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When Philosophers Become Therapists

Can the heady, logical insights of philosophers help us live better lives? Nick Romeo meets the philosopher-therapists who want to put its ideas into practice.

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The Lede

Reporting and analysis on the affairs of the day.

Should the Fourteenth Amendment Be Used to Disqualify Trump?

The Colorado decision opens the way not just for more whining about witch hunts but for unprecedented confusion about whether and where Trump is on the ballot.

Colorado’s Top Court Kicked Trump Off the Ballot. Will the Supreme Court Agree?

A legal scholar analyzes how the nine Justices are likely to view the blockbuster decision.

When Americans Are the Threat at the Border

Many people charged with trafficking in Tucson are U.S. citizens, suffering from the same problems of poverty and addiction that plague the rest of the country.

The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library

The library has been incapacitated since October, and the effects have spread beyond researchers and book lovers.

The Beach Town and the Border Closure

The shutting of a crossing in Arizona has reduced access to a popular Mexican beach town, leading to outrage from unfamiliar sources.

Ross McDonnell’s Life and Work Were All About Connection

We filmed the Taliban courts together. When my friend and colleague disappeared, I started reëxamining his films and photographs.

There Are No Safe Places in Gaza

As Israel’s military campaign has expanded into southern Gaza, displaced families have been forced to move again and again.

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Annals of Gaming

Can Crosswords Be More Inclusive?

The puzzles spread from the United States across the globe, but the American crossword today doesn’t always reflect the linguistic changes that immigration brings.

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2023 in Review

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories

The articles that sustained the longest hold on readers during a year when many avoided the news.

This Year’s Best Theatre

On Broadway and off, a return to deep introspection—and Stephen Sondheim.

The Year in Moviegoing

Some large, loud, and costly films were so poorly conceived that they led me to wonder, Why not get A.I. to write them?

Notable Classical Recordings

I can’t remember a year of so many pleasure-inducing, addiction-triggering albums.

The Year of Ozempic

We may look back on new weight-loss drugs as some of the greatest advances in the annals of chronic disease.

The Best TV Shows

The industry faces an uncertain future, but this year’s finest rival those of the Peak TV era.

The Best Books

Our editors and critics on the year’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The Best Movies

The superhero-industrial complex is tottering, and there’s major creative energy in the realm of production.

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Annals of Inquiry

Game Theory

Board-game design can be personal and even political. What can board games say that other art forms can’t?

December 21, 2023

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The Defining Political Moments of 2023

Kevin McCarthy’s Humiliating Bid for Speaker

In January, McCarthy endured multiple rounds of voting before being confirmed.

The Stunning End to Dominion’s Case Against Fox News

In April, the network agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle the voting-machine company’s defamation suit.

Revelations About Dark Money and the Supreme Court

In May, our political roundtable discussed the Court’s ethics scandals and the role of the conservative activist Leonard Leo in reshaping the legal system.

Americans Worry About the Washington Gerontocracy

In September, the prospect of a Presidential contest between two ancients raised the question: What are young people to make of a political culture where incumbents cling so stubbornly to power?

Israel and Gaza at War

An October report from the ground after Hamas attacked Israel and Israel unleashed a shattering response.

Donald Trump’s Trials

A December review of the ex-President’s legal strategy shows him mounting a campaign against the prosecutors, the courts, the Biden Administration, and the idea that he should be held accountable.

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The Cartoons and Puzzles Issue 2023

All around the city, ’tis the season for games, goofs, and gags.

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U.S. Journal

An Unpermitted Shooting Range Upends Life in a Quiet Town

Residents of Pawlet, Vermont, were accustomed to calm and neighborly interactions. Then a new resident moved in.

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The Critics

Page-Turner

A Forgotten Book of Christmas Poems

“American Christmas,” first published in 1965, includes both classic and nearly unknown works, and widens a reader’s sense of what the holiday might mean.

The Current Cinema

Michael Mann’s Beguiling “Ferrari”

The film, starring Adam Driver as the company’s founder, features the trusty components of a Mann movie: the smooth mechanics of professional labor, plus the exhaust manifold of men’s emotional lives.

The Theatre

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, on Broadway at Last

Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright’s “Appropriate” investigates a dysfunctional Southern family’s buried secrets.

