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In today’s newsletter, Dexter Filkins offers an in-depth report on why the military is facing one of its most severe…

“In the barbershop it’s hard to tell an argument / from a discussion.”

On the Wednesday evening of a Washington week defined by a blitzkrieg of executive orders, vituperative confirmation hearings for Robert F.…

This interview was featured in the Books & Fiction newsletter, which delivers the stories behind the stories, along with our…

It took the social-media site X about an hour to reach consensus on the cause of the midair collision over…

At her house, Kohner-Zuckerman showed me souvenirs of her parents’ world, which were nestled amid memorabilia of her beach days.…

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Last week, on the third day of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a number of directors at the…

It was a mega-MAGA morning on Capitol Hill. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s nominee to…

No TikToks on the premises.

In today’s newsletter, Gary Shteyngart explains his love for the world’s biggest rodent, and then: Caroline Mimbs NyceNewsletter editor The…

When the filmmaker Azadeh Navai was five years old, her mother took her to have her photo taken for an…

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In today’s newsletter, our puzzles and games editor, Liz Maynes-Aminzade, introduces Laugh Lines, a new weekly game that challenges your…

No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In the right…

In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds…

Minutes after the Buffalo Bills held on to beat the Baltimore Ravens 27–25 in the A.F.C. divisional game, a sideline…

In his memoir, “Room to Dream,” from 2018, David Lynch recalled an idyllic time in his life. He was in…

A few months ago, when Tom Brady was beginning his career as an N.F.L. commentator for Fox Sports, a commercial…

In today’s newsletter, Jonathan Blitzer analyzes the early effects of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies. But, first, Daniel Immerwahr asks…

In normal times, Inaugurations are gossipy affairs where the worst, and perhaps most fun, impulses of the political media get…

In today’s edition, our coverage of this morning’s Academy Award nominations. And Benjamin Wallace-Wells reports on the mastermind behind the…

One way in which Donald Trump has already imposed his fixations on the American public is that tariffs are suddenly…

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1881, James Bonsack patented an…

Comrade of Porthos and Aramis: five letters.

It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette…

The exasperated experts, right here, begin to fire off e-mails and D.M.s, tutting at the eminent philosopher’s obvious failures of…

In today’s newsletter, TikTok in limbo, and then: Photograph by Andy Bao / AP Kyle ChaykaStaff writer Just before 11…

The conflagration that became known as the Bel Air Fire broke out on the morning of November 6, 1961, in…

During Han’s lifetime—he died in 1999—he was primarily known for his commercial work. In 1966, he founded Han’s Photo, one…

The portrait above, “Kamala,” painted by Kadir Nelson, would have been the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue of…

Last summer, I followed Matthew O’Callaghan, a field officer for the humanitarian mine-clearance organization the HALO Trust, along a narrow…

Hi, thrifters! You’ve probably just come from the thrift store and are wondering, O.K., I nabbed this fantastic second-chapter treasure,…

In today’s newsletter, remembering the pioneering TV chef and author Nathalie Dupree. And then, news of a ceasefire deal between…

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At some point in the past decade or two, dance-music d.j.s discovered a way of punctuating their sets with a…

Thank you, everyone, for coming to our first/final book-club meeting. Apologies for how long it’s taken us to settle on…

Last year, Coco Gauff, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, hit four hundred and thirty double faults—by far…

In modern terms, a Presidential Inauguration is an open-air branding opportunity. John F. Kennedy, a hatless Cold Warrior, placed his…

Last spring, a video spread across social media. Filmed at night, it shows several soldiers in olive-green army fatigues transporting…

Every tribe has its myths, and journalists are no exception. In America, one common story goes like this: once, in…

In today’s newsletter, reporting from the President-elect’s sentencing. Plus: Photograph by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Bloomberg/Getty Eric…

The glow in the photos coming out of Los Angeles is otherworldly, though that is precisely the wrong term. Cinematic?…

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On the night of January 1st, as Puerto Rico was recovering from an island-wide blackout, a small restaurant in Cabo…

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In today’s newsletter, new research on the dangers of ultra-processed food. But, first, the head of the magazine’s fact-checking department…

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The cartoonist depicts celebrities of the more ordinary, personal sort.

