World
When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills
Bernie Sanders was just a skinny, gap-toothed kid from Brooklyn in the autumn of 1953, when Vermont opened an information bureau at 1268 Avenue of the Americas, next door...
What Makes a Good Mother?
It is only in the modern era that women’s own experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering begins to be widely recorded, and here, too, there is an omnipresent sense...
Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies
The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing to the role of a woman possessed by...
Acts of Self-Destruction
Friedkin’s film sucked much of the humor and twisted romance from the play, I realized, treating it as straight horror. Although I have some issues with the latest interpretation,...
Bob Weir’s Feral Radiance
Although Weir was a serious person it was easy to make him laugh. He made you feel when you were with him that he had no other place to...
Erich von Stroheim’s Spectacular Art Is Back
As Steuben, Stroheim assumed a military bearing and status that he’d never approached in his actual Army days. The performance style that he thereby invented set the mold for...
Zach Bryan’s Stubborn, Shaggy New Album
In 2019, it seemed possible that the next big country star would be a Navy aviation ordnanceman from Oklahoma named Zach Bryan, who recorded scruffy videos of himself hollering...
Reading for the New Year: Part Three
To start the New Year, New Yorker writers have been looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in 2025 to identify...
“The Chronology of Water” Is an Extraordinary Directorial Début
But get away Lidia does, and, finally free of paternal authority, she’s out of control: drinking and taking drugs, partying hard, flunking out, targeting a gentle guitar-playing boy named...
The New York Shooting That Defined an Era
“Death Wish” was the dark New York story of its era—an anti-“Annie Hall” for the armed and aggrieved. An architect sees his wife killed and his daughter raped by...
