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Apr 1, 2002 - “Cutting Off Oscar” by Tad Friend was published in the print edition of the April 8, 2002, issue of The New Yorker.

Mar 2, 2026 - “The War Within a War,” by Wil Haygood; “The Last Kings of Hollywood,” by Paul Fischer; “The Renovation,” by Kenan Orhan; and “Simple Heart,” by Cho Haejin.

Dec 8, 2025 - Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the Trump Administration’s war on birthright citizenship, and the Supreme Court case Trump v. Barbara.

New York City is a diverse, multicultural city, which leads you to follow its rhythm in a way that makes you want more of it.

Oct 3, 2011 - Bitcoin and its mysterious inventor.

Mar 2, 2026 - Jennifer Homans reviews Justin Peck’s “The Wind-Up,” set to the first movement of Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony, and Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Naked King,” which...

Jun 29, 2020 - “Humankind,” “Scandinavian Noir,” “Blue Ticket,” and “Seeing the Body.”

The ultimate smackdown: Jill Abramson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Joyce Carol Oates are among those debating cats versus dogs at the New Yorker Festival.

Aug 7, 2025 - Flash Fiction by D. S. Waldman: Could be half my life, I said, could be all of it. Could be a third, Gabby said.

Fascinating reporting but an overly sympathetic portrayal

Mar 4, 2013 - Daydreaming serves an incredibly important purpose for those who are incarcerated in prisons or who work at T.G.I. Friday’s. It allows them to escape, so…

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Nov 9, 1992 - “Fantasy Rose” by Allegra Goodman was published in the print edition of the November 16, 1992, issue of The New Yorker.

Aug 31, 2021 - Fiction by Daniyal Mueenuddin: “It’s time to turn up the heat a little bit more. My boys are getting bored, and that’s not good for their appetite or...

Nov 25, 2025 - In Snigdha Kapoor’s short film, an Indian preteen’s queerness is treated as something to be ritually cleansed—with unpredictable results.

Apr 4, 2023 - Jay Caspian Kang writes about two bills proposed in Utah that restrict children’s access to social media but may be a violation of the First Amendment.

Magazine Has Four Pages MIssing

A far-right blogger trolls the White House press corps.

Lawsuits and years of infighting have dramatically weakened the group, but the Republican Party has taken up its agenda on guns with no external pressure.

Jan 12, 2026 - The artist camps out in a British warehouse to sign more than eight hundred works, Anna Russell writes. Will chatting about Zohran Mamdani help pass the time?

Nov 6, 2025 - The actor, writer, and comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

Jan 29, 2025 - Azadeh Navai’s short film follows a rebellious girl who asks questions about when and why she needs to wear a hijab.

Dec 5, 2023 - Oriana van Praag on “Direcciones,” a short film by María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse, about how addresses in Costa Rica are steeped in history and...

Nov 22, 2025 - Inkoo Kang reviews the new Apple TV sci-fi drama from Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad,” which posits an end-of-humanity scenario that everyone...

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Dec 8, 2025 - The travails of living in New York City: filming on location as experienced by the cartoonist—and later scriptwriter—Adrian Tomine.

Dec 26, 2025 - A free online puzzle published every weekday, with difficulty levels ranging from easy to hard, and answers and clues that exhibit the wit and intelligence of...

Nov 29, 2021 - As monopolies and other large companies gain increasing control of our daily lives, Khan is Joe Biden’s pick to do something about it, Sheelah Kolhatkar...

Social dynamics of the crossworld, a crossword meet-cute, and other ways to puzzle with friends while social distancing.

Celebrate the spring aesthetic with iconic New Yorker covers. From vibrant springtime scenes to classic artistry, explore the charm of seasonal illustrations.

Jun 17, 2025 - A review of the book by the controversial author of “A Million Little Pieces,” who drew a rebuke from Oprah on her TV show after he appeared on her book...