One of the stranger effects of Brexit was that, after the United Kingdom left the European Union, in 2020, it…

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to begin enacting the anti-immigrant agenda at the center of his campaign the moment he…

It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this…

Helen ShawStaff writer It’s a new year! Hurrah! Time to kick off our fluffy slippers and blast away our winter…

The political scientist Dahlia Scheindlin is a longtime expert on Israeli public opinion and analyst of the country’s domestic political…

One of Donald Trump’s main campaign promises—one that was printed on signs at the Republican National Convention and at Trump…

“I think we should switch gears and have a group screaming session.”

Today’s theme: So much to say.

Illustration by Daniel Jurman The Best Films of 2024 The year’s strongest films offered thrilling affirmation of cinema as a…

You have something important to do—something vital. It’s not an item on a list but a burdensome project, urgent and…

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” was an immediate best-seller when it was published, in 1943, and proved particularly popular with…

In September, 2011, I drove to Plains, Georgia, with Gerald Rafshoon, President Jimmy Carter’s former media adviser. Rafshoon had asked…

On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof…

If your New Year’s resolution is to stop obsessively reading post-election analyses, then perhaps you would welcome another way of…

The text that weighed on him at the time of his arrival to Turkey was his novel “Another Country,” then…

In today’s newsletter, a deep dive into how the streaming service upended our listening habits, and then: File-sharing may have…

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On Christmas Day, Donald Trump issued his traditional holiday greeting. Posting on Truth Social, the social-media site created to serve…

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Open on a tidy suburban street rendered melancholic by snowfall. Bouncy yet melancholic jazz piano plays. Charlie Brown and Linus…

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From the daily newsletter: Inkoo Kang reviews new espionage shows. Plus: an amateur U.F.O. hunter; the choreography of Kyle Abraham;…

The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books…

In the new mystery thriller “Black Doves,” the purview of secret agents can include school plays, bedtime stories, and holiday…

Robert Eggers’s remake of the German director F. W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire classic, “Nosferatu,” may be presumptuous, but it’s not…

The prosecutor spoke without emotion: “Your father’s been charged with espionage. Spying under orders from the North Korean puppet regime.”

On Thursday, J. J. Redick, the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, was asked about the N.B.A.’s decline in ratings,…

In the nineteen-thirties, Gypsy Rose Lee, perhaps the world’s most famous stripper, helped transform burlesque from a vulgar pastime to…

For almost a decade, conservatives have insisted that we should take Donald Trump seriously, not literally. But how seriously should…

Early one morning in June, 2017, Todd Doan woke his husband, Wylliam Soliwoda-Doan, to say that he was going to…

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One doesn’t have to be a Dylanologist to know, or even to sense, that “A Complete Unknown,” which opens on…

As a first step, Ford told me, the U.S. should begin where it has the most clout: the Kurdish forces…

RaMell Ross walks us through a pivotal scene in his début fiction feature, “Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of the novel…

Truly, bureaucracy is the thief of joy.

The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick—my boss—likes to say that what we do at the magazine is “weird.”…

In today’s newsletter, Anthony Lane on a life-changing meal. But first, the editors behind this week’s Cartoons & Puzzles Issue…

“People prefer your traditional surveillance to the drones.”

