The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

The Minnesotans Who Wanted to Be in “Purple Rain”

In 1983, the photographer Tom Arndt heard about something interesting happening in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn: a casting call for Prin...

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

Is the Ticketmaster Monopoly Verdict a Mirage?

An antitrust ruling found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster had operated as a monopoly. What comes next is murkier.

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Fountain of Youth

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

Donald Trump’s Triumphal Arch and the Architecture of Autocracy

The latest in the Trumpite series of proposed oversized buildings is a so-called triumphal arch, though exactly what triumph so needs an arc...

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 21st

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

The Crossword: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Capital city divided into arrondissements: five letters.

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

What Nicolás Maduro’s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail

For the past four and a half months, Nicolás Maduro has been in a federal detention center in New York—which has also held the likes of Luig...

The New Yorker

April 21, 2026

If You Ask Me: Save the Rich White Women

Libby Gelman-Waxner, a close personal friend of Paul Rudnick, comments on everyone’s new favorite genre: Rich White Women with Emotional Pro...

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke

Several recent books with unreliable narrators give children the rare pleasure of feeling smarter than the story.

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 20th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

Play Laugh Lines No. 68: Dreams

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

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April 20, 2026

When Soul Food Met Daniel Boulud

The Harlem franchise Charles Pan-Fried Chicken invited a bunch of chefs to take over for the weekend. Up next: oxtails from Lana Lagomarsini...

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

“Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” Reviewed: The Met Rescues a Master

Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing.

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

In Defense of the Moderate

In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s exactl...

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

“Spring Comes and I Finally Throw Out the Last Flowers I Bought You,” by Ariel Francisco

“It’s been weeks. / It’s been months. It’s been seasons.”

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Monday, April 20, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

The Crossword: Monday, April 20, 2026

Hazard marked on a nautical chart: four letters.

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

Christoph Niemann’s “West Fourth”

One of the city’s most iconic courts.

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

The Apprenticeship of Linda McMahon

The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming...

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April 20, 2026

Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons April 27, 2026

Funny drawings from this week’s magazine.

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April 20, 2026

Is Dynamic Pricing Ruining the World Cup?

“It just doesn’t feel like this World Cup has the idea of making sure the fans have a good time at its center.” Soccer fans and host-city po...

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

The Anatomy of a Failure

From spray-on condoms to radioactive wrinkle cream, “Flops?!,” at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris, puts terrible inventions in the s...

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

Daphne Rubin-Vega Comes Home

Strolling through Hell’s Kitchen, the actress recalls old celeb sightings (Jane Fonda! Donald Sutherland!) on her way to playing the swagger...

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

The Popes That Trump Might’ve Liked

The President thinks Pope Leo XIV is a wuss. Meet some real tough-guy Pontiffs who might have fit the bill.

The New Yorker

April 20, 2026

Escape Rooms for Middle-Aged People

Work as a team as you and other dads chat about pro sports, college sports, kids (and their sports), while avoiding eye contact, politics, a...

The New Yorker

April 19, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Sunday, April 19, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

April 19, 2026

How the Creator of “Beef” Got from Petty Feuds to Class Warfare

The creator of “Beef,” Lee Sung Jin, discusses tailoring dialogue to Oscar Isaac and Charles Melton, the differences between Korean and Amer...

The New Yorker

April 19, 2026

Thomas McGuane Reads “Ordinary Wear and Tear”

The author reads his story from the April 27, 2026, issue of the magazine.

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April 19, 2026

“Ordinary Wear and Tear,” by Thomas McGuane

She broke Carl’s heart, he thought, but she’s not breaking mine.

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April 19, 2026

The Spurs Are the Most Exciting Team in the N.B.A.

How the San Antonio Spurs became the most exciting team in the N.B.A.

The New Yorker

April 18, 2026

“Amrum” Offers a Child’s-Eye View of Fascism in Retreat

In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous, momentous...

The New Yorker

April 18, 2026

Justin Bieber, Pop Music’s Fallen Angel, Rises Again at Coachella

Bieberchella, as it’s been called, touched on the different cycles of Justin Bieber’s life, leaving audiences with one glaring question: Wha...

The New Yorker

April 18, 2026

J. D. Vance’s Bumpy Ride

It wasn’t the first time that Trump had debased someone who serves him. It wasn’t even the first time that Vance had had to downplay a blasp...

The New Yorker

April 18, 2026

“Euphoria” ’s Descent Into Hell

The third season of “Euphoria,” delivered with a sneer and a smile, portrays a world where money is the only thing worth caring about.

The New Yorker

April 18, 2026

The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV

A “Sesame Street” writer once said it was easier to write an episode about death than one about divorce. Where are the shows that manage to...

The New Yorker

April 18, 2026

Emmet Gowin’s American Family

Emmet Gowin has travelled the world to capture aerial views of landscapes ravaged by man and nature, but his most well-known and influential...

The New Yorker

April 18, 2026

Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next?

“Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says.

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

The Art of the Fictional Pop Song

“Mother Mary” enlists the musicians and producers who shaped the sound of progressive pop in the 2010s to create its fictional music—to unca...

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

El retorno de la detención familiar

Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños inmigrantes han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica.

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera

Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician who’s running for Congress in South Texas, hopes that his status as a regional celebrity will open the door...

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death

The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a tee...

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

We Need Fewer Influencers and More Bullshit E-mail Jobs

We need Directors of Manual Automation Sales Development who roll up their sleeves and type one singular e-mail every day in which they pass...

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Friday, April 17, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear”

Kirk Jones’s bio-pic of the activist John Davidson, who has worked to destigmatize Tourette’s syndrome, is effective as an educational tool...

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

Our Longing for Inconvenience

People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws

The College of St. Joseph the Worker was founded as a proposition that lost young men shouldn’t be condemned or written off. What if, instea...

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy

“The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word.

The New Yorker

April 17, 2026

The Mini Crossword: Friday, April 17, 2026

Identical in value: five letters.