The New Yorker
LADY CHATTERLEY’S MEME
A dirty book’s long afterlife.
10+ min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
FOREVER YOUNG
Leslie Fiedler’s classic and controversial study of American fiction.
10+ min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
STAR-CROSSED
How Linda Goodman brought astrology to the masses.
10+ min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
CARTE BLANCHE
Maggie O'Farrell and the art of inventing the past.
6 min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
POLYGLOTISM
In the nineteen-sixties, my father, a Corkman, was employed by Chicago Bridge & Iron, an American corporation that built industrial plants worldwide.
3 min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
A TALENT FOR SEEMING
Although very few people in Butte, Montana, had heard of Bertolt Brecht, it was the kind of place that Brecht would have dug: a boomtown staked out on arid highland better suited for grazing sheep, a bare-knuckled Mahagonny perched on the rim of a copper pit and exposed to every vicissitude.
10+ min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
THE TWICE-WIDOWED KHALA HELAI
We were two hours late (but on time), and our husbands had been pacing since six, in the kitchen and in the living room and out on the porch, and, even as they drove, quietly fuming, past rivers or fields or stoplights, we noticed them pacing inside their own heads, back and forth and back and forth, half here, half there (in that other time), their eyes scanning street lights and road signs and cul-de-sacs and the salvaged Honda Civics parked in front of Marijan’s house, where, breathlessly, in our heels or slippers, we hiked up the driveway, through the garage, past the bathroom (already occupied), and into a living room immediately bustling with a dozen conversations at once.
10+ min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
THE ANTAGONIST
It took me a few tries to find my mother on Google in 2017.
3 min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
TABLE MANNERS
I'm sure that in my parents' minds there was such a thing as table manners.
3 min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
HITS AND MISSES
“Power Ballad.”
6 min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
LOVE OMEN
In 1990, when I was twenty-six years old, I decided to do a one-year journalism program at King's College, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
3 min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
POWER MOVE
Gianni Infantino has led FIFA from corruption into an era of authoritarian control.
10+ min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
PAPERBOY
Silence, solitude, and the secret I kept for decades.
10+ min |
June 08, 2026
The New Yorker
STORIES
The return to school after Easter break fell at the end of April that year.
8 min |
June 08, 2026
Los Angeles Times
‘J6ers’ lining up for fund payouts
Jason Riddle, a military veteran from New Hampshire who was sentenced to 90 days behind bars after pleading guilty to riot charges, publicly rejected a pardon from Trump.
3 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Voters may want a safe bet for governor
— Becerra drawing 25% support, Hilton at 21% and Steyer with 19%.
3 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
L.A. mayoral campaign is down to the wire
[Mayor, from A1] cific Palisades, including Pratt, who lost his home, railed at city leaders over an empty reservoir, poor deployment of Fire Department resources and the fact that it was caused by a week-old blaze that wasn’t fully extinguished.
5 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Primary offers a preview of the battle for Congress
[Congress, from A1] Kim (R-Anaheim Hills) and Ken Calvert (R-Corona) in the redrawn Congressional District 40, which covers a swath of inland Orange County and portions of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, including parts of Kim’s and Calvert's current districts.
5 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
She was a champion in more than just track
Hernandez likes swimming, spending time with friends and working on her makeup routine.
5 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
McClanahan shines for Rays
He pitches one-run ball for five innings in Tampa Bay’s 5-2 win over the Angels.
1 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
L.A. mayoral primary a fight to the finish
Top three — Raman, Bass and Pratt — are neck and neck for two spots in Tuesday race.
6 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Becerra's rise spurs questions, theories
Xavier Becerra’s campaign for California governor appeared doomed just two months ago.
5 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Congress control may hinge on state
California's decision to redraw its congressional map to flip as many as five House seats to Democrats in November is poised to play a big and potentially decisive role in the nation’s broader, bare-knuckle fight for control of Congress.
5 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
The secret ingredient in Sudan's civil war
Gum arabic goes into candy, makeup and hundreds of everyday items
5 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
GAELS TAKE OUT NO.1 BRUINS
Sniffen hits a walk-off single in 10th as Saint Mary's shocks nation's top overall seed.
1 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Catherine Opie’s in her blue period
The L.A. photographer has a raft of shows this year, and a lot to express
5 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Seth Rogen on funny shows, money and all those accolades
His Point Grey Pictures had a successful awards season with hit comedy ‘The Studio’
3 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Rains threaten search for 2 still missing in Laos cave
A broken drainage pump worsens matters as divers wait for the water level to recede.
3 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Iran conflict rattles tourist economies in Asia
Soaring costs disrupt foreign travel in an industry still reeling from COVID crisis.
4 min |
June 01, 2026
Los Angeles Times
After clashes, ICE detention site in Newark is under curfew
The mayor of Newark imposed a curfew early Sunday around an immigration detention center in New Jersey after a series of intense clashes between protesters and police.
1 min |