“I wish I’d never read that piece about pacemakers,” Tracey said. “You needed a new cooker, anyway,” Lois said. “You were saying your old one was about to give up the ghost.” “How was I to know a plain electric hob would take forever to heat up?” Tracey fumed.…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Helen Simpson reads her story “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub,” from the September 7, 2026, issue of the magazine. A winner of the American Academy…

The singer-songwriter and Weezer front man on the making of the band’s new LP, the Gold Album, his relationship with his father, and the stories we tell about ourselves.

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It is raining, raining, raining.The sky is falling, falling, falling.I never, never, never.Saw this would happen, happen, happen.As in any flooding, flooding, flooding.The earth is breaking, breaking, breaking.All the sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, kneeling.Inside…

This week’s story, “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub,” opens as two old friends, Tracey and Lois, meet for coffee in London on a hot May day. (“The air was already at blood heat outside,” you write.) They’re discussing Tracey’s new cooker and how much she dislikes…

A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.

The Black Shield, by Wilbert L. Cooper (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In this multilayered work, a journalist examines a Black police organization, known as the Black Shield, that emerged in Cleveland in the nineteen-forties, alongside his own parents’ membership…

Matisse’s “Femme au Chapeau” (1905), or “Woman with a Hat,” is a strong contender for my least favorite masterpiece of the twentieth century. When it was first exhibited, in Paris, waves of journalists ridiculed it, viewers laughed and jeered, and at least…

When the rapper Fenix Flexin débuted a new accent on his single “Rubberz,” he stumbled into a century-old fight over musical fraudulence.

Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before this honorable court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. Today, the court will issue a decision in the case Coyote v. Acme. A special judge has been drafted…

Marlon James’s novels, though they range from historical fiction to high fantasy, share a distinct spiritual frequency—a mix of bravado and bereavement. They are heroic in their scope, ambition, length, extremity, variety, unclassifiability, and apparent…

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.

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