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PADMA LAKSHMI WALKS INTO A BAR

Since leaving “Top Chef,” Lakshmi has found herself in a period of professional
uncertainty, Helen Rosner writes. What better time to try standup comedy?

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ABOVE THE FOLD

Essential reading for today.


THE HAITI THAT STILL DREAMS



Lately, some of our family gatherings are incantations of grief. But they can
also turn into storytelling sessions of a different kind.

By Edwidge Danticat


WHO’S AFRAID OF JUDGING DONALD TRUMP? LOTS OF PEOPLE



At the ex-President’s criminal trial, where Trump has been reprimanded for
intimidating a potential juror, it has been challenging to find twelve people
willing to sit in the jury box.

By Eric Lach


THE WAR GAMES OF ISRAEL AND IRAN



While Netanyahu and the Islamic Republic exchange ballistic “messages,” the
question of Palestine demands the moral and strategic courage of actual
statesmen.

By David Remnick


A BALTIMORE ORIOLE WHO SWINGS THE BAT LIKE A LEGEND-TO-BE



Jackson Holliday has had perfect swinging form since he was three years old. As
a major leaguer, though, he’s still in his infancy.

By Louisa Thomas

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Our Local Correspondents


NO RESERVATIONS

Bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation
system inside out.

By Adam Iscoe

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THE FOOD ISSUE

New items on the menu throughout the week.

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Find new offerings in The New Yorker Store, including limited-edition
totes.Browse and buy »


THE POLITICAL SCENE


DID MIKE JOHNSON JUST GET RELIGION ON UKRAINE?

ListenListen

The Speaker’s sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor
risks his Speakership—and Trump’s wrath.

By Susan B. Glasser


WILL BIDEN’S PRO-LABOR FEATS MATTER IN NOVEMBER?



The President is winning over union leaders, but not necessarily rank-and-file
voters.

By Eyal Press


THE SUPREME COURT ASKS WHAT ENRON HAS TO DO WITH JANUARY 6TH AND TRUMP



The former President notwithstanding, the government’s position in Fischer v.
United States is unsettling.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin


WHEN A PRO-FREE-SPEECH DEAN SHUTS DOWN A STUDENT PROTEST



An online argument erupted after a video of a law professor grabbing a
microphone from a student went viral. But the debate has obscured some fairly
basic truths.

By Jay Caspian Kang

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The New Yorker Interview


JONATHAN HAIDT WANTS YOU TO TAKE AWAY YOUR KID’S PHONE

The social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why
social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course.

By David Remnick

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THE CRITICS

Pop Music


THE TORTURED POETRY OF TAYLOR SWIFT’S NEW ALBUM



“The Tortured Poets Department” has moments of tenderness. But it suffers from
being too long and too familiar.

By Amanda Petrusich

The Front Row


“CIVIL WAR” IS A TALE OF BAD NEWS



Alex Garland’s grim political fantasy about secession and violence revolves
around a war photographer but has little to say about the making and consumption
of news images.

By Richard Brody

The Current Cinema


AMERICAN CONFINEMENT IN “WE GROWN NOW” AND “STRESS POSITIONS”



A crisis turns home into a place of constraint in two new independent features.

By Justin Chang

Photo Booth


IN JUSTINE KURLAND’S PHOTOGRAPHS, A MOTHER AND SON HIT THE ROAD



Some of the portraits in “This Train” have an Edenic quality to them, as if
Kurland is asking: What if my kid and I were the only two people in the world?

By Naomi Fry

Books


HOW STORIES ABOUT HUMAN-ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS PUSH OUR BUTTONS



Two new novels, “Annie Bot” and “Loneliness & Company,” reflect anxieties about
A.I. coming for our hearts as well as for our jobs.

By Jennifer Wilson

The Theatre


RALPH FIENNES SIDLES HIS WAY INTO POWER AS MACBETH



A hit British production of Shakespeare’s ever-timely tragedy arrives in D.C.

By Helen Shaw

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WHAT WE’RE READING THIS WEEK

A collection of piquant essays on our predilection for minimalism, a striking
début novel that touches on the welfare system, a memoir that charts the
investigation of a mother’s murder across a quarter century, and more.

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FROM THE FOOD ISSUE


A TAMARIND TREE’S SWEET AND SOUR INHERITANCE



My ancestor was gifted a huge orchard just outside Delhi. The fruits it produced
were the taste of my childhood.

By Madhur Jaffrey


THE MOST TREASURED JAR IN MY PANTRY



There is nothing “plain” about vanilla when your extract is home-brewed.

By Ina Garten


FIFTEEN ESSENTIAL COOKBOOKS



The kitchen guides that New Yorker writers and editors can’t do without.

By The New Yorker


THE CROSSWORD: A FOODIE PUZZLE



Today’s theme: Jam-packed.

