The New Yorker
The Crackdown
Fighting drug gangs, a young President declares war within his own country.
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
MIDDLE-AGE FANTASIES
You are seated on the examination table when the nurse enters. She’s tall and raven-haired, with enormous blue eyes and candy-red lips. She says hello with a husky Eastern European accent, which reminds you of a recent episode of “The Daily” about Polish elections.
3 min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
the buggy RODDY DOYLE
There were people at the far end of the beach. Some adults, a lot of children.
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
THE PLAGUE DOCTOR
Anthony Fauci on what's ailing America.
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
HEAT RISING
The era of the line cook.
7 min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
UNSHATTERED
How the philosopher Charles Taylor would reënchant the world.
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
THE SPACE BETWEEN
\"Janet Planet.\" The first time we meet Janet in \"Janet Planet,\" a wondrous début feature from the celebrated playwright Annie Baker, she is standing on a rural road a little way from the camera.
6 min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
LABOR PAINS
Lucy Kirkwood's \"The Welkin\" assesses women's work.
5 min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
OFFLINE
Lizzy McAlpine on the power and pitfalls of viral fame.
7 min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
GHOSTS ON THE WATER
Glass eels are mysterious creatures—and worth a fortune to those who catch them.
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
SMALL WONDER
How will nanomachines change our lives?
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
In Search of Lost Time
The strange journey of John Lennon's stolen Patek Philippe watch.
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
The New Yorker
Books – Everything in Hand
The C.I.A.'s covert ops have mattered-but not in the way that it hoped.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
His Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Ye bought a masterpiece by Tadao Ando-and gave it a violent remix.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
MOVE IN FOR THE CULL
The complicated calculus of killing some wild creatures to protect others.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
FOND OF FLAGS
My wife is fond of fast food. I am not. My wife is particularly fond of the Wendy’s Baconator. I argue that it’s less expensive to order a Dave’s Double with a side of bacon, then put your own pretzels on top. (I’m fond of the Rold Gold Tiny Twists Original.)
3 min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
TROPHY ROOM
Going on safari.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
SCREEN GRAB
How CoComelon conquered children's television.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
GREAT MIGRATIONS
\"Home\" and \"What Became of Us.\"
5 min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
SICK, SAD WORLD
What COVID did to fiction.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
CHICAGO ON THE SEINE CAMILLE BORDAS
I used to tell myself stories on the job, to make it feel exciting—spy stories, exfiltration stories, war stories. I used to come up with poignant little details that turned the repatriation cases I worked on into “Saving Private Ryan,” into “Johnny Got His Gun.”
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
The New Yorker
A SEMBLANCE OF PEACE
How life in a co-living community changed after October 7th.
10+ min |
June 17, 2024
Archaeology
Making a Roman Emperor
A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family's rise to power in the late second century A.D.
10 min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
The Assyrian Renaissance
Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world's grandest imperial capitals
10+ min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
Java's Megalithic Mountain
Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors
8 min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
RISE AND FALL OF TIWANAKU
New dating techniques are unraveling the mystery of a sacred Andean city
10 min |
July/August 2024
Archaeology
THE SONG IN THE STONE
Located in a desert gorge in southern Peru, Toro Muerto is one of the richest rock art sites in South America. It includes at least 2,600 boulders bearing petroglyphs, many featuring figures known as danzantes who appear to be dancing.
1 min |
July/August 2024
Vanity Fair US
Ayo Edebiri – Funny Girl
The Bear made Ayo Edebiri a Hollywood darling. Now she's making Hollywood worth our attention.
10+ min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
Magical Thinking
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ's One Hundred Years of Solitude has never been faithfully adapted for the screen partly because he wouldn't allow it in his lifetime. With a Netflix series now in the works, VF tracks the long journey of a masterpiece
10+ min |
June 2024
Vanity Fair US
Beyond a BOUNDARY
With sped-up matches and a bevy of big-money backers, cricket is pitching an American resurgence
6 min |