The New Yorker
SUBWAY VIGILANTE
Revisiting the New York shooting that defined an era
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
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CONTAGION
A Broadway revival of Tracy Letts's “Bug.”
6 min |
January 19, 2026
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CONQUESTS
\"Magellan\" and \"The Testament of Ann Lee.\"
6 min |
January 19, 2026
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D.C. POSTCARD WATCH YOUR STEP
A complaint for negligence, recently filed in the District of Columbia, describes what it calls “The Longstanding Hole in the Sidewalk in front of the IRS building.” The document offers a capsule history of the six-inch-deep, eight-inch-wide circular void in the tax agency’s sidewalk. Around September of 2011, the hole was filled with cement. By the summer of 2015, the cement had been removed. Orange cones subsequently appeared around the hole. That November, D.C.’s Department of Transportation determined that the hole needed to be filled, “contingent upon funding and weather.” A month later, the department referred the hole-filling job to the feds. Cones remained around the hole, off and on, through 2017. Years passed. The cones disappeared, along with Presidential Administrations and the Bed Bath & Beyond franchise. The hole in the sidewalk remained.
2 min |
January 19, 2026
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BOOTS ON THE GROUND
There aren't many moments in Donald Trump's political career that could be called highlights.
4 min |
January 19, 2026
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THE PICTURES PERIOD CORRECT
When Miyako Bellizzi was designing the costumes for “Marty Supreme,” the new Josh Safdie movie, she spent a lot of time thinking about Timothée Chalamet’s underwear. His character, Marty, a Ping-Pong champ from the Lower East Side, might have worn a one-piece union suit, the conventional male undergarment of 1952, when the movie is set. But boxers and briefs were just coming into style, and although most of Marty’s shabby wardrobe was likely a few years old, Bellizzi opted to put him in the newfangled undies. She explained her logic: “It’s kind of like how our grandmothers aren’t wearing thongs, but we are.” (She added, “And, to be honest, the union suit is not the greatest look, right?”)
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
MOM AND DAD: THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Mom, Dad, thanks for being on time this year. Dad, I can see by your T-shirt that it was a challenge. So you've already exceeded expectations.
3 min |
January 19, 2026
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HERE TO THERE DEPT. V.I.P. IN CHAINS
Whatever else you think about invading a country and capturing its President, there’s no getting around the inconvenience of imprisoning Nicolás Maduro in New York City. Maduro is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, near Industry City, in Brooklyn.
3 min |
January 19, 2026
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ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY: HEY THERE!
How WhatsApp took over the global conversation.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
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POWER TRIP
As Secretary of State, Marco Rubio has become the unlikely executor of Trump's disruptive foreign policy.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
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UNDER THREAT
The Danes were America's most loyal ally. Now they feel targeted—and terrified.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
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Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote's “In Cold Blood”
In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson asked Truman Capote about capital punishment. Capote had written, in unsettling detail, about the hanging of two killers, Dale Hickock and Perry Smith. Carson said, of the death penalty, “As long as the people don't have to see it, they seem to be all for it”; if executions occurred “in the public square,” Americans might stop doing them. Capote wasn't so sure. His hands laced together professorially, he murmured, in his baby-talk drawl, “Human nature is so peculiar that, really, millions of people would watch it and get some sort of vicarious sensation.”
3 min |
January 19, 2026
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CALL OF THE WILD
When calamity strikes in America's busiest national park, who comes to the rescue?
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
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Kim's Game
It still feels strange not to start her day with the first milking.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
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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.”
3 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.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
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THE AMERICAN POPE
How the Chicago-born Robert Prevost became Leo XIV.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
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POUR ONE OUT
The quest to save wine from wildfire smoke.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
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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.
1 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
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BABY BLUES
\"Young Mothers.\"
6 min |
January 12, 2026
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DEAL-BREAKER
Pam is seeing someone, but she’s not talking about it.
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.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
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NOTORIOUS M.T.G.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump break up over Epstein.
10+ min |
January 12, 2026
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THE PUZZLE MAESTRO
For Stephen Sondheim, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as fun as writing musicals.
10+ min |
December 22, 2025
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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
The second Presidency of Donald Trump has been unprecedented in myriad ways, perhaps above all in the way that he has managed to cajole, cow, or simply command people in his Administration to carry out even his most undemocratic wishes with remarkably little dissent.
4 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
GREETINGS, FRIENDS!
As now the year two-oh-two-five, Somewhat ragged but alive, Reels and staggers to the finish, All its drawbacks can't diminish, Friends, how gladly 'tis we greet you! We aver, and do repeat, you Have our warm felicitations Full of gladsome protestations Of Christmastime regard! Though we have yet to rake the yard, Mercy! It's already snowing.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
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SELECTIVE MEMORY
\"Marjorie Prime\" and \"Anna Christie.\"
7 min |
December 22, 2025
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 |