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Does MAGA Have Ideas?
Political life is inevitably disappointing, because all political movements contain contradictions. Democrats consider themselves advocates of the working class, yet their party skews toward the highly educated; old-school Republicans...
Dev Hynes Returns as Blood Orange
Also: the kamancheh playing of Kayhan Kalhor, Ethan Lipton’s surrealist “The Seat of Our Pants,” our writers’ holiday traditions, and more. Source link
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad
As part of an anti-Wicked Witch of the West smear campaign, Morrible tries to ensnare the loyalties of Elphaba’s closest ex-classmates: Glinda, a smiling yet conflicted mascot for the...
The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling”
Decades later, in the eighties, we meet Erika’s niece Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky), a bespectacled, dark-haired teen-ager, growing up in what is now the German Democratic Republic. She casts longing...
The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti
The rest of Fela’s story is largely a cat-and-mouse game, and then an outright battle, between art and the state, Fela and the authorities. One of the series’ great...
The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon
In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the...
The Trump Administration Gives America the Bird
Every day is turkey day. Source link
Christopher Guest Talks with Ariel Levy
On October 24, 2025, the actor and director Christopher Guest took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy, as part of The New...
Amelia Dimoldenberg Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Kenton Nelson’s “Early Morning”
For the cover of the November 24, 2025, issue, the artist Kenton Nelson painted a man waiting by a store window. “Walking through the city one early morning, looking...
Kristin Chenoweth’s Uneven Gilt Trip in “The Queen of Versailles”
There’s a clarity to the arc of Greenfield’s documentary: first the pride goeth, then a fall teacheth. It’s a shame that the musical gets bogged down by what happened...