Maggie Haberman: Gang War in the White House
Maggie Haberman covered Donald Trump years ago for the New York tabloids. Now, in the White House, she has a front-row seat to an Administration unlike any other— uniquely hostile to the media,...
View ArticleGeorge Strait, on the Record with Kelefa Sanneh
George Strait’s career has been remarkable in its steadiness. The artist has cranked out hits so reliably that his catalogue has defined the sound of traditionalist country music since the...
View ArticleCan the First Amendment and the Second Amendment Coexist?
Demonstrators at Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally were allowed to march through the grounds of the University of Virginia carrying flaming torches and assault rifles. Dahlia Lithwick, a legal...
View ArticleLong a Bastion of Free Speech, U.C. Berkeley’s Commitment Is Tested
In the aftermath of the violence at the University of Virginia last month, colleges around the country are cautiously reviewing applications for rallies and lectures on their own campuses. Emotions are...
View ArticleLife Lessons from Origami
Susan Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker, likes to joke that her beat at the magazine is “maniacs.” Ten years ago, she wrote about a former laser physicist who had given up a successful career to...
View ArticleRocket Man and a Barking Dog Talk War
Donald Trump mocked Kim Jong Un by calling him “rocket man,” and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if the U.S. or its allies were attacked. Kim, in turn, dismissed Trump as a “barking dog.”...
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Newly-Discovered Work Brings Mark Twain Into the 21st Century
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Since his death in 1910, Mark Twain’s literary legacy has transformed the author into a larger than life American legend. This week, a new...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Bankers Go to Jail?
Jesse Eisinger’s book “The Chickenshit Club” asks why the Justice Department fails to prosecute financial executives for criminal business dealings. The staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, who has...
View ArticleJennifer Egan on Cops and Mobsters
A lot of people first heard the name Jennifer Egan when her innovative book “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which contained a chapter written as a teen-ager’s PowerPoint presentation, won the Pulitzer...
View ArticleVoter Fraud: A Threat to Democracy, or a Myth?
Donald Trump memorably claimed, without a shred of evidence, that millions of votes cast by undocumented immigrants had given Hillary Clinton the popular vote in the 2016 election. More circumspect...
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 ArticleNoah Baumbach’s Unhappy Families
In his review of “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” the New Yorker critic Anthony Lane paraphrased no less an author than Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families are alike,” Lane wrote, but “every...
View ArticleErica Jong on Grandparents and Grandchildren
Erica Jong is the author of dozens of works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, none more famous than her début, “Fear of Flying,” from 1973. A story about a woman coming to terms with her desire for...
View ArticleBarry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents
Barry Blitt wasn’t into politics—music and hockey were more his things—but as an artist he’s become one of the keenest observers of American politicians. Blitt has contributed more than eighty covers...
View ArticleGagosian Quarterly Talks: Walton Ford and Emma Cline
Join artist Walton Ford and writer Emma Cline for a conversation with WNYC’s Mythili Rao in Gagosian Quarterly’s inaugural talk at The Greene Space.Ford’s newest exhibition is entitled Calafia, now at...
View ArticleSusan Orlean on the Trail of Tonya Harding
The rivalry between the Olympic skaters Tonya Harding, the scrappy tomboy from the wrong side of the tracks, and Nancy Kerrigan, who resembled Jackie Kennedy, was not a friendly one. When Kerrigan was...
View ArticleLouise Erdrich’s Storytelling Addiction
The writer Louise Erdrich’s storytelling addiction “really began when my other addictions failed,” she tells David Remnick. Since the early nineteen-eighties, her work has primarily chronicled Native...
View ArticleRoy Moore, Al Franken, and Washington’s Response to Sexual Misc
Roy Moore was a classic Trumpian candidate: a political outsider of extreme positions, rejected by the establishment and plagued by accusations of scandal. He eventually garnered the full support of...
View ArticleThe New York Times’s New Publisher on the Complicated Future of News
On January first, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, who goes by A. G., will succeed his father Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., as the publisher of the New York Times. At 37, A. G. is young for the job and he’s...
View ArticleFrom a Washington Think Tank, the Conservative View of Immigration
Jessica Vaughan is the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank based in Washington that has favored lower immigration since the eighties, long before it was a...
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