The New Yorker
THE PUZZLE MAESTRO
For Stephen Sondheim, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as fun as writing musicals.
10+ min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
The second Presidency of Donald Trump has been unprecedented in myriad ways, perhaps above all in the way that he has managed to cajole, cow, or simply command people in his Administration to carry out even his most undemocratic wishes with remarkably little dissent.
4 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
GREETINGS, FRIENDS!
As now the year two-oh-two-five, Somewhat ragged but alive, Reels and staggers to the finish, All its drawbacks can't diminish, Friends, how gladly 'tis we greet you! We aver, and do repeat, you Have our warm felicitations Full of gladsome protestations Of Christmastime regard! Though we have yet to rake the yard, Mercy! It's already snowing.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
SELECTIVE MEMORY
\"Marjorie Prime\" and \"Anna Christie.\"
7 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
KICKS DEPT.ON THE LINE
On a chilly night last month, the Rockette Alumnae Association held its first black-tie charity ball, at the Edison Ballroom, in midtown.
4 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
NINE LIVES DEPT. NIGHT THOUGHTS
First, a moment of silence. The beloved cat of the actor-comedian Kumail Nanjiani died three months ago. Her name was Bagel. She was seventeen.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
RISK, DISCIPLINE
When Violet and I finally decided to get married, I was in the middle of a depression so deep it had developed into something more like psychosis.
10+ min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
SPLIT TAKE
\"Is This Thing On?\"
6 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
MIND OVER MATTER
Did the celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks write his patients into case studies of his own psyche?
10+ min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
ALL RISE
A new Afghan bakery, in New York's golden age of bread.
7 min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
The new Studio Museum in Harlem shows that Black art matters.
10 min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
TRADING PLACES
The ex-bankers behind HBO's \"Industry\" are the latest British élites to dramatize their own kind.
10+ min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
HOW TO LEAVE THE U.S.A.
Why fed-up Americans are going Dutch.
10+ min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In a federal courtroom in New York City last year, a crime boss from the most notorious drug cartel in Honduras took the stand to testify against Juan Orlando Hernández, the country's former President.
10+ min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
PRISON BREAKS
A new study illuminates the origins of incarceration
10+ min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE
“Everyone thinks they're on this big journey now,” Debbie said, refilling her glass.
10+ min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy's "One Touch of Nature"
I first encountered Mary McCarthy not through her novels or criticism but through her political reporting. A former editor recommended that I read “The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits” before covering Paul Manafort’s arraignment in 2017. (Were we ever so young?) I loved McCarthy’s witty cameos of malefactors—behold Maurice Stans, Nixon’s erstwhile Secretary of Commerce, “a silver-haired, sideburned super-accountant and magic fundraiser, who gave a day-and-a-half-long demonstration of the athletics of evasion, showing himself very fit for a man of his age.” McCarthy’s sentences were like mousetraps, snapping shut on both visual information and something deeper, the kind of quintessence that fictional characters possess and that we often long for real people to have, too.
2 min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
AND YOUR LITTLE DOG, TOO
When animals attack.
8 min |
December 15, 2025
The New Yorker
KILLING BORROWED TIME
Will Geese redeem noisy, lawless rock and roll?
5 min |
December 15, 2025
Vanity Fair US
How to Win an Oscar—or Go Broke Trying
Awards season, an annual circus of consultants and events, is awash in money. Nearly everyone involved seems to tolerate this at best. So why does Hollywood keep doing it? JOY PRESS looks for answers
7 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
California Schemin'
Even newspapers can have Hollywood ambitions. As the New York Post colonizes Los Angeles, its editors reveal big future plans, and, as LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT reports, onlookers are welcoming the California news wars
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
MIDCENTURY MAISON
For years, Nicolas Ghesquière had one very special West Hollywood house on his mood board. PAUL GOLDBERGER tours the property—newly restored by the designer and his partner, Drew Kuhse—that is now the couple's American home base
9 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
World on Fire
OLIVIA NUZZI was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames. In an excerpt from American Canto, our West Coast Editor takes stock of scorched earth
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
HACKING THE SYSTEM
Do you want to live forever? VERA PAPISOVA has devised the perfect day, full of antiaging and devoid of death
3 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
BAGGAGE CLAIM
Schlepping is an art, particularly in a Wes Anderson film. Whether trekking to prep schools or grand hotels, heading off on trains, planes, and automobiles, or escaping from camp, the director's crew of eccentric characters all travel in style.
1 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. It's all anyone can talk about in private, at parties, on location. With the town on edge, TOM DOTAN plumbs the industry's anxiety and hope
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
Confessions on a Dance Floor
Once upon a time, going out in Hollywood was actually fun. DEREK C. BLASBERG lifts the velvet rope for an oral history of LA nightlife in the 2000s as told by the insiders who made it happen
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
All in Vein
VERA PAPISOVA spends the day with Hollywood's new in-demand accoutrement: a blood concierge
10 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
KAIA GERBER SLAYS IT ALL
Catwalk. Back lot. Boardroom. Bookshelf. Rebecca Ford meets a self-confident, self-aware multihyphenate
7 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
THE PEOPLE'S PRINCES
In Hollywood's golden age, studios turned regular men into secular gods: changing their names, hiding their flaws. But now, writes OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, the era of the remote matinee idol is over-and the dawn of the almost approachable, appealingly authentic modern actor is in full swing. Meet the new class of leading men
7 min |