In the weeks before two Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers were attacked, on June 13th, in the Gulf of Oman—acts…

On Saturday evening, a week and a half after South Korea’s President, Yoon Suk-yeol, declared martial law and deployed soldiers…

Why did Kamala Harris lose the election? So glad you asked. Pull up a chair—actually, no need to sit, because…

The nation of Vanuatu consists of eighty-three islands arrayed in the shape of a shaggy “Y” in the South Pacific.…

It’s a big and bitter surprise to discover that Marielle Heller’s new film, “Nightbitch,” is, for the most part, excruciating…

Is anybody prepared to stand and fight Donald Trump? On Wednesday, Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. director whom Trump had vowed…

Paul Schrader, whose latest film, “Oh, Canada,” is based on Russell Banks’s semi-autobiographical novel “Foregone,” is no stranger to literary…

The adventure part, he thinks, explains why electrics ultimately fell away. Because electric engines were expensive to produce, a coalition…

From the daily newsletter: “Babygirl” and the return of the erotic thriller. Plus: the acquittal of Daniel Penny; Michael Schulman…

Stand clear of the closing doors.

For fifty-four years, generations of Syrians lived and died in a country that was colloquially known as Assad’s Syria. It…

This past Wednesday, Politico reported that members of the Biden Administration are considering offering pardons to a number of current…

As you know, the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare, fifty-year-old Brian Thompson, was murdered on the street in midtown Manhattan, on Wednesday…

A paradox of giving birth is that you are irrefutably there—no one has ever been more there!—and yet not there…

Like many medications, the wakefulness drug modafinil, which is marketed under the trade name Provigil, comes with a small, tightly…

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In just the past few days, the French government collapsed, civil war in Syria reignited, and South Korea’s President, briefly,…

Top tracks for extremely justified existential terror.

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Lucy Grealy was an unsparing observer of human physiognomy. She was a poet, with the requisite eye for piercing detail,…

In today’s newsletter, Jon Lee Anderson reports on the slash-and-burn austerity measures in Argentina that have earned admiration from Trump…

“You’re just mad ’cause now you’ll never get to see how hot Hunter would’ve looked in an orange jumpsuit.”

For the first seven months of 2024, in that long period before Joe Biden was finally forced to reckon with…

After the recent revelation that Pete Hegseth had secretly paid a financial settlement to a woman who had accused him…

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Charles Dickens, a journalist of such Victorian energies that he managed to write some fiction on the side, was a…

Unexpected juxtapositions like these appear across the photographer Ali Al Shehabi’s series “As I Lay Between Two Seas,” which documents…

In today’s newsletter, reporting on an animal crisis in Lake Tahoe. And then: Wildfires, overdevelopment, and easy access to garbage…

The resurgence, in the past decade, of Paul Schrader as one of the most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary movie directors…

In the spring of 2017, in a room on the second floor of Google’s Building 1965, a college intern named…

If you were a new parent in 2006, you might have stumbled across a lengthy Amazon review of Gerber’s Tender…

In today’s newsletter, James Somers on how robots learn. And then: “This is the year that people really realized that…

“Shall we do a Frenemiesgiving?”

In today’s newsletter, reporting on the deteriorating condition of women’s health care in Texas. And then: Dr. Tony Ogburn helped…

A Thanksgiving ritual.

In your story for this week’s issue, “Paris Friend,” an aspiring writer living in Beijing, Li Mo, makes a friend…

So you get on well? he said. You could say that, I said. You could say that, for a while…

Last week, here in Seoul, I was trying to digest the aftermath of the election when I began to notice…

Hark, the manosphere! In the days following the Presidential election, the word suddenly seemed to be on everyone’s lips. Comprising…

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That was fast. Barely two weeks after winning reëlection, Donald Trump has already so thoroughly owned the news cycle that…

“Ah, fall—time to die!”

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In September, the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) signed a two-million-dollar contract with Paragon, an Israeli firm whose spyware product…

It’s on the tip of my tongue . . .

The unspoken bond between human and dog.

Rafael Nadal is afraid of the dark. He has an intense fear of storms. He is afraid of animals, including…

The author reads his story from the November 25, 2024, issue of the magazine.

