The New Yorker
BAD DADS
\"Sentimental Value,\" \"Jay Kelly.\"
6 min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
YOUTHFUL CONVICTIONS
At ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley still sound vital.
5 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Ed Caesar on Nick Paumgarten's "Up and Then Down"
The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten’s life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word:
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
TRANSITIONS
A father reckons with his child's transformation, and with his own.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
TABLEAU VIVANT
The surprising endurance of Martha Stewart's \"Entertaining.\"
7 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
MISSING MOLLUSKS DEPT NATURAL RECRUIT
A fleet of kayaks left the south shore of Staten Island recently in search of oysters. Their destinations were a series of breakwaters a few hundred yards offshore.
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
THE BOARDS THERE SHE IS
Doors open when you're Miss America. For instance, did you know that the famously hundred-and-twofloor Empire State Building actually has a not so famous hundred-and-third?
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Pam Tanowitz's Pastoral, Ailey Does Joni Mitchell
In the dreary month of January, summer makes a brief but welcome appearance via Pam Tanowitz’s “Pastoral” (Rose Theatre; Jan. 11-13). It’s a bucolic work, a peaceable kingdom of serene, sometimes quirky dances, set within a landscape of vibrantly colored fabric panels by the artist Sarah Crowner. Dancers move with bracing clarity as Beethoven's “Pastoral” Symphony wafts across Caroline Shaw’s musical collage, which also suggests the buzzing of insects, bird calls, rain.
1 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
A Shakespeare Tale, a Ping-Pong Champ
There will be music in the frosty air, starting with songs by Stephen Schwartz in Wicked: For Good (Nov. 24), the sequel to last year’s Wicked:
2 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Tallis Scholars Mass, Star Pianists
England, the insult goes, is “a land without music.” Of course, where there are people, there is music—but it’s true that, for a century or two, English composers played mostly in the minor leagues. New York Philharmonic, conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, at David Geffen Hall, showcases two works, both from 1910, that helped to change that.
1 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Lorde, Clipse, Sudan Archives
There's a little something for everyone sprinkled across this winter's slate of shows in contemporary music. Those looking for ambience should catch the sound-design pioneer Suzanne Ciani at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity, where the accomplished composer will improvise on her modular synthesizer inside the grand cathedral (Dec. 6).
2 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
OPEN MIND
The case that A.I. is thinking.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
REALITY SHOW
\"Little Bear Ridge Road\" comes to Broadway.
5 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
LAST HARVEST
Georgi Gospodinov's new novel probes what dies when your father does.
8 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Mozart's Treasures, Indigenous Painting
This season, several storied institutions are looking toward fashion for a winter pick-me-up.
2 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
THE DOCTOR'S PLAN
My plan worked. A liquid injected into the veins of children—yes, children, unwilling, screaming, crying children—to prevent them from contracting communicable diseases. Hate me if you want to. I never asked for your forgiveness. When I was just a boy, I watched my parents die before my eyes. Polio. I vowed to get my revenge. And I didn't care who I helped or how many lives I saved along the way.
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
HEART TO HEART
Joachim Trier's approach to directing is as empathic as his films.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
BLING DEPT.THE MOBSTER ON THE CEILING
The theft of two tiaras and a crown, among other jewels, from the Louvre last month got some Brooklynites recalling the time, almost seventy-five years ago, when two gem-encrusted crowns were swiped right off the heads of the baby Jesus and his mother in an Italian Renaissance-style basilica in Dyker Heights.
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
CAGE MATCH
How forty-three monkeys united animal-rights activists and the right.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
THE PLAYER KING
Anthony Hopkins looks back.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
MOTHER OF MEN LAUREN GROFF
There are men in my house, too many men, I am being driven mad by the men who are always in my house.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Inside the data centers that train A.I. and drain the electrical grid.
10+ min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
PHANTASIA
Some people can see mental images, some can't. The consequences are profound.
10+ min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
AMERICAN FREQUENCIES
Presidential communication and the problem of precedent.
10+ min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
THE NATURAL
Jennifer Lawrence goes dark.
10+ min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
JUST MISUNDERSTOOD
How did monsters get so awfully nice?
10+ min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The surprise and shock that so many people have registered at the photographs of Donald Trump's destruction of the East Wing of the White House—soon to be replaced by his own ostentatious and overscaled ballroom—is itself, in a way, surprising and shocking.
10+ min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
PERFORMANCE ART
But there are what he [the artist Terence Koh] calls his “secret performances.” . . . Examples include the time in 2009 when he had the activist and retired actress Bianca Jagger wrap him in bedsheets and push his corpselike form down the stairs of the art critic Sydney Picasso’s apartment building in Paris. -T Magazine, September 28, 2025.
2 min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Rebecca West's "The Crown Versus William Joyce"
The badge of maturity, for a literary genre, is the anxiety of influence the compulsion felt by an aspiring writer to pee upon a fire hydrant that an earlier eminence once peed upon with distinction.
3 min |
November 03, 2025
The New Yorker
Outcomes
On his first day back at Winslow College's climbing wall after the long winter break, Nolan checks the belay sign-up sheet and sees that someone named Heidi Lane has written her name in the seven-o'clock slot every weeknight for the entire month of January.
10+ min |