Play Laugh Lines No. 33: On the Phone
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?...
“Something Has Come to Light,” by Miriam Toews
I trust I’ll be in Heaven when you read this, although God, in His wisdom, may have other things in store for me. Just yesterday...
The Hyped Revival of Mixed Doubles
Last year, after Carlos Alcaraz beat Miomir Kecmanović in the fourth round of the Australian Open, Jim Courier asked Alcaraz, in an on-court interview, who...
The Fiery Mania of Dijon’s “Baby”
Dijon Duenas has one of those voices that’s meant for televised singing competitions and gospel choirs, swooning ballads and achy slow jams. It preens and...
Always Inadequate | The New Yorker
In the late nineteen-sixties I lived for a year, with my then husband, in the middle of an apple orchard in northern New Mexico, some...
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
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The Curious Symbolism of J. D. Vance’s English Getaway
For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. If one lesson has emerged this travel season, it’s that...
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Petition to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has been busy during its summer break, issuing decisions on emergency petitions that have enabled President Donald Trump to gut the Department...
“An Open Heart,” by Jamil Jan Kochai
This is the seventh story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. They...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
When the Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta was going up for a promotion to full professor, in early 2023, it occurred to him that one...
The Revenge of Millennial Cringe
In the summer of 2009, a shambolic Los Angeles band called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros released a single titled “Home.” A romantic duet...
The Great Migraine Mystery | The New Yorker
Chronic headaches are an unnerving and often debilitating condition experienced by more than a billion people worldwide. Why do we know so little about them?...
Can President Trump Run a Mile?
Not to be fussy about it, but the Presidential Fitness Test, which Donald Trump plans to reinstate in schools, could use some shaping up of...
Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air
That Donald Trump would end up shouting from the rooftops of Washington is not, in and of itself, all that surprising; that he did so...
Can the Courts Stop Trump’s Tariffs?
“They want the madness to stop.” The court case challenging Trump’s tariff chaos. Plus: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Donald Trump in February. Photograph...
André Aciman on Reading—and Misreading—Emotions
Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “Room on the Sea,” picks apart the intricacies of how people comprehend the feelings...
How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza
In July sixty-three people, including more than twenty children, died of starvation in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. More have been dying...
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 5th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings....
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 4th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings....
The Politics of Fear | The New Yorker
The young Donald Trump was the Nelson Muntz of Jamaica Estates. (Or was he its Draco Malfoy? Scholars will debate such questions for generations.) In...