News & Culture
The Secret Early History of Queer Foster Families
In the nineteen-seventies, social workers in several states placed queer teen-agers with queer foster parents, in discrete acts of quiet radicalism.
By Michael Waters
A Deportation Nightmare in the Bronx
A DACA recipient spent the pandemic in ICE detention because of what New York City officials admit was an “operational error.”
By Eric Lach
With a Third Vaccine, Are We Finally Winning Against COVID-19?
In a year of emotional ups and downs, even with more variants of the virus, the ups seem to be winning.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Obama and Springsteen Are Here to Lull America
In “Renegades,” their new Spotify podcast, the Boss and the Chief dub themselves rebellious outsiders while playing soothing hits.
By Lauren Michele Jackson
Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State
By Ben Mauk
Art by Matt Huynh
Law Enforcement and the Problem of White Supremacy
By William Finnegan
Anthony Hopkins Remembers It All
By Michael Schulman
Daft Punk Brought Us to the Dance Floor
By Hua Hsu
New Yorker Favorites
Podcasts: Radio Hour
A weekly mix of in-depth interviews, profiles, and more, hosted by David Remnick.
Goings On About Town
The best things happening in New York City, as well as online and streaming.
Puzzles & Games Dept.
Play crosswords, cryptics, and more.
Caption Contest
We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.
Spotlight
Sunday Reading: Honoring Black History Month
From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of writing on race, civil rights, and justice.
By The New Yorker
The Depressive Realism of “The Life of the Mind”
Christine Smallwood’s début novel inhabits the abyss between what we think about and what we actually do.
By Jia Tolentino
The Good, the Bad, and the Shameful in America’s COVID-19 Response
Were Americans too unruly, or did elected officials expect too little of them?
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women
How a Harvard professor’s dubious scholarship reignited a history of mistrust between South Korea and Japan.
By Jeannie Suk Gersen
Tom Stoppard’s Charmed and Haunted Life
A new biography enables us to see beneath the intellectual dazzle of the playwright’s work.
By Anthony Lane
Shaka King Grapples with Hollywood and History
The director discusses what he owes to the Black Panther Party, and to the Black filmmakers who came before him.
By Jelani Cobb
E-mail Is Making Us Miserable
In an attempt to work more effectively, we’ve accidentally deployed an inhumane way to collaborate.
By Cal Newport
In Focus
The Coronavirus Crisis
Coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the science of vaccines to the culture of quarantine.
Racial Injustice and Policing
Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and the long history of racism in America.
Reopening and the Economy
The impact of the pandemic and the efforts at recovery.
The Future of Democracy
An exploration of democracy in America.
From This Week’s Issue
Siddhartha Mukherjee on why some countries seem to have been spared the worst of COVID, Nick Paumgarten on restaurants fighting extinction, Anthony Lane on Tom Stoppard, and more.
Humor
What in Hamnation
I won’t lie—the ham became very demanding. It wanted to watch TV all the time.
By Mimi Pond
Robbie: A User’s Guide
The Baby does not come with college tuition included, but you knew that going in, right?
By Evan Waite and River Clegg
Trump to Announce He Has Won 2024 Election
He will use his CPAC speech to claim that any attempt to allege that 2024 has not arrived yet is “a rigged hoax.”
By Andy Borowitz
A Sneak Peek at Donald Trump’s Tax Documents
Our artist captures the D.A. office’s first impressions.
By Barry Blitt
Plots of Eighties Movies if Their Protagonists Had Been People of Color
“Back to the Future,” “Footloose,” “Hoosiers,” and other eighties classics reimagined without the white people.
By Carlos Greaves
Advice My Parents Gave Me Versus Advice I Will Give My Kids
Marry someone from a good family? Or from a good tech startup?
By Danielle Kraese and Irving Ruan
Fiction & Poetry
“Good-Looking”
“Dad was encouraged to flirt with women at the gym. Harmless flirting. Talking and smiling and being friendly, being nice. Leave the rest up to the imagination.”
By Souvankham Thammavongsa
“Allegory”
“I’d like to think / that, freed of self-hype, he realized his mask was not a shield.”
By Gregory Pardlo
Souvankham Thammavongsa on Being Alone as a Love Story
The author discusses “Good-Looking,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine.
By Cressida Leyshon