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Ethel Cain’s Anti-Pop Stardom

Midway through the music video for “American Teenager,” a feel-good pop song that has been streamed more than a hundred million times, the camera cuts, for an instant, to two children…

Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty”

The cover of the August 11, 2025, issue, by the artist Amy Sherald, is a portrait of the trans model and performance artist Arewà Basit. The art work is featured in Sherald’s show…

How Rembrandt Saw Esther

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the…

Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers

The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of stealing from the world.” All four of Kushner’s…

Joost Swarte’s “Sunny-Side Up”

For the cover of the July 21, 2025, issue, the artist Joost Swarte portrays how New Yorkers have been feeling in the midst of a heat wave. “The part of a hot, sunny day I like best,”…

Christoph Niemann’s “The Bridge”

“The real beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge can only be experienced in motion,” the artist Christoph Niemann said, about his cover for the June 30, 2025, issue. Niemann’s celebration of the…

David Plunkert’s “On Parade”

Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also squandering…

Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”

Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese American poet-illustrator Haruka Aoki, a cat is,…

David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”

There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The cover of the June 9, 2025, issue features Hockney’s…