those in distress. Friendly, who’d been feeling helpless as…

What decade is “Magazine Dreams,” a spiritually stifled drama about a bodybuilder driven to fits of chemically induced rage, set…

South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of the country’s President, removing him from office. E. Tammy Kim, who covered…

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By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable.…

Every good film is, to some degree, a transporting experience—a dissolution of boundaries between here and there, then and now.…

After weeks of nervous anticipation in the financial markets and in the capitals of America’s trading partners, Donald Trump’s “Liberation…

Swedish, the native language of the novelist Fredrik Backman, is spoken by only about ten million people, so the writer…

Spinning out of control.

Like many employees of Ed and the F.S.A., Gittleman had her critiques of the system. “A society should not be…

Throughout the fall and winter, Alexis Romero de Hernández struggled to accept a grim new routine. She lived in a…

“Precious Rubbish,” a début graphic novel by Kayla E., a book designer turned cartoonist, delivers an unflinching look at the…

This week’s story, “Marseille,” takes place in the city of the title, where three friends are gathering for a short…

Keith Meister, in the operating room of his private practice, draws a six-centimetre line on the elbow of a baseball…

Last September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and…

There’s something that has always struck me as undeniably teen-age about loving the Doors, and particularly its lead singer, Jim…

Secret-keepers of the rich and famous. Reporting from Palm Beach, Florida, where power is amassing among the affluent—and among their…

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Is there any stupider—or more revealing—scandal of the many that Donald Trump has already unleashed in his second term than…

Brad Karp’s cellphone rang on the evening of Tuesday, March 18th. It was the President of the United States. Karp,…

The writer David W. Brown, who has long covered NASA and the space industry, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Elon…

At one point in “Airless Spaces,” a largely autobiographical book about madness and institutionalization by the radical feminist Shulamith Firestone,…

Last week, Turkish authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and the expected leading challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan…

Most people who see the Zambian British director Rungano Nyoni’s extraordinary new film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” will not…

Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely…

“I called you here to share my ‘White Lotus’ theories.”

The first person to head the Environmental Protection Agency, which was created by President Richard Nixon, in late 1970, was…

The beauty of March Madness is that anything can happen. The horror of March Madness is that, really, anything can…

Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during…

A mother is currently suing Character AI, a company that promotes “AIs that feel alive,” over the suicide of her…

In today’s newsletter, startling discoveries while reporting on Trump’s efforts to remake NASA in his own image, and then: Illustration…

The vitality of classic formats such as thrillers and mysteries comes not from their nostalgic reminders of old movies but…

On Monday, Donald Trump attended his first board meeting at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since installing himself…

The countdown.

“Oh, and try to have everyone fill out one of these.”

In today’s newsletter, Rebecca Mead with a deeply reported portrait of Jonathan Anderson, the creative director who just announced his…

“I’m sorry, we did everything we could before Elon cut our funding.”

It was St. Blaise Day, when Catholics go to church to get their throats blessed. St. Blaise (San Blas in…

Last Saturday evening, a recent Columbia University graduate student named Mahmoud Khalil was greeted in the lobby of his apartment…

For almost fifteen minutes, we sit looking at a vertical screen on a seemingly empty stage. In the projection, the…

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Early on in “Mulholland Drive,” the late, great David Lynch’s 2001 surreal masterpiece of American aspiration and degeneration, the young…

In today’s newsletter, what the case of Mahmoud Khalil tells us about the Administration’s attitude toward free speech. But, first,…

A trusted adviser.

If there’s one truth Donald Trump seems to have absorbed in his seventy-eight years, it is that there are advantages…

“Maybe we should fight some of our international conflicts the old-fashioned way, like with a chess match, or a race…

In the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length…

So far, it’s a tossup which of the Trump Administration’s wrecking balls will prove most destructive: the one that accelerates…

Just over three years ago, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the…

“Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.”

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These young men had very little education. With some difficulty, Kumar, who was twenty-six, could write in Hindi his name…

A while ago, I searched for a beard trimmer in my bedroom. I spent probably forty-five minutes looking in every…

Looney taxes.

