Profiles
Scenes from the Life of Roz Chast
In the past four decades, the cartoonist has created a universe of spidery lines and nervous spaces, turning anxious truth-telling into an authoritative art.
by Adam Gopnik
Profiles
Scenes from the Life of Roz Chast
In the past four decades, the cartoonist has created a universe of spidery lines and nervous spaces, turning anxious truth-telling into an authoritative art.
by Adam Gopnik
Letter from Moscow
The Kremlin’s Creative Director
How the television producer Konstantin Ernst went from discerning auteur to Putin’s unofficial minister of propaganda.
by Joshua Yaffa
Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
by Dexter Filkins
Annals of Justice
Prepping for Parole
A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.
by Jennifer Gonnerman
Annals of Gastronomy
Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables?
No diet has been more obsessively studied, more fiercely controlled, or more anxiously stage-managed than baby food. Yet we still get it wrong.
by Burkhard Bilger
Profiles
Is the Supreme Court’s Fate in Elena Kagan’s Hands?
She’s not a liberal icon like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but, through her powers of persuasion, she’s the key Justice holding back the Court’s rightward shift.
by Margaret Talbot
American Chronicles
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
by Adam Hochschild
The Current Cinema
Remembrance of Kills Past in “The Irishmanâ€
Patient, composed, and cool to the point of froideur, Martin Scorsese’s latest film, speculating on the fate of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), slows the passage of time.
by Anthony Lane
Profiles
Adam Driver, the Original Man
Why so many directors want to work with Hollywood’s most unconventional lead.
by Michael Schulman
A Reporter at Large
Is Amazon Unstoppable?
Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
by Charles Duhigg