By Sid Sivakumar

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WHEN BABIES RULE THE DINNER TABLE

In the past two decades, American parents have started to ditch the purées and
give babies more choice—and more power—at mealtime. 

By Alexandra Schwartz

Photography by Olaf Blecker

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IDEAS


HOW TO DIE IN GOOD HEALTH

ListenListen

The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of
sixty-five. Maybe it doesn’t have to be this way.

By Dhruv Khullar


HOW GULLIBLE ARE YOU?

ListenListen

Don’t believe what they’re telling you about misinformation. People may espouse
symbolic beliefs, but they don’t treat them the same as factual beliefs.

By Manvir Singh


GET REAL



Video-game engines were designed to mimic the mechanics of the real world. How
perfectly can reality be simulated?

By Anna Wiener


WHAT IS NOISE?



Sometimes we embrace it, sometimes we hate it—and everything depends on who is
making it.

By Alex Ross

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Dispatch


EAST PALESTINE, AFTER THE CRASH

More than a year after a train derailment and chemical fire in Ohio that made
international news, residents contend with lingering sickness, uncertainty, and,
for some, a desire to just move on.

By E. Tammy Kim

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PERSONS OF INTEREST


HOW WILBERT RIDEAU PUBLISHED A MAGAZINE IN A MAXIMUM-SECURITY PRISON

By John J. Lennon


BYUNG-CHUL HAN IS THE INTERNET’S FAVORITE PHILOSOPHER

By Kyle Chayka


MAGGIE ROGERS’S JOURNEY FROM VIRAL FAME TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES

By Amanda Petrusich


PARK CHAN-WOOK COMES TO AMERICAN TELEVISION

By Jia Tolentino

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The Weekend Essay


THE “EPIC ROW” OVER A NEW EPOCH

Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene,
a new age in which humans shape the Earth. Why do some leading geologists reject
the term?

By Elizabeth Kolbert

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PUZZLES & GAMES

Take a break and play.


THE CROSSWORD: A FOODIE PUZZLE

Today’s theme: Jam-packed.


Solve the latest puzzle


THE MINI

A bite-size crossword, for a quick diversion.


Solve the latest puzzle


NAME DROP

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?


Play a quiz from the vault


CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.


Enter this week’s contest
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Q. & A.

How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War
Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei on providing counselling services to Palestinian children:
“When relatives are killed, we try somehow to calm the child and then ask
questions: What are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do the day
after tomorrow?”

By Isaac Chotiner

Elements

The Highest Tree House in the Amazon
In 2023, conservationists and carpenters converged on Peru to build luxury
accommodations in the rain-forest canopy.

By Allison Keeley

Under Review

Trump’s America, Seen Through the Eyes of Russell Banks
In his last book, “American Spirits,” Banks took stories from the news about
rural, working-class life and turned them into fables of national despair.

By Casey Cep

Annals of Education

A Meltdown at a Middle School in a Liberal Town
A post-pandemic fight about racism, the respectful treatment of trans kids, and
the role of teachers’ unions has divided Amherst, Massachusetts.

By Jessica Winter


FICTION


“LATE LOVE”

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By Joyce Carol Oates

Photograph by Andrea Modica, “Modena, Italy”
They were newly married, each for the second time after living alone for years,
like two grazing creatures from separate pastures suddenly finding
themselves—who knows why—herded into the same meadow and grazing the same turf.

That they were “not young,” though described by observers as “amazingly
youthful,” must have been a strong component of their attraction to each
other.Continue reading »
This Week in Fiction

Joyce Carol Oates on Life as a Mystery
The Writer’s Voice
Listen
The Author Reads “Late Love”

All fiction »


THE TALK OF THE TOWN

London Postcard



HEARING THE VOICES OF GRENFELL TOWER

By Rebecca Mead

Dept. of Inspiration



THE EVANESCENT ART OF THE SANDCASTLE

By Michael Schulman

The Pictures



CULLING THE KIM’S VIDEO MOTHER LODE

By Naomi Fry

Death Valley Postcard



THE DEATH VALLEY LAKE THAT’S GONE IN A FLASH

By Meg Bernhard

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DAILY CARTOON

Cartoon by Mick Stevens


This week’s cartoons »


SHOUTS & MURMURS

Cartoons, comics, and other funny stuff. Sign up for the Humor newsletter.


RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE GUY WHO WORKS AT YOUR LOCAL DISPENSARY

By David Machajewski and Will Santino


HOW I USE THE INTERNET, ACCORDING TO NINETIES ACTION MOVIES

By James Folta


TRUMP ON TRIAL: THE DEFENSE RESTS

By Barry Blitt


STORIES FROM THE TRUMP BIBLE

By Bruce Headlam and Stephen Sherrill


OVERHEARD IN NEW YORK: WAITING FOR THE ECLIPSE

By Anjali Chandrashekar


U.F.C. FIGHTER ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM BEING SWEPT OFF YOUR FEET

By Evan Waite

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