Carroll Dunham’s Paintings Make You Squirm | The New Yorker
The artist discusses his most recent work, how the art world resembles a cult, and what it’s like having a famous child.| The New Yorker
The artist discusses his most recent work, how the art world resembles a cult, and what it’s like having a famous child.| The New Yorker
Catching up on the series all at once, I kept thinking that its greatest artistic success was responsible for its biggest critical handicap.| The New Yorker
The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.| The New Yorker
The new Hulu drama “Dopesick” constantly deploys the trusty time stamp, telling you in what year a scene is taking place, because it jumps around like a hyperactive tree frog. In other series, this might feel chaotic or like lazy screenwriting, but here it feels necessary: the sprawling tragedy of the opioid crisis has unfolded over so many years and with so many bad actors as it has decimated and destabilized American lives that it would be otherwise impossible to keep it all straight. T...| The New Yorker
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization.| The New Yorker
To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country.| The New Yorker
Brewers, especially in the United States, have embraced the time-honored Belgian art of deliberately infecting beer with the same “wild” bugs that …| The New Yorker
Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today.| The New Yorker
The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.| The New Yorker
When the original edition of “Take Ivy” hit shelves, fashion wasn’t a point of Japanese national pride. It was a matter for law enforcement.| The New Yorker
How an anime franchise captured the world’s imagination during the pandemic.| The New Yorker
Biden imposes sanctions in response to what the U.S. calls the “greatest threat to Europe” since the Second World War.| The New Yorker
It’s tempting to ignore the former President’s expressions of rage, but the stakes for American democracy demand that attention be paid.| The New Yorker
As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins.| The New Yorker
Decades ago, archeologists discovered the work of Enheduanna, an ancient priestess who seemed to alter the story of literature. Why hasn’t her claim been affirmed?| The New Yorker
In the era of Stand Your Ground, self-defense insurance is increasingly popular. Does it promote gun violence?| The New Yorker
There appears to be no off-ramp yet, as the destruction and death toll mount in both countries.| The New Yorker
With the meme coin $TRUMP and the company World Liberty Financial, the President is using an underregulated industry to enrich himself and court foreign influence.| The New Yorker
The theatrics from Democratic lawmakers on Monday felt not just misguided but like an outright mockery.| The New Yorker
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Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.| The New Yorker
On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital.| The New Yorker
A special nod to celebrate a centenary of cultural coverage.| The New Yorker
In our current issue, Ben McGrath writes about Mary Bloom, the Westminster Kennel Club’s staff photographer, who first attended the Westminster Dog Show …| The New Yorker
“The Panola Project,” a film by Jeremy Levine and Rachael DeCruz, follows Dorothy, a convenience-store owner, as she goes door to door in order to convince her neighbors to get their COVID-19 vaccines.| The New Yorker
A mathematician on how to get the mind into motion.| The New Yorker
The liquefied-natural-gas buildout—and fossil-fuel exports—challenge progress on global warming.| The New Yorker
As the long party on Wall Street comes to an end, investors are getting very nervous and are taking what Trump says more seriously.| The New Yorker
Meng’s detention occurred against the backdrop of the current trade war between Washington and Beijing.| The New Yorker
China’s most popular science-fiction writer writes strange and remarkable fables about human progress—and its limits.| The New Yorker
The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?| The New Yorker
Many liberals who had fled X for Bluesky seem to be embracing the Elon Musk-owned platform once more. Why?| The New Yorker
Following an assassination attempt, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister discusses his views on the Taliban, his relationship with the military, and why he’s more “evolved” than other people.| The New Yorker
About half of the state’s caucus-goers went for the former President, leaving his closest challengers—Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis—in a desperate race for a distant second place.| The New Yorker
The “entertainer” Kareem Rahma discusses Kamala Harris’s missed opportunity on his show, meeting Andrew Cuomo, and why disagreement is more fun.| The New Yorker
Majestic and beautiful until the very end of her life, Chavela Vargas compiled an amorous résumé that ranks among the most distinguished in the history …| The New Yorker
An image in a government briefing book helped a State Department official see “the forest for the trees” in the West Bank—and then was shared with the President.| The New Yorker
In a work of directorial virtuosity, Peele invests every moment, twist, and detail with graphic, psychological resonance.| The New Yorker
The American Eagle campaign, with its presentation of Americana as a zombie slop of mustangs, denim, and good genes, is lowest-common-denominator stuff.| The New Yorker
This isn’t Anderson’s most personal film, but it is, alongside “The Life Aquatic,” his most reflexive one.| The New Yorker
The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America.| The New Yorker
“There’s nothing she can do to lose my vote, unless she murdered a baby or something,” a local Republican official said. “Nothing.”| The New Yorker
The historian Rick Perlstein discusses President Gerald Ford’s motivation, whether liberals should care about the health of the Republican Party, and why the Trump siege may have been the culmination of the Barry Goldwater revolution.| The New Yorker
Before the L.A. Marathon, Ryan Hall explained his approach to running: If you compare your best day ever to every other day, you're going to be disappointed.| The New Yorker
In nominating an inexperienced MAGA partisan for commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Donald Trump is chipping away at an essential foundation of the American economy.| The New Yorker
For some of the top tennis players in the world, forty thousand dollars is a price worth paying to have their tennis-racquet needs completely taken care of.| The New Yorker
