The New Yorker
An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting
“If you wanted to understand complex questions in philosophy, was hanging out with a single philosopher the right idea?” Joshua Rothman reflects on his path to journalism.
Today’s Mix
Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery
A conservative prosecutor in New York makes the first bold move against Donald Trump’s rampaging Presidency.
The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes
The microphotographic innovator Wilson Bentley believed that “every crystal was a masterpiece of design.”
Stephen A. Smith for President
If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue about sports for the past decade?
The Eternal Mysteries of Red
It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping out of our grasp?
The New Yorker Turns 100
This month marks a hundred years since the first issue of The New Yorker was published, in February, 1925. Since then, the magazine has become renowned for its reporting, commentary, criticism, fiction, humor, and more. Explore a special collection of history and writing to celebrate the turn of our century.
From The Anniversary Issue
Onward and Upward
Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. Today, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.
Sisterhood
Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited women on death row—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost
“Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.
Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?
In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick.
The Lede
A daily column on what you need to know.
The Strategy Behind Trump’s Defiance of the Law
His violations follow an old playbook—trigger lawsuits, giving the Supreme Court a chance to declare statutes unconstitutional.
It Took Trump Only Twenty-four Days to Sell Out Ukraine
Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.
What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities
The future of the Department of Education may hinge on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste.
Donald Trump’s Pro-Union Labor Secretary
The nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions.
Gaza Must Be Rebuilt by Palestinians, for Palestinians
Trump’s proposal to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” is a call for more ethnic cleansing.
The White House Takes Aim at the Climate
More than thirty actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce fossil-fuel use.
Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of “Saturday Night Live”
He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, making comedy, and living the good life.
Goings On
Recommendations on what to read, eat, watch, listen to, and more.
Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope
An empathetic documentary that uncovers the history of one of the artist’s lost works. Plus: Rachel Syme on shopping like it’s 1925, and a New Yorker anniversary quiz.
Lundy’s and the Risks of Restaurant Revivals
The Sheephead’s Bay seafood behemoth, defunct and much missed, flings its doors open again, now in Red Hook, for another go. Helen Rosner visits the reincarnation.
Reëxamining Romantic Tropes with the Ripped Bodice
Leah Koch, a co-owner of the romance bookstore, describes how the genre has changed and what makes it special.
A Hundred Years of Goings On
Shauna Lyon looks back at a century of the magazine’s events calendar. Plus, a starry revival of Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” the guitar god Jack White, and more.
Janet Malcolm’s “Trouble in the Archives”
Malcolm’s letters to a source reveal the intimate relationship behind one of her most influential pieces.
A Visit to Madam Bedi
I was estranged from my own mother, so a friend tried to lend me his.
The Critics
The Uneven Cross-Cultural Comedy of “Paddington in Peru” and “Universal Language”
Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and Iran.
Bartees Strange’s Interior Hauntings
On his third studio album, “Horror,” the genre-spanning musician deconstructs old fears and finds ways to survive new ones.
The Manic Brilliance of “Breakfast of Champions”
Scorned by critics on its release, in 1999, Alan Rudolph’s Kurt Vonnegut adaptation now emerges as an inspired comic extravaganza, whose very originality was its undoing.
The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.
Digging Deep with Jilaine Jones
In her show at 15 Orient, the sculptor shows us how life shapes and reshapes us.
The L.A. Chefs Keeping Their Neighbors Fed
After wildfires displaced thousands of Angelenos, a patchwork of cooks, restaurateurs, and volunteers have operated something like a citywide meal train.
The Best Books We Read This Week
A sweeping study that examines the results of land changing hands throughout history; a poetry collection recasts Helen of Troy as an Appalachian housewife; a novel that presents a familiar tale of war and homecoming; and more.
Our Columnists
What Did the War in Gaza Reveal About American Judaism?
Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora.
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency
Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.
Trump and Musk Aren’t Fixing U.S. Foreign Aid—They’re Destroying It
The Administration’s move to shutter U.S.A.I.D. has halted vital programs around the world and left thousands in a state of limbo.
Why Was a Climate Activist Imprisoned for Five Years?
Roger Hallam helped organize a nonviolent protest. New British laws have made his punishment swift and harsh.
Ideas
How the Tiger Really Got His Stripes
People have wondered forever what determines the patterns that animals wear. We’re starting to figure it out.
Searching for Alien Life During the Cold War
For American and Soviet scientist trying to contact extraterrestrials, crossing the Iron Curtain was as hard as sending messages beyond the solar system.
The Frustrated Promise of the Rape Kit
Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police consistently tested their findings.
The Long Quest for Artificial Blood
One of the most valuable substances in the world has never been replicated. Are we close?
Mike White’s Mischievous Vision for “The White Lotus”
Sex, money, morals, and the making of an ever-shifting franchise.
James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”
The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.
Puzzles & Games
Take a break and play.
In Case You Missed It
Fiction from the Archives
John Updike
Selected Stories
The Full Glass
“That icy water held an ingredient that made me, a boy of nine or ten, eager for the next moment of life, one brimming moment after another.”Outage
“When he had seen her in the center of the road he had thought for an instant she was a ghost.”Snowing in Greenwich Village
“The snow, invisible except around street lights, exerted a fluttering, romantic pressure on their faces. ‘Coming down hard now,’ Richard said.”My Father’s Tears
“I had taken my life from his, and now I was stealing away with it.”
