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Cillian Murphy’s Bedtime Routine: 5 P.M.: Call ’round to the pub and dine on a hearty meal of potatoes, bangers, and the knowledge that you are Christopher ...
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Cillian Murphy’s Bedtime Routine
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The Enchanting Archaeological Romance of “La Chimera”: Justin Chang reviews “La Chimera,” the fourth feature by the Italian writer and director Alice Rohrwacher ...
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The Enchanting Archaeological Romance of “La Chimera”
Quick Glance: A Treasure Trove in 'La Chimera'
  • In her latest dreamy movie, Alice Rohrwacher follows a tomb raider, played by Josh O'Connor, who's pining for a lost love.

  • Set in the 1980s, 'La Chimera' centers on Arthur, a British tomb raider living in Italy who searches for buried treasures. His lover Beniamina is missing, but remains a mysterious presence in his life and in her mother Flora's.

  • The story weaves history, mythology, and the relationship between Arthur and Italia, a music student who lives with him and other women in an abandoned train station.

  • Alice Rohrwacher creates a cinematic piece in 'La Chimera' that navigates between dream, reality, and myth, captivating the audience with its charming and unconventional style.
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Michael Imperioli Knows Art Can’t Save Us: Zach Helfand interviews the actor Michael Imperioli to discuss his formative first encounter with the director Martin ...
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Michael Imperioli Knows Art Can’t Save Us
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The Dutch architectural firm Waterstudio’s current projects include floating pod hotels in Panama and Thailand, floating apartment buildings in Scandinavia ... Show more
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The Heartbreak of an English Football Team: Hanif Abdurraqib on the Netflix series “Sunderland ’Til I Die,” which serves as a thesis both for fandom and for the ...
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The Heartbreak of an English Football Team
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This Easter, Is Christianity Still Promulgating Antisemitism?: James Carroll writes about how the Gospel narratives of the passion and death of Jesus have ...
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This Easter, Is Christianity Still Promulgating Antisemitism?
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Regina King (No Relation to M.L.K.!) Takes on Shirley Chisholm: The actress hikes in Shirley Chisholm State Park and explains why she felt moved to spend fifteen ...
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Regina King (No Relation to M.L.K.!) Takes on Shirley Chisholm
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A cover by James Stevenson, from this day in 1983. #NewYorkerCovers
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Lila Neugebauer Interrogates the Ghosts of “Uncle Vanya”: Helen Shaw on the director of the first Broadway production of Chekhov’s masterpiece in twenty years ...
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Lila Neugebauer Interrogates the Ghosts of “Uncle Vanya”
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The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s shameless oral arguments in the Supreme Court case about mifepristone, an abortion pill ... Show more
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Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?: Jessica Winter on Jonathan Haidt’s book “The Anxious Generation,” the ways that social media negatively impacts young people ...
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Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?
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Masterstroke Casting in “An Enemy of the People”: Jeremy Strong finds urgency and conversational menace in Ibsen’s 1882 drama, also with Michael Imperioli ...
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Masterstroke Casting in “An Enemy of the People”
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At this point, we know everything there is to know about Donald Trump, Andrew Marantz writes. His diehard admirers—maybe 30 per cent of Republicans—admire him ... Show more
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In the 1950s, most doctors assumed that trans people were delusional for seeking medical interventions, and therefore physicians had exclusive authority to ... Show more
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In Taiwan, there is an old folk saying: “During pregnancy, nurture the baby. After pregnancy, nurture your body.” Giving birth is believed to disturb the ... Show more
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How Kate Middleton Shamed the Internet: After the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis, some who had pushed conspiracy theories about her absence seemed ...
