Jensen Huang and the Storied Lineage of the Honey Trap - Novelists have long grasped the possibilities. Ian Fleming served up such enticements in his James Bond novels nearly as often as Bond was served a Martini. (www.newyorker.com)
“Avedon” Shows the Scars, Just Not the Photographer’s Own - Ron Howard’s new Netflix documentary is cagy about the dark underside of the legendary photographer’s life, which is perhaps fitting for an artist whose pictures were studies in utter control. (www.newyorker.com)
Living in Normaltown and Feeling Anything But - Tim Davis revisits a period of childhood upheaval in a place he remembers for its “cartilage of politeness.” (www.newyorker.com)
President Trump’s Nightmare Oval Office - At a Chelsea gallery, the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset walked through their latest installation—a barren, rusty Corten-steel replica of the West Wing room, with not a gold touch in sight. (www.newyorker.com)
With Stephen Miller and Jim Jordan, the G.O.P. Doubles Down on Ideology - In the aftermath of the Republicans’ defeat in the midterms, right-wing hard-liners have been elevated to the apex of Washington politics. What does their rise spell for the future of the G.O.P.? (www.newyorker.com)
Joe Biden’s Memoir “Promise Me, America” Shows a Man in Denial - The former President had it in him to write a great book about the loss of his powers as he aged. “Promise Me, America” is not that book. (www.newyorker.com)
The Historian Timothy Garton Ash on the World After Trump - The Oxford professor talks with David Remnick about threats to Europe from American skepticism, Russian aggression, and ascendant far-right parties. (www.newyorker.com)
In His War of Choice with Iran, Trump Has No Good Options - The staff writer Ishaan Tharoor on the political backlash to the war, and why the President cannot easily extricate the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
A Whistle-Blower Speaks Out About Trump’s Crackdown on Campus Antisemitism - A Justice Department lawyer assigned to work on an Administration task force began to suspect that the investigations were “outcome-driven.” (www.newyorker.com)
I Am a 2026 National Book Award Finalist. The U.S. Denied My Visa - After my memoir, “Huna,” was nominated, I made plans to attend the ceremony in New York—only to be found ineligible for a visitor visa. (www.newyorker.com)
My Coffee with Billy Evans - I can’t beat eggs anymore without trying to impress Billy Evans. I sometimes wish he were there beside me in the kitchen to say, “And that’s how you scramble eggs!” (www.newyorker.com)
How Sombr Went from TikTok to Madison Square Garden - Also: the legacy of Merce Cunningham, Lauren Ambrose in a new play by Nick Payne, early Vincent Price, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Labyrinthine Betrayals of “Minotaur” - In Andrey Zvyagintsev’s remake of a Claude Chabrol classic, current affairs become entangled with a crime of passion. (www.newyorker.com)
Can You Fire the Vice-President via Truth Social? - Donald Trump came close on Thursday, ousting J. D. Vance as his Iran negotiator days after the Veep blamed the war for the Republicans’ midterm losses. (www.newyorker.com)
“Bitter Christmas” Is Pedro Almodóvar’s Gift to Us - In the dazzling meta-drama, two filmmakers—one the brainchild of the other—ponder what friends owe one another and what artists owe themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
How an Unlikely Charles de Gaulle Bio-Pic Conquered France - Bringing the French general to the big screen has historically been a fraught enterprise. Antonin Baudry says that his two-part epic succeeded because it “managed to crack the character.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Technofeudalist Nightmare of K-12 Curricula - Public schools are financing private capital's love affair with ed-tech and A.I. Students are paying the price. (www.newyorker.com)
“Club Kid” and the New Fatherhood - The archetype of the father onscreen has come a long way from the patriarchs of the postwar era. The new film “Club Kid” joins a wave of recent works that interrogate what we want from dads today—in art and in life. (www.newyorker.com)
The Candidates Who Defeated the Politics of White Grievance - Will Democrats’ breakthrough in the South transform their party’s view of a winning campaign? (www.newyorker.com)