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DON’T LAUGH

Comedians these days seem subject to impossible demands, Adam Gopnik writes. We
insist that comedians respect our sacrosanct ideals—and pray that they skewer
our sanctimony.


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THE LEDE

Reporting and analysis on the affairs of the day.


WHAT DID COP28 REALLY ACCOMPLISH?



At the end of the day—or record-hot year—what matters is not what language
countries agree to but what they actually do.

By Elizabeth Kolbert


HUNTER BIDEN AND THE THINGS LEFT UNSAID



The President’s son is a ubiquitous topic of conversation. But, in four
Biden-family memoirs, silence is the undercurrent that tugs at a voluble,
demonstrative clan.

By Jessica Winter


WHAT TRUMP’S CIVIL TRIAL TELLS US ABOUT HIS UPCOMING CRIMINAL CASES



The former President’s time in the witness-box generally does his defense more
harm than good.

By John Cassidy


CAN GUATEMALANS SAVE THEIR DEMOCRACY?



Months after the election, President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s path to taking
office remains uncertain.

By Graciela Mochkofsky


COLORADO RECONSIDERS LETTING TRUMP ON THE BALLOT



A Colorado Supreme Court case is one of several considering whether Trump should
be disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin


THE WAR IN GAZA HAS BEEN DEADLY FOR JOURNALISTS



Why has Israel’s military campaign led to an unprecedented number of deaths
among members of the press in just two months?

By Isaac Chotiner

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2023 in Review


THE YEAR OF OZEMPIC

We may look back on new weight-loss drugs as some of the greatest advances in
the annals of chronic disease.

By Dhruv Khullar


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Profiles


THE GLOBAL AMBITIONS OF INVADER’S STREET ART

At any given moment, millions of people are attending his expositions, knowingly
or not.

By Lauren Collins


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COMMENT

Opinions, arguments, and reflections on the news.

By David Remnick


SLEEPWALKING INTO DICTATORSHIP

By Doreen St. Félix


THE ANTI-SPECTACLE OF THE G.O.P. DEBATES

By Susan B. Glasser


WASHINGTON HAS A BAD CASE OF YEAR-END PANIC

By Jeannie Suk Gersen


SHOULD WE HAVE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR MEN?

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Annals of Medicine


ALL THE CARCINOGENS WE CANNOT SEE

We routinely test for chemicals that cause mutations. What about the dark matter
of carcinogens—substances that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them from
their slumber?

By Siddhartha Mukherjee


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2023 IN REVIEW


THE BEST TV SHOWS



The industry faces an uncertain future, but this year’s finest rival those of
the Peak TV era.

By Inkoo Kang


THE YEAR A.I. ATE THE INTERNET



Call 2023 the year many of us learned to communicate, create, cheat, and
collaborate with robots.

By Sue Halpern


THE HOTTEST YEAR FOR CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY



The climate heated up, but clean energy did, too.

By Bill McKibben


THE YEAR IN READING



New Yorker writers on favorite books from past years that they discovered in
2023.

By The New Yorker


THE BEST MOVIES



The superhero-industrial complex is tottering, and there’s major creative energy
in the realm of production.

By Richard Brody


INSTAGRAM’S FAVORITE NEW YORKER CARTOONS



The gags that got the Internet laughing, and liking, the most in the past year.

By Emma Allen


THE BEST MUSIC



Strange, beautiful records by Lana Del Rey, Noname, Sufjan Stevens, and more.

By Amanda Petrusich


THE BEST PODCASTS



With stellar shows about clothing, class politics, pop stars, and urban
infrastructure, the year had something for everybody.

By Sarah Larson


THE BEST JOKES



A Spice Girl fighting the class war, Kendall Roy making a last stand, and more
of the year’s comic relief.

By Ian Crouch

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HOW MARK DUPLASS FIGHTS THE SADNESS

Since childhood, the filmmaker and “Morning Show” actor has dealt with the ups
and downs of depression—a struggle he calls “the Woog.” Now he’s sharing what
he’s learned.

By Michael Schulman


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THE CRITICS

On Television


“THE CROWN” ENDS WITH A WHIMPER



With no living protagonist fit to carry it, the Netflix series’ final season is
increasingly populated by ghosts.

By Inkoo Kang

Page-Turner


“WRONG WAY” TAKES THE SHINE OFF THE SELF-DRIVING CAR



Joanne McNeil’s novel suggests that much of what we think of as technological
progress is a new way to obscure human labor.

By Peter C. Baker

The Front Row


THE EMPTY MAGIC OF “WONKA”



The prequel to the Roald Dahl classic has little interest in the art and
industry of its hero—or in the untapped talents of its star, Timothée Chalamet.

By Richard Brody

Podcast Dept.


A PODCAST MEMORIAL SERVICE



The audio industry is in turmoil. But, at an event for “Death, Sex & Money,”
voices were still keeping people together.

By Sarah Larson

Photo Booth


ANDREW DOSUNMU MAKES THE STREET HIS STUDIO



The artist delicately explores the idea of the Black diaspora, evident in the
unexpected unification of stuff.

By Doreen St. Félix

Cultural Comment


HOW THE MOVIE PROFESSOR GOT CANCELLED



The life of an academic lacks natural narrative momentum. Cue cancel culture.

By Lauren Michele Jackson

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A Reporter at Large


SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR AN ACCIDENT MILES AWAY

A draconian legal doctrine called felony murder has put thousands of
Americans—disproportionately young and Black—in prison.