In July, 2016, at the Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia, Senator Chuck Schumer was asked whether he thought that, in…

From the daily newsletter: Clare Malone on R.F.K., Jr.,’s health crusade. Plus: more on Trump’s extreme Cabinet; the naïveté of…

The idea of resistance holds wherever people stand up to abuses of power, but the word got its capital “R”…

Joe Biden, once again, seems to be cursed with awful timing. On Wednesday morning, in an awkward photo op meant…

America, meet your top Cabinet picks.

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Corporate JugglerAre you a go-getter? Go get a corporate job! The position actually used to be six different jobs, but…

In today’s newsletter, what pro-life means now. And then: Post-Dobbs, social conservatives are shifting their rhetoric away from abortion.Illustration by…

”I know it’s early, but it makes me believe we’ll make it to Christmas.”

The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations…

Game over.

Bridges is situated in Chinatown, in the former home of Hop Shing, a restaurant that served affordable, no-frills Guangdong-style dim…

Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” is also a return to earlier works: a novella he…

As several friends and I knocked on the front doors of registered Democrats’ homes around Allentown, Pennsylvania, the weekend before…

On the morning after Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, in 2016, the White House was a…

A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build…

Guess it’s that time again.

What his return to the Presidency reveals about America.

In the first Presidential race since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the American electorate appeared to stake out…

In today’s newsletter, Trump surges back to power, and then: Photograph by Charly Triballeau / AFP / Getty Ian CrouchNewsletter…

Blown away.

One of the most tumultuous Presidential campaigns in U.S. history has reached its final stage, with voters having made their…

“We’re either headed for disaster or we’ll be fine—either way, I’m going to puke.”

Barely more than a week ago, it seemed as though the Washington political class and their big-money counterparts in New…

“I was earth grasping for air. / No one in this universe fit precisely anywhere.”

Let us now take a respite from the cleaving political moment to praise famous men in slightly more convivial division.…

In your story “The Honest Island,” a man named Craint finds himself living in a hotel on an island where…

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According to the script, the title of the latest play by Dominique Morisseau is “Bad Creole Kreyòl.” We go with…

“Wow, my whole family showed up.”

In a subsequent series of text exchanges, Hoback told me, “Peter was the only person who tried to dissuade me…

At ceremonies in Arizona, hundreds of people were naturalized, and many prepared to vote.

It’s commonplace to acknowledge Clint Eastwood as one of the most distinctive and original political filmmakers. What’s surprising about his…

Approaching the Ellipse, a fifty-two-acre green space about a fifteen-minute walk from the White House, from the southeast, you might…

In today’s newsletter, how Joe Biden came to guide the largest economic overhaul since the New Deal, and why it…

“This dissociative state is self-care.”

From the daily newsletter: Benjamin-Wallace Wells on the V.P. candidate. Plus: Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally; the Obamas campaign for…

“Sometimes I think we’ve got it bad, but thank goodness we’re not candy broccoli.”

Obama devoted time in his speech to Harris, too, with whom he has some things in common (“this convention has…

The story “From the Wilderness” by Yukio Mishima was written and published in Japanese in 1966, but wasn’t translated into…

Angell, Gammons, and I now rode the elevator. In the Boston clubhouse, a crowd of reporters surrounded Buckner’s locker, waiting.…

The 2024 New Yorker Festival is under way! For the twenty-fifth year, leading artists, actors, writers, politicians, and thinkers have…

A reformist Pope who boldly leads the Catholic Church into controversial changes should be played by an actor of commanding…

What is wrong with young men? In recent weeks, many liberal outlets have been puzzling over polling results, some of…

Donald Trump is closing crazy. Does it matter? For the historical record, let it be noted that, with less than…

“It’s nice not to think about politics for a minute.”

In today’s newsletter, understanding the true threats to election integrity, and then: China, Iran, and Russia are the prime manipulators…

“Brace yourselves, fools, for twenty minutes of pure, horrifying, uncomfortable sitting.”

The art of directing is inextricable from the process of producing. Many of the most original filmmakers, especially those working…

As an obsessed amateur photographer, I spend too much time reading photography forums on the Internet. Not long ago, I…