The New Yorker
MAKE-BELIEVE DEPT. PROPPING UP POTUS
Los Angeles’s big prop shops can supply a thousand films and TV shows a year, outfitting crime procedurals to Bible epics with satchels, spears, and pogo sticks.
3 min |
August 04, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT OVERRULED - In February, 1983, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia faced a dilemma.
4 min |
August 04, 2025
The New Yorker
PERIOD PIECES
Was the Renaissance real?
10+ min |
August 04, 2025
The New Yorker
GONE COLD
L.A.’s food culture, transformed by immigration raids.
7 min |
August 04, 2025
The New Yorker
THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES
“Love Island USA” reaches its conclusion.
6 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
THE FLOOD WILL COME
How to think about the formidable power of rivers.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
MASKING FOR TROUBLE
“Eddington” is a slog, but a slog with ambitions—and its director and screenwriter, Ari Aster, is savvy enough to cultivate an air of mystery about what those ambitions are.
6 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
MONEY TALKS
Howard Lutnick, Trump's tariff czar, wants the rest of the world to pay up.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
Sink or Swim
Fifty years ago, a glitchy yet terrifying animatronic shark persuaded movie audiences never to go in the water again. Luckily—for the photographer Tod Papageorge, at least—it didn't keep people off the beaches. That same year, 1975, Papageorge was making his way across the country, from New York City, where he'd become known for his 35-mm. street scenes, to Los Angeles, where he'd shoot throngs of sun-dazed, sweat-glazed beachgoers with a clunkier medium-format camera. He made four trips to L.A.'s beaches between 1975 and 1988, and a selection of the resulting black-and-white photographs—detail-rich, often dense, rapturous yet funny tableaux of stripped-down bodies engaged in sport or sprawled on the sand—will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut through October 26th.
1 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
D.C. POSTCARD: LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE
The Washington, D.C., air clung to the skin like a damp washcloth one Saturday not long ago. But inside the Mead Theatre it was almost cold enough to see your breath. A coltish woman tightened her shawl around her shoulders and watched as her fellow federal workers—some laid off, others still clinging to their jobs like passengers on a listing ship—improvised a scene.
3 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
DEPT. OF MASKED MEN: FOUL BALL
Since President Trump took office, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement have swarmed areas with immigrant populations, questioning people and making arrests. They’ve patrolled near schools and raided a homeless shelter. They arrested a four-year-old, two students of New York City public schools, and an Army veteran who happened to be Latino. Recently, masked and armed ICE agents descended on a baseball field in Riverside Park. They questioned a dozen or so eleven-to fourteen-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, and left only after a confrontation with their coach, Youman Wilder, whom they threatened with arrest. He said, “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
3 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
THE SECRET KEEPERS
The C.I.A. is accustomed to threats—but now they're coming from above.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
THE WHISKER WARS
The social history of a peculiar American fascination.
9 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
Stephen Colbert on Kenneth Tynan's "Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale"
When Mr. Remnick asked me to write a seven-hundred-and-twenty-five-word Take on Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 Profile of Johnny Carson, I said, “My honor, cher David.” (New Yorker editors love when you use foreign words. They’re weak for anything italicized. Anything.) “I write a late-night show. I eat seven hundred words for breakfast.” In actuality, I host a late-night show and have a low-glycemic smoothie for breakfast. My doctor says the words were clogging my carotid, and, after reading “Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale,” I need a statin.
3 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
MAKE IT NEW: SHED LIFE
The golden age of the shed—New York City’s outdoor-dining boom, circa summer, 2020—produced some impressive structures. At Carbone, the fancy Italian place, people ate rigatoni in a cabin made of navy-blue wood siding with red velvet curtains.
3 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT - THE EPSTEIN PROBLEM
4 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
GOINGS ON
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.
3 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
THE CASE FOR LUNCH
Notes on an underappreciated meal.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
JERSEY BOY
The sleazy, vaguely unsettling sounds of Mk.gee.
5 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
THE COUNTERFEITERS
What I inherited from my criminal great-grandparents.
10+ min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
SERVE AND FOLLY
The annual British yearning for a homegrown Wimbledon champion.
10+ min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
Paige Williams on Marquis James's Preview of the Scopes Monkey Trial
One of the first New Yorker writers hired by Harold Ross, the founding editor, was Marquis James. The men were good friends whose wives were also good friends; the couples vacationed together. James's début feature ran in the second issue, in February, 1925. I could have written this piece about that piece, a Profile of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a child of Theodore Roosevelt, based on the following passage alone: “She knows men, measures and motives; has an understanding grasp of their changes. That's all there is to what is grandiosely known as ‘public affairs.”
2 min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
FORTRESS OF SYNERGY
\"Superman.\"
6 min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
ESCAPE ROUTE
Geoff Dyer tracks the comic confusions of a working-class British upbringing.
10+ min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
THE NEXT WAR
Is the U.S. ready for the future of combat?
10+ min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
LOSING LONELINESS
In the age of A.I., you never have to feel lonely again. That's not necessarily a good thing.
10+ min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
BAGGAGE CHECK
“Too Much,” on Netflix.
5 min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
FAMILY PRACTICE
A pediatrician’s search for redemption.
10+ min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
NATURAL HISTORY
He walked out of the precinct and wondered immediately what time it was.
10+ min |
July 21, 2025
The New Yorker
THE DIARY OF ANNA FRANCO
Today was so stressful.
4 min |