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The shooting at Brown this weekend “made me start to rethink how safe I actually am,” a student told Karan Mahajan. ttps://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/a...
A Shooting at Brown
The first snow of the year often brings students out together. This year, they are being united “in a very different way,” one said.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
From Sarah Snook’s one-woman “Dorian Gray” to Michael B. Jordan’s twin turn in “Sinners,” Michael Schulman shares his picks for the best performances of 2025.
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The Best Performances of 2025
In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts—from Sarah Snook’s one-woman “Dorian Gray” to Michael B. Jordan’s twin turn in “Sinners”—made their mark.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We don’t have a complete account of Donald Trump and his family’s finances. But a clear picture has emerged: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history.
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The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of which involve crypto and foreign money.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Otto Soglow’s drawings are used to illustrate Talk of the Town pieces. The New Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen gives them a second look. www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
Emma Allen on Otto Soglow’s Spot Art
Fifty years after his death, the work of the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist still appears in every issue.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In a new comic, Liana Finck writes about rediscovering the joys of William Steig as a parent. Read it here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ose0u5
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Teds, a U.K. countercultural movement that began in the 1950s, shared a fascination with the iconography of American youth culture. But the context in which the photographer Chris Steele-Perkins captures his subjects is recognizably English.

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Teen Rebellion Immortalized, Through the Eyes of Chris Steele-Perkins
The late British photographer was drawn to outsider subcultures, among them the working-class youths known as Teds.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“I like to imagine you out on the town, capturing everything with your pencils.” In a new comic, Emily Flake writes about the humor pathfinder Alice Harvey. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ySO5W2
Emily Flake on Alice Harvey
My hand twitches with instinctive joy at how you draw a woman’s hat, coat, stance.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
With Jayson Tatum injured, the Celtics are playing a different game. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...
How the Celtics Are Winning
A team that once could seem a little bloodless has, in the absence of its best player, become scrappy and slightly unpredictable.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“We expressed our shock and sadness, but none of it was hard to believe. This is America.” Karan Mahajan, who teaches at Brown, writes about the shooting at the university this weekend. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/a...
A Shooting at Brown
The first snow of the year often brings students out together. This year, they are being united “in a very different way,” one said.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Highlights from the first hundred years of this magazine’s most succinct, quadrilateral humor. www.newyorker.com/cartoons/car...
A Century of New Yorker Cartoons
Highlights from the first hundred years of this magazine’s most succinct, quadrilateral humor.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Emil Bove, in his seven months in the Justice Department, has emerged as one of the most divisive figures in the new Trump Administration. Last week, he received an ethics complaint after attending a Trump campaign rally. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Federal Judge at the Trump Rally
Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Kumail Nanjiani gets vulnerable in “Night Thoughts,” his first standup special in twelve years. But the real star of the show might be his elderly cat. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Lv2jS4
Kumail Nanjiani Lets It Out of the Bag
The comedian gets vulnerable in “Night Thoughts,” his first standup special in twelve years. But the real star of the show might be his elderly cat.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“In my book, the good luck far outweighs the regrets.” The 99-year-old writer Calvin Tomkins considers fatherhood, growing old, and Donald Trump. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Becoming a Centenarian
Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
William Steig “shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness,” Liana Finck writes. “He also writes great female characters.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LpttNu
Liana Finck on William Steig
He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness. He also writes great female characters.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The cover of this week’s Cartoons & Puzzles issue,“Inside Story,” by Luci Gutiérrez. Start exploring: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/D_ai1q
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani invited New Yorkers to meet with him one-on-one. Here’s what they had to say. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9OPki0
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line
Preparing to take office, the Mayor-elect dabbles in performance art at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Helen Rosner, The New Yorker’s restaurant critic, rounds up her favorite menu items of the year.

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The Best Things I Ate in 2025
Our restaurant critic rounds up her favorite menu items from a year of eating out.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“I am still waiting to learn whether anyone I have taught has been hurt,” Karan Mahajan, who teaches at Brown, writes. “This void of knowledge is part of the unreality of my grief.” www.newyorker.com/news/essay/a...
A Shooting at Brown
The first snow of the year often brings students out together. This year, they are being united “in a very different way,” one said.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The cartoonist Helen Hokinson’s version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Summer Pierre on Helen Hokinson
Her version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Dan Misdea. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
For the late Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim,, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as thrilling as writing musicals. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro
For the late Broadway composer, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as thrilling as writing musicals.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Helen Shaw, The New Yorker’s theatre critic, explains her favorite shows of the year. www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
The Best Theatre of 2025
It was a banner year for generation-defining performance, both up- and downtown.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bi Gan’s new film, “Resurrection,” offers a vision of history as a shape-shifting force. “Each era has these exceptionally strange, dreamlike, ephemeral moments—yet it seems we never film them,” he said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xvbYQM
Bi Gan’s Dream Factory
With “Resurrection,” the director has made a surrealist epic not just about Chinese history but about the cinema itself.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In Donald Trump’s second term, developments came thick and fast, many of them involving crypto, foreign money, or both. @johncassidysays.bsky.social takes stock of the President’s self-enrichment in 2025.
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The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Emil Bove’s attendance at Trump’s campaign rally last week “offered proof, if any more was needed, of his lack of judicial temperament,” Ruth Marcus writes. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Federal Judge at the Trump Rally
Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM