{"id":51,"date":"2026-05-20T04:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:09:33","slug":"the-new-yorkers-ava-kofman-wins-a-2026-national-magazine-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker\u2019s Ava Kofman Wins a 2026 National Magazine Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New Yorker\u2019s<\/em> Ava Kofman has received the 2026 National Magazine Award for Profile Writing, recognizing her portrait of the influential far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin. The article, Kofman\u2019s first as a staff writer, traces the trajectory and political reach of its subject, whose supporters include Vice-President J. D. Vance and a coterie of Silicon Valley billionaires. The organization that conferred the award, the American Society of Magazine Editors, last month honored \u201cPower Houses,\u201d a collection of New Yorker<\/em> images shot by the photographer Gillian Laub.<\/p>\n

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To report the winning Profile, Kofman delved deeply into the writings of Yarvin, who popularized the concept of being \u201cred-pilled\u201d\u2014a riff on a scene in \u201cThe Matrix\u201d\u2014and turned it into a rallying cry among conservatives. A former tech designer, Yarvin has advocated for \u201cthe liquidation of democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law,\u201d and called for the establishment of an American monarchy, arguing in 2011 that Donald Trump is \u201cbiologically suited\u201d to reign as king. Kofman\u2019s article chronicles the path of such ideas from the fringes to the mainstream, outlining their influence on figures such as Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, and Elon Musk. Near the end of the piece, Kofman joins Yarvin, whom she describes as \u201cAmerica\u2019s most famous living monarchist,\u201d at the \u201cCoronation Ball,\u201d a D.C. event celebrating Trump\u2019s second Inauguration. She and other journalists were later removed by security.<\/p>\n

\u201cPower Houses,\u201d which received the 2026 ASME<\/em> Award for Best Entertainment and Celebrity Photography, takes readers inside the living rooms of notable New Yorkers, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Spike Lee, and Gloria Steinem. Furniture, pets, and the residents themselves infuse the images with both ambiguity and meaning, creating a rich mosaic of city life across ages, backgrounds, and boroughs.<\/p>\n

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The National Magazine Awards, first presented in 1966, are given in association with Columbia University\u2019s School of Journalism. The New Yorker<\/em> has won sixty, including Kofman\u2019s 2026 prize.<\/p>\n

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The New Yorker announces that the staff writer Ava Kofman has received the 2026 National Magazine Award for Profile Writing, which follows recent recognition for the magazine\u2019s celebrity photography by Gilian Laub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-room"],"yoast_head":"\nThe New Yorker\u2019s Ava Kofman Wins a 2026 National Magazine Award - City Relocation News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=51\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The New Yorker\u2019s Ava Kofman Wins a 2026 National Magazine Award - 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