Mary Gaitskill is the author of several books of fiction, including “Bad Behavior,” “Two Girls, Fat and Thin,” “Veronica,” “Don’t Cry,” and “This Is Pleasure,” which was first published as a novella on newyorker.com, in 2019. “The Devil’s Treasure: A Book of Stories and Dreams,” a book that combines fiction, personal history, visual art, and commentary on some of Gaitskill’s earlier work, came out in 2021. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, in 2004, and an Ame...| The New Yorker
A growing body of evidence suggests that the open office undermines the very things that it was designed to achieve.| The New Yorker
Sharing casual moments from our lives on social media doesn’t seem to make sense the way it used to.| The New Yorker
By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.| The New Yorker
In a new book, the writer and podcast host treats poetry as a form of agnostic prayer.| The New Yorker
As long as social media exists, some amount of horror is bound to slip through the cracks.| The New Yorker
Removing the complex humanity from the working-class characters they seek to exalt, both films present stick figures with many misfortunes and little discourse.| The New Yorker
In Boris Lojkine’s sharply observed Paris-set drama, a Guinean refugee struggles to survive—and to cling to the truth of who he is.| The New Yorker
It makes sense that two candidates with historic unfavorability ratings would be keen to surround themselves with the most distinguished retired officers they can find.| The New Yorker
Silver, a former professional poker player, was in the business of measuring probabilities. Many readers mistook him for an oracle.| The New Yorker
Shall code-davinci-002 compare thee to a summer’s day?| The New Yorker
Humans have been getting bored for centuries, if not millennia. Now there’s a whole field to study the sensation, at a time when it may be more rampant than ever.| The New Yorker
Critics argue that “The Tortured Poets Department” sounds too much like Swift’s previous albums. Fans argue that that’s the whole point.| The New Yorker
From the daily newsletter: biohackers are juicing themselves with everything from Ayurvedic herbs to electromagnetic-frequency beds.| The New Yorker
Without safe access to food, water, or medical care, survival has become a daily gamble for the region’s youngest residents.| The New Yorker
To Benjamin Netanyahu’s delight, Trump proposes the wholesale ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the creation of a new “Riviera.”| The New Yorker
And how the humanitarian response intersects with Netanyahu’s ability to continue waging war.| The New Yorker
How the President could drag the U.S. into a new war in the Middle East.| The New Yorker
Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.| The New Yorker
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.| The New Yorker
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.| The New Yorker
With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.| The New Yorker
A masa-based version at Hellbender, a riff on soufflé at Pitt’s, and a modern-classic stack at S&P Lunch.| The New Yorker
Judge has created some of the sharpest, most prophetic comedies of the past few decades. Now his first hit, “Beavis and Butt-Head,” is back on the air.| The New Yorker
In the age of MAGA, the show’s small-town values are both a relief and slightly outdated. In the end, will we and the animated characters all live like city people?| The New Yorker
From the daily newsletter: caring for the emotional well-being of residents amid air strikes and famine.| The New Yorker
Brennan’s agency was lambasted by the President as part of what he called the Russia “hoax.” Why is the Administration going Brennan now?| The New Yorker
Work such as Hannah Arendt’s “We Refugees” or Edward Said’s “Reflections on Exile”: five letters.| The New Yorker
Presidential libraries preserve the records—and burnish the legacies—of America’s heads of state. Are they also corruption rackets?| The New Yorker
In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.| The New Yorker
Also: the nostalgia of Vacation sunscreen, Tiler Peck’s Jerome Robbins festival, and more.| The New Yorker
Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.| The New Yorker
After six months of DOGE, vital institutions are in disarray as the civil service braces for new cuts.| The New Yorker
Is the President flip-flopping on Israel's war, or just muddling through?| The New Yorker
Reporting, Profiles, breaking news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.| The New Yorker
In the first Trump Administration, “they didn’t say ‘Fuck you’ to the courts,” Erez Reuveni said.| The New Yorker
The great-granddaughter of Stalin’s successor discusses Ukrainian identity and the lingering wounds of the Cold War.| The New Yorker
A new proposal for child investment accounts sounds progressive—but its biggest beneficiaries would be families that can already afford to save.| The New Yorker
The copywriter George Shea turned a small publicity stunt into a major TV event that draws millions of viewers every Fourth of July.| The New Yorker
The artist has lately been derided as a colonizer and a pedophile, the creep of the Post-Impressionists. A new book reëxamines his vision.| The New Yorker
Memorialized as the quintessential Brooklyn novel, it is really a book about leaving the borough—and escaping the poverty and brutality of immigrant New York.| The New Yorker
For part of almost every day this spring, the state produced more electricity than it needed from renewable sources.| The New Yorker
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.| The New Yorker
A legal scholar explains the unusual justification for the Columbia graduate’s arrest, and what it could augur for immigration enforcement in Trump’s second term.| The New Yorker
Donald Trump’s TikTok Deal Looks Like Crony Capitalism| The New Yorker
Critics say enacting the pro-crypto legislation will make the financial system less safe and less stable—and further enrich Donald Trump.| The New Yorker
Kyle Chayka on the people and platforms that are shaping digital culture.| The New Yorker
Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising.| The New Yorker
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.| The New Yorker
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.| The New Yorker
The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster than any company” ever has. What could go wrong?| The New Yorker
Professional writers and passionate amateurs are using the platform to experiment with new forms.| The New Yorker
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.| The New Yorker
