Culture
The New Yorker
Rachel Cusk on Muriel Spark's "The House of the Famous Poet"
I never felt the influence of Muriel Spark, despite that a substantial female figure in British literature.
3 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
SURROUND SOUND BANG! BOING! SPLAT!
The actor and comedian Fred Armisen phoned the front desk from his room at a midtown hotel the other day, and asked the clerk to call right back.
3 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
PRAY, LOVE, REPEAT
The epiphanies of Elizabeth Gilbert.
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
COMMENT- THE CULTURAL TURN
In 1976, the year the United States celebrated its bicentennial, Donald J.Trump, thirty, leonine, and three-piecesuited, was chauffeured around Manhattan by an armed laid-off city cop in a silver Cadillac with \"DJT\" plates, while talking on his hot-shot car phone and making deals.
4 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
EVERYTHING NICE
How music criticism lost its edge.
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
STORYTELLING DEPT. SWEATING IT
On the hottest day in New York City in a decade, nearly a hundred people crowded into a hundred-andseventy-degree sauna in a converted brewery in Williamsburg for the first U.S. National Aufguss Competition.
3 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
ON THE HUSTINGS ZOHRAN IRL
If, as Mario Cuomo once said, you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose, then New York's mayoral race has birthed some new kind of TikTokian free verse.
3 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
PROJECT
A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
UNDER THE HAMMER
Can Sotheby's survive its billionaire owner?
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
GOING VIRAL
Patricia Lockwood's quest to salvage her mind, body, and art from sickness.
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
AFTER THE ALGORITHM
Social media has shaped culture for decades. What will A.I. do?
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
A NOVELIST IN COVERS
The mystery of Mary Petty.
4 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
THE PLAY'S THE THING
“Twelfth Night” reopens the Delacorte.
5 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
DEPT. OF REMIXES OH, SAY, CAN YOU SING?
Criteria Recording Studios, in North Miami, is where the Eagles laid down \"Hotel California,\" Bob Marley sang \"Could You Be Loved,\" and Lil Wayne mixed \"Tha Carter III.\"
3 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
VAUNTED
How this magazine gets its facts straight.
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
AUTEURS, INC.
A24 is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too.
10+ min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
Nathan Heller on E. B. White's Paragraph About the Moon Landing
The New Yorker was in its infancy when it discovered Elwyn Brooks White, who made his first contribution in 1925, the year of the magazine's founding.
3 min |
September 1- 8, 2025 (Double Issue)
The New Yorker
MONEY BALL
Will Bill Belichick—ex-N.F.L. royalty—transform the college-sports mecca of Chapel Hill?
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
THE ACHIEVER
The otherworldly ambitions of R. F. Kuang.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
SOMETHING HAS COME TO LIGHT
I trust I'll be in Heaven when you read this, although God, in His wisdom, may have other things in store for me.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
RANSOM NOTES
“Highest 2 Lowest.”
6 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
INTRAMURAL DEPT.MET VS. MET
A typical Metropolitan Opera production employs at least nine high-definition cameras for the company's \"Live in HD\" and \"On Demand\" streaming series.
3 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
MISSED CONNECTIONS
Inside the world of DNA surprises.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
THE ROOF IS ON FIRE
Was it racial capitalism that burned the Bronx?
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
ME, MYSELF, AND I
Helen Oyeyemi's novel of cognitive dissonance.
7 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
POWER PLAY
In Pam Bondi, Donald Trump has the Attorney General he always dreamed of.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
GHOULS DEPT.- FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN
The Swedish hard-rock band GHOST appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” last month. When the group formed, in Linköping, in 2006, its members were anonymous, and their devotion to Satan was deep and jubilant. On a track from GHOST’s first album, the vocalist Tobias Forge offered up a demonic mandate:
3 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
LOCAL CRITTERS DUMPSTRUCK
One humid afternoon in July, José Ramírez-Garofalo drove his large Toyota truck through the lush new hills, valleys, and meadows of Freshkills Park, a twenty-two-hundred-acre green space that the city is constructing on Staten Island.
3 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
COMMENT - BOOTS ON THE GROUND
Tourists who came to Washington, D.C., last week—tromping from one Smithsonian collection to another, eating ice cream on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—witnessed a bit of history that they surely had not anticipated: the beginning of President Trump's takeover of the District.
4 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
Adam Gopnik on Joseph Mitchell’s “Joe Gould’s Secret”
Joseph Mitchell was at once the most lucid and the most mysterious of the great mid-century New Yorker writers. Lucid in its clean, limpid minimalism, Mitchell’s prose was like a beautiful, clear river, its bottom not muddy but sparkling—sparkling with what might simply be gravel catching the light or, perhaps, diamonds worth diving for. Whichever it was, in each of his sentences there was always the mysterious sense of something more left unsaid.
3 min |