The Rising Costs of the Trauma Industrial Complex
Ian Parker’s takedown of bestselling thriller writer Daniel Mallory in The New Yorker reads like a grocery store…
Steve Bannon Inexplicably Invited to Open His Mouth Hole at the New Yorker Festival
Steve Bannon, a sack of rotting beans stuffed inside some stitched-together skin, has been invited to speak at the…
Your Semi-Regular Reminder That Mike Pence Is Fucking Scary
When a miserable, dihydroxyacetone-stained businessman sits in the Oval Office, it’s easy to tell yourself that his…
Even the Dumbest Us Weekly Headlines Look Great In New Yorker Font
Today the Jezebel chat room briefly derailed from its more pressing conversations about breaking news and cultural…
Enquirer CEO and Trump Ally David Pecker Is Interested in Buying Time, Inc.
In addition to Breitbart, Drudge Report, InfoWars and Fox & Friends, the president has an ally in David Pecker, the CEO…
All the Men to Blame for Donald Trump
At the start of the Republican National Convention—the ceremony in which Republican leadership will officially declare…
After Much Criticism, Gay Talese Renounces His Forthcoming Book The Voyeur's Motel
In April 2016, the New Yorker published an extraordinary tale of male entitlement. Literary journalist Gay Talese told…
Kate Middleton Joins the Long, Goofy, Controversial Line of Celebrity Guest Editors
Today, Kate Middleton is “guest-editing” HuffPo UK. She’s not the first and God knows she won’t be the last celebrity…
Making a Murderer and the Flawed, Unregulated 'Court of Last Resort'
Journalism and the courts are, ideally, protected against bias by a system of checks and balances. That wasn’t…
Dejah Joyner, 12, Killed In Her Living Room By Stray Bullet
A 12-year-old girl on Long Island has died after being struck in the head by a stray bullet. Dejah Joyner was standing…
Did a Yale MFA Jack Two Feminists' Work & End Up in The New Yorker?
Arabelle Sicardi is a visionary young queer feminist, fashion and make-up expert, and writer (and occasional Jezebel…
Samantha Power, Goddess of the U.N.
Samantha Power, who last year became the youngest ever U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations at the age of 42, is the…
Jennifer Weiner, I Love You But You're Smothering Me
When I was an insecure college freshman, Good in Bed was a godsend. The protagonist was wickedly funny, even as she…
How Elizabeth Smart Became More Than An Abduction Victim
Margaret Talbot's piece in the New Yorker this week might be called "The Extraordinary Resilience of Elizabeth Smart"…
The New Yorker Held a Coachella GIF Party and Didn’t Invite You
The New Yorker dispatched instagramming scribe Nathaniel Wood to Coachella last weekend, and, in an effort to make you…
The New Yorker Review of Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A Biography Contains Unexpectedly Delightful Passage
The Beauty Myth author and feminist Naomi Wolf's Vagina dropped this year (sorry—just to be clear, it's her new book Vag…
The New Yorker is Serial Tweeting Jennifer Egan's New Short Story
Tonight, the New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter account (@NYerFiction) will start tweeting Jennifer Egan's new…
Not Even Amy Poehler Can Look Away From Hoarders
Despite much hand-wringing about the state of women and television, one person doesn't seem too worried—and she should…
Facebook's Top Female Exec & "Girl Questions"
After a talk Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave at Harvard Business School, she saw a difference…