Mary Gaitskill reads and discusses “The Five-Forty-Eight,” by John Cheever
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A populist uprising in an online multiplayer video game, and Jonathan Franzen’s favorite place to spot birds.
In 1987, Richard Nixon wrote to Donald Trump, expressing his optimism about Trump’s future political prospects. Was it a bad omen for Trump?
Lily Tomlin reflects on falling in love and breaking taboos, and reporters in Washington and Moscow look at Trump’s vexed relationship with Russia.
Three actors in conversation at The New Yorker Festival.
Anthony Bourdain talks writing, travel, and President Obama’s eating habits, and Robin Wright looks at the dangers of foreign policy conducted by tweet.
Two doctors describe how Trump’s policies may affect patient care, and a brief history of entertainers making political statements on Oscar night.
An N.F.L. pro struggles to balance safety against a certain necessary brutality, and BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith on covering Trump.
We take the temperature of the Middle East peace process. Plus, Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, Run the Jewels’ oldster rap, and the lifesaving benefits of a standing desk.
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Thomas Mallon joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what Trump could learn from Nixon’s scandal-plagued Presidency.
Three reporters compare notes on the evolving scandals that involve Russia and the Trump Administration.
George Packer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss whether the President’s new pick for national-security adviser, H. R. McMaster, can impose order on Trump’s foreign-policy endeavors.
On “Key & Peele,” Keegan-Michael Key played the hotheaded id of Barack Obama. But he yearns to play another vexed leader: Othello.
Dorothy Wickenden talks to Sissela Bok about President Trump's continued assault on the truth for The New Yorker's Political Scene podcast.
Robin Wright sits down with former top officials in intelligence and diplomacy for a frank conversation about where “America first” really leads.
Ryan Lizza joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how Donald Trump is stoking fear rather than confidence about the future of American democracy.
Gawande fears that abolishing the Affordable Care Act will lead to a decline in patients seeking primary care and a rise in preventable deaths.
Trump’s executive order on immigration is intended to prevent terrorists from entering the country. But it’s also keeping physicians out.
BuzzFeed published an unverified dossier full of damning information about Donald Trump. Did it damage the media’s credibility at a precarious moment?
Jim Stewart joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the populist candidate came to love Wall Street, and why he refuses to release his tax returns.
Three perspectives on the narrowing chance for an agreement between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza.
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The Booker Prize-winning fiction writer reads her short story from the latest edition of the magazine.
"Take back your mink, take back your pearls. But you don’t sing that song, it’s not in your key. Let some other girl sing it. The type who gets a smile from a cop even if she’s crossing Broadway in her oldest Terylene housedress. You don’t have that luxury."
“The five women have grown old coming together, every other month or so for the last thirty or more years, around one another’s table.”
“Kirsten’s commute is when she really focusses on whether she has the power to destroy Lucy Headrick’s life.”
“Love, in all forms, had turned into a kind of regret.”
“She found it hurtful to see other people’s smiling, healthy families or, even worse, to hear about lives that seemed as fragile as her own.”
“It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact.”
“Jerome, with a very serious expression, asked what Dom would do if an alien wanted to have sex with him.”
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Mary Gaitskill reads and discusses “The Five-Forty-Eight,” by John Cheever
Junot Díaz reads and discusses “Seven,” by Edwidge Danticat.
Richard Powers reads and discusses “A Visit,” by Steven Millhauser.
David Means reads and discusses “The Toughest Indian in the World,” by Sherman Alexie.
Ben Marcus reads and discusses “A Dream of Men,” by Mary Gaitskill.
Karen Russell reads “From the Fifteenth District,” by Mavis Gallant.
Annie Proulx reads “A Losing Game,” by J. F. Powers.
Alice Mattison reads “The First American,” by Lore Segal.
Ben Lerner joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss John Berger’s “Woven, Sir,” from a 2001 issue of the magazine.
Karl Ove Knausgaard joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss V. S. Naipaul’s “Jack’s Garden,” from a 1986 issue of the magazine.
Dana Spiotta joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Joy Williams’s “Chicken Hill,” from a 2015 issue of the magazine.
Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Frank O’Connor’s “The Masculine Principle,” from a 1950 issue of the magazine.
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Young joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Berryman’s poem “A Sympathy, A Welcome” and his own poem “Oblivion.”
Brenda Shaughnessy joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss C. D. Wright’s poem “Like a Prisoner of Soft Words,” and her own poem “I Have a Time Machine.”
A member of The New Yorker’s fact-checking department joins the magazine’s poetry editor to discuss the process a poem undergoes before publication.
Jonathan Galassi joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Frederick Seidel’s “Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin,” and his own poem “Lunch Poem for F.S.”
Amit Majmudar joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Christopher Reid’s “The Confusions,” and his own poem “Invocation.”
Myles joins the magazine’s poetry editor to read and discuss James Schuyler’s “White Boat, Blue Boat,” and her own poem “Dissolution.”
Joyce Carol Oates joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike’s “A Lightened Life,” and her own poem “This Is the Season.”
Billy Collins joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Eamon Grennan’s “Sea Dog,” and his own poem “Table Talk.”
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Alex Ross and Richard Brody join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss the particular genius of Orson Welles, and his evolving legacy.
Nicholas Dawidoff and Adam Gopnik join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss why we sports fans love the teams we love.
Carrie Battan and Kelefa Sanneh join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss R. & B. artists from the Weeknd to Aretha Franklin.
Nicola Twilley and Joshua Rothman discuss our complicated relationship with all things icky.
In light of a new biography of Joan Didion, Louis Menand and Thessaly La Force join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss her influence.
Sarah Larson and Andrew Marantz join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss self-help, podcasting, and how the two have converged.
Nick Paumgarten and Reeves Wiedeman join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss the stars of the U.S. Open.
Bianca Bosker and Rachel Arons join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss the language of wine.
Adam Gopnik, Sarah Larson, Amelia Lester, and David Haglund talk about how children’s books have evolved and why they’re worth revisiting as adults.
Hua Hsu and Karan Mahajan join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss the MTV documentary “White People.”
Joshua Rothman and Nicholas Thompson join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss just how scared we should be of robots.
Richard Brody and Sarah Larson join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to discuss “Trainwreck” and the comedy of Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow.