Once upon a time, in the town of Maienfeld, high up in the Swiss Alps, there lived an orphan with a heart of gold. A cruel aunt sent her off to seek her fortune in crowded, sooty Frankfurt, but city life nearly killed her, so she was swiftly returned to the…

Some afternoons are like this—the stupor of Florida lightleaning between a vulture’s black wingswhile he picks apart a garden snakeon the road outside our house.On the road outside our house,an ICE agent surveys our block like a birdwhose hovering means deathis…

Later this week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to issue stock to investors in what is shaping up to be the biggest initial public offering ever. The company has said it will issue 555,555,555 shares at a price of $135, which would value it at about $1.75…

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When the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Louisiana v.Callais, in late April, gutting what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it insisted, unconvincingly, that it was merely offering an “update,” clarifying the precise standards for determining…

Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart” was inspired by a shocking crime with a predictable motive. On the morning of April 7, 1830, in Salem, Massachusetts, Captain Joseph White, aged eighty-two, was found in his bed, bludgeoned and stabbed in the…

A crowded G.O.P. primary is being held to replace South Carolina’s term-limited Republican governor, Henry McMaster. Five candidates have received significant support in statewide polling. Donald Trump has endorsed McMaster’s lieutenant governor, Pamela Evette…

When I started this six-week-long series by asking whether my daughter would be attending college in 2035, the year she turns eighteen, I was pretty sure I already knew the answer. Nine years is a short amount of time, and something disastrous—or, I suppose…

The Trump Administration has argued that the President’s new ballroom “advances critical national-security objectives,” by means of “missile-resistant steel columns, beams, drone-proof roofing materials, and bullet-, ballistic-, and blast-proof glass windows.”…

On the Democratic side, the presumptive nominee is Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and the former harbormaster of Sullivan, Maine. Platner, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is running on a progressive, populist platform, calling for universal…

Last fall, Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, was flying out of Charleston when a security detail that was supposed to escort her to her gate was slow to arrive. According to onlookers, Mace exploded. “Fucking incompetent,” she reportedly…

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“To me, a house is not a home without a pet,” Jill Biden writes in “View from the East Wing,” her new memoir about her tenure as First Lady. “I think there are pet people and non-pet people; you either love animals or you don’t.” Arguable, perhaps, but those…

With a relaunch of “Keep the Meter Running,” on YouTube, the new-media host is trying to turn TikTok-clip fodder into full-blown TV.

New Yorker writers name their favorite short books.

A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.

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What was the last good thing you read? I get asked this a lot when people learn that I edit book reviews for a living. It can be surprisingly hard to answer, because what counts as good depends on the particular taste of the inquirer. There’s an element of…

It’s been nearly four years since we’ve had a new Steven Spielberg picture—an unusually long, but understandable, wait. Spielberg, though as nimble an entertainer as we’ve got, will turn eighty this December, and the halcyon overachieving years of “Jurassic…

The influencer rose to fame by spreading misogyny and male rage. British, Romanian, and American officials may have ignored acts of exploitation and violence.