The New Yorker
LOVE FOR SALE
When America tried to get on top of the sex trade.
10+ min |
December 16, 2024
The New Yorker
THE CHOOSING ONES
The saga of my Jewish conversion began twenty-five years ago, when I got engaged to my first husband.
10+ min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
CHOPPED AND STEWED
The other day, at a Nigerian restaurant called Safari, in Houston, Texas, I peeled back the plastic wrap on a ball of fufu, a staple across West Africa.
7 min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
NO WAY BACK
The resurgence, in the past decade, of Paul Schrader as one of the most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary movie directors is part of a bigger trend: the self-reinvention of Hollywood auteurs as independent filmmakers.
6 min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
ENEMY OF THE STATE
Javier Milei's plan to remake Argentina begins with waging war on the government.
10+ min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
HELLO, HEARTBREAK
Heartbreak cures are as old as time, or at least as old as the Common Era.
10+ min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
OBSCURE FAMILIAL RELATIONS, EXPLAINED FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Children who share only one parent are half siblings. Children who have been bisected via a tragic logging accident are also half siblings, but in a different way.
2 min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
PRIMORDIAL SORROW
\"All Life Long,\" the title of the most recent album by the composer and organist Kali Malone, is taken from a poem by the British Symbolist author Arthur Symons: \"The heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the sea,/ All life long crying without avail,/As the water all night long is crying to me.\"
6 min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
TOUCH WOOD
What do people do all day? My daughter loves to read Richard Scarry's book of that title, though she generally skips ahead to the hospital pages.
10+ min |
December 09, 2024
The New Yorker
NOTE TO SELVES
The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities-roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents make occasional appearances.
10+ min |
December 09, 2024
Vanity Fair US
STAR STRUCK Hollywood 2025
It's the MOST AUDACIOUS ACTORS who POWER HOLLYWOOD and THRILL AUDIENCES. VF TOASTS 12 of the INDUSTRY'S BRIGHTEST LIGHTS
8 min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
MC QUEEN'S GAMBIT
IS STEVE MCQUEEN A HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR WITH A THRIVING FINE ARTS PRACTICE OR A THRIVING FINE ARTIST WITH AN IMPECCABLE HOLLYWOOD STREAK? HIS WORLD WAR II EPIC, BLITZ, IS ANOTHER VIRTUOSO WORK IN A CAREER FULL OF THEM
10+ min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
MURDER AT HAMMERSMITH FARM
Two months before his assassination, JOHN and JACKIE KENNEDY wrote, directed, and acted in a James Bondinspired home movie in which the president was \"killed.\" VF reveals the story behind the spoof, along with neverbefore-seen footage from that day
10+ min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
ALL HER OWN
Joan Didion's marriage was one of the most revered in American letters. But before there was John Gregory Dunne, there was Noel Parmentel Jr.-the man who broke her heart. As LILI ANOLIK reveals in this excerpt from Didion and Babitz, the devastation lasted a lifetime
10+ min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Tie That BLINDS
When the news broke that Matthew Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, would face up to 15 years in prison for illegally procuring the ketamine that led to the actor’s death, a shudder went through assistants all over the entertainment industry.
9 min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
All the Pretty Little Horses
When he was 42, CORMAC MCCARTHY fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. AUGUSTA BRITT would go on to become one of the most significant-and secretinspirations in literary history, giving life to dozens of McCarthy's characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films. For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her identity and her story. Until now
10+ min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
KAREN READ'S FIGHT
Prosecuted for her police officer boyfriend's mysterious death in a wild case that ended in a mistrial, the former equity analyst has maintained her innocence. Moreover, she claims that law enforcement has conspired to frame her. As her retrial looms-calling into question the concept of double jeopardy-Karen Read speaks out
10+ min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Art of THE DEAL
What it took to get my movie about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn in front of an audience
6 min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
Vanity Fair US
HUGH GRANT
The star of Heretic on his dearest loves (dishonesty, his barbecue) and greatest nemeses (scissors, Colin Firth)
1 min |
The Hollywood Issue 2025
The New Yorker
NOW YOU SEE ME
John Singer Sargent's strange, slippery portraits of an art dealer's family.
10+ min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
WILD SIDE
Is Lake Tahoe's bear boom getting out of hand?
10+ min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
ANTI HEROES
\"The Franchise,\" on HBO.
5 min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
LET'S MAKE A DEAL
\"Death Becomes Her\" and \"Burnout Paradise.\"
5 min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
THE TEXAS EXODUS
Amid stringent abortion laws, ob-gyns are fleeing the state.
10+ min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
GETTING A GRIP
Robots learn to use their hands.
10+ min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
PARIS FRIEND - SHUANG XUETAO
Xiaoguo had a terror of thirst, so he kept a glass of water on the table beside his hospital bed. As soon as it was empty, he asked me to refill it. I wanted to warn him that this was unhealthy - guzzling water all night long puts pressure on the kidneys, and pissing that much couldn't be good for his injury. He was tall, though, so I decided his insides could probably cope.
10+ min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
FELLOW-TRAVELLERS
The surprisingly sunny origins of the Frankfurt School.
10+ min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
BADDIE ISSUES
\"Wicked\" and \"Gladiator II.\"
6 min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
WITHHOLDING SEX FROM MY WIFE
In the wake of [the] election, progressive women, who are outraged over Donald Trump's victory at the ballot box, have taken to social media with public, vengeful vows of chastity. - The Free Press.
4 min |
December 02, 2024
The New Yorker
DEADLINE EXTENSION
Old age, reborn.
10+ min |