Culture Desk

The Poignant Physicality of Zac Efron

The new wrestling movie “Iron Claw” follows a band of sorrow-haunted brothers. But it’s Efron’s body that best telegraphs pain.

Listening Booth

Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” Sequel Is Pure Spectacle

The rapper’s new album harkens back to her début, but it mostly serves as a reminder that times have drastically changed.

Page-Turner

The Splendor of Wordless Picture Books

Many of the best such books pursue simple ideas but demand more from adults as readers, and as caregivers.

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A Reporter at Large

The World’s Fastest Road Cars—and the People Who Drive Them

“Hypercars” can approach or even exceed 300 m.p.h. Often costing millions of dollars, they’re ostentatious trophies—and sublime engines of innovation.

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Goings On

What to see, eat, and do, in New York City and beyond.

January Is Experimental-Theatre Month

Rachel Syme on a New Year’s Eve gala at the Met Opera, Sheldon Pearce on Frankie Cosmos’s pithy songs, and more.

Exceptional Thai Food at UnTable

Shauna Lyon reviews a cheerful new Carroll Gardens restaurant that serves modern iterations of classic Thai dishes.

End-of-Year Movie Picks

Richard Brody on the season’s awards-targeting releases. Plus, more recommendations from our culture editors.

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Comic Strip

Patricia Highsmith’s Vanishing Panels

The secret history of the novelist’s career in comics.

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Special Puzzles & Games

A gift bag of fun for the holidays.

Seeing Stars

Decipher the names of nine New York celebrities.

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Lost in Central Park

Solve your way out to reveal a cartoon caption.

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Triple Play Crossword

A whopper of a puzzle.

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Track Maintenance

The M.T.A. needs your help!

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Trimming the Tree

Transform the words on the tree to solve the puzzle.

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Cryptic Crossword

Uptown, downtown.

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Only in New York

A number of things are amiss on this city block.

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The Dawn of the Celebrity Power Couple

From Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, the first rule of the A-list relationship is clear: It always involves more than two people.

How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker

The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top.

Piecing Together My Father’s Murder

I was too young to remember what happened to my dad, and no one explained it to me. So I tried to assemble the story myself.

The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle

Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.
The New Yorker Interview

Talia Ryder Says Yes to Adventure

The twenty-one-year-old actress, who stars in the indie romp “The Sweet East,” on her early years as a child performer, making meaningful art in a man’s world, and why Madonna is her role model.

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Comics from Around N.Y.C.

On the Town, Not Forever Ago

A rambling jaunt through lower Manhattan is full of delights and a taxidermied monkey.

In Search of Happy Hour

One woman’s quest to find the elusive place to grab a drink in New York City.

Dumb Luck

A new transplant to New York City encounters omens, good and bad.

Return to New York City

Revisiting old haunts leads to revelations about “real life.”

Sunday in Times Square with Elmo

The pipe dream versus reality of a pilgrimage to Broadway.

Spent It with Lou (Reed)

What’s better than seeing famous artists in New York City doing mundane crap?

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Fiction from the Archives

William Trevor

Selected Stories

Photograph from Alamy
William Trevor published four dozen stories in The New Yorker before he died, in 2016. In measured, sometimes wry, sometimes sombre tones, these immersive narratives follow a cast of characters that includes the farmers, clergy, shopkeepers, and office workers who inhabit the countryside, the cities, and what Stephen Schiff called the “backward villages in England and Ireland with narrow streets full of dogs and bicycles and small boys and nuns.”

Selected Stories

Mrs. Crasthorpe

“She’d been impulsive once upon a time, hasty and not caring that she was. Tups had called her a spur-of-the-moment girl.”

The Woman of the House

“It was the talk of the country, he said, the skills young Polish boys brought to Ireland.”

Faith

“For a moment, he thought he had fallen down, but he had not. He thought he could not see, but he could see.”

Bravado

“Nobody spoke while the assault was taking place, not in the garden, not on the road.”

The Talk of the Town

The Bench

A Front-Row Ticket to Trump Schadenfreude

Dept. of Dudes

The Meathead Getting Other Meatheads to Read

D.I.Y. Dept.

Three Indie Funk Stars Walk Into a Sauna

Sketchpad

Little Acts of Holiday Rudeness

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