By Sarah Stillman


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DEPT. OF HOOPLA

From the mind of Bob Odenkirk.


WHERE I GOT THESE ABS



The middle ab on the left is called Terrence. It’s a dignified ab.


A VISION OF THE FUTURE



People are wearing Crocs.


PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST



Every day, he puts on his “uniform”: moccasins, tuxedo pants, and one of a
variety of pajama tops designed especially for him by L. L. Bean.


HEADLINES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED



News stories that got overlooked during the Trump Administration.


A BIBLICAL ROUGH DRAFT



Ants don’t toil? Did I just say that? Oops.


A MADMAN LEADS ME ASTRAY: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH DEL CLOSE



Del was at a juncture and I was, too, and so our junctures junctured.

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2023 in Review


THE TOP TWENTY-FIVE NEW YORKER STORIES OF 2023

The articles that sustained the longest hold on readers during a year when many
avoided the news.

By Michael Luo


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PERSONS OF INTEREST


WIM WENDERS’S CINEMA OF SINCERITY

By Nathan Taylor Pemberton


HOW GREAT WAS BILL BELICHICK, REALLY?

By Louisa Thomas


DOLLY PARTON HAS ALWAYS BEEN ROCK AND ROLL

By Emily Lordi


JESSE ITZLER’S SECRETS OF SUCCESS

By Tad Friend

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Letter from the West Bank


THE PRISONER SWAP

Outside a prison where detained Palestinians were released, celebration and
chaos.

By Anand Gopal


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IDEAS


WHO GETS TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S LEAGUES?



What a blood test revealed about testosterone, athleticism, and sex.

By S. C. Cornell


BIRTH PANGS



Grappling with the morality of having kids in the age of climate change.

By Jessica Winter


LIFE IN THE ASSHOLOCENE



The paradoxical effort to pin a name on an age characterized by extreme
uncertainty.

By Kyle Chayka


WHAT THE DOOMSAYERS GET WRONG ABOUT DEEPFAKES



Experts have warned that realistic A.I.-generated videos could wreak havoc. The
reality is troubling in a different way.

By Daniel Immerwahr

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The New Yorker Documentary


“ECHO”

Daniel Kish, a pioneer in the use of echolocation for the blind, teaches kids
how to use clicks and echos to listen their way through the world, in Ben Wolin
and Michael Minahan’s documentary short.


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PUZZLES & GAMES

Take a break and play.


NAME DROP

A quiz that tests your knowledge of notable people.


Play a quiz at random


THE CROSSWORD

A puzzle that ranges in difficulty, with themes on Fridays.


Solve the latest puzzle


THE CRYPTIC

A puzzle for lovers of wily wordplay.


Solve this week’s puzzle


CAPTION CONTEST

We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.


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Annals of Technology



THE INSIDE STORY OF MICROSOFT’S PARTNERSHIP WITH OPENAI

The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence
ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid
plans.

By Charles Duhigg

American Chronicles



WHAT HAPPENS TO A SCHOOL SHOOTER’S SISTER?

Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and
opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still
reckoning with his crimes.

By Jennifer Gonnerman

Dept. of Science



REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR

“Life on Our Planet,” a new Netflix nature documentary, renews our fascination
with our most feared and loved precursors.

By Rivka Galchen

Annals of Law Enforcement



DOES A.I. LEAD POLICE TO IGNORE CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE?

Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a
police investigation.

By Eyal Press


FICTION


“THE GOOD DENIS”



By Marie NDiaye

Photograph by Sarah van Rij and David van der Leeuw for The New Yorker
When—after I’d long hesitated, lost my nerve, thought better of it—I finally
gathered the strength to ask my decreasingly lucid mother if she remembered a
certain scene that still brought an ache to my grownup heart, she gave me a
mystified, offended stare, a stare of virtuous indignation, and then, collecting
herself, answered gently, as you might answer a very old person who, you
realize, didn’t mean to say such a ridiculous thing, that what I was talking
about not only hadn’t happened but could not, in any case, possibly have
happened.Continue reading »
This Week in Fiction

Marie NDiaye on Trying to Define Goodness

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN

The Pictures



HE TELLS THE PLEASE DON’T DESTROY GUYS HOW IT’S DONE

By Naomi Fry

Hyphenate Dept.



JOSH RADNOR IN LOVE

By Amanda Petrusich

Nature, Improved



THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN’S NOT-SO-CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR

By Adam Iscoe

London Postcard



JUNO TEMPLE’S METHOD-ACTING TRICK: UNDERPANTS

By Anna Russell

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DAILY CARTOON

“I’m the ghost of Christmas presents you still haven’t ordered.”
Cartoon by Ellis Rosen


This week’s cartoons »


SHOUTS & MURMURS

Cartoons, comics, and other funny stuff. Sign up for the Humor newsletter.

Daily Shouts



UNDERSTANDING THE LAWS OF CRICKET

Daily Shouts



THINGS THAT WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN N.Y.C. STREET-SWEEPER TRUCKS

Shouts & Murmurs



FOLDING THE EARTH IN HALF

Daily Shouts



AMERICA!: BIDEN DEFUSES GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS BY GETTING INTO PROP COMEDY

Shouts & Murmurs



WHICH FRIENDSHIP PLAN IS RIGHT FOR YOU?

Blitt’s Kvetchbook



THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

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