Vinson Cunningham’s City Hall Wedding
If he had ever thought about his wedding day, Vinson Cunningham would have assumed it would be in a church. But when the time came to get married, Cunningham and his fiancée, Renée Chung, didn’t want...
View ArticleWilliam Barber on Faith and Politics
In January, 2021, the Reverend William J. Barber II of the Greenleaf Christian Church delivered the homily for the inaugural prayer service. His appearance, speaking to, and for, the new...
View ArticleSusan Orlean Gets a Lesson in Origami
Susan Orlean likes to joke that her beat at The New Yorker is “maniacs.” Ten years ago, she wrote about a former laser physicist who had given up a successful career to become an origami artist. In...
View ArticleAstrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their tough Amsterdam neighborhood, and as children of an abusive father, it wasn’t a shocking development....
View ArticleDexter Filkins on the Ruthlessness of Mohammed bin Salman
When the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, first took power, he was widely hailed as a reformer. Bin Salman promised to overhaul the oil-dependent economy, to usher in cultural reform,...
View ArticleKwame Anthony Appiah on the Complications of Identity
Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of leading thinkers on identity. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah also writes the New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist column, answering...
View ArticleAstrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their tough Amsterdam neighborhood, and as children of an abusive father, it wasn’t a shocking development....
View ArticleVinson Cunningham’s City Hall Wedding
If he had ever thought about his wedding day, Vinson Cunningham would have assumed it would be in a church. But when the time came to get married, Cunningham and his fiancée, Renée Chung, didn’t want...
View ArticleTommy Orange and the Urban Native Experience
Tommy Orange had never read a book about what it means to be a Native American living in a big city. In a conversation with The New Yorker’s fiction editor Deborah Treisman, Orange says that urban...
View ArticleWould Everybody Please Stop?
Jenny Allen has something she’d like to say to you—or, rather, some things she’d like you to stop saying. “Would Everybody Please Stop?,” a litany of cutesy phrases and figures of speech that bug the...
View ArticleJames Wood Is Done “Prosecuting Wars”
When James Wood joined The New Yorker as a literary critic, he promised that he wouldn’t “go soft”: he was well known at The New Republic for battles with prominent writers whose styles he found...
View ArticleFrom Beach Reads to Searing Memoirs: What to Read This Summer
Summer (unofficially) kicked off last weekend, but if you haven't found the perfect book to dig into yet, The Takeaway has you covered. Mythili Rao, producer for The New Yorker Radio Hour, brought her...
View ArticleAnother Fiasco for American Soccer
The 2018 World Cup begins this week in Russia, and America is taking a powder. The men’s team failed to qualify for the tournament after a stunning upset loss to Trinidad and Tobago, which is...
View ArticleIn the Civil Service, Loyalty Now Comes Before Expertise
Donald Trump came into office promising to make so many cuts to the government that “your head will spin.” Evan Osnos has been reporting from Washington on how the Administration is radically changing...
View ArticleMarco Rubio: “Modernizing” Conservatism
Not so long ago, Senator Marco Rubio was seen as the shining future of the G.O.P.: a staunch, national-security-minded conservative who was young, charismatic, and a popular Latino politician in a...
View ArticleAn Architect of the Iran Deal Sees Her Work Crumbling
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Washington, speaks with Wendy Sherman about the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as...
View ArticleDunya Mikhail on the Lives Stolen by ISIS
Before she was placed on the list of Saddam Hussein’s enemies, the poet Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer. When threats against her became frequent, Mikhail left the...
View ArticleICE Comes to a Small Town in Tennessee
Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted its largest workplace raid in a decade, in the tiny town of Bean Station, Tennessee. The owner of a meat-packing plant was being...
View ArticleStacey Abrams Runs to Make History in Georgia
A groundswell of women are seeking congressional seats this year, as Margaret Talbot recently reported, and an all-time high of seventy-eight women are expected to run for governor. Among them is...
View ArticleRoss Douthat on the Trumpian Side of Pope Francis
As a conservative columnist at the New York Times, Ross Douthat fills the post once held by no less a figure than William Kristol. A devout Catholic, Douthat opposes the progressive direction in which...
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