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The cover of this week’s issue is “Winds of Change,” by Brian Stauffer. See what’s inside:
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For those of who have already entered the strange and wonderful zone of László Krasznahorkai’s fiction, the news that he won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature comes as no great surprise. “It seems something straightforwardly just,” James Wood writes.
László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality
The swirling sentences of the new Nobel laureate’s fiction overlay small-town politics with an uneasy sense of impending apocalypse.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3h
Earlier today, László Krasznahorkai, the difficult, peculiar, obsessive, visionary Hungarian author, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. Revisit James Wood’s piece, from 2011, on the author’s strange fictions.
Madness And Civilization
The very strange fictions of László Krasznahorkai.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4h
It’s hard to square Donald Trump’s braggadocio about peacemaking with his martial rhetoric against “war-ravaged” cities at home, @sbg1.bsky.social writes.
Trump, the Self-Styled “President of PEACE” Abroad, Makes War at Home
The President’s martial rhetoric against fellow-Americans is a striking contrast with his push for an end to hostilities in Gaza.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 5h
One February night in 1959, something caused a group of skiers to cut their way out of their tent and flee into a howling blizzard, in 20-below-zero temperatures, in bare feet or socks. What was it?
Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?
The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6h
“Good Hang with Amy Poehler” is perhaps the comedian’s biggest platform since “Parks and Recreation,” and the mega-popular podcast still leans into Leslie Knope’s vibes: sunniness, earnestness, a focus on female friendship and uncomplicated feminist values.
The Safe Space of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”
The “Parks and Recreation” star has created the ultimate comfort listen—one that hinges on making her celebrity guests comfortable, too.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6h
For Benjamin Netanyahu, the political ramifications of the Gaza ceasefire are still unknown, Ruth Margalit writes. His extremist coalition partners have threatened to topple his government if the Israeli military withdrew entirely from Gaza.
Hope and Grief in Israel After the Gaza Ceasefire Deal
In Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, there were scenes of unimpeded joy overnight, as news broke of a peace agreement.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7h
Nearly every idealistic leader who has been elected mayor of New York City has left City Hall in some way battered by it. Can Zohran Mamdani break that pattern?
What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7h
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Gina DeLuca. #NewYorkerCartoons

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7h
Why Hamas agreed to a ceasefire with Israel—and why it might not matter much for Gaza’s future, or Palestinian statehood.
Why Hamas Agreed to Release the Hostages
And why it might not matter much for Gaza’s future, or for Palestinian statehood.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 8h
When Nora Ephron moved into the Apthorp, she thought that she’d live there forever. Then the betrayals began.
“Moving On,” by Nora Ephron
From 2006: For Nora Ephron, moving into the Apthorp—a famous “stone pile” on the West Side of Manhattan—was to enter a state of giddy, rent-stabilized delirium.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 9h
In her new memoir, Kamala Harris does not say whether she might run for President again—but one reason that her book has not landed well in certain quarters is a sense that it undercuts other Democrats who might be candidates.
Who Can Lead the Democrats?
Kamala Harris almost won in 2024. So why does her new book feel like another defeat?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10h
“Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want—like a LAWYER when you’re eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.” In New Yorker Humor, job postings for ICE.
ICE Job Postings
ICE wants YOU to put your LEFT foot in then put your LEFT foot out then DO the hokeypokey and TURN IN your brother-in-law whom YOU didn’t realize THIS would AFFECT.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10h
In Tel Aviv, Ruth Margalit witnessed “the full spectrum of emotions felt by Israelis in the past two years: hope coexisting with grief, and the terrible sense that much of the bloodshed could have been prevented.”
Hope and Grief in Israel After the Gaza Ceasefire Deal
In Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, there were scenes of unimpeded joy overnight, as news broke of a peace agreement.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12h
Recently, the idea of a “permanent underclass” has been embraced online, in part as a joke—and in part out of a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.
Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12h
When Richard Nixon opined on the guilt of a criminal defendant, it ignited a media frenzy and opened the door for a mistrial. But such incendiary commentary is standard fare for Donald Trump, Ruth Marcus writes.
Nixon Now Looks Restrained
The former President once made an offhand remark about Charles Manson’s guilt. The reaction shows how aberrant Donald Trump’s rhetoric is.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13h
In certain ideological precincts, Zohran Mamdani’s primary win has inspired panic. A billionaire real-estate developer called for an emergency breakfast meeting of the wealthy. “Fidel Castro had the same smile,” John Catsimatidis, a supermarket mogul and a Trump confidant, said.
What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d
On a new episode of #PoliticalScene, the New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Donald Trump’s “revenge tour”—his effort to use the levers of government to settle personal and political scores. Listen here: nyer.cm/ouiI3qV
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“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” is the latest iteration of an idea that has gained increasing traction in American movies: motherhood is hell.
The Virtuosic Maternal Freakout of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
In Mary Bronstein’s film, Rose Byrne plays a therapist contending with a sick child, an absent husband, an uninhabitable home, and a world that seems nightmarishly bent on her failure.
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Adam Friedland is not a late-night host, and he’s certainly not the left’s Joe Rogan. But could his YouTube talk show, “The Adam Friedland Show,” be the future of the form?
Adam Friedland’s Comedy of Discomforts
His rendition of the talk show is innately subversive, at direct odds with the squeaky-clean, white-bread humor that is typical of its cable counterpart.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d
Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.
“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d
Over three decades and several hit shows, television—an intimate medium that rewards emotional transparency—made Keri Russell a star. Now, the actress reflects on her career and playing make-believe for a living.
Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV
But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.
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Ariana Harwicz’s books “are most generously appreciated as spelunking missions into the cave of the unwell mind.” But her latest novel is exemplary of the author’s rancorous outlook, Jessica Winter writes.
The “Unfit” Mothers of Ariana Harwicz
Her fiction allows us to spelunk in the cave of an unwell mind, but her latest novel is disturbing in other ways, too.
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“One Battle After Another” is a great action film—not solely because of its taut suspense, its visceral thrills, and its strong rooting interest but because of the inventiveness with which details are deployed to embody the story, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.
The Real Battle of “One Battle After Another”
Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d
“What’s the best question a kid ever asked you?” When the writer Sarah Manguso tweeted this, she received a deluge of responses. See some of the answers, with illustrations by the cartoonist Liana Finck:
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d
After nearly 23 years behind bars, Curtis Flowers was freed, in part due to In the Dark’s reporting. Now he’s back in Winona, Mississippi, where his saga began. What brought him home, and how is he doing? Listen to an update to our award-winning podcast.
Season 2 Update: Five Years Later
In the Dark travels to Winona, Mississippi, to check in on Curtis Flowers.
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