1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (979+ words) Read an interview with the author for the story behind the story. Geraldine phoned Jane, to tell her about the dream. They lived, in their seventies, only a few streets away from each other in Bristol'where Geraldine had spent most…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (395+ words) Your story "The Quiet House" follows a decades-long friendship between two women, which begins when they are undergraduates and is still going when they're in their seventies. Geraldine and Jane are quite different people. Do you think that there is…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (279+ words) On The Writer's Voice podcast, Tessa Hadley reads "The Quiet House," her story from the February 2, 2026, issue of The New Yorker. Tessa Hadley reads her story "The Quiet House," from the February 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published thirteen…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago   (79+ words) Inside a playhouse now owned by A24, a new restaurant offers frogs" legs, a killer cheeseburger, and a heavy dose of haute-theatrical glamour. Helen, Help Me!E-mail your questions about dining, eating, and anything food-related, and Helen may respond in a…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1403+ words) When Sweden named its national treasures, the list was condemned as blinkered and dated. But, Colton Valentine writes, it was also a chance to see the country anew. That the country which bestows Nobel Prizes should play this parlor game…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (486+ words) Hilton Als writes about the photographer's show "The Last Dyes," in which Eggleston presents a world that feels fictional but fact-based. Eggleston, however, used color in a different way: he employed the bright shock effect of advertising'Drink Coca-Cola! Drive this…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (221+ words) On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the staff writer Clare Malone discusses her reporting on the new head of the news network, who made her name as a crusader against "woke" thinking. Last October, Bari Weiss'best known as a contrarian…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (69+ words) I am a Tinder guy holding a fish and I will provide for you. I thought I would accomplish a lot more today and also by the time I was thirty-five. Circumstances in which I will not pet your dog....

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1023+ words) Richard Brody reviews two new documentaries, one about antebellum houses in Mississippi, and another about Russian life in the wake of the country's attack on Ukraine. "Natchez," a wide-ranging mosaic of cinematic portraiture, bears out a strange truth about nonfiction…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1262+ words) Joshua Rothman on the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest novels, including "The School of Night" and "The Third Realm." Maybe it's not surprising that, in middle and high school, my favorite writer was Stephen King. Later, I fell into…...