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The cover for this week’s issue is “Early Morning,” by Kenton Nelson. See what’s inside: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine
A cartoon by Charlie Hankin. #NewYorkerCartoons
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November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A cartoon by Charlie Hankin. #NewYorkerCartoons
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Are the higher speed and intensity that have made basketball so fun to watch the very forces that are sidelining its stars with injuries? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lgraj1
The N.B.A.’s Breakneck Momentum
Are the higher speed and intensity that have made the game so fun to watch the very forces that are sidelining its stars with injuries?
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November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Are the higher speed and intensity that have made basketball so fun to watch the very forces that are sidelining its stars with injuries? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lgraj1
“It horrified me to be from a species that did such things, over and over, but what good did my horror do?” Read a new short story from Joan Silber. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_pKdGr
“Safety,” by Joan Silber
It horrified me to be from a species that did such things, over and over, but what good did my horror do?
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November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“It horrified me to be from a species that did such things, over and over, but what good did my horror do?” Read a new short story from Joan Silber. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_pKdGr
Looking for a special something for the audiophile on your list? Our music critic offers some suggestions, from a plug-and-play suitcase turntable to a pocket-sized Stylophone synthesizer.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/holiday-gift-guide-2025-music
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/holiday-gift-guide-2025-music
A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Music Lovers
Our music critic gives a roundup of tactile, old-fashioned ways to honor sound, and the people who make it.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking for a special something for the audiophile on your list? Our music critic offers some suggestions, from a plug-and-play suitcase turntable to a pocket-sized Stylophone synthesizer.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/holiday-gift-guide-2025-music
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/holiday-gift-guide-2025-music
Get yourself a cup of coffee and try a Sunday round of Shuffalo, our anagram game. Can you make a longer word with each new letter? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/syVN87
Play Shuffalo: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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November 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Get yourself a cup of coffee and try a Sunday round of Shuffalo, our anagram game. Can you make a longer word with each new letter? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/syVN87
“Pluribus,” Vince Gilligan’s much anticipated follow-up to “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” asks the question: What if everyone else’s paradise is your personal hell? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dpzLhB
The Obliging Apocalypse of “Pluribus”
The new sci-fi drama from Vince Gilligan posits an end-of-humanity scenario that everyone other than its protagonist can agree on.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Pluribus,” Vince Gilligan’s much anticipated follow-up to “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” asks the question: What if everyone else’s paradise is your personal hell? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dpzLhB
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx
Like dementia, menopause can involve the diminishment of cognitive function. Researchers do not yet know whether this is a coincidence or if a more complex relationship is at work.
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https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j5g0tW
My Mother’s Memory Loss, and Mine
When I began forgetting words in midlife, I wondered if it was menopause—and worried that it was something more.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Like dementia, menopause can involve the diminishment of cognitive function. Researchers do not yet know whether this is a coincidence or if a more complex relationship is at work.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j5g0tW
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/j5g0tW
Louis C.K. isn’t too cancelled to perform several sold-out shows of his new comedy show at the Beacon, but cancelled enough that, if you manage to snag a ticket, you might not want to brag about it to your co-workers.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EvR4r7
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EvR4r7
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
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November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Louis C.K. isn’t too cancelled to perform several sold-out shows of his new comedy show at the Beacon, but cancelled enough that, if you manage to snag a ticket, you might not want to brag about it to your co-workers.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EvR4r7
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EvR4r7
A cartoon by Trevor Spaulding, from 2018. #NewYorkerCartoons
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A cartoon by Trevor Spaulding, from 2018. #NewYorkerCartoons
Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut
During her latest clinical trial, Tatiana Schlossberg’s doctor had told her that he could keep her alive for a year, maybe. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me,” she writes.
