In less than twenty-four hours, he would take the Suneung again, and, for the past three years, he had done little but sleep, eat, and study for this exam.

Recently, the actor and playwright Eric Bogosian, seventy-three, was relaxing in his sunny, cactus-filled office, in Tribeca. Bogosian, who plays the interviewer on AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire,” is wiry and affably neurotic;…

“The sun is hot,” Alan Jackson sings, accompanied by a trio of jaunty guitars (electric, acoustic, and pedal steel), and for a moment this sounds like a celebration. Instead, it turns out to be the beginning of a complaint: The sun is hot and that old clock…

For years now, in office and out, Donald Trump has been unabashed about his desire to see reporters behind bars. The President’s fantasies can, at times, take on a lurid tone. Campaigning for Republican candidates during the 2022 midterms, Trump assailed…

While working at Google, Claire Stapleton cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality. Then she lost faith in what the company was selling.

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s latest attempt to relitigate the 2020 election. In a prime-time speech on Thursday…

President Donald Trump wants Americans to be very afraid about the midterm elections, and for an obvious reason: he is very afraid about what the election results portend for his party’s control of Congress and, therefore, his Presidency. On Thursday, during…

Don’t believe what the other kids have to say; Dad is the one to tell you about the importance of Stephen Sondheim.

You may take my wordfor their being very nearly as hard to herdas people.Whereas the curlew may “wheep” or “wheeple”depending on the stretch of salt marshor other harshterrain from which it happens to hail,a mouse will whisper-waila single ultrasonicnote…

Like all tyrants,my mother madedecrees. The laststraw was the lawthat said: no frogsinside the house.The lousy universe!I was seven and readyto flee with nothing. Atleast take a sandwich,my mother said,tucking a foil brickinto the kerchiefI’d tied to a stick.…

It was the day before the press preview for the Venice Biennale, and the toilets at the Austrian pavilion were broken. In Venice, plumbing problems are routine; the city doesn’t have a modern sewage system, so it relies on its canals and the tides to flush…

As climate change worsens, punishing heat waves are becoming the norm across the Northern Hemisphere. For the cover of the July 27, 2026, issue, the artist Marcellus Hall portrayed the effect that global warming has on subway riders. “Anyone who’s taken the…

Revisiting Mrs. Mintz’s medical woes and veal Parmesan.

Julian Schnabel took his first trip to Italy fifty years ago. “When I was in college, I was looking at these art-history books, and I thought, You can’t tell a damn thing about these things unless you go there and stand in front of them,” he said recently.…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Rahm Emanuel is a Democratic Party elder, having served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations and as mayor of…

Britain’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has been a Labour Party politician for twenty-five years, but in taking over from the unpopular Keir Starmer as premier—his country’s seventh in a decade—he is understandably keen to project his accession to power…

Hollywood stars have been dressing up for movie premières for almost as long as there have been movie premières. As early as the nineteen-twenties, fans would line up outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre to catch a glimpse of actresses, decked out in slinky…

How sad should we be when a language dies? Consider the case—call it callous or simply tough-minded—for saying, “Not at all.” A language, when it comes down to it, is a means of communication. When too few people are using it to communicate, it has stopped…

This year, for the first time ever, the FIFA World Cup final featured an eleven-minute halftime hullabaloo, co-headlined by four megastar acts: Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS. The lineup—theoretically a diverse parade of talent, with two of the…

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