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How Kate Middleton Shamed the Internet
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“I was aware that my daring escape had made Uncle look like a fool, and I knew that from that evening on I would be in the crosshairs of his vengeance ... Show more
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The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far: Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
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When New York Made Baseball and Baseball Made New York: Adam Gopnik reviews “The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City,” by Kevin Baker ...
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When New York Made Baseball and Baseball Made New York
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The history of slavery is one of elisions and silences, of moving on. With the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the civil-rights attorney Bryan Stevenson has ... Show more
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Has Capitalism Been Replaced by “Technofeudalism”?: The former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis argues in his new book, “Technofeudalism ...
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Has Capitalism Been Replaced by “Technofeudalism”?
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Actor, writer, comedian . . . cartoonist? Ayo Edebiri adds another item to her list of accomplishments. Watch her attempt at drawing a New Yorker cartoon ... Show more
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The cover for this week’s issue, “Standing Guard,” by Mark Ulriksen. #NewYorkerCovers www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2024-04-01
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The Aftermath of China’s Comedy Crackdown: Chang Che writes about why standup performers in China, after comedy flourished during the pandemic ...
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The Aftermath of China’s Comedy Crackdown
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Canoeing in a Superfund Site: Eric Lach on how paddling in the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, has inspired Brad Vogel to write poetry about toxic sludge ...
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Canoeing in a Superfund Site
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Percival Everett’s Philosophical Twist on “Huckleberry Finn”: Lauren Michele Jackson on Percival Everett’s novel “James,” written from the perspective of Jim ...
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Percival Everett’s Philosophical Twist on “Huckleberry Finn”
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“The Real Housewives of Roku City”: These ladies bring tons of drama and are no strangers to a TV screen.
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“The Real Housewives of Roku City”
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Peter Morgan’s “Patriots” Heads to Broadway: Also: The soft-rock palette of Arlo Parks, the tearjerker musical “The Notebook,” Eric Fischl’s paintings of ...
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Peter Morgan’s “Patriots” Heads to Broadway
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The Escher Quartet and Igor Levit Test Musical Limits: The chamber ensemble played all six of Bartók’s string quartets, Alex Ross writes ...
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The Escher Quartet and Igor Levit Test Musical Limits
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John Updike’s career at The New Yorker began with a poem, published in 1954, when he was 22, and ended with a poem, published in 2009 ... Show more
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Life in a Luxury Hotel for New Moms and Babies: Clarissa Wei writes about the month that she and her newborn baby spent at a Taiwanese postpartum-care center.
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Life in a Luxury Hotel for New Moms and Babies
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The best directors “make you feel like you belong there, give you a sense of freedom so you can feel comfortable, to be vulnerable and to express yourself ... Show more
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The Putin state directs incredible resources at protecting itself, “but it is less capable—perhaps even less interested—in protecting those over whom it rules ... Show more
Quick Glance: The remarkable evolution of ISIS-K's leader into a formidable group
  • Sanaullah Ghafari, in his role as the leader of the Afghan branch of Islamic State, played a significant role in the transformation into an extremely menacing branch of the global Islamist network, capable of conducting operations far from their bases in the border regions of Afghanistan.

