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Barry Blitt’s “Pulling the Plug”
For the cover of the September 28, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays the rising fears surrounding the exponential growth of A.I. and the possibility of its being...
Waiting for Jay-Z
This last concert of the Yankee Stadium run promised to be a career-spanning revue—an enticing pitch, as the later albums have felt more like exercises in brand management. “Magna...
Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur
Horgan spoke to me over Zoom from her London home, where she lives with her dog and a couple of “chatty” cats; in keeping with her autobiographical style, she...
The Thomas and Kavanaugh Hearings Restaged as a Theatre of Fact
Black man, white man, Black woman, white woman: the cardinal points of our racial and sexual situation. None of the principals in this production can “talk” to one another,...
Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
Which brings me back to the gym. No one does a bench press because they expect to spend their life pushing bars off of their chests. The bench press...
Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Grandmaster Flash has been...
A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good
Longwell’s signature research tool is the focus group, the centerpiece of her popular podcast from the Bulwark, the news-and-opinion website she co-founded for fellow anti-Trump conservatives. In 2016, Longwell...
The New Yorker’s Coverage of the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Nominees
All week, The New Yorker has been exclusively announcing the National Book Award longlists. Today, the fiction list has arrived. It includes many works that our critics have commented...
Emily St. John Mandel’s Fluid New Novel
Emily St. John Mandel’s novels remind me of swimming pools. Her seven works of fiction—which include “The Glass Hotel,” “Sea of Tranquility,” and “Station Eleven,” the 2014 pandemic novel...
The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy
Part of the reason that viability is so difficult to determine comes down to arbitrary rules. For example, guidelines in the U.S. and the U.K. define one of the...