THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 20, 2025): The latest issue features…

Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide. By Elizabeth Kolbert

Traversing the Metropolitan Museum’s Eight Hundred Galleries, One by One

Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism. By Ben McGrath

After the Fires, a Slow Night in Hollywood

The freeways were traffic-free, and so were hotels, where a handful of forlorn locals waited for what would come next. By Sheila Yasmin Marikar