Remembering Ken Parker, the genius luthier who brought us the Parker Fly

One of the guitar world’s most visionary makers, who took the archtop guitar to unimaginable levels and also created the ...
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Calvin Tomkins’s Century

Early in 2025, the staff writer Calvin Tomkins decided to chronicle turning a hundred in the same year as The New Yorker’s hundredth anniversary, in a piece titled “Becoming a Centenarian.” Tomkins ...
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Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control

Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But those who aren’t familiar with Smith’s work outside of ...
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All of The New Yorker, Now Online

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. If you thought that stack ...
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Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes

In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman from California, Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, Barack Obama’s director of the C.I.A., and later, ...
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Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race

The Republican Susan Collins has held one of Maine’s Senate seats for nearly thirty years, and Democrats, in trying to take it away from her, have a lot at stake. Graham Platner, a combat veteran, ...
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Luci Gutiérrez’s “Inside Story”

The cover of the December 22, 2025, special Cartoons & Puzzles issue, by Luci Gutiérrez, celebrates the particular mixture of zaniness and dedication that it takes to produce an issue of a magazine.
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Helen Hokinson, a Happy Woman

Summer Pierre is the author of the graphic memoir “All the Sad Songs,” among other books. The writer, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1958, has chronicled turning a hundred in the ...
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Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Goodbye to All That”

For the cover of the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue, the artist Lorenzo Mattotti depicted a time-honored way to shake off the old and welcome the New Year. “I love drawing people dancing, ...
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J. B. Pritzker Sounds the Alarm

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker, begins a run for a third term and ...
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Andrew Martin on the Post-Lockdown Period

This interview was featured in the Books & Fiction newsletter, which delivers the stories behind the stories, along with our latest fiction. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In “Risk, Discipline,” ...
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The Party Politics of Sovereign House

In late February, not long after President Donald Trump took office again, around six hundred people gathered in Washington, D.C., for a “DOGE appreciation party.” The event was at the penthouse of ...