A multigenerational network of activists is getting abortion pills across the Mexican border to Americans.
Henry James decried the nineteenth century’s “loose baggy monsters,” but a new translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s “The Betrothed” demonstrates the genre’s power.
Civilians describe being snatched from their homes and sent away for ideological screening, prolonged detention, and, in some cases, starvation and torture. Is there a larger plan at work?
Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are.
In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.
The New Yorker Magazine – October 3, 2022
T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece is a hundred years old, but it has never stopped sounding new. By Anthony Lane
After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart.
The artist discusses Charlotte Gainsbourg, Uggs, and finding inspiration on Instagram.
By Louis Menand
I was born with melodies in my head, and I was looking for a way to hear them in the world.
By Bono
Queen Elizabeth II’s seven-decade reign has come to an end.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Malika Favre
Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday, at the age of ninety-six. During her seventy-year-long reign, the Queen presided over the dissolution of the British Empire. She was there for the creation of the European Union—and for Brexit. She was there for Churchill, for Thatcher, and, just last Tuesday, she was there to shake hands with the incoming Conservative Prime Minister, Liz Truss. On the cover of the September 19th issue, the artist Malika Favre, who lived in London for sixteen years, captures the indelible association between Britain and its longtime monarch.
The artist discusses canine stars, his first trip abroad, and keeping a sense of the spontaneous in his work.
The French artist’s widow describes Sempé’s decades-long relationship with the magazine and his deep appreciation for its spirit, its staff, and its readers. By Françoise Mouly, Art by J. J. Sempé
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