Dec 28, 2025 - Jack Herrera profiles the Mexican artist Natalia Lafourcade, whose albums include “Cancionera,” “Hasta la raíz,” and “De Todas las Flores.”

Nov 24, 2014 - Emily Eakin reports on fecal transplantation, in which a healthy person’s gut microbes are transferred to a sick person’s colon.

Mar 2, 2026 - The director of “It Was Just an Accident” will face arrest upon his return to Iran after the Oscars. But for now he’s looking for a new pair of shades, H. C....

Nov 17, 2025 - The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

Casey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” which was a New York...

In "Words of the Year," Louis Menand writes about the importance of words.

May 25, 2020 - In a collective, you’re only as safe as your least-careful roommate, Michael Schulman writes.

Dec 20, 2015 - Emma Allen presents a selection of highlights from 2015’s slate of Daily Shouts and Shouts & Murmurs.

A fascinating feature reveals Bryan Goldberg's version of a "feminist" publication

Janet Groth: The Receptionist: An Education At The New Yorker

Apr 21, 2019 - Laurence Scott on the history of influence, as it’s characterized in the writings of Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, and the emergence of social-media...

Apr 15, 2024 - On the Writer’s Voice podcast, Joyce Carol Oates reads her story from the April 22 & 29, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.

Aug 14, 2025 - Flash Fiction by Jamil Jan Kochai: Arman scoffed at the idea of a life beyond death, and Dad pointed out the irony of a ghost denying the afterlife.

Dec 23, 2021 - Tavi Gevinson writes about her experience singing the songs of Stephen Sondheim in her role in the new Broadway revival of the musical “Assassins,” and...

Dec 25, 2025 - A free online puzzle published every weekday, with difficulty levels ranging from easy to hard, and answers and clues that exhibit the wit and intelligence of...

Dec 8, 2025 - Rachel Aviv on letters, journals, and tape recordings, provided by the Oliver Sacks Foundation, that illuminate the psychology and sexuality of the...

Nov 3, 2025 - Naaman Zhou on the Republican candidate for New York City mayor and his aggressive commitment to his campaign, despite his slim odds.

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Oct 1, 2025 - Kyle Chayka writes about Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification,” and about the degradation of Facebook, Twitter (X), TikTok, Uber, DoorDash, and other...

Dec 25, 2016 - President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined.

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Jan 16, 2026 - Sam Knight on Britain’s position as the U.S. and Donald Trump’s closest ally at the moment.

Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt, in der Eleganz zur Haltung wurde und Geometrie zum Ausdruck purer Raffinesse, in die schillernde Ära der 1920iger und 1930iger...

Jan 31, 2024 - Naomi Fry on Max Cohn and Ellie Sachs’s short film, “Proof of Concept,” starring Sachs, Richard Kind, and Will Janowitz.

Oct 14, 2025 - Justin Chang reviews Kathryn Bigelow’s film “A House of Dynamite,” starring Rebecca Ferguson, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee, and Idris Elba.

Sep 7, 2025 - Matthew Hutson on the significance of U.F.O.s and their place in popular culture, science, and government policies.

Mar 2, 2026 - Stephen Spencer is a college music lecturer, but his side gig is producing songs written by his three-year-old. “Apple The Stoola,” Record of the Year? John...

Jul 16, 2018 - One discipline reduces behavior to elegantly simple rules; the other wallows in our full, complex particularity. What can they learn from each other?

Oct 6, 2014 - The essay is French, but essayists are English. What can it mean?

Jun 26, 2021 - Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes about a new intelligence document that examines a hundred and forty-three sightings of “unidentified aerial phenomena”—formerly...

Dec 1, 2025 - Successful and failed assassination attempts have targeted Republican and Democratic officials, including Donald Trump; the Pennsylvania governor, Josh...

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Dec 14, 2025 - Helen Shaw on the most remarkable shows in a banner year for generation-defining performance, both uptown and downtown.

Oct 15, 2014 - The video for Pharrell Williams’s “It Girl” comes from a subculture of Japanese animation that is almost never discussed in polite society.

