As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were, in some way, inspired by fiction from the magazine’s past. Each new piece ...

In Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, the sport has not only its next great rivalry but a moment that highlights everything ...

With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for ...

The author reads her story from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine.

Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane (Norton). Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be ...

“I’m ready for the exciting last thirty seconds of the basketball game which stretch into twenty-five minutes of fouls, time-outs, and commercials.” A drawing that riffs on the latest news and ...

In her new film, the actor, writer, and director charts the nonlinear course of a young woman’s recovery from assault.

Out of interest, could this be the best beginning to the sixth chapter of any book, by anyone, ever? The girl with the stringy blond hair over her shoulders and the trading beads and the black ...

In the course of her career, which also included a dozen earlier years on other routes, she drove an old postal jeep that she ...

Robert Giard spent his career photographing hundreds of cultural luminaries and niche literary figures in the hopes of ...

Its ruling lets the President temporarily revoke birthright citizenship—and enforce other unconstitutional executive orders ...

The recent reopening of the Metropolitan Museum’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing—a spectacular treasury of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas—was fortuitously timed. The renovation, which cost ...