Anniversary Crossword
A tricky tribute to The New Yorker’s mysterious mascot, by Elizabeth C. Gorski.
A tricky tribute to The New Yorker’s mysterious mascot, by Elizabeth C. Gorski.
Hulu’s show, starring Zoë Kravitz, is look-book television, while the Freeform series is unexpectedly moving, Doreen St. Félix writes.
Michele Moses recommends Rona Jaffe’s best-selling 1958 novel “The Best of Everything.”
Ian Parker on Harari’s best-seller “Sapiens,” which suggests that, in the larger scheme of things, many of our political struggles barely matter.
Françoise Mouly talks to Barry Blitt about his cover of Eustace Tilley for the 2020 Anniversary Issue of The New Yorker.
Underground Railroad simulations have ignited controversy about whether they confront the country’s darkest history or trivialize its gravest traumas, Julian Lucas writes.
Shouts & Murmurs by Jack Handey: If you are reading this, I am dead. Please have me cremated. Then form the ashes into the shape of me. Then deep-fry me. Then bury me with full military honors.
James Wood writes about the novelist Daniel Kehlmann, who evokes an era of doctrinal fervor—and brings to life a mythical trickster.
Naomi Fry on London Kaye, who has put fuzzy koalas near the SoHo Chanel store to raise awareness about Australia’s wildfires.
The author Haruki Murakami discusses “With the Beatles,” his story from the February 17, 2020, issue of The New Yorker.
Poetry by Cecily Parks: “It was never supposed to snow / here, and yet / it was snowing.”
Pliny’s eyewitness account of the 79 A.D. Vesuvius eruption tells us what happened, but the archeological remains conjure with agonizing intimacy the lives of those who perished, Joan Acocella writes.
Sheila Marikar on hospitality experts’ predictions of the future of the romantic getaway, including throuples, sustainable toiletries, and biometrics.
“Love Unknown,” “Usual Cruelty,” “The Black Cathedral,” and “This Is Happiness.”
Poetry by Caki Wilkinson: “We go to Graceland for the vigil, Hope in the same fuchsia tube dress she wore to our uncle’s funeral.”
Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian, Lauren Collins writes.
New cartoons from the magazine.
Eren Orbey on Larry Sanders, the candidate’s older brother, who recalls Bernie’s teen-age forays into electoral politics.
Fiction by Haruki Murakami: “Had she vanished, like smoke? Or, on that early-autumn afternoon, had I seen not a real person but a vision of some kind?”
His cartoony style and subjects exalt sensation as an end in itself, Peter Schjeldahl writes.
After Brexit, the obsessions of Jake Fiennes could change how Britain uses its land, Sam Knight writes.
Emily Flake illustrates Mucinex chocolate clusters, peekaboo hazmat suits, and other treats for the feverish.
“It’s crazy,” said ONE Village Council President Alfonso Narvaez, both proud and astonished that the organization’s annual paczki sale is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Toledoans have a knack for making the sublime from the grime. And they have knack for overcoming circumstances with limited trajectories to success.