Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane (Norton). Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be ...

“I’m ready for the exciting last thirty seconds of the basketball game which stretch into twenty-five minutes of fouls, time-outs, and commercials.” A drawing that riffs on the latest news and ...

The recent reopening of the Metropolitan Museum’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing—a spectacular treasury of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas—was fortuitously timed. The renovation, which cost ...

My father worked nights as the desk attendant at a cheap hotel downtown. It was a thankless job behind bulletproof glass, which was all he had to shield him from demented drunks and screeching ...

To celebrate its centenary, The New Yorker invited fiction writers to contribute stories inspired by works from the archive, then to explain why those works inspired them. Sign up to receive the ...

singleness. Nothing is a part of the whole we are a part of. Published in the print edition of the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue. Jorie Graham teaches at Harvard. Her books include the poetry collection ...

To celebrate its centenary, The New Yorker invited fiction writers to contribute stories inspired by works from the archive, then to explain why those works inspired them. Sign up to receive the ...

In the nineteen-fifties, Joe Papp, the founder of the Public Theatre, would travel the five boroughs with a flatbed trailer hitched to a garbage truck, offering free Shakespeare to all New Yorkers.

In 1981, I was a student of art history at Columbia University. I was twenty-one and worked to support myself at a variety of jobs. Columbia was an all-boys school then. Old oak desks and a million ...

Jesse Eisenberg and Meredith Scardino were trying to come up with an idea for a musical, in a conference room in midtown, one recent Sunday. Inspired by a heap of props, they tossed out vague prompts.

In Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, the sport has not only its next great rivalry but a moment that highlights everything ...

The writer discusses her revealing new book of poetry, “Woman Without Shame,” her peripatetic life, and that infamous blurb for “American Dirt.” A new documentary tells the story of the last known ...