  • The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the massacre at a concert hall near Moscow that resulted in the deaths of at least 137 people. U.S. officials indicated that the Afghan branch, Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), was responsible.

  • Ghafari has enhanced the group's strength through his firm ideology and notable attacks. He has made repeated attempts to target Russia in response to its involvement in the Syrian civil war, which contributed to defeating ISIS' regional operations.

  • By using high-profile attacks as a tool for recruitment, the group has focused on ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks in Central Asia. ISIS-K is planning to escalate its foreign operations, including attacks against the United States.
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In Taiwan, giving birth is believed to disturb the body’s equilibrium, so new mothers traditionally engage in zuo yue zi, or 30 to 40 days of rest at home ... Show more
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Why the Biden Administration Is Suing Apple and Investigating Big Grocers: John Cassidy writes about a new generation of trustbusters who are trying to use ...
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Why the Biden Administration Is Suing Apple and Investigating Big Grocers
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New York has long loomed large in the traveller’s imagination, most notably in the olden, jet-setting days when getting there was half the fun ... Show more
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You Say You Want a Revolution. Do You Know What You Mean by That?: Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present ...
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You Say You Want a Revolution. Do You Know What You Mean by That?
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Lila Neugebauer Interrogates the Ghosts of “Uncle Vanya”: Helen Shaw on the director of the first Broadway production of Chekhov’s masterpiece in twenty years ...
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Lila Neugebauer Interrogates the Ghosts of “Uncle Vanya”
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Signs You Should Give Up on a Book: Shouts & Murmurs by JiJi Lee: You’re using the book to squash bugs; you’re waiting for the book to initiate physical contact; ...
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Signs You Should Give Up on a Book
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?: Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss ...
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?
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The Face of Donald Trump’s Deceptively Savvy Media Strategy: Donald Trump and Steven Cheung like to hurl insults at their political rivals ...
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The Face of Donald Trump’s Deceptively Savvy Media Strategy
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A cover by Kenneth Mahood, from this day in 1970. #NewYorkerCovers
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For the artist Eric Fischl’s new series, “Hotel Stories,” he renders bodies with the usual smudgy virtuosity, packing each image with lively details that ... Show more
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What the Abortion-Pill Battle Is Really About: Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s effort to restrict access to mifepristone ...
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What the Abortion-Pill Battle Is Really About
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Read the full essay by Hanif Abdurraqib, about the Netflix series “Sunderland ’Til I Die,” home-town sports, and the foolish things we do for love and football ... Show more
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How Julien’s Auctions Leads the Booming Market in Celebrity Memorabilia: As the fine-art market cools, the increasing value of items such as William Shatner’s ...
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How Julien’s Auctions Leads the Booming Market in Celebrity Memorabilia
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The Unkillable Appeal of Multilevel Marketing: Jessica Winter reviews two books that offer critical takes on multilevel-marketing companies: Jane Marie’s ...
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The Unkillable Appeal of Multilevel Marketing
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Read the rest of the poem “Untitled,” by Nasser Rabeh: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/untitled-nasser-rabah-poem
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The Moral Plea Behind Kate Middleton’s Cancer Disclosure: Anthony Lane writes about Kate Middleton making a statement after weeks of conspiracy theories and ...
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The Moral Plea Behind Kate Middleton’s Cancer Disclosure
Quick Glance: British Royal Family Left with Only 9 Working Members
  • Kate Middleton and King Charles have announced cancer treatments and temporarily stepped back from royal duties.

  • The royal family now consists mainly of older members who are taking on responsibilities.

  • Prince William is supporting his wife and taking on duties while King Charles and others are absent.

  • The royal family is in a vulnerable position, relying on few working members who are mostly in their 70s and 80s.
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Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean: The author of “Erasure” is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be ...
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Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean
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The Form-Blurring Fury of “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”: Justin Chang reviews the Romanian director Radu Jude’s TikTok-tinged “Do Not Expect ...
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The Form-Blurring Fury of “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the ...
Quick Glance: Cheeky Film about the 'End of the World'
  • Radu Jude, a Romanian filmmaker, captures the modern world in his film.

  • The movie follows a day in the life of underpaid Angela working for an Austrian multinational.

  • Jude portrays Romania's issues and exploitation by wealthier countries.

