God Bless “A Christmas Carol,” Every One
There is a street in Naples, Via San Gregorio Armeno, where you can find shop after shop presided over by artisans whose specialty is building Nativity scenes out of papier-maché,…
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“Landman” Goes Down Like a Michelob Ultra
Oil and masculinity: both are oftentimes crude, both are considered toxic in the twenty-first century. So it only makes sense that the two are as tightly bound as a bolt on a rig in…
A Romp Through Rea Irvin’s Forgotten Sunday Funnies
Rea Irvin, the magazine’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the monocled dandy whose upturned nose has graced our pages for a hundred years. Irvin established…
What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?
The endgame of capitalism, in his account, is a world where “almost nothing escaped commodification.” Beckert here refers to commodities in the loose, colloquial sense of “products that…
Deep Cleaning by the Deep State
Redact, expunge, and repeat. Source link
A Battle with My Blood
Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky. Doctors and scientists at Columbia, including George, didn’t know if they would be able to continue their research,…
A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents to Thank Your Host
For the pet-lover who hates taking care of pets: a self-sufficient ecosystem containing two or three miniature unneedy shrimp that can live for years without much help from you. Along with…
“Hamnet” Feels Elemental, but Is It Just Highly Effective Grief Porn?
Zhao’s first three features were steeped in documentary realism, shot with a sturdy, windswept lyricism and abounding in nonprofessional actors. Then came her fourth picture, the clunky…
The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon
In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the hopes of his…
The Trump Administration Gives America the Bird
Every day is turkey day. Source link
Christopher Guest Talks with Ariel Levy
On October 24, 2025, the actor and director Christopher Guest took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy, as part of The New Yorker’s 26th annual Festival,…
Kenton Nelson’s “Early Morning”
For the cover of the November 24, 2025, issue, the artist Kenton Nelson painted a man waiting by a store window. “Walking through the city one early morning, looking for paintings, I was…
Kristin Chenoweth’s Uneven Gilt Trip in “The Queen of Versailles”
There’s a clarity to the arc of Greenfield’s documentary: first the pride goeth, then a fall teacheth. It’s a shame that the musical gets bogged down by what happened after that. In the…
A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Kids
In theory, buying gifts for children is a snap. If they’re old enough to talk, but not old enough to ignore you completely, they will likely tell you what they want. And, if your kids run…
Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot?
“Thank God it’s Friday.” “It’s hot outside.” “How’s it goin’?” “Can you believe this rain?” Malinowski described such utterances as forms of “phatic” communication. This somewhat awkward…
The Joyful Mythology of “Nouvelle Vague”
That word, instantly identified with the French New Wave, is missing from “Nouvelle Vague,” an absence that comes off not as an accident but as a declaration by Linklater that’s far louder…
Malala’s Favorite Mother-Daughter Memoirs
When the Nobel Peace Prize–winning activist Malala Yousafzai was fifteen, she was shot by a member of the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education—an event that, as she writes in…
How the Supreme Court Defines Liberty
Barrett, like most originalists, insists that the Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education can be defended on originalist grounds—the alternative is unthinkable. The “drafters…
Why Can’t A.I. Manage My E-Mails?
Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox. Source link
The Art of the Profile
On October 26, 2025, the New Yorker staff writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman joined the executive editor Daniel Zalewski onstage at…
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T.…
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
The squishier centrist side has no such certainties. Galloway, in both his podcasts and “Notes on Being a Man,” presents masculinity not as one side of a fixed binary but as a state of…
The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing
Are thrill-seeking kids like birds, deterred by metaphorical spikes on the roof? In late October, the M.T.A. did install barriers—vertical pads made of hard rubber—in between cars on…
Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art
At Dia, the cage has been reconstructed in full, complete with Hsieh’s boots and his tally marks gouged into the wall. Every day, Hsieh was photographed by his friend, and the photos,…