New Mexico Is a “Safe Haven” for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared the state a “reproductive safe haven”...
The Nerdwriter Conquers the Internet, Plus Kelefa Sanneh on Country Radio
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Puschak, known on YouTube as the Nerdwriter, posts videos dissecting topics from Shakespeare an...
The Writer Dmitry Bykov on Putin’s Russia, the Land of the “Most Free Slaves”
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Until very recently, Dmitry Bykov was a huge presence on the Russian literary scene. He is a novelis...
The Comedian Hannah Gadsby Renounces Comedy, and Patricia Marx Tries to Relax
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The comedian Hannah Gadsby has been touring this summer with a show called “Body of Work.” She c...
What Precedents Would Clarence Thomas Overturn Next?
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Justice Clarence Thomas once was an outlier for his legal views. But Thomas is now the heart of the ...
Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime. But she was...
Jia Tolentino and Stephania Taladrid on the End of Roe v. Wade
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dobbs case was not a surprise; given the draft opinion that was ...
Why Do Conservatives Love Hungary’s Viktor Orbán?
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz first heard that the Conservative Political Action C...
Alan Alda, Podcaster
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Alda spent his early years in the burlesque theatres where his father, the actor Robert Alda, w...
Forget Dating Apps—the “Marriage Pact” Goes for the Long Haul
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A survey that started as a student project at Stanford University has become a popular dating and re...
Dexter Filkins on the Rise of Ron DeSantis
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has shown himself uniquely skilled at attracting attention beyond the ...
Michael R. Jackson on “A Strange Loop,” His Black, Queer Coming-of-Age Musical
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael R. Jackson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “A Strange Loop” features a Black...
The Adrenaline Rush of Racing Drones
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelle...
Regina Spektor on Her New Album, “Home, Before and After”
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a bac...
Masha Gessen on the Quiet in Kyiv
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Masha Gessen is reporting for The New Yorker on the war in Ukraine, which is now in its fourth month...
“The Book of Queer,” and “Bob’s Burgers” Hits the Big Screen
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While working on his Ph.D., the historian Eric Cervini (whose book “The Deviant’s War” was a f...
Remembering Roger Angell, and Fishing with Karen Chee
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Angell, who died last week, at the age of 101, was inducted in 2014 into the Baseball Hall of ...
What Makes a Mass Shooter?
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In America, unthinkable violence has become routine. In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass sh...
Florence and the Machine, Live at The New Yorker Festival
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul; t...
The Attack on Gender-Affirming Medical Care
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Across the United States, conservative politicians are leading a backlash against L.G.B.T.Q. identit...
The Comedian Megan Stalter on Finding Inspiration in American Absurdity
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before the pandemic, Megan Stalter was an unknown comedian, trying to catch a lucky break at clubs i...
The Battle After Roe v. Wade
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Assuming that Justice Samuel Alito’s final opinion in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jacks...
Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is in a genre all its own—you could call it sci-fi-martial...
The Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi; and a Look at White Empathy
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, a draft opinion was leaked which suggests that a majority of Supreme Court Justices are r...
Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Gr...
A Ukrainian Diplomat on the Future of Russian Aggression
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters a third month, prospects of ending the conflict are still ...
Viola Davis on Playing Michelle Obama, and Finding Her Voice as an Actor
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis traces her career in Hollywood back to a single moment of inspir...
Ronan Farrow on the Threat of Modern Spyware
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ronan Farrow has published an investigation into a software called Pegasus and its maker, NSO Group....
“We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and a Short History of Movies about the Internet
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet can be a scary place in real life, and far more so in Jane Schoenbrun’s film “We’...
Jennifer Egan on the Literary Pleasures of the Concept Album
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” one of the most anticipated books of the year, h...
Anita Hill and Jane Mayer on Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the State of the Supreme Court
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been voted in as a Supreme Court Justice—the first Black woman to serve ...
The Missing Boater
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dick Conant spent years of his life crisscrossing America by canoe, like a Mark Twain character. On ...
Investigating January 6th
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With a judge declaring that Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony in his attemp...
