The New Yorker
THE MASTER BUILDER
Norman Foster's empire of image control.
10+ min |
January 27, 2025
The New Yorker
ON AND OFF THE AVENUE - Top of the Class
Whenever I consider “taking a class,” as a grown woman living in New York City, my mind immediately turns to “The Ladies Who Lunch,” the show-stopping number from Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical, “Company.”
2 min |
January 27, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The conflagration that became known that became known as the Bel Air Fire broke out on the morning of November 6, 1961, in a patch of brush north of Mulholland Drive. Fanned by Santa Ana winds, the flames jumped the drive, then spread toward the homes of the rich and famous.
4 min |
January 27, 2025
The New Yorker
CHARLOTTE'S PLACE
Living with the ghost of a cinéma-vérité pioneer.
10+ min |
January 27, 2025
The New Yorker
MILLENNIALS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Fame is fickle, and no one knows this better than millennials. Once, they were everywhere—in television laugh tracks for “The Big Bang Theory,” in breathless think pieces about social-media narcissism, and acting the fool in 360p YouTube comedy videos. Then—poof! Gone like yesterday’s avocado toast.
2 min |
January 27, 2025
The New Yorker
WELCOME TO OUR FIRST/FINAL BOOK CLUB!
Thank you, everyone, for coming to our first/final book-club meeting. Apologies for how long it's taken us to settle on a date, but in between work, kids, and the pretense of joining adult recreational sports leagues, it seems that we all have incredibly busy schedules.
2 min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
ODD JOBS
\"Severance,\" on Apple TV+.
5 min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
TABULA RASA
“Bleb” is worth eight points in Scrabble. Thought you might like to know. I have known the word since Wednesday, June 11, 1958, when I learned it from a company physician at Time Incorporated, in Rockefeller Center. He said I should have been hospitalized four days ago, but there was nothing much to do about it now, go back to work.
10+ min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
FEAR AND LOATHING
Are all our arguments really over who's harmed?
9 min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S CHOSEN PEOPLE
What a long-unpublished novel reveals about her magnificent obsession.
10+ min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
MING HAN ONG
Thadeus had never offered to take Johnny Mac out for a meal before. This is new, Johnny Mac says, grinning. For twenty-five years, Johnny Mac worked as a tenant-rights lawyer. He is a fount of varied and surprising knowledge.
10+ min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
THE POISON MACHINE
The talk-show host Yinon Magal's hard-line tactics.
10+ min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
MAKE HIM LAUGH
How Lorne Michaels's sensibility governs \"Saturday Night Live.\"
10+ min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
ON A MISSION FROM GOD
Inside the movement to redirect billions of taxpayer dollars to private religious schools.
10+ min |
January 20, 2025
The New Yorker
OUR NEW TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM
Our two-factor authentication system is expanding because text messages and e-mailed codes are becoming less secure. Also, we’re committed to making sure your log-in process is more of a hassle than it needs to be.
2 min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
STILL PROCESSING
Why is the American diet so deadly?
10+ min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
LOVE AND THEFT
Did a best-selling romantasy novelist steal another writer's story?
10+ min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TIKTOK TRAIL
Andean migrants draw others to the U.S. with videos depicting themselves as living the American Dream.
10+ min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
DEATH CULT
Yukio Mishima’ tortured obsessions were his making—and his unmaking.
10+ min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
MEAN TIME
“Hard Truths.”
6 min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
ENLIGHTEN ME
The secret beauty of mandalas.
6 min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
THE BEST OF THEM
His was a genius for the ages. Will Gottfried Leibniz ever get his due?
10+ min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
A TALE OF TWO DISTRICTS
Lauren Boebert and Colorado’s red-blue divide.
8 min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
Prophecy
The night of Dev’s twenty-second birthday, he was invited to sit with the elders after dinner.
7 min |
January 13, 2025
The New Yorker
YOU WON'T GET FREE OF IT
Alice Munro's partner sexually abused her daughter. The harm ran through the work and the family.
10+ mins |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
THE LEPER - LEE CHANGDONG
. . . to survive, to hang on, waiting for the new world to dawn, what can you do but become a leper nobody in the world would deign to touch? - From \"Windy Evening,\" by Kim Seong-dong.
10+ min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
\"Black Doves,\" on Netflix.
5 min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
NATURE STUDIES
Kyle Abraham's “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.”
5 min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
ART OF STONE
\"The Brutalist.\"
6 min |
December 30, 2024 - January 6, 2025
The New Yorker
THE SPOTIFY SYNDROME
What is the world's largest music-streaming platform really costing us?
10+ min |