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Seeing It All Hang Out at the Fringe

Twenty-odd shows from Edinburgh’s annual avant-garde rumspringa. #magazinethetheatre Read full article on The New Yorker →

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“Motherji,” by Akhil Sharma

Radha had always believed that the world was evil and people malicious. But her sense of evil had been that of an ordinary person. #booksflashfiction Read ful...

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Remembering Dolly Parton

The New Yorker’s critics take stock of the star’s life and legacy. #podcastcriticsatlarge Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair

Olivia Rodrigo’s daylong, woman-led event felt at times like any other corporate music festival. But, if music is the measure, it was up to something stunning....

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Carrying Water for the President

Tech titans are all over the map. #cartoonsblittskvetchbook #cultureculturedesk #humor Read full article on The New Yorker →

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The Best Books of 2026 So Far

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. #booksunderreview #books Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 2nd

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. #cartoonsdailycartoon #humor Read full article on The New Yorker →

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The New Yorker Festival Releases Its Full 2026 Lineup

Tickets are now on sale, with events taking place October 23rd through the 25th and featuring leading figures from the worlds of politics, literature, entertain...

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Five Great Campus Novels

Our critic’s picks for going back to school. Plus: an Edith Wharton novella for a last gasp of the season. #bookswhatwerereading Read full article on The New...

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Literature Is Having a Rave

A new run of books embrace the literary potential of underground electronic music. #booksunderreview Read full article on The New Yorker →

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The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop

Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials? #cultureinfinitescroll Read full article...

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“Days and Nights in the Forest” Emerges from the Shadows

This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about four middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a teeming panorama of social divisions and ine...

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 1st

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. #cartoonsdailycartoon #humor Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. #podcastfictionpodcast Re...

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Seven Steps to Financial Success, According to a Guy Who Won a Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Against the Circus

You can optimize your chances by insuring that you’re in the best possible position to get whacked in the face by wealth and prosperity. #humorshoutsmurmurs #h...

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George W. Bush’s Code of Silence

He lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump? #newsessay...

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Was “Defund the Police” Crazy?

A reckoning with the “woke” years. #newsthelede Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 31st

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. #cartoonsdailycartoon #humor Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Briefly Noted Book Reviews

“The Black Shield,” “Endless Endings,” “Solstice,” and “I Was Bonnie & Clyde.” #magazinebooks Read full article on The New Yorker →

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“Worst,” by Dorothea Lasky

“I am the worst kind of person.” #magazinepoems Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Hisham Matar on the Outsider in London

The author discusses his story “New Shoes.” #booksthisweekinfiction Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Hisham Matar Reads “New Shoes”

The author reads his story from the September 14, 2026, issue of the magazine. #podcastthewritersvoice Read full article on The New Yorker →

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“New Shoes,” by Hisham Matar

My life in London, the life I had cobbled together with the barest of routines, grew thin and unconvincing. It now seldom felt real. #magazinefiction Read ful...

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A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation

Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention. #newsthelede Re...

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“Ode to Being Born with Teeth and Sharpening Them Every Day,” by Barbara Hamby

“If you like surprises, being born has to be the best.” #magazinepoems Read full article on The New Yorker →

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9/11 at Twenty-Five

A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life. #magazinecomment #newsthelede Read fu...

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Helen Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze

A food critic answers readers’ questions about a citrus-related relationship dispute and restaurant birthday dinners. #culturethefoodscene Read full article o...

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The Anti-A.I.-Ad Ad Campaign

The comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross have been putting up posters for fake tech products across the city, including a wearable grandpa, underwear that th...

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The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans

There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender. #cul...

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A College Caught in the Middle of America’s Football Obsession

Oberlin’s football team was winless last season, sparking discourse over whether anyone at the small liberal-arts school should care. #culturethelede Read ful...

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How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles

Jerry Hsu captures the city’s manic extremes, with photographs of overturned cars, collisions, and a bank building ablaze. #culturephotobooth Read full articl...

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The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home

It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a touch of kindness from the...

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The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond

The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely, knowing that the intervi...

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Why Is Donald Trump Picking a Fight with Canada?

How the President’s instinct for escalation is costing him politically. #podcastthepoliticalscenepodcast Read full article on The New Yorker →

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The Path to the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial

Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the c...

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Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Americans in a Time of Peril

The writer, who recently released a new novel, speaks with The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix about the meaning of home in an era when Haitian Americans are targ...

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Sarah Longwell, a Former Republican, on “How to Eat an Elephant”

Working with focus groups, Longwell keeps a bead on what voters are really thinking, and how to combat Trumpism. She presents the playbook to the New Yorker sta...

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 4th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. #cartoonsdailycartoon #humor Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Jocelyn Bioh’s “Mean Girls” at a Ghana Beauty Pageant

Also: Harry Styles takes up residence at M.S.G., “Paranormal Activity” terrifies Broadway, Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson star in a new movie, and more. #cult...

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Donald Trump’s Capital Makeover

A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image. #magazineletterfromwashington Re...

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The Principled Cynicism of “By Any Means”

Elegance Bratton’s second feature, starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in the n...

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Have We Destroyed Childhood?

We blame smartphones—but the problem might be us. #cultureopenquestions Read full article on The New Yorker →

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How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court

In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks. #newsthelede Read full articl...

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The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”

In Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, violent small-town comedy and big-budget Hollywood imperialism collide. #magazinethecurrentcinema Read full article on The New...

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East Hampton’s Secret Garden of Unusual Trees

During a residency at the Folly Tree Arboretum, I encountered significant specimens including a clone of a “tree” that went to the moon on Apollo 14. #humorske...

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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come. #culturelifeandletters Read full article o...

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 3rd

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. #cartoonsdailycartoon #humor Read full article on The New Yorker →

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Welcome to Career Day

I spend two-ish hours messing around with an A.I. chatbot, as per the company’s new mandate, teaching it how to do my job so that it can replace me. Any questio...

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Trump’s Neocolonialism Will Backfire

The President is touting his big Venezuelan oil deal, but his interventions abroad are stirring anger and having unintended consequences. #newsglobalnotes Rea...

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Reporting the Big World

Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore? #culturelifeandletters Read full article...

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