“I am the worst kind of person.”

My life in London, the life I had cobbled together with the barest of routines, grew thin and unconvincing. It now seldom felt real.

The author discusses his story “New Shoes.”

The author reads his story from the September 14, 2026, issue of the magazine.

Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention.

“If you like surprises, being born has to be the best.”

A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life.

A food critic answers readers’ questions about a citrus-related relationship dispute and restaurant birthday dinners.

Jerry Hsu captures the city’s manic extremes, with photographs of overturned cars, collisions, and a bank building ablaze.

Oberlin’s football team was winless last season, sparking discourse over whether anyone at the small liberal-arts school should care.

There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender.

The comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross have been putting up posters for fake tech products across the city, including a wearable grandpa, underwear that thinks, and A.I. cutlery.

The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely, knowing that the interview won’t come out until they’ve died.

It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a touch of kindness from the French.

How the President’s instinct for escalation is costing him politically.

Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind.

The writer, who recently released a new novel, speaks with The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix about the meaning of home in an era when Haitian Americans are targeted for mass deportation.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Also: Harry Styles takes up residence at M.S.G., “Paranormal Activity” terrifies Broadway, Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson star in a new movie, and more.

A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image.