The New Yorker
THESE BLACK BOOTS ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE BLACK BOOTS
These have an almond toe.
2 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
SEASON OF DISCONTENT
Gustavo Dudamel at the New York Philharmonic; \"Kavalier & Clay\" at the Met.
6 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
For someone openly campaigning to get a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump has been going about it in an unusual way. Early last month, the President proclaimed in a press conference that the Department of Defense would thereafter be known as the Department of War. At the same briefing, the presumed new Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, promised that the armed forces will deliver “maximum lethality” that won't be “politically correct.” That was a few days after Trump had ordered the torpedoing of a small boat headed out of Venezuela, which he claimed was piloted by “narco-terrorists,” killing all eleven people on board, rather than, for instance, having it stopped and inspected. After some military-law experts worried online that this seemed uncomfortably close to a war crime, Vice-President J. D. Vance posted, “Don't give a shit.”
4 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
DON'T BLAME ME
Taylor Swift's new album eschews vulnerability for revenge.
6 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
ALMA MATER
\"After the Hunt.\"
6 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
Coconut Flan
Somehow, after the plane landed though before Andrés and Daria reached the taxi stand, Daria's wallet went missing.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
LOCKED IN
Two murders, a strike, and an explosive year inside New York's prisons.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
CONTINENTAL DREAMS
African independence was a time of high hopes. What happened?
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
THE HAGUE ON TRIAL
Political intrigue—and a lurid scandal—rocks the International Criminal Court.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
OUT OF OFFICE
Can a Prime Minister have work-life balance? Sanna Marin tried.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
DESERTED ISLAND
For Cubans fleeing authoritarianism, the U.S. is no longer a haven.
10+ min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
PANDORA'S PATCH
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Is he too late to save it?
10+ min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
STICKS AND STONES
The war over words.
10+ min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
THE WAR AT HOME
\"One Battle After Another.\"
6 min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
GLOWWORMS
Moving through the cave was like riding a conveyor belt through time and loss.
10+ min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
THE PLAYER
Carol Burnett in her tenth decade
10+ min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
Jonathan Blitzer on Roger Angell’s “Down the Drain”
As a New York Yankees fan, I spent the summer of 2000 feeling my chest tighten anytime my team was on the field and the ball travelled in the vicinity of second base. Routine grounders caused the greatest stress. The more inconsequential the play should have been, the more likely it was to go wrong. Seemingly overnight, Chuck Knoblauch, the All-Star second baseman, had lost his ability to toss the ball to first, the shortest throw on the diamond.
3 min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
AMARILLO BOULEVARD
When Jean and her fiancé arrived at the Jamesons’, the Juneteenth goings on were already in full swing.
10+ min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
NOW THAT I RUN THE ZOO
President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by revitalizing key cultural institutions. . . . The Order directs the Vice President . . . to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.—White House fact sheet, March 27, 2025.Dr. Seuss Enterprises . . . reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer. These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.—Dr. Seuss Enterprises, March 2, 2021.
1 min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
BRIEFLY NOTED
The Einstein of Sex, by Daniel Brook (Norton). In 1896, the Berlin-based Jewish physician Magnus Hirschfeld published a pamphlet with the startling thesis that sexual orientation is inborn and exists on a continuum.
2 min |
October 06, 2025
The New Yorker
SAY IT AGAIN
Gertrude Stein's cryptic connections.
10+ min |
October 06, 2025
Vanity Fair US
CHAOS THEORY
Mitchell Jackson, a once-canceled journalist, is comfortable with controversy—his own and that of his incendiary clients
10 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
EXILES IN PARIS
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, the Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui believed his greatest risk was being killed by his country's military.
5 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE FLORIDA DIVORCÉE'S GUIDE TO MURDER
Published in 1983, Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors inspired a triple murder and led to a major First Amendment test case. Still, the book is just one chapter in the bizarre story of its until-now anonymous author, \"Rex Feral,\" now a 77-year-old great-grandmother wrestling with decades of guilt
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Team's Gambit
Many have tried to crack the notoriously tricky musical Chess but Nicholas Christopher.Lea Michele, and Aaron Tveit might actually pull it off.
6 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
CHARM TO TABLE
The 26-year-old chef FLYNN MCGARRY has been wowing diners for more than a decade. His most ambitious project yet promises fully-fledged escapism
3 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
BRUCE ALMIGHTY
When Emma Heming married one of the world's most famous movie stars, an alpha male with a wink to beat them all, she didn't imagine the fate that would ultimately befall either of them. Now, as Bruce Willis grapples with frontotemporal dementia, his wife and caregiver tells ANNA PEELE how she is helping others through the experience of the longest goodbye
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
Sibling Revelru
ELLE AND DAKOTA FANNING HAVE BEEN ACTING ALMOST AS LONG AS THEY'VE BEEN SISTERS AND HAVE HIT REMARKABLY FEW BUMPS ON THE ROAD TO GROWN-UP MOVIE STARDOM. THEIR SECRET IS SIMPLE, SAVANNAH WALSH REPORTS: A FAMILIAL BOND EVEN A NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH BUSINESS CAN'T BREAK
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE PRICE OF INFAMY
Her father's mistress— a teenage girl—shot her mother in the head on the front steps of their family home when Jessica Buttafuoco was only nine years old. Now, a figure in one of the most infamous tabloid sagas of the 1990s—hashed and rehashed everywhere from the New York Post to The New York Times, played out in various TV movies starring Drew Barrymore or Alyssa Milano as the Long Island Lolita—is confronting the crime that shaped her whole life
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
VANITIES
The seminomadic Springsteen obsessive and recovering indie darling is living her dream: starring as The Boss's muse opposite Jeremy Allen White
3 min |