Cartoons from the July 29, 2019, Issue

The author discusses his story “From, To.”

Gallant observed with the “cold eye” that Yeats recommended for writers, even when drawing on her own life in fiction.

The novelist discusses her new book, “Audition,” the role of performance in everyday life, and the trick of crafting a narrative that functions as a “Rorschach blot.”

The author reads his story from the April 14, 2025, issue of the magazine.

After a few years away, the Frick Collection reopens with a renovated grandeur that marries Old Master power portraits to a domestic intimacy.

The New York Yankees quietly brought a physics experiment to the plate. Then came the home-run barrage.

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.

How little it takes for people to feel “unsafe”—that glib euphemistic construction. The opposite of safe is not unsafe, as the opposite of love is not unlove.

In “Magazine Dreams,” the actor—who was found guilty of assault—plays a bodybuilder undone by the pressures of image-making. Majors has relied on the slippage between character and actor to facilitate his rebrand.

With a single act, the President has upended the entire global economic order.

The photographer Andrew Friendly watched Los Angeles burn, and then come together.

A fiftysomething writer’s quest to get injectables.