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How I Became a Lock Picker
For those who appreciate “locksport,” a well-crafted lock may be more interesting than whatever it locks up.
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“Fjord” Keeps the Faith
In Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or-winning drama, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, a family of conservative Christian immigrants…
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What to Read if You Loved “East of Eden”
Our TV critic on how the original compares to the adaptation.
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MacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut
Scott’s decision to self-publish could be seen as a protest against her ex-husband’s company—or as a sign of how profoundly it’s altered…
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Restaurant Review: Trudie’s Tavern
The new spot in Brooklyn joins its siblings, Gertrude’s and Gertie, as a bastion of playfully Ashkenazi-ish cooking.
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Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters
Jeremy Strong on finding sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg, Kendall Roy, and Roy Cohn—and why the New Yorker Profile of him still stings.
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Zoe Kazan’s Heady and Bighearted “East of Eden”
While Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist duke it out as John Steinbeck’s Trask brothers, Florence Pugh’s Cathy is a gothic villain you…
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Is What We’re Watching True or False?
A.I. is everywhere, and it’s often hard to tell what’s even real. Vinson Cunningham writes about the rise of A.I. in advertisements.
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Caleb Hammer’s Humiliation Economy
Caleb Hammer, the host of the popular YouTube series “Financial Audit,” claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially…
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Taryn Simon’s Father Figures
In a new show at the Guggenheim, the artist grapples with patriotism and patriarchy through the long career of an anonymous F.B.I. agent.
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“Resident Evil” Is Fun, but Soulless. What Else Could It Be?
Zach Cregger’s new “Resident Evil” movie is a great video-game adaptation. Does that make it a great film?
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“NAZA” Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza
In this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers…
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Even Ed Sheeran’s Apology Took Both Sides
After allowing Macklemore to be removed from his tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, the pop star took the stage in Philadelphia alone, said…
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Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur
The TV writer-actor on the sandwich generation, finding love onscreen, and growing older with her shows.
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Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward.
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A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good
Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism.
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What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom
Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech…
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Fluid New Novel
“Exit Party” is an elegant crime story with sci-fi shadings.
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The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, and Poetry.
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The Long Doomsday of A.I.
After industry-wide calls for A.I. regulation, what’s most concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed…
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“The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World
John Wilson’s first feature, a whimsical personal documentary, reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of concrete: the…
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The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy
Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out…
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My Weekend with an A.I. Agent
What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of…