History

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”

Fear of what the dead might do to us didn’t start with Dracula, and it didn’t end with him, either.

The writer, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1958, has chronicled turning a hundred in the same year as the magazine’s centennial.

In the biggest films of 2025, artists grappled with the country’s divided politics and increasingly fractured relationship to the truth. Can these works of fiction bring us closer to reality?

Haters may complain about payroll disparities, but you can’t love baseball and not stand in awe watching perhaps the greatest player who has ever lived.

The director talks with Justin Chang about his latest work on artistic genius. One dramatizes the decline of Lorenz Hart; the other details the triumphant début of Jean-Luc Godard.

More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what they’re remembering.

The New Yorker’s poetry editor discusses his new collection of poems, and how the pandemic brought him to themes of grief, political outrage, and our susceptibility to hoaxes.

How did the United States join Russia and China as an oligarchy? The staff writer Evan Osnos chronicles the shift in his new book, “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich.”

The writer’s grandfather founded an agricultural empire, but destroyed his business and his family rather than cede control to his sons. “It’s ‘Succession,’ with spinach,” Seabrook says.

A celebration of the “world’s fastest man.”

A sprawling exhibit at the Met charts the medium’s era of busy development.

“The Director” uses the filmmaking career of G. W. Pabst to map the moral and artistic disintegration of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Kelefa Sanneh on the electronic-music group and their enduring legacy.

The financial columnist John Cassidy on America’s turn to tariffs, and his new book “Capitalism and Its Critics.”

Chinese immigrants in the U.S. have been fighting for centuries against racial prejudice, the author Michael Luo says; their story should be seen as an American epic.

Jill Lepore says that the SpaceX C.E.O., an avid sci-fi fan, misreads cautionary tales as instruction manuals—and that his obsessions will shape America’s future.

The hundred-year history of The New Yorker includes reviews that anointed now classic works—as well as some that feel wildly out of step today. But is going against the grain such a bad thing?

“The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum.

Many great modernist houses were burned, but a monument of German culture in exile survived.