What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers
“Handmade Utopia,” a new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling, captures the hard-headed and hearty few…
September 2026
admin What the Met’s John Galliano Reversal Reveals
Tyler Foggatt on the British fashion designer John Galliano, whose planned Met exhibition, set to open with the 2027 Met…
Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Isaac Chotiner reviews “Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History,” by Benjamin Moser, and “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” by Omer Bartov.
Ben Shelton Comes Into Full Focus
Louisa Thomas on the semifinal match between the Americans Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe at the 2026 aU.S. Open.
Willem de Kooning’s Excavations of Intimacy
Hilton Als reviews “Willem de Kooning Drawing,” at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show articulates the artist’s pain and…
Ric Burns, N.Y.C. Optimist
The director—and brother of Ken Burns—is releasing two new episodes of his long-running “New York: A Documentary Film,” this time…
On Not Being a Homeowner
Anna Holmes writes about her family’s struggles to gain a foothold in the world of homeownership in Davis, California, and…
“The Uprising” Is a Grim But Scattershot History Lesson
In Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and hyperkinetic action filmmaking fight…
Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick interviews the former N.F.L. star, who discusses his memoir, “The Perilous Fight,”…
How to Protect Democracy
Joshua Yaffa writes about Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right party that recently came close to governing a state in Germany,…