CHARACTER STUDIES

“Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” downtown.

HOME SLICE

The making of an Indian American specialty.

THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, 2025

Reliable news coverage has never been more important than it is now. Journalists must remain vigilant and rigorous in the face of a second Trump Administration. To help them do so, we are releasing an updated version of Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style.” Please refer to the following examples when writing and reporting, for as long as that’s still allowed.

A MATTER OF FACTS

On the loss of two sons.

Hatagaya Lore Bryan Washington

We moved to Tokyo from Dallas because of my husband's job, an unexplainable tech gig.

Richard Brody on Pauline Kael's "Notes on Heart and Mind"

When Pauline Kael joined The New Yorker’s staff as a movie critic, in January, 1968, the world of cinema was undergoing drastic change.

LANDSCAPE MODE

Dirty Projectors' symphony for a burning world.

CHORAL HISTORY

“The Alto Knights.”

OPEN SECRET

Why did police let one of America's most prolific predators get away for so long?

BEYOND THE CURVE

In medicine and public health, we cling to universal benchmarks—at a cost.

COMMUNITY PROPERTY

Who gets to determine the meaning of divorce?

DO YOU KNOW JESUS?

Why the Gospel stories won’t stay dead and buried.

THE FRENZY Joyce Carol Oates

Early afternoon, driving south on the Garden State Parkway with the girl beside him.

LEAVE WITH DESSERT

Graydon Carter’s great magazine age.

JUST BETWEEN US

The pleasures and pitfalls of gossip.

THE BOOK OF RUTH

How an American radical reinvented back-yard gardening.

Naomi Fry on Jay McInerney's "Chloe's Scene"

As a teen-ager, long before I lived in New York, I felt the city urging me toward it. N.Y.C., with its art and money, its drugs and fashion, its misery and elation—how tough, how grimy, how scary, how glamorous! For me, one of its most potent siren calls was “Chloe’s Scene,” a piece written for this magazine, in 1994, by the novelist Jay McInerney, about the then nineteen-year-old sometime actress, sometime model, and all-around It Girl Chloë Sevigny.

INHERIT THE PLAY

The return of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Ghosts.”

UPDATED KENNEDY CENTER 2025 SCHEDULE

April 1—A. R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” with Lauren Boebert and Kid Rock

INTERIORS

The tyranny of taste in Vincenzo Latronico’s “Perfection.”

YOU MAD, BRO?

Young men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back?

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS BETTING ON THE FUTURE

Lucy Dacus after boygenius.

STEAL, ADAPT, BORROW

Jonathan Anderson transformed Loewe by radically reinterpreting classic garments. Is Dior next?

PLAYTIME

The old film studios had house styles: M-G-M’s was plush and sentimental, Warner Bros.’ stark and intense.

LIP SERVICE

Zyn and the new nicotine gold rush.

Louisa Thomas on John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu"

The original idea was an assignation. On a dreary Wednesday in September, 1960, John Updike, \"falling in love, away from marriage,\" took a taxi to see his paramour.

TIME AND PLACE

“Tatlin: Kyiv” explores a Russian Constructivist’s Ukrainian identity.

INDESCRIBABLE

The human disaster of the Irish famine.

WHERE'S ELVIS?

Bandits grabbed a kitschy plaster bust. Was it a theft or a liberation?

HOUSE CALL

To rent or to buy is the eternal question.