This month, The New Yorker ran an extraordinary 10,000-word piece by reporter Ryan Lizza detailing the climate bill's slow and inglorious failure in the U.S....

In depth discussion of the weekly New Yorker Caption Contest as well as interviews with Cartoonists and former Contest winners. Email:...

Nov 21, 2025 - Doreen St. Félix writes about “Two People Exchanging Saliva,” a black-and-white short film by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata.

Dress Like A New Yorker: when you wear so much layers that you look like a fatass

Sep 30, 2025 - On The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast, the poet Bruce Smith joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Open Letter to My Ancestors” by Mary Ruefle, and his own...

Nov 20, 2025 - Elizabeth Kolbert on the startup Stardust, a company proposing a geoengineering plan to create reflective particles that will combat the effects of global...

Mar 9, 1929 - “Among the New Books” was published in the print edition of the March 16, 1929, issue of The New Yorker.

Oct 22, 2018 - Margaret Talbot on the suppressed truth that Greek and Roman statues were often painted, and the scholars who are making a color correction.

As a third-generation New Yorker who was born, bred, and educated there, Jake Dobkin was such a fan of his hometown that he started Gothamist, a popular and...

Jan 6, 2020 - Andrea Bernstein on Jared Kushner’s family, who escaped the Nazis, lied on immigration forms, and became major Democratic donors, a history that often seems...

Jan 14, 2026 - Justin Chang reviews Cherien Dabis’s “All That’s Left of You” and Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” two films about the Palestinian...

Mar 1, 2019 - Joy Williams joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Itch,” by Don DeLillo, from a 2017 issue of the magazine.

Dec 8, 2025 - Inkoo Kang lists the year’s best series on streaming and television, such as “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” “Pluribus,” “Hacks,” “The...

E. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker who covers a range of subjects, including politics, labor, and the Koreas. Her series Deep State...

James Taylor gives Adam Gopnik a quick guitar lesson, and Lucinda Williams bares her soul to Ariel Levy.

Jan 16, 2026 - Also: Jodie Foster’s new movie, New York City Ballet’s winter season, music inspired by the poetry of the Black Arts Movement, and more.

Nov 22, 2025 - The daughter of Caroline Kennedy writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis following the birth of her daughter, and watching Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., cut...

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Jun 22, 2025 - The U.S. strikes were unprecedented, and the repercussions are impossible to predict. David Remnick reports.

Jan 1, 2026 - Neben unter anderem Fahrrädern und Regenschirmen gelten auch Raspberry Pis als gefährliche Gegenstände und sind verboten.

Feb 16, 1929 - Fiction, from 1929: “The pale young man eased himself carefully into the low chair, and rolled his head to the side, so that the cool chintz comforted his...

Reporting and commentary on the forty-fifth President.

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Dec 8, 2025 - Hannah Goldfield interviews Diljān's owners, who also own Little Flower, in Astoria—one of Zohran Mamdani's favorite cafés.

Mar 2, 2026 - Poetry by David Baker: “When it’s time, let me walk where the grey moon / is light enough to lead.”

Dec 21, 2025 - Fiction by Nell Zink: Julia had longed to be an educated mother like Vroni, but there was never a serviceable father in view, so she had limited herself to...

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When a national magazine starts its examination of southwestern Colorado "uranium widows" with a glimpse of a woman drilling for ore while clad only in...

Oct 12, 2025 - Ruth Marcus writes that the indictment of the New York attorney general serves only one fundamental interest: Donald Trump’s insatiable thirst for revenge.

Aug 3, 2024 - Jon Lee Anderson on Venezuela’s Presidential election, in which Nicolás Maduro’s claim of victory has further inflamed the nation’s contest between...

Dec 4, 2025 - “Hamnet,” a new film directed by Chloé Zhao, is a fictionalized account of how Shakespeare’s famous tragedy came to be. Is it reductive or revelatory?