On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations, screenings, performances,...
Our food critic advises a reader on where to find out-of-town restaurant recommendations, and answers another about a salad-dressing shortcut.
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In 2025, A.I. seems to pop up on TV nearly as often as it does in real life. On the hospital-mockumentary sitcom “St. Denis Medical,” a curmudgeonly physician resents the unerring faith that a patient has in his...
A crisis point comes during a cross-country road trip, during which Bruce’s driver, Matt (Harrison Sloan Gilbertson), has to help a distressed Bruce stay on his feet at a county fair. But that scene, too, is brisk, generic,...
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization.
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The inevitable progress of technology, in other words, makes the technological sublime elusive. And it’s also true that technologies tend to shrink themselves, taking on unassuming guises. (“Technologies tend toward ubiquity and cheapness,” Kelly writes.) My son and...
For the cover of the October 27, 2025, Money Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann set out to visualize how the preposterously rich pay a disproportionately small share of taxes. In conversation, Niemann expressed another grievance, one born out...
The food, too, does some artful recontextualizing. Kam lu wantan, for instance, is a classic chifa dish of deep-fried wontons that are tossed in a sweet-and-sour sauce with meat and vegetables. At Johnny’s, they arrive with all of...
Many of the paired dances of the twentieth century—the foxtrot, the waltz, the Lindy Hop—reflected the binary gender dynamics of the day: men led and women followed, on the dance floor as at home. There were exceptions, such...