Connor Ratliff Talks with Sarah Larson, Plus Chef Bryant Terry
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An aspiring actor named Connor Ratliff thought he had it made when he got a small part on the 2001 m...
Jill Lepore on Parents’ Rights and the Culture War
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A wave of book bannings sweeping the country, along with conservative fury over titles like “Antir...
Returning to the Office . . . While Black
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Coming back to work is partially about surveillance and micromanagement,” Keisha, a podcasting ...
Radio Ukraine
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukra...
Jane Campion on “The Power of the Dog”
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” opens like a classic Western: cattle are herded across t...
Stephen Kotkin: Don’t Blame the West for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukrai...
Pauline Kael on “The Godfather”
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As The New Yorker’s film critic from 1968 to around 1991, the influential Pauline Kael gave voice ...
Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa on the Escalation of Violence in Ukraine
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, but he has been travelling throughout t...
Sheryl Lee Ralph on Confronting Hollywood
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sheryl Lee Ralph has been a staple of Black entertainment for decades. She played Deena Jones in the...
How Black Creators Are Changing Hollywood
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few years, it seems a floodgate has opened, releasing a deluge of tremendously successfu...
How Should President Biden Respond to Putin’s War on Ukraine?
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since last summer, Russian troops have been amassing on the Ukrainian border, and, in recent weeks, ...
Peter Dinklage on “Cyrano”
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Wright’s film “Cyrano,” nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, was based ...
Nicholas Britell on the Art of the Film Score
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Britell has emerged as one of the most in-demand film composers working today, creating ori...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Path Forward for the Left
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most prominent progressives in Washington. Her political asce...
On Cancel Culture and the State of Free Speech
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every few weeks, it seems, another example of so-called cancel culture is dominating the headlines a...
David Remnick Talks with Lee Child, the Creator of Jack Reacher
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Child didn’t start writing novels until he lost a prestigious job producing TV in England duri...
Black Thought Takes the Stage
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tariq Trotter, best known in music as Black Thought, the emcee of the Roots, is regarded by many hip...
Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper on the Enduring Appeal of Noir
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Guillermo del Toro has been called the leading fantasy filmmaker of this century. His movies include...
Russia’s Intentions in Ukraine—and America
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“They push buttons,” says Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale. “What button of ours...
The Trials of a Whistle-blower
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center—a Georgia facility run by LaSalle Corrections, a p...
The Olympic Games Return to China, in a Changed World
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Much has changed since China last hosted the Olympics, during the 2008 Summer Games. Those Games wer...
Hilton Als and Emma Cline on the Late Joan Didion
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Didion tried and failed, she said, “to think”; that is, to write about abstractions and sym...
The Biden Presidency, Year One
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden took the oath of office in a moment of deep crisis—the pandemic in full swing and ...
Nnedi Okorafor on Sci-Fi Through an African Lens
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nnedi Okorafor, a recipient of the prestigious Hugo Award, is a prolific writer of science-fiction a...
A New Civil War in America?
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When rioters, encouraged by the President, stormed the Capitol, one year ago, to overturn the result...
The Power of Police Unions
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The repeal of Section 50-A of the New York State Civil Rights Law was no technical change. Passed in...
Amanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One year ago, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day that Joe Biden became President....
For a French Burglar, Stealing Masterpieces Is Easier Than Selling Them
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vjeran Tomic has been stealing since he was a small child, when he used a ladder to break into a lib...
Rhiannon Giddens, Americana’s Queen, Goes Global
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By the standards of any musician, Rhiannon Giddens has taken a twisting and complex path. Trained as...
When Snow Came to San Juan
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For several years in the early nineteen-fifties, Puerto Rico received snow, right around Christmas. ...
Is the Gift of Tuition Enough?
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Élite schools are trying hard to recruit students of color and students who are less well-off finan...
Millennial Writers Reflect on a Generation’s Despair
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The eldest millennials turned forty this year, and the producer Ngofeen Mputubwele comments on a s...
Paul Thomas Anderson, Poet Laureate of the San Fernando Valley
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Thomas Anderson first made a splash in Hollywood with his film “Boogie Nights,” a portrait ...
