The Car-Crash Conspiracy High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

Siren. New @praddenkeefe.bsky.social joint. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is tomorrow! Join us! ssociology.columbia.edu/events/strangers-land-ex...

Sitting on a plane, watching the Artemis splashdown on CNN. Looking around and no one else watching. We just went to the moon and back! Incredible. Astonishing. Awe-inspiring. Congrats to the folks at NASA.

Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world.

Remnick: “Not many years ago, a ruthless man with an uneasy mind took power in his country and created a cult of personality.”www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/dona...

Michael Luo on the Story of Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. - The Wire China The writer and editor talks about the first arrivals from China and the long history of prejudice the community has faced.

It was a pleasure having this extended conversation about "Strangers in the Land" with Brent Crane for The Wire China, which is a great digital magazine. www.thewirechina.com/2026/04/05/m...

Wonder what Glen Rice and Rumeal Robinson are up to tonight? #goblue

How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P.

Truly disturbing story by Antonia Hitchens. “they see their movement as a gathering storm about to break over American politics.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

A rare double byline for @newyorker.com. Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz deep dive on Sam Altman. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My Brief Time in John F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Orbit The author Jeffrey Eugenides did not know John F. Kennedy, Jr., for a particularly long or intimate period, but he did experience the gravitational pull of America’s prince.

“John’s physique was so classically ideal he might’ve been throwing a discus instead of a Frisbee and been carved out of stone.”
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Unbelievable. UConn women go down. Incredible performance by South Carolina.

Searching for Iran’s Disappeared Prisoners In Iran, families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations during the war.

Moving, important piece by Cora Engelbrecht. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.? The horror novel “Shy Girl” was cancelled for being generated at least partly through artificial intelligence. Would we ever accept such a book as art?

Josh Rothman makes an interesting argument here... www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Can a Journalist Be a Celebrity Anymore?

"He has written so many glowing notes for other authors’ books that his colleagues took to joking he would blurb a bodega." Very grateful that @praddenkeefe.bsky.social generously blurbed "Strangers in the Land!" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

The Supreme Court on Who Gets to Be an American From the daily newsletter: today, the Justices considered the legality of Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship.

I talked to Norman Wong, grandson of Wong Kim Ark, and reflected on the contingent nature of history. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb A former C.I.A. officer says that he recruited scientists as part of the United States’ effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program.

Just an astonishing story by David Kirkpatrick. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Percival Everett, Andrea Long Chu, Gatsby… 23 new paperbacks out this April. April approaches, and with it comes a bevy of new books to look out for, balms in a year of astonishing chaos and uncertainty, and so I’m delighted to share some novels, memoirs, essay collec…

Appreciate being included on @literaryhub.bsky.social round-up of new paperbacks for April! lithub.com/percival-eve...

Insane. UConn. Madness.

Growing Up as the Child of Radical Revolutionaries Most kids play hide-and-seek. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, whose parents became fugitives after founding the Weather Underground, learned how to lose a tail.

Just a remarkable story. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Astonishing Lessons of a Sperm-Whale Birth In 2023, researchers witnessed a rare event—a sperm whale being born. Their findings suggest a previously unknown level of coöperation among whales.

I love this. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Good Doctor From 2000: Tracy Kidder on Paul Farmer’s mission to heal the world, beginning in Haiti: “The fact that the poor are dying of illnesses for which effective treatments exist is, like many global facts o...

RIP Tracy Kidder, who was always one of my writing heroes. His profile of Paul Farmer for @newyorker.com is worth going back to read and treasure. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

A Former Prisoner of the Iranian Regime Watches Trump’s War A journalist who was wrongfully detained for five hundred and forty-four days never got to say goodbye to Tehran. Now he’s fielding messages about chaos and destruction in the home he left behind.

Jason Rezaian has a unique perspective as he watches this war, here and there. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

New York’s Finest Sandwich The best Italian combo in the city contains no meat whatsoever.

.@hels.bsky.social takes a big swing here! On the Vegitalian combo, from Court Street Grocers. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Distant Promise of Iran’s Would-Be King The U.S.-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic is Reza Pahlavi’s best chance to resume his family’s reign in nearly fifty years—will it pass him by?

Illuminating piece by Azadeh Moaveni. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

My Parents Were Both Dying. Then I Found Out I Had Cancer Amanda Peet writes, “I admire people who can sit with uncertainty in matters of life and death. I’m not one of them. I suck at mindfulness.”

Spare, honest, harrowing writing here by Amanda Peet. My Season of Ativan www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A Firsthand Account of the War in Iran In an interactive story, a civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repression—too terrorized to move, let alone start an uprising.

A sense of what it's like inside Iran right now is pretty elusive. This visual story by Cora Engelbrecht, relaying messages and videos from a civilian in Tehran, is compelling. www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...

Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile For nearly seventy years, he captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker.

Sad news from @newyorker.com: Tad Tomkins died this morning at the age of 100. He was a giant. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

Senior Director of Audience Development and Analytics, The New Yorker The New Yorker is a multi-platform media enterprise, spanning print, digital, audio, video, and live events. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker is considered by many to be the most influential magazine i...

The New Yorker is hiring a senior director of audience development and analytics. It's kind of a unicorn role, because we're looking for someone with data, strategic, and editorial chops. Please pass the word! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It? A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all?

Great to have @chaykak.bsky.social back from paternity leave. His latest column is a rousing defense of...us! Hooray for humans. "No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything, and no number of branded baseball caps is going to change that." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

“Two People Exchanging Saliva” Rewrites the Slap in Cinema Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata’s film is set in a dystopian version of Paris where kissing is forbidden and purchases are made through small acts of violence.

@newyorker.com won an Oscar! For this film. www.newyorker.com/culture/scre...

“Strangers in the Land” out in paperback on 4/14! I keep returning to this from “Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu: “The question is: Who gets to be an American? What does an American look like? . . . After 2 centuries here, why are we still not Americans? Why do we keep falling out of the story?”