Donald Trump After the Midterms
The New Yorkerby David Remnick22h ago
Signs of a midterm blue wave are everywhere, and yet it would be journalistic malpractice not to attach some nervous caveats to any prediction. Polls are sketchy.
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The New Yorkerby Cressida Leyshon22h ago
This week’s story, “Chuck Murphy’s Last Run,” is about a gang of aging Irish bikers who are fulfilling the dying wish of their departed compatriot, Chuck (Boyo) Murphy.
An Ever-Changing Supper Club Rises Uptown
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner22h ago
Creola, a restaurant that opened last month, on the upper edge of the Upper East Side, bills itself as a supper club.
Betty Gilpin Is Having a Moment
The New Yorkerby Sarah Larson22h ago
Last month, Betty Gilpin won an Emmy in memorable fashion: by accepting the award and reciting a zingy, rhyming poem.
“Chuck Murphy’s Last Run,” by Kevin Barry
The New Yorkerby Kevin Barry22h ago
Oh, I tell you now we were six proud and memorious old men as we rode our gleaming Harleys across the midland plain.
How “Oscar” Stages the Sad, Sordid Decline of Oscar Wilde
The New Yorkerby Hannah Aizenman1d ago
“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim,” Oscar Wilde proclaims, in the preface to his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Early in that story, the character Basil Hallward, the painter...
Kash Patel’s Slap Shot
The New Yorkerby Richie McGinniss1d ago
The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, faced an icy Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing last month, in which both parties pressed him on a string of blunders—taxpayer-funded travel, mishandling...
How Podcasts Are Changing Comedy
The New Yorkerby Dan Brooks1d ago
If I went back in time and told my college self that, by middle age, we would consume comedy primarily in the form of podcasts, there would be a lot of questions, even after I explained what a...
The Blistering Hollywood Satire of “Misty Green”
The New Yorkerby Justin Chang1d ago
“Misty Green,” Chris Rock’s ferociously smart and darkly entrancing new movie, unfolds as a series of rude awakenings.
Who Won the Redistricting War?
The New Yorkerby Jon Allsop1d ago
In the midterm elections of 1922, voters in Missouri were invited to weigh in directly on a wide range of issues. Mostly, they were in a rejectionist frame of mind.
Richard Avedon’s Defining Early Fashion Shoots
The New Yorkerby Vince Aletti1d ago
Richard Avedon was twenty-one years old, fresh out of the Merchant Marine, with only a handful of portraits of fellow-soldiers to show, when Alexey Brodovitch, the already legendary (and famously...
How I Became a Lock Picker
The New Yorkerby Shayla Love1d ago
Last year, my husband and I started looking for a studio or a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn that we could buy.
In the Dark: Season 2
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker2d ago
Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime. Season 2 of In the Dark examines the case against Flowers, who spent more than twenty years fighting...
The French Student Protesters’ Demands Are Extremely Clear
The New Yorkerby Lauren Collins2d ago
Among the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets in France on Tuesday were Paolina and Violette, eighteen and seventeen years old, arguing politely with a white-haired man sucking...
The Vertiginous Revelations of “You Can See Everything”
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody2d ago
Nathan Fielder may well have the best deadpan shtick since Buster Keaton. But, whereas Keaton offers stoic innocence, Fielder clinically probes other people’s misconceptions and delusions, which...
Footballese, the Most American Vernacular
The New Yorkerby Vinson Cunningham2d ago
On Sunday, the Washington Commanders and the Indianapolis Colts—two football teams with low expectations and capable but wobbly quarterbacks, both already seeking a fresh wind of momentum only four...
“Lincoln in the Bardo” Gets an Opera at the Met
The New Yorkerby Jane Bua, Madeleine Wulfahrt, Holden Seidlitz, Sheldon Pearce, Zoë Hopkins, Brian Seibert, Richard Brody, Taran Dugal2d ago
Abraham Lincoln never had much luck in theatres. But, this month, the number of big shows in the city which feature the sixteenth President will increase from one (“Oh, Mary!,” currently starring...
In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology
The New Yorkerby Sheelah Kolhatkar2d ago
When Tesla introduced its first mass-market car, the Model 3, at an event in 2016, Elon Musk seemed like a different person from the one he is today.
How Rick Bragg Became His Generation’s Bard of the South
The New Yorkerby Charles Bethea2d ago
The first time I spoke with the writer Rick Bragg, he was driving his truck in Calhoun County, where he grew up, a rural area fifty miles east of Birmingham, Alabama, surrounded by what he once...
The Dumocrats Are Coming for Trump, and All He Can Do Is Call Them Names
The New Yorkerby Susan B. Glasser3d ago
Only one subject truly animates Donald Trump on the campaign trail, and it is, of course, the same one that delights and fascinates him in the Oval Office and everywhere else: himself.