  • The film reflects on contemporary society and the inability to change the system.
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“I told her which of my friends I’d always been slightly in love with. She told me that she’d never stopped silently reciting the nightly prayers she’d learned ... Show more
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Read the rest of the poem, “Edward Hopper (Yellow and Red),” by W. S. Di Piero: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/edward-hopper-yellow-and-red-w-s-di-piero-poem
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Is it worth compromising foundational American civil liberties and the court’s precedent for what might amount to a pipe dream of less screen time for kids? ... Show more
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On the March 14th preview performance of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” published in 1882 and revived by Amy Herzog ... Show more
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The 2024 Whitney Biennial, Reviewed: Jackson Arn on “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” the survey’s eighty-first installment, with work by Holly Herndon ...
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The 2024 Whitney Biennial, Reviewed
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Exquisite Beach Vibes at Quique Crudo: Shauna Lyon on Quique Crudo, a seafood-focussed counter from the owners of Casa Enrique—the first Mexican restaurant in ...
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Exquisite Beach Vibes at Quique Crudo
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The Clown Suit of Middle Age: We all have a beast inside us, right? Well, middle age takes that beast and makes it wear a clown suit ...
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The Clown Suit of Middle Age
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Is It Finally Donald Trump’s Time to Pay Up?: Susan B. Glasser on the hefty sum Donald Trump will have to pay after his New York fraud lawsuit and on how his ...
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Is It Finally Donald Trump’s Time to Pay Up?
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The Next Great Tennis Rivalry May Be Here: Gerald Marzorati on the tennis players Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, whose friendly but ferocious rivalry stands ...
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The Next Great Tennis Rivalry May Be Here
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How Lucy Sante Became the Person She Feared: Emily Witt on Lucy Sante’s memoir of her gender transition, “I Heard Her Call My Name.”
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How Lucy Sante Became the Person She Feared
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The Brutal Conditions Facing Palestinian Prisoners: Isaac Chotiner speaks with Tal Steiner, the executive director of Public Committee Against Torture in Israel ...
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The Brutal Conditions Facing Palestinian Prisoners
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Why Does the “Road House” Remake Pull Its Punches?: Justin Chang reviews Doug Liman’s “Road House,” an update of the cult slugfest from 1989 ...
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Why Does the “Road House” Remake Pull Its Punches?
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Four-year-old Gazal Bakr was wounded on November 10th, when, as her family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left calf ... Show more
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Governor Gavin Newsom recently awarded $267 million to address L.A.’s uptick in organized-retail theft. More arrests will “create more cases for us ... Show more
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TMZ Redefines Celebrity Dirt: Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency. How did it become so powerful?
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TMZ Redefines Celebrity Dirt
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Beyond Mob Wife: The Next Wave of Aesthetic Trends: Gen Z Retiree: This is not a look—it’s a mind-set and life style, plus Crocs.
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Beyond Mob Wife: The Next Wave of Aesthetic Trends
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Spring has sprung. Happy vernal equinox! #NewYorkerCovers By Tomer Hanuka, from 2020.
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A Financial Reckoning for Donald Trump: John Cassidy on the financial threat the New York attorney general Letitia James’s case has on the former President ...
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A Financial Reckoning for Donald Trump
Quick Glance: Trump Struggles with Bail and Frustration Grows
  • Donald Trump and some members of his inner circle are frustrated by the prospect of him failing to post the $464 million civil fraud penalty by Monday's deadline.

  • Trump is urgently seeking campaign funds and potential guarantors for his bail to prevent New York Attorney General Letitia James from seizing his assets.

  • Trump's defense team is considering options to challenge the judgment without posting bail and speculating on the impact of asset seizure on his campaign.

  • Despite concerns from his team regarding bail, Trump's campaign is leveraging the situation to mobilize supporters and reinforce the perception of unfair treatment by the justice system.
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Our Spring Style & Design Issue features the comic and writer Quinta Brunson, who has created an old-fashioned, mainstream hit with her sitcom ... Show more
Quick Glance: Quinta Brunson: Success and Responsibility in TV Industry
  • Emmy-winning Quinta Brunson hacks network TV with “Abbott Elementary,” a unique hit show.

  • As creator, producer, and showrunner, she led the sitcom to set records in its first season.

  • Her success is celebrated as saving the sitcom genre by creating a mainstream hit series.

  • Brunson shares her journey from internet comedian to TV creator and the challenges faced in the industry.
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The short documentary “Textures” follows three friends—Taylor, Camille, and Azani—at different entry points in their natural-hair journeys ... Show more
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Med Hondo’s Vital Political Cinema Comes to New York: Richard Brody on two New York revivals of the filmmaker Med Hondo’s work, which centered on French ...
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Med Hondo’s Vital Political Cinema Comes to New York
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Multilevel Marketing, or M.L.M., originated in the early 1950s, when the eventual founders of Amway were building up a pyramid of food-supplement salesmen and ... Show more
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How Julien’s Auctions Leads the Booming Market in Celebrity Memorabilia: As the fine-art market cools, the increasing value of items such as William Shatner’s ...
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How Julien’s Auctions Leads the Booming Market in Celebrity Memorabilia