When I was a boy, the company that my father worked for transferred him from Los Angeles to Toronto, so…

Sarah Kempa’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Elon Musk and DOGE’s firing of federal workers and conflicting orders regarding five…

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Trump’s trade war has officially begun. In today’s newsletter, a breakdown on what the tariffs might mean. But, first, reporting…

It’s called multitasking.

In today’s newsletter, our critics take in a silly, and strikingly apolitical, night at the Oscars. And then: Mikey Madison.…

Any Oscars ceremony where most of the big prizes go to “Anora” and “The Brutalist”—two blazingly intelligent, vividly personal movies,…

A film released by The New Yorker was among the winners at Sunday’s Academy Awards. “I’m Not a Robot,” a…

Photograph by Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty The Academy Awards will take place this evening in Los Angeles, and…

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The expansive machinery of loss contains many moving parts, interconnected tragedies that occasionally become interconnected blessings. There is the tragedy…

In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump and J. D. Vance berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on live television today. The moment…

“What’s wrong? If I order it today, with one-day shipping, I’ll get it the day after the boycott!”

Widespread news reports on Wednesday said that the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has recommended the…

“I’d just like to know what in hell is happening, that’s all! I’d like to know what in hell is…

“Obviously, it’s a biological phenomenon, but it also is largely a cultural phenomenon,” the staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus says.

During the eighteen minutes of “The Callers,” by the director Lindsey Dryden, viewers hear several people describe intimate reflections, but…

In today’s newsletter, Jon Lee Anderson’s personal experiences with U.S.A.I.D. But, first, a new story from Gideon Lewis-Kraus digs into…

“Look, I totally get it. But it’s been two days now—maybe it’s time to get out of the bath?”

In today’s newsletter, a report on the Ukrainian spy who is accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. But,…

“Elon Musk says I have to justify my job, then forward his e-mail to ten federal employees, or I’ll have bad…

Late last month, after President Donald Trump suggested that diversity initiatives were to blame for a plane crash in Washington,…

Lee opened Sunn’s in partnership with the wine maven Grant Reynolds, of Parcelle, who oversees the quite excellent wine program;…

Back in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in…

Seventeen years ago, on assignment for The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin travelled through central Texas on a barbecue-themed road trip.…

Imagine grasshoppers distributed evenly across a dry field. As the temperature rises, the grasshoppers start to sweat. The field catches…

“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to star in a series of increasingly bland spinoffs and TV shows that have…

No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming…

“So, in all the nation’s founding documents, there’s not one single mention of a safe word?”

In today’s newsletter, the trans kids losing access to care, and then: Photograph by John Trotter Where Do Trans Kids…

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In today’s newsletter, Nick Paumgarten on his reporting about the painstaking, quixotic efforts to save an endangered species, and then:…

“We’ve replaced all our screens at home with relentless immersion in the here and now.”

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Two New Yorker staff writers were announced on Monday as winners of this year’s George Polk Awards, among the highest…

There’s something almost ritualistically precise about the Hawaiian plate lunch. A scoop of pale macaroni salad, almost quietly radical in…

There have been worse trades than the one that sent Luka Dončić from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles…

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the…

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Which father knows best?

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When I first heard that President Donald Trump was making comments about the future of Gaza, I was in New…

Since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, scholars of authoritarianism have warned that American democracy is under grave…

When Donald Trump was inaugurated for the first time, in January, 2017, Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law…

The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work…

U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At…

Racism has ended! Have you heard? Or maybe ending racism has ended. On Tuesday, it was reported that the N.F.L.…

I’m not sure if the same can be said of the new Lundy’s, whose home is an odd little corner…

On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place…

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they…

I am a travelling salesman, or at least that’s what I look like. Actually, I don’t sell anything. I give…

Nearly twenty years ago, the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a classic account of the shambolic American takeover of the…

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The veteran transportation-safety reporter Matthew L. Wald breaks down the dangers of airline safety becoming a political flashpoint.

We love your whole vibe, we really do, but there’s too much of a herd mentality here.

What is a journal? I’ll tell you! A journal is like a book except it’s blank inside, and you are,…