18:00 Arundhati Roy’s “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” Reviewed - A new memoir by Arundhati Roy, about a formidable matriarch, joins a host of recent books in which daughters reckon with mothers who are too much, not enough, or both at once. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Is Ghosting Inevitable? - We bemoan the injustice of being left on read. But perhaps missed connection is just a part of being a human on the internet. (www.newyorker.com)
05:01 Sabrina Carpenter’s “Man’s Best Friend,” Reviewed - “Man’s Best Friend,” the singer’s newest album, is an obvious companion to her 2024 breakthrough, filled with chatty asides and quick, carnal jokes. (www.newyorker.com)
09-02 Why Don’t We Take Nuclear Weapons Seriously? - The risk of nuclear war has only grown, yet the public and government officials are increasingly cavalier. Some experts are trying to change that. (www.newyorker.com)
09-01 Do State Referendums on Abortion Work? - Missouri voters approved a measure to protect abortion rights, but opponents have repeatedly blocked it from taking effect. (www.newyorker.com)
09-01 Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 Restaurant Review: Lex Yard at the Waldorf-Astoria - Lex Yard, in the newly restored hotel, tries for maximalist seasonal cooking creative enough to draw in finicky locals and anodyne enough to satisfy an international clientele. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 The End of the Late-Night Band - Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer. (www.newyorker.com)
08-31 How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America - A vaccine expert warns that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is deliberately sowing confusion in order to drive down immunization uptake. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 The Surreal Images of Erick and Elliot Jiménez - In “El Monte,” the Cuban American photographers construct a dizzying world inspired by a seminal work of ethnography. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time - The artist’s latest album, “The Passionate Ones,” catches your weariness, and, with a dreamer’s irrationality, asks if you would consider transforming it, even for a while. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department - Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 Fred Armisen on “100 Sound Effects” - The comedian talks about his new album, a sound-effects record for the modern era, with the staff writer Michael Schulman. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow - Adam Gopnik discusses the Administration’s moves to dictate what is acceptable and unacceptable in American culture, and why pluralism remains essential to democracy. (www.newyorker.com)
08-30 The New Orleans That Hurricane Katrina Revealed - Twenty years ago, the storm showed how few resources a city built on extraction had. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 Pictures of Life on a Christian Commune - Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of making up rules. (www.newyorker.com)
08-29 Your Midlife Girls’ Trip: A Waiver - By signing, you accept that going on this outing is voluntary, even if your group chat made it not feel that way. (www.newyorker.com)