Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America believe deeply in the possibility of a class revolution. Meanwhile, they’re running for office—and winning. Benjamin Wallace-Wells reports on the group’s newfound political tactics.

John Goodman on Tom Cruise, the Coen brothers, and his lifelong quest to feel at ease in his own skin.

The author George Saunders reads his short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

“Shortcut,” by Diane Mehta: “I can’t remember how to reach / the end of my own sentences.”

“The Woodcutter,” by Nick Laird: “In the earliest version / by Perrault the story is finished / when the girl gets eaten.”

The author discusses his story “Appeasement, Ohio.”

With the opening of Faux, in Tribeca, Keith McNally’s son steps into the family business. Is it ambition or hubris?

In his sweeping new novel, “The Brightness,” Chad Harbach studies the crisis of being a college student in 2015—and of being a writer trying to redeem ambitious realist fiction.

If Maria Rondeau and JuanMa Calderón were literalists, they might have put nasturtiums on the menu at Rosay Marigold, the Peruvian restaurant they opened in April, in Boston. They took the name from the novella “Marigold and Rose,” the final book published…

Richard Darman was my source in the Reagan and Bush Administrations—and my best friend.

Short reviews of recent releases.

Fresh from playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” Bill Irwin chats about reviving and starring in Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” on Broadway.

A new biography of the director Frank Capra inspires wonder at his irresistible vision of America and his immigrant journey.

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

Neil and Brenda met just days after Neil invented his time machine, which proved to be a handy access pass. They watched the Beatles play at the Cavern Club. They figured out which religion’s version of God was the right one. They prevented the Hindenburg…

For the cover of the October 26, 2026, New Yorker Festival Issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen painted a joyous image of Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart, OG Anunoby, Jalen Brunson, and Karl-Anthony Towns, the New York Knicks’ starting lineup. This month, for the first…

On Amsterdam Avenue by the Metropolitan Opera House—a day before Mayor Mamdani announced his new free-opera-tickets initiative—two supernumerary performers in Puccini’s “La Bohème,” the Met’s most popular opera, disembarked from a horse trailer. Wanda, a…