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From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”

Published: November 4, 2025 11:00

The New Yorker contributing writer Heidi Blake has been investigating a new story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark. This season is about one of the most notorious crimes in modern British history: the Whitehouse Farm murders, in which…

Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump

Published: October 31, 2025 17:40

Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. But compared to his early years on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”—when Stewart was merciless in his attacks on George W. Bush’s Administration—these are…

It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse

Published: October 28, 2025 10:00

“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment,” the columnist Kyle Chayka writes, in a review of Cory Doctorow’s book…

Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control

Published: October 24, 2025 17:40

Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But those who aren’t familiar with Smith’s work outside of fiction are missing out. As an essayist, in The New Yorker…

Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”

Published: October 21, 2025 10:00

Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire him for very different things. There are early comedies such as “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused”; there’s the romance trilogy that started with “Before…

How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target

Published: October 17, 2025 17:40

The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least university presidents and faculties from Harvard to U.C.L.A. But for conservatives this arena of cultural…

John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores

Published: October 14, 2025 10:00

The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,” “Escape from New York,” “Halloween,” and so many more. And while he hasn’t directed a new movie in more than a decade, Carpenter has continued working in the film…

Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump

Published: October 10, 2025 17:40

Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broader public a year ago. Zohran Mamdan, who is currently thirty-three years old and a member of the State Assembly, is a democratic socialist who won a primary…

How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song

Published: October 7, 2025 10:00

Lionel Richie has been making music for fifty years. He has sold more than a hundred million albums, his hits too numerous to list, and he has endeared himself to younger generations as a judge on “American Idol.” He’s now the author of a memoir, “Truly.”…

A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture

Published: October 3, 2025 17:40

Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active participant. As a Catholic legal scholar and philosopher at Princeton University, he was an influential opponent of Roe v. Wade and same-sex marriage,…

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure

Published: September 30, 2025 10:00

The Political Scene’s Washington Roundtable—the staff writers Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, and Evan Osnos—discuss how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the tide against autocratic impulses in…