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The militarization of American cities, including Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, has brought home a perverse irony. Throughout the history of the United States, immigrants have come here…
Read more The Real Problem Is How Trump Can Legally Use the MilitaryFor someone openly campaigning to get a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump has been going about it in an unusual way. Early last month, the President proclaimed in…
Read more Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”On a humid Charleston evening ten years ago, a ninth-grade dropout with a bowl haircut named Dylann Roof walked into a Bible-study class at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church,…
Read more Grace and DisgraceHabba’s allegiance to Trump has never been in question. It’s at the root of many of the complaints about her—and the fears that Habba, who had no prior…
Read more Alina Habba Isn’t Going AnywhereIf it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader, more capacious. A bright, shiny neologism…
Read more The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie SmithAfter Jenny Slate wrapped shooting for Dying for Sex, in which she plays Nikki, a freewheeling thespian taking care of her best friend, who has terminal cancer, she…
Read more Jenny Slate, Like Her Emmys 2025 Dress, Is in a Moment of “Vibrant Bloom”In the hundred-year history of The New Yorker, photography has appeared on the cover exactly twice. For the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman…
Read more New Yorker Covers, Brought to Life!Massage has always been part of folk medicine, and it occurred in ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, often in bathhouses. Hippocrates wrote that the physician must be…
Read more Rivals Rub Shoulders in the World of Competitive MassageBut the timing of Drahi’s acquisition of Sotheby’s was unfortunate. Six months after the deal was completed, the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the art market. The main auction houses,…
Read more How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’sOn a humid evening in May, Patricia Lockwood, who writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid, was scanning the menu at a Mexican…
Read more Patricia Lockwood Goes ViralRebecca F. Kuang finished her second year of college with little sense of what she wanted to do with her life. In the fall of 2015, she took a…
Read more The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. KuangTourists who came to Washington, D.C., last week—tromping from one Smithsonian collection to another, eating ice cream on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—witnessed a bit of history…
Read more Trump Sends in the National GuardSaoirse Ronan has been a working actor for 20 years, but this was her first at the Telluride Film Festival. Back in 2017, Lady Bird premiered at the…
Read more Saoirse Ronan, Who’s Got a Hit at Telluride, Is Ready to “Get Off Her Arse”It’s hard to imagine a better environment for the premiere of a documentary about the life and career of Faye Dunaway than the movie-exalting atmosphere that permeates the…
Read more “I Want to Shoot…Now!”: How a New Documentary Captures the Totality of Faye DunawayArtforum editor in chief David Velasco was in Paris last month when an email landed in his inbox. It was an open letter, already signed by thousands in…
Read more An Open Letter, an Editor’s Ouster, and the Ongoing Fight for the Future of Artforum
