On October 26, 2025, the musicians Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Amanda Petrusich at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival.

Conditions at primate-research centers often drive monkeys to the point of madness. Last year’s news-making escape has ...

New York Harbor was once jammed with bivalves. Now the Billion Oyster Project seeds breakwaters with baby shellfish—not for eating but for purifying the local waters.

Paumgarten’s story is a parade not only of fascinating facts—there are, or were, fifty-eight thousand elevators in New York ...

Find Sergio García Sánchez’s covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store. In the weeks before John Wayne Gacy’s scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate. What HBO’s ...

The jewel heist at the Louvre reminded Brooklynites of the time, in 1952, when two bejewelled crowns were swiped from a beloved local church—the one with a Mob boss on the ceiling.

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of ...

But Rodrik also believes there can be no return to the pre-Trump global system, which relied on one-size-fits-all trade rules enforced by transnational agencies such as the World Trade Organization.

They see everything not only from the air but from the side and rear. / To help you stay invisible these tips have been ...

What happened to you yesterday? If your first thought is “not much,” consider the day that the photographer Peter Hujar had on December 18, 1974. At the time, Hujar’s friend Linda Rosenkrantz was ...

Seventeen years later, that question has become central to New York City’s mayoral race, in which Zohran Mamdani, a thirty-four-year-old democratic socialist and a Muslim, has held a solid lead since ...

You can play Shuffalo every day at NewYorker.com/Shuffalo. Really means a lot, and to everyone at home, maelstrom.