The artist, who has died at eighty-seven, rattled standards of modernist abstraction rather as Bob Dylan did those of folk music.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-indestructible-art-of-frank-stella
During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the inscrutable former White House aide was equally inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears while testifying.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/what-is-hope-hicks-crying-about
“He’s not a serious threat in terms of being able to win,” Jane Mayer says, “but he is potentially a serious threat in being able to spoil this election for one side or the other.”
We are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. Becoming a parent showed me how tempting, and how dangerous, that exchange can be.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-pregnancy-experiment
As the country loses its local cultivars, an orchard owner and a group of biologists are working to record and map every variety of apple tree they can find in the West of England.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-english-apple-is-disappearing
The Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi follows his Oscar-winning “Drive My Car” with a hauntingly ambiguous drama of nature and capitalism in conflict.
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
In Jane Schoenbrun’s new feature, two teens search for their true selves through their shared obsession with a horror TV series.
“I’d like you to imagine my client as a family man and not a radioactive, city-stomping, enormous, mutated lizard.”
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-may-3rd-monster-trial
Also: “Uncle Vanya” and “Staff Meal” reviewed, superstar pianists at Carnegie Hall, and more.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/hilton-als-on-the-sui-generis-films-of-charles-atlas
“Well, life has a funny way of / Creeping up on you when you think / Everything’s goin’ great. / Then, boom, you fall in love with your sister.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/isnt-it-byronic
In an era of postmodern, self-referential music, there’s something refreshing about the artist’s new album—short songs, big hooks, and a celebration of delight.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/radical-optimism-dua-lipa-music-review
In the early days of the trial, lawyers on both sides have started to reveal their strategies. Will the jury believe that Trump’s sordid acquisition of the White House was political business as...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-to-defend-or-prosecute-donald-trump
Among the protesters on college campuses—and among the students who oppose them, too—there is a deepening disillusionment with American institutions.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/a-generation-of-distrust
Donald Trump has now made clear that he won’t concede if he loses the election. Believe him.
“The Boy and the Heron” finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/hayao-miyazakis-anti-comfort-movie
The new Hulu documentary charts the rise of one of the earliest reality-TV stars and the ethically queasy production choices that cemented his fame—but it’s elevated by its interest in what c...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/the-contestant-is-more-than-a-cautionary-tale
Paula Vogel’s “Mother Play,” Shaina Taub’s “Suffs,” and Amy Herzog’s “Mary Jane” strike back at the mother-as-monster dramatic trope.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/three-broadway-shows-put-motherhood-in-the-spotlight
The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-much-aid-is-actually-reaching-gazans
“Of course, the technology has the potential to destroy mankind, but, on the plus side, it could make a few lucky early investors billions.”
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-may-2nd-technology-potential
Scenes of dissent and defiance at Columbia University, where scores of students have been arrested for participating in pro-Palestine protests.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/columbias-campus-in-crisis
I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top?
The hybrid media-finance company wants to monetize investigative journalism in the public interest. Is it a visionary game changer or a cynical ploy?
Stifled by a weird and desperate present, the show finds some life in the treasures of the past.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/venice-biennale-art-review
Films like Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” and last year’s “The Iron Claw” offer Zeitgeisty takes on masculinity. Do they signal a shift in the storied genre?
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/why-the-sports-movie-always-wins
Starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, this action-comedy about a stuntman, by the stuntman turned director David Leitch, sticks its landings, but don’t expect characterization.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/the-fall-guy-movie-review
Even her opponents within the Republican Party stand to profit from the Georgia congresswoman’s latest outburst.
Because the film has so little to say, viewers are free to simply focus on the vibes—which happen to be the area where Luca Guadagnino, its director, has most distinguished himself.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/challengers-is-essentially-a-well-shot-commercial
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-revenge-of-the-home-page
“He keeps violating the gag order—have we tried offering him hush money?”
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/wednesday-may-1st-hush-money
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the stories “The Bible” and “The Stolen Pigeons,” which were published in The New Yorker in 2006 and 2007.
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/rachel-cusk-reads-marguerite-duras
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/work-sucks-what-could-salvage-it
Critics argue that “The Tortured Poets Department” sounds too much like Swift’s previous albums. Fans argue that that’s the whole point.
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, refused to “find” votes for Donald Trump in 2020. Amid threats, he says he’s ready for voters to cast their ballots in 2024.
A new book looks at a clandestine movement to proselytize in Muslim countries.
The professor and critic will be remembered for her brilliant books, but teaching brought her genius to the fore.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/helen-vendlers-generous-mind
“I loved all the shots of the tennis ball.”
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-april-30th-challengers-tennis-ball
A medical technology can keep people alive when they otherwise would have died. Where will it lead?
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/how-ecmo-is-redefining-death
Lost track of time ruminating on the myriad ways I’ve failed my children.
The Welsh artist Elkka made her name with buoyant dance music. Now she’s reintroducing her voice.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-acclaimed-dj-who-is-ready-to-sing-again
The longtime State Department official and Iran-Contra player on Israel’s war in Gaza and his own record in Latin America.
Achoo!
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/monday-april-29th-spring-snow-globe
With Saturn rising, you might feel the astrological pull of stubbornness in your sixth house. Like when Bess waited thirteen hours before she got the epidural.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/horoscopes-written-by-my-mother
The Still Picture Branch of the National Archives contains the glass-plate negatives of the real Civil War, including those by the photographer Timothy O’Sullivan.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-civil-war-photographers-before-kirsten-dunst
The author discusses his story “Pulse.”
https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/cynan-jones-05-06-24
“Knife,” “A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages,” “Neighbors and Other Stories,” and “Butter.”
A gaggle of creative types—David Byrne, Cynthia Nixon, Debra Winger—gather in Bushwick for a lavish bridge-building Eid.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/breaking-a-ramadan-fast-with-ramy-youssef
Will Keen and Michael Stuhlbarg, the stars of the play “Patriots,” about the rise of the Russian President, studied how Putin plays table tennis and why his hand trembles.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/how-to-play-putin
The late artist’s work recalls her pioneering spirit through vivid, inventive designs.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2024-05-06