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The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson and the contributor Andy Kroll have been named 2025 winners of Polk Awards, among the highest honors in journalism. Anderson…
Read more The New Yorker Wins Two Polk Awards for 2025 ReportingNote: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual misconduct. Casey Wasserman is selling his eponymous talent agency, per the Wall Street Journal. The move arrives after the Wasserman…
Read more Casey Wasserman to Sell Agency Amid Epstein Files BacklashNote: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual misconduct that may disturb some readers. A Lemonheads’ fan says singer Evan Dando sent her a series of unsolicited, sexually…
Read more Lemonheads’ Fan Accuses Evan Dando of Sending Unsolicited Explicit VideosNote: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual misconduct. Bethany Cosentino has shared an open letter calling on Casey Wasserman—the founder and CEO of her agency, Wasserman—to step…
Read more Bethany Cosentino Calls on Wasserman CEO to Step Down Over Epstein EmailsOn set, a young director named Victor Velle was rehearsing the train-station scene with the actors playing George and Uncle Jack. Velle, who wore a neck brace (Fourth…
Read more Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled MasterpieceGeordie Greep has shared a tribute to his former bandmate and fellow Black Midi co-founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, who died on January 12 following “a long battle with his…
Read more Geordie Greep Honors Black Midi Co-Founder Matt Kwasniewski-KelvinAuthorities announced in a press conference late Thursday night that they found Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University, dead of…
Read more Brown University Shooting Suspect Found Dead in New HampshireIn October, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, after two years of war. In the weeks since, sporadic Israeli strikes have killed at least a hundred people…
Read more In Gaza, Home Is Just a MemoryAnagrams hold a special place in the annals of wordplay. Although dismissed by some as “intellectually frivolous” (A. E. Housman) or a mere “trifle” (Ben Jonson), the art of…
Read more Introducing Shuffalo, Our New Word GameThe New Yorker had a century to prepare for its hundredth anniversary, and yet the final months before that milestone—this past February—were a scramble. The excitement of that…
Read more Watch the Trailer for “The New Yorker at 100”On an August night in 1985, five members of one family were shot dead at Whitehouse Farm, a country manor in the rural county of Essex, in southeastern…
Read more In the Dark Releases “Blood Relatives,” an Examination of a Notorious British CrimeIn the pantheon of New Yorker artists, the name Mary Petty hardly registers. But in her time she was one of a group of women—Helen E. Hokinson, Edna…
Read more Mary Petty, the Mysterious Cover Artist Who Captured the Decline of the Rich