“Eat, Pray, Love” was a huge hit in part because readers imagined they could be like its author. Her new book, “All the Way to the River,” shows how dubious that notion was.| The New Yorker
From 2009: Richard Brody profiles the high-style director during the making of his animated adaptation of “Fantastic Mr. Fox.”| The New Yorker
The Republican leader’s ambition has always been his defining characteristic. Attempting to placate both Trumpists and moderates may lead to his downfall.| The New Yorker
Shouts & Murmurs by Jenny Slate: Tonight I will eat a burned-up bird and drink liquefied old grapes. I’m so excited that I put skin-colored paint on my face and pasty red pigment on my lips.| The New Yorker
Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market.| The New Yorker
Can a controversial young entrepreneur rid the ocean of plastic trash?| The New Yorker
“Hillbilly Elegy” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump brought him liberal fans. Now, as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he’s remaking his image as the heir to the MAGA movement.| The New Yorker
Scholars now argue that early nomadic empires were the architects of modernity. But do we have the right measure of their success?| The New Yorker
The concept of impostor syndrome has become ubiquitous. Critics, and even the idea’s originators, question its value.| The New Yorker
Many authors write about their lives. Over nearly fifty years, the Nobel laureate has discovered new ways to do it.| The New Yorker
A new book argues that the O. J. Simpson trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, and Monica Lewinsky invented the present.| The New Yorker
The singer-songwriter talks about boygenius, the perils of love, and “Forever Is a Feeling,” her new album.| The New Yorker
After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.| The New Yorker
A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.| The New Yorker
She wants women to “lean in.” Will that change tech’s male-dominated culture?| The New Yorker
The musician’s overwhelming popularity can overshadow his ethos of self-reliance. On his new album, “Guitar,” he played every instrument and is releasing it on his own label.| The New Yorker
A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.| The New Yorker
From 1992: Friends and colleagues recall the New Yorker’s longtime editor William Shawn.| The New Yorker
The city is defined by street carts and family-run restaurants. ICE’s vicious campaign has prompted many venders and patrons to stay home.| The New Yorker
Is General Khalifa Haftar a savior or a latter-day Qaddafi?| The New Yorker
Both Trump’s and Harris’s campaigns framed the Presidential election as a contest between men and women. Did the results prove them right?| The New Yorker
The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.| The New Yorker
A wave of triumph sweeps Israel in the aftermath of its campaign against Iran, even as Gaza’s suffering recedes from public view. Beneath the celebrations, a question nags: What is Israel becoming?| The New Yorker
This month, the old diesel-powered Governors Island ferry will be retired, and the Harbor Charger—New York’s first hybrid-electric ferry—will (quietly) hit the water.| The New Yorker
As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?| The New Yorker
In the early nineteen-hundreds, Josip Mikulec walked the globe, collecting famous signatures (Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Admiral Tōgō). Now the mayor of his Croatian home town has purchased the three-thousand-page tome.| The New Yorker
It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.| The New Yorker
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?| The New Yorker
No diet has been more obsessively studied, more fiercely controlled, or more anxiously stage-managed than baby food. Yet we still get it wrong.| The New Yorker
Court Street Grocers sandwich experts have taken over the former Eisenberg’s, a Jewish-style diner in the Flatiron district, distilling the shop to its essence.| The New Yorker
On the Lower East Side, the Momofuku Ko alum Samuel Yoo adds distinctive details to classic dishes like grilled cheese and pancakes—and the coffee refills are free.| The New Yorker
The buzzy new Brooklyn restaurant doesn’t bill itself as Canadian, but it is made in the image of the country’s great food city.| The New Yorker
The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.| The New Yorker
Only as the memory faded and he struggled to detain it did he realize, with a start, that he had remembered something.| The New Yorker
Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.| The New Yorker
What do people find so odd about saving a stranger by donating a kidney?| The New Yorker
With a common touch that appeals to juries and a client list that includes Elon Musk, Jay-Z, and Megan Thee Stallion, he’s on a winning streak that makes his rivals seethe.| The New Yorker
It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer.| The New Yorker
A small school in California’s high desert offers an isolated education on a working ranch.| The New Yorker
They are championing criminal-justice reform and starting initiatives for the poor. But has their formula really changed?| The New Yorker
Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?| The New Yorker
Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.| The New Yorker
By pinching pennies, Peter Adeney retired at thirty. Now, as Mr. Money Mustache, he is waging war on American consumerism.| The New Yorker
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.| The New Yorker
A reporter embeds with wildland firefighters during one of the deadliest blazes in California history.| The New Yorker
The world’s biggest dam floods the past.| The New Yorker
Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 investigation into the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment.| The New Yorker
You’re my famous cousin, the guy who wrote the book. Their little Jewish writer guy—they’ll trust you.| The New Yorker
The magazine has three golden rules: never write about writers, editors, or the magazine. On the occasion of our hundredth anniversary, we’re breaking them all.| The New Yorker
The desire to protect children may put their long-term well-being at stake.| The New Yorker
Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.| The New Yorker
Though he has adopted a “nerd constitutional-law guy” persona, he is in lockstep with the law-flouting former President.| The New Yorker
Relatively little has been known about the President’s father, whose story reveals a family’s fraught relationship with money, class, and alcohol.| The New Yorker
Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite.| The New Yorker
At Stanford Law School, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried specialized in ethics and social fairness. Now that their son stands accused of one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history, they’re scrambling for legal escape routes.| The New Yorker
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.| The New Yorker
Eating meat creates huge environmental costs. Impossible Foods thinks it has a solution.| The New Yorker
As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.| The New Yorker
The writer recalls the town lovers-Jack & Hilda Donnelly, a childless couple who were the laugh of her village in Ireland. They had met in America 20 or 30…| The New Yorker
Automated bins, rooftop farms, and underground mushroom-growing help clean up the mess.| The New Yorker
What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for an office tower are flawed—and hurricane season is approaching.| The New Yorker
The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not.| The New Yorker
After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him.| The New Yorker
Although many Americans see the former police officer’s conviction as just closure, many in Minneapolis view it as the beginning of a larger battle.| The New Yorker
It has enthusiasts on both the left and the right. Maybe that’s the giveaway.| The New Yorker
Nicholas Lemann on how the McKinsey business-analyst program became the plum post-college job of the nineties: “It’s the next prestigious thing to get, and desirable simply because it is that.”| The New Yorker
A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President’s return to the White House.| The New Yorker
It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened?| The New Yorker
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.| The New Yorker
Despite an abundance of plot strands and characters, Anderson’s latest drills down into the father-daughter relationship depicted by its leads, Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton.| The New Yorker
From 2002: Adam Gopnik writes about his three-year-old daughter’s imaginary friend, who is always too busy to play with her.| The New Yorker
The Florida Republican is among the most brazen and controversial figures in Donald Trump’s G.O.P. He’s also among the most influential.| The New Yorker
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?| The New Yorker
The former President has been fighting to win back his wealthiest donors, while actively courting new ones—what do they expect to get in return?| The New Yorker
The information age has made Peter Thiel rich, but it has also disappointed him.| The New Yorker
The company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans.| The New Yorker
Researchers are pursuing age-old questions about the nature of thoughts—and learning how to read them.| The New Yorker
How one man revolutionized psychiatry.| The New Yorker
The creators of an artificial intelligence that can produce almost any art work imaginable—from “cheeseburger lamp” to “the rest of mona lisa”—sift through their latest requests for original images.| The New Yorker
The company has spent billions on cases about one of its most popular products. As its executives try a brazen new legal strategy to stop the litigation, corporate America takes note.| The New Yorker
From 2016: A new kind of movement found its moment, Jelani Cobb writes. What will its future be?| The New Yorker
Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.| The New Yorker
From 2018, Jill Lepore on why Mary Shelley’s novel has accreted so many wildly different and irreconcilable readings and restagings in the two centuries since its publication.| The New Yorker
At a time of distrust and polarization, the conservative Times columnist seeks to bridge the worlds of the Christian right and the secular left.| The New Yorker
Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. Is the woolly mammoth next?| The New Yorker
In notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, the writer reflected on her sessions with the psychiatrist Roger MacKinnon.| The New Yorker
If the Trump Administration comes out on the wrong side of this fight, it will be because defending free speech remains a politically lucid and powerful principle.| The New Yorker
Ben Smith’s new book shows how the race for clicks spawned—then strangled—the new media.| The New Yorker
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.| The New Yorker
Through years of conflict, people in eastern Ukraine have sought a semblance of normal existence—one that’s now under siege.| The New Yorker
The Republican junior senator from Texas is the far right’s most formidable advocate—and a 2016 contender.| The New Yorker
Advances in digital imagery could deepen the fake-news crisis—or help us get out of it.| The New Yorker
Will artificial intelligence bring us utopia or destruction?| The New Yorker
How predictive-text technology could transform the future of the written word.| The New Yorker
The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.| The New Yorker