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https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2b77Sn
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
During her latest clinical trial, Tatiana Schlossberg’s doctor had told her that he could keep her alive for a year, maybe. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me,” she writes.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2b77Sn
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2b77Sn
Many young people are going "no contact" with their parents. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wKHn3K
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Many young people are going "no contact" with their parents. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wKHn3K
Megalithic monuments in the Orkney Islands “may not have been intended to last millennia, but, now that they have, they are stone doors through which the living try to touch the dead,” Alex Ross writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TFPGiZ
In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Megalithic monuments in the Orkney Islands “may not have been intended to last millennia, but, now that they have, they are stone doors through which the living try to touch the dead,” Alex Ross writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TFPGiZ
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Some all-new collegiate punctuation marks to rival the Oxford comma, from New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g2qa5v
Collegiate Punctuation Marks Trying to Be the Next Oxford Comma
The Notre Dame semicolon, Sarah Lawrence quotation marks, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop em dash, and others.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Some all-new collegiate punctuation marks to rival the Oxford comma, from New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g2qa5v
The fighting in eastern Congo seldom makes the international news. In June, though, there was a moment of renewed interest, when Donald Trump announced that he had “stopped” the war. But can Trump’s peace initiative resolve the three-decade conflict? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AP2O_u
Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?
The President declared a diplomatic triumph. The view from the ground is more complex.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The fighting in eastern Congo seldom makes the international news. In June, though, there was a moment of renewed interest, when Donald Trump announced that he had “stopped” the war. But can Trump’s peace initiative resolve the three-decade conflict? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AP2O_u
When Anna Holmes’s mother developed dementia, she was going through hormonal changes and having memory issues of her own. In a new essay, she reflects on the intersection of women’s cognitive health, menopause, and Alzheimer’s.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tWkA_3
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tWkA_3
My Mother’s Memory Loss, and Mine
When I began forgetting words in midlife, I wondered if it was menopause—and worried that it was something more.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
When Anna Holmes’s mother developed dementia, she was going through hormonal changes and having memory issues of her own. In a new essay, she reflects on the intersection of women’s cognitive health, menopause, and Alzheimer’s.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tWkA_3
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tWkA_3
The political assassins of our age are disgruntled plotters and fanatics whose hazy motives seem patched together by personal grievances, mental illness, and solipsistic internet quests. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/62rZDl
The Mystery of the Political Assassin
Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The political assassins of our age are disgruntled plotters and fanatics whose hazy motives seem patched together by personal grievances, mental illness, and solipsistic internet quests. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/62rZDl
Men are floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex. http://nyer.cm/68lJqnB
What’s the Matter with Men?
They’re floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Men are floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex. http://nyer.cm/68lJqnB
In the “romantasy” genre, “copycats are commonplace,” the book blogger and author Jenny Trout said. “Authors are giving the people what they want, but it’s also like you’re reading the same book over and over again.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_Ve27O
Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In the “romantasy” genre, “copycats are commonplace,” the book blogger and author Jenny Trout said. “Authors are giving the people what they want, but it’s also like you’re reading the same book over and over again.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_Ve27O
Every living room–and photograph—tells a story. Gillian Laub photographs notable New Yorkers—including Emily Ratajkowski and Spike Lee—in their living rooms. See the photos. http://nyer.cm/Eu1Mg2c
Inside the Living Rooms of Notable New Yorkers
A congresswoman, an “S.N.L.” star, and a convicted con artist are among the residents who invited the photographer Gillian Laub into their most public private space.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Every living room–and photograph—tells a story. Gillian Laub photographs notable New Yorkers—including Emily Ratajkowski and Spike Lee—in their living rooms. See the photos. http://nyer.cm/Eu1Mg2c
Are we the same people at age four that we will be at 24, 44, or 74? Or do we change dramatically through time? http://nyer.cm/UDrCkp2
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?
Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Are we the same people at age four that we will be at 24, 44, or 74? Or do we change dramatically through time? http://nyer.cm/UDrCkp2
People who love Phish do so with a devotion that is quasi-religious—deep, eternal, and rhapsodic. People who dislike Phish do so with equal fervor. Amanda Petrusich profiles the singular band. http://nyer.cm/za8BHxK
After Forty Years, Phish Isn’t Seeking Resolution
People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
People who love Phish do so with a devotion that is quasi-religious—deep, eternal, and rhapsodic. People who dislike Phish do so with equal fervor. Amanda Petrusich profiles the singular band. http://nyer.cm/za8BHxK