The New Yorker
THE MESSENGER
The lives and loves of James Baldwin.
10+ min |
August 18, 2025
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THE LAST INDIE ROCK STAR
How Mac DeMarco got so popular.
10+ min |
August 18, 2025
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COMING OF AGE
One of the world's rarest diseases causes rapid, brutal aging. Can it be stopped?
10+ min |
August 18, 2025
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THE NUMBER
How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?
10+ min |
August 18, 2025
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THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The Texas legislature meets every Two years for a hundred and forty days, but there's an old joke that the state's governors, who never object to less legislative deliberation, would prefer that it meet for two days every hundred and forty years.
4 min |
August 18, 2025
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SEEING RED
Conservatism onscreen in 2025.
7 min |
August 18, 2025
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THE CURSE OF HORROR
“Weapons” and “Harvest.”
6 min |
August 18, 2025
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A SCREAMING SKULL
The science of headaches.
10+ min |
August 18, 2025
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CITY OF LUCK
Four ways New Yorkers have gambled.
10+ min |
August 11, 2025
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ON THE WATER POWER TRIP
One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island. It was just after 7 A.M.—the first run of the day. But, for the boat, it was almost sunset. “She’s our tether,” a lightly bearded passenger named Sebastian Coss said. Coss, a former Governors Island staffer, was referring to the ferry, whose official name is the Lt. Samuel S. Coursen.
3 min |
August 11, 2025
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SPF Nostalgia
Sunscreen, as a consumer good, tends to fall into the gloppy gray area between need and want. We are all aware that the sun, as dazzling and mood-bolstering as it may be, is an unmerciful adversary. Sustained exposure to UV radiation, the science tells us, comes with a roster of terrible potentialities, from skin cancer to cataracts to leathery wrinkles. So the need is clear; but what about the want? I have rarely stood in the sunblock aisle of a drugstore and found myself overwhelmed with desire. My concerns are practical: I am pale and quick to crisp. Give me high SPF, at a reasonably low price, and I'm sold.
1 min |
August 11, 2025
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LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
The quest to extend the human life span and get rich doing it.
10+ min |
August 11, 2025
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HOW-TO DEPT.NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
John Wilson, the thirty-eight-year-old filmmaker, was drinking iced coffee on his home turf of Ridgewood, Queens, one recent morning. He was in Rudy’s Bakery and Cafe, a venerable neighborhood joint, feeling on edge.
3 min |
August 11, 2025
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
What James Schuyler's poetry obscured and revealed.
10+ min |
August 11, 2025
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STERLING CHARACTER
“Washington Black,” on Hulu.
5 min |
August 11, 2025
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ROMANTIQUE
A torrent of forgotten French opera on the Bru Zane label.
6 min |
August 11, 2025
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Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Thirty years after this magazine published John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” I sat in his classroom at Yale, hoping to learn how to write with even a fraction of his power. When “Hiroshima” appeared, in the August 31, 1946, issue, it was the scoop of the century—the first unvarnished account by an American reporter of the nuclear blast that obliterated the city. Hersey’s prose was spare, allowing the horror to emerge word by word. A man tried to lift a woman out of a sandpit, “but her skin slipped off in huge, glove-like pieces.” The detonation buried a woman and her infant alive: “When she had dug herself free, she had discovered that the baby was choking, its mouth full of dirt. With her little finger, she had carefully cleaned out the infant’s mouth, and for a time the child had breathed normally and seemed all right; then suddenly it had died.”
2 min |
August 11, 2025
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THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The young Donald Trump was the Nelson Muntz of Jamaica Estates. (Or was he its Draco Malfoy? Scholars will debate such questions for generations.)
4 min |
August 11, 2025
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DEATH TO THE SHAH
Nobody expected the Iranian Revolution. Not even the revolutionaries.
10+ min |
August 11, 2025
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ENEMY OF THE GOOD
The pain of perfectionism.
10+ min |
August 11, 2025
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DEPT. OF TOURISM SIGN HERE, PLEASE
The “world’s greatest pedestrian,” as an old magazine once put it, may have been a farm boy born outside Zagreb, Croatia, in 1878. He has no Wikipedia page (yet!), though in his heyday his press coverage was abundant.
3 min |
August 11, 2025
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CRIME SCENE
Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate a spectacle of intimidation.
1 min |
August 11, 2025
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THE POPE'S ASTRONOMER
The Michigan man—and meteorite expert—who runs the Vatican Observatory.
10+ min |
August 04, 2025
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The Bridge Stood Fast
She was a busy little item.
10+ min |
August 04, 2025
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ZONES OF DENIAL
Amid national euphoria after the bombing of Iran, a question lurks: What is Israel becoming?
10+ min |
August 04, 2025
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“EMMA” UNRATED
Emma Woodhouse, not quite twenty-one years of age, and blessed with a comfortable home and the expectation of an ample income in due time, found herself curious, one spring day, about a young man named Knoxville, the new neighbor across the grange. Frequenters of the village and dispensers of its gossip told extraordinary stories. Mr. Knoxville, they said, had offered the villagers on Michelmas Day last an entertainment he called a “Fire-Hose Rodeo,” in which he suspended a canvas fire hose from a thirty-foot-tall cranelike structure, climbed the structure, clutched the fire hose with both arms and legs near its nozzle, and attempted to hold on as the hose writhed and flapped about with water from the village hydrant rushing through it at extremely high pressure.
3 min |
August 04, 2025
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MIND THE GAP
What we get wrong about racial wealth disparities.
10+ min |
August 04, 2025
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ROME POSTCARD: THEY CAME, THEY SAW
The first presentation in Dolce & Gabbana's annual couture extravaganza—a display of its fine-jewelry line Alta Gioielleria—was supposed to take place on a summer's eve at Hadrian's Villa, in Tivoli, near Rome.
3 min |
August 04, 2025
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THE PICTURES: SIDEKICK
The actor Paul Walter Hauser emerged onto Fifth Avenue to pick up an açai bowl from a guy on a bicycle, then headed back up to his hotel room. He wore slippers, shorts, and a black tank top that exposed his biceps tattoos: on the right arm, his nineties comedy heroes (“Short & Stern & Farley & Varney & Carrey & Williams”); on the left, “1 Corinthians, 6:19-20” (“Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit”). “I was in a weight-loss challenge with my brother-in-law,” he explained. “We said whoever loses has to get that tattoo, which is very like my family: just hella religious and extreme decisions. I lost thirty-five pounds. Then I booked ‘I, Tonya’ and had to put it all back on.”
3 min |
August 04, 2025
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CHECK YOUR BILL
The industry lobby supporting No Tax on Tips wants server wages kept low.
10+ min |