Life After Prison
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a kid, Jonathan was good at soccer and making friends. But by the age of eighteen, he was a drug ...
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has the largest prison population in the world. But, until the publication of Mich...
Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called “Q...
Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At The New Yorker Festival, Dave Grohl talked with Kelefa Sanneh about Grohl’s new book, “The St...
Mexican Abortion Activists Mobilize to Aid Texans
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mexico is a deeply Catholic nation where abortion was, for a long time, criminalized in many states;...
If Roe v. Wade Goes, What Next?
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court, with a six-to-three majority of conservative justices, is hearing critical cases ...
The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After storms and other climate disasters, legions of workers appear overnight to cover blown-out bui...
Anna Deavere Smith Retells Rodney King’s Story in Theatre
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” premièred nearly thirty years ago, but it’s one of the most cur...
Rachel Held Evans and Her Legacy
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up, Rachel Held Evans was a fiercely enthusiastic evangelizer for her faith, the kind of kid...
Will the Office Survive the Pandemic?
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cal Newport, the author of “A World without Email” and other books, has been writing about how t...
Wole Soyinka on His New Satire of Corruption and Fundamentalism
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wole Soyinka is a giant of world literature. A Nobel laureate, he’s written more than two dozen pl...
The Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa on the Turmoil at Facebook
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The roughly ten thousand company documents that make up the Facebook Papers show a company in turmoi...
Jane Goodall Talks with Andy Borowitz
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Goodall is as revered a figure as modern science has to offer, though she prefers to call herse...
How a Girls’ School Fled Afghanistan as the Taliban Took Over
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer, Shabana Basij-Rasikh came on the Radio Hour to speak with Sue Halpern about founding ...
Jon Stewart: “That’s Not Cancel Culture”
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” defined an era. For more than sixteen years, Stewart and his m...
Daniel Craig Takes Off the Tux
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Craig made his career as an actor in the theatre and in British indie films. When he showed u...
Kara Walker Talks with Thelma Golden
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kara Walker is one of our most influential living artists. Walker won a MacArthur Fellowship (the “...
An Interview with Merrick Garland, and Susan Orlean on Animals
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At The New Yorker Festival, the renowned investigative journalist Jane Mayer asked Attorney General ...
Broadway’s Unusual Reopening, and Amanda Petrusich Picks Three
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Broadway theatres are welcoming audiences to a new season, mounting original works and restaging sho...
Jonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads”
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the n...
Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Malm, a climate activist and senior lecturer at Lund University, in Sweden, studies the rela...
Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the Nat...
Joaquin Castro: “Americans Don’t Know Who Latinos Are”
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a preliminary report on the long-standi...
Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright on “The French Dispatch”
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do a New Yorker movie,” Wes An...
Bonus: “The French Dispatch” Reads The New Yorker
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The French Dispatch,” is about a magazine, and it was inspired by An...
The Insidious Procedural Traps of the Texas Abortion Law
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new Texas law Senate Bill 8 effectively outlaws abortion in Texas, violating constitutional prot...
Remembering September 11th, and the Future of the Taliban
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years after the events of September 11th, the writer Edwidge Danticat reads from her essay “...
The Child Tax Credit: One Small Step Toward Universal Basic Income?
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick talks with Senator Michael Bennet, of Colorado, who campaigned for the Presidency in 2...
Riz Ahmed on “Mogul Mowgli”
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a rapper, Riz Ahmed has released critically acclaimed albums, and he was featured on the chart-to...
Kim Stanley Robinson on “Utopian” Science Fiction
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry fo...
The Joy of Beach Reads
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest host, Vinson Cunningham, looks at the joys of the beach read, hitting Brighton Beach on a ...
Home Cooking with Jacques Pepin and Klancy Miller
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For generations of cooks, Jacques Pépin has been the master. Early in his career he cooked for emin...
Dexter Filkins on the Fall of Afghanistan
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dexter Filkins covered the American invasion of Afghanistan when he was a reporter for the New York ...
Liesl Tommy, Director of “Respect”
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, the greatest voice of her generation, an eighteen-time Grammy...