Books
Emily Dickinson’s Singular Scrap Poetry
By Dan Chiasson
On letters, envelopes, and chocolate wrappers, the poet wrote lines that transcend the printed page.
Books & Fiction
Page-Turner
Ivanka Trump’s Terrible, Revealing Book
By Jia Tolentino
What can a woman born with a silver spoon in her mouth teach people who use plastic forks to eat salads at their desks?
Page-Turner
The Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript
By Josephine Livingstone
Some of the greatest code breakers in history have tried to decipher this medieval text. No one has succeeded.
Spotlight
A Critic at Large
If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots?
By Nathan Heller
We can think of ourselves as an animal’s peer—or its protector. What will robots decide about us?
Page-Turner
Christine Who Fed the Hungry
By Emily Gould
She knew that each meal might be the diners’ only hot one all week, and she wanted to make it as nourishing as she could.
Books
The Case Against Democracy
By Caleb Crain
If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare?
Personal History
Lessons from My Mother
By James Wood
I had a sense that she was a good teacher, but I had no idea that she was such an influential one, and in the very area I had chosen.
Fiction
Poetry
Poems
“Rose Tantrum”
By Michael Earl Craig
“A rose. / A tantrum. An angel saying / it was the sink.”
Poems
“Esposito & Son”
By Anna Scotti
“When the younger man went to fetch a blanket I bent / and laid my cheek flat against the cool mahogany.”
Poems
“Old West Days”
By Brian Russell
“It was just after the war of course / which everyone had been so excited about.”
The Aftermath
News Desk
An American Tragedy
By David Remnick
Trump ascends to the Presidency.
Letter from Washington
President Trump’s First Term
By Evan Osnos
In September, a writer speculated about what kind of Commander-in-Chief the candidate would be.
The Political Scene
The Party Crashers
By Jill Lepore
Is the new populism about the message or the medium?
A Reporter at Large
Trumptown
By Larissa MacFarquhar
West Virginia used to vote solidly Democratic. Now it belongs to Trump. What happened?
Podcasts
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker
Robert Coover Reads “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm”
“The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.”
