The New Yorker
A LONG WAY HOME
Ordinarily, I hate staying at someone's house, but when Hugh and I visited his friend Mary in Maine we had no other choice.
10+ min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
THIS ELECTION JUST PROVES WHAT I ALREADY BELIEVED
I hate to say I told you so, but here we are. Kamala Harris’s loss will go down in history as a catastrophe that could have easily been avoided if more people had thought whatever I happen to think.
2 min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
HOLD YOUR TONGUE
Can the world's most populous country protect its languages?
10+ min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
GAINING CONTROL
The frenemies who fought to bring contraception to this country.
10+ min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
REBELS WITH A CAUSE
In the new FX/Hulu series “Say Nothing,” life as an armed revolutionary during the Troubles has—at least at first—an air of glamour.
5 min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
GET IT TOGETHER
In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular appearances, usually at the instigation of a demagogue, loudly demanding to be placated with free food and entertainment (“bread and circuses”), and, though they don’t get to rule, they sometimes get to choose who will.
10+ min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
AGAINST THE CURRENT
\"Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,\" at Soho Rep, and \"Gatz,\" at the Public.
5 min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
METAMORPHOSIS
The director Marielle Heller explores the feral side of child rearing.
10+ min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
THE BIG SPIN
A district attorney's office investigates how its prosecutors picked death-penalty juries.
10+ min |
November 25, 2024
The New Yorker
COLLISION COURSE
In Devika Rege’ first novel, India enters a troubling new era.
8 min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
YULE RULES
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point.”
6 min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
REPRISE
Reckoning with Donald Trump's return to power.
10 min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
WHAT'S YOUR PARENTING-FAILURE STYLE?
Whether you’re horrifying your teen with nauseating sex-ed analogies or watching TikToks while your toddler eats a bagel from the subway floor, face it: you’re flailing in the vast chasm of your child’s relentless needs.
2 min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
COLOR INSTINCT
Jadé Fadojutimi, a British painter, sees the world through a prism.
10+ min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
THE FAMILY PLAN
The pro-life movement’ new playbook.
10+ min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
NEW CHAPTER
Is the twentieth-century novel a genre unto itself?
10+ min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
STUCK ON YOU
Pain and pleasure at a tattoo convention.
10+ min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
HEAVY SNOW HAN KANG
Kyungha-ya. That was the entirety of Inseon’s message: my name.
10+ min |
November 18, 2024
The New Yorker
CONNOISSEUR OF CHAOS
The masterly musical as mblages of Charles Ives
5 min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
THE HONEST ISLAND GREG JACKSON
Craint did not know when he had come to the island or why he had come.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
THE HOME FRONT
Some Americans are preparing for a second civil war.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
SYRIA'S EMPIRE OF SPEED
Bashar al-Assad's regime is now a narco-state reliant on sales of amphetamines.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
THE SHIPWRECK DETECTIVE
Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure-without leaving dry land.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
THE ARTIFICIAL STATE
A different kind of machine politics.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
LIFE ADVICE WITH ANIMAL ANALOGIES
Go with the flow like a dead fish.
2 min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS
How the Brothers Grimm sought to awaken a nation.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
TUCKER EVERLASTING
Trump's favorite pundit takes his show on the road.
10+ min |
November 11, 2024
The New Yorker
The Puppet Masters - Compulsion, complicity, and the art of Bunraku.
The National Bunraku Theatre, in New York recently for the first time in more than thirty years, presented an evening of suicides. The performance, at the Japan Society, consisted of excerpts from two of the company’s most celebrated productions. In the Fire Watchtower scene from “The Greengrocer’s Daughter,” by Suga Sensuke and Matsuda Wakichi, from 1773, the titular character sacrifices herself to save a temple page boy she loves. In a scene from “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki,” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, from 1703, two lovers are driven to take their own lives. Both plays were inspired by real events, and Chikamatsu’s was followed by a wave of double suicides that led to a ban on further performances. This mirroring of life and art is all the more astonishing given the fact that the actors are not people but puppets.
6 min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
TAKE ME HOME
The filmmaker Mati Diop turns her gaze on plundered art.
10+ min |
November 04, 2024
The New Yorker
THE BIG DEAL
Joe Biden's economic policies are starting to transform America. Will anyone notice?
10+ min |