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The New Yorker
Amanda Petrusich on Katy Grannan's Photograph of Taylor Swift
There’s something uncanny about this still and stunning portrait of a twenty-one-year-old Taylor Swift, shot by Katy Grannan for Lizzie Widdicombe’s Profile of the singer, in 2011.
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
DEAL-BREAKER
Pam is seeing someone, but she’s not talking about it.
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
THE OTHER BOOMERS
Kathryn Bigelow, the director, and Alexandra Bell, the arms-control expert, are both nuclear-attack-submarine literate. Bigelow—whose new Netflix film, “A House of Dynamite,” imagines the U.S. government’s response to an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) eighteen minutes from impact—shot part of her 2002 submarine film, entitled “K-19:
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
THE MUSICAL LIFE BROADWAY BABY
At Joe’s Pizza on Carmine Street, Marc Shaiman, the celebrated composer and lyricist, dropped his slice on the floor. “Ugh, it’s the Shaiman vortex,” he said. “Everything I come near breaks.”
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
NOTORIOUS M.T.G.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump break up over Epstein.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
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YES, AND?
How consent can—and cannot—help us have better sex.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
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LET IT BLEED
When Helen Frankenthaler remade painting.
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
THE AMERICAN POPE
How the Chicago-born Robert Prevost became Leo XIV.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
DEPT. OF RECYCLING SWIPE OUT
In 1994, when the MetroCard made Its 22, many straphangers were reluctant to say farewell to the subway token. Across the city, commuters struggled to master \"the swipe.
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Easily missed on the back side of the November ballots that brought Zohran Mamdani to Gracie Mansion was a proposal for a new map of New York City.
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
POUR ONE OUT
The quest to save wine from wildfire smoke.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
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A PLAN MADE IN HIDING
After decades in the U.S., a Mexican couple prepares to self-deport—and leave their children behind.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
BABY BLUES
\"Young Mothers.\"
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January 12, 2026
The New Yorker
FREUDIAN SLIPS
The psychology of fashion.
10+ min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
According to the New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Zohran Mamdani will not actually be the city's hundred-and-eleventh mayor, as many people have assumed. A historian named Paul Hortenstine recently came across references to a previously unrecorded mayoral term served in 1674, by one Matthias Nicolls. Consequently, on New Year's Day, after Mamdani places his right hand on the Quran and is sworn in at City Hall, he will become our hundred-and-twelfth mayor—or possibly even our hundred-and-thirty-third, based on the department's best estimates. “The numbering of New York City ‘Mayors’ has been somewhat arbitrary and inconsistent,” a department official disclosed in a blog post this month. “There may even be other missing Mayors.”
10+ min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
The New Yorker
LOOK IT UP
Is the dictionary becoming extinct?
10+ min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
The New Yorker
ON Y VA
\"Tartuffe\" closes out a year of Molière.
7 min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
The New Yorker
Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling's "The Great State"
During the 1959 session of the Louisiana state legislature, Governor Earl Long, the less famous younger brother of Senator Huey Long, “went off his rocker,” as the tickled writer A. J. Liebling recounted in this magazine, adding, “The papers reported that he had cursed and hollered at the legislators, saying things that so embarrassed his wife, Miz Blanche, and his relatives that they had packed him off to Texas in a National Guard plane to get his brains repaired in an asylum.”
3 min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
The New Yorker
LAST HIGHWAY
How Willie Nelson sees America.
10+ min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
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YES, BOSS
Peter Navarro, a tariff cheerleader, created the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials.
10 min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
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FOR RICHER OR POORER
Saying yes to the prenup.
10+ min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
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THE SOUND OF SILENTS
Organists continue to perform imaginative accompaniments to century-old films.
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December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
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ALPHABET SOUP
We know how to help kids with dyslexia, but often fail to. Why?
10+ min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
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THE VICTOR AND THE SPOILS
\"Marty Supreme.\"
6 min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
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The Welfare State
The world beyond the ridgetop was a wall of gray cloud.
10+ min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
The New Yorker
PREMEDITATED
Tipped for the Oscars, “Hamnet” was released on November 26th. When the movie showed at film festivals, the director, Chloé Zhao, invited the audience to join her in an act of collective meditation before the screening. Among her instructions: “Close your eyes,” “Feel your own weight,” “Take deep breaths with sound,” “Sigh out loud,” and “Gently say to yourself, “This is my heart. These are our hearts.”
3 min |
December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026
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
Portraits of Everyday Life in Greenland
The thirty-six-year-old Greenlandic photographer Inuuteq Storch didn't know much about Inuit culture growing up. In school, for instance, he was taught about ancient Greek deities, but there was no talk of a native pantheon of gods
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December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
SELECTIVE MEMORY
\"Marjorie Prime\" and \"Anna Christie.\"
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December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
SPLIT TAKE
\"Is This Thing On?\"
6 min |