The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025
Is reading dying? This year, as screens and social-media apps continued to fragment our attention, it felt like we finally began to grasp that there is a crisis at hand. In August, the…
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Is reading dying? This year, as screens and social-media apps continued to fragment our attention, it felt like we finally began to grasp that there is a crisis at hand. In August, the…
You can now read every article that has ever appeared in The New Yorker—from as early as February 1925—with the click of a button. For the publication’s centennial anniversary, its…
What’s in a like? That which we call a heart by any other name would be a retweet. (I am so sorry, mostly to my college Shakespeare professor, but really to everyone reading this.) On…
COBB: Well, I’ll ask you the question that I use when I conclude any interview with any subject, which is: Is there anything that we haven’t talked about that you think is important for…
“The New Yorker at 100” is a nimble and infectious documentary, one that brings off a trick more challenging than it looks. (In that way, it’s a lot like the magazine.) In just 96 minutes,…
Towering platform boots have been adopted by many a celebrity, the latest being Demi Moore. On Saturday, the Oscar-nominated actress made an appearance at the New Yorker Festival 2025 in…
Film criticism at The New Yorker started with a bang: the first movie reviewed in the first issue, dated February 21, 1925, was the German director F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh,” a…
Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else, that “Judgment will be passed upon new books of…
Patti LuPone has apologized for comments she made about Audra McDonald and “Hell’s Kitchen” star Kecia Lewis in a recent New Yorker interview. “For as long as I have worked in theatre, I…
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Before doing so, however, he sat around with the boys in the bar and thrashed out what exactly he meant to create. The same is true,…
Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker brought a new – and much-needed – sophistication to American journalism when it launched 100 years ago this…
The Nordstrom Winter Sale is in full swing. And yes, there are many, many chic items included in the mix. In fact, we have a feeling that two of the most stylish sets, ahem Parisians and…