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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…
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…
Every day is turkey day. Source link
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,…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox. Source link
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
In new films from Joachim Trier and Noah Baumbach, success in filmmaking proves depressingly incompatible with success in fatherhood. Source link
The actor, writer, and comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
The actor and comedian tackles The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. Source link
What’s the point of talking pictures if the people in them don’t talk? The characters in Ira Sachs’s films always express themselves volubly, even when there’s plenty of action (rewatch…
The Administration, for its part, has denied causing widespread harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage harder to measure—halting data monitoring and dismissing the inspectors…
There are many ways to be big on social media, but they are not created equal. Maybe an account belongs to a popular brand or to a famous person, whose online following is preordained, no…
For the cover of the November 17, 2025, issue, the artist Edel Rodriguez chose to portray Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s incoming mayor, in the subway. “Mamdani spent much of his campaign…
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