Bonus: Holiday Greetings from Ian Frazier
For decades, The New Yorker has published a poem on or around Christmas -- a look back at the events and people that have shaped the past year, generally light and fun; but in more difficult years it ...
24 Dec 20175min
Children’s Letters to Satan, and a Changing of the Guard at the New York Times
Every year, countless poor spellers accidentally address their Santa letters to Satan. Satan—played by Kathleen Turner—always replies Matt Passet’s Daily Shouts piece is performed by Kathleen Turner,...
22 Dec 201723min
Nicolás Maduro on the Brink of Dictatorship
Nicolás Maduro was an unlikely successor to Venezuela’s popular and charismatic Hugo Chavez. And, since his election, the country has been wracked with devastating food shortages, a breakdown of ordin...
19 Dec 201722min
The Alabama Fallout, and Louise Erdrich on the Future
Roy Moore was a classic Trumpian candidate: a political outsider of extreme positions, rejected by the establishment and plagued by accusations of scandal. He eventually garnered the full support of D...
15 Dec 201733min
Don’t Worry, the Robots Can’t Do Your Job—Yet
The business reporter Sheelah Kolhatkar has recently written for The New Yorker about a wave of advances in robotic technology that will have dangerous implications for our economy and political stabi...
12 Dec 201723min
Susan Orlean on the Trail of Tonya Harding
When the Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was kneecapped in an attack by friends of her rival Tonya Harding, the scandal riveted the nation; twenty-four years later, it’s the subject of the new film “I, ...
8 Dec 201732min
Barry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents
Barry Blitt wasn’t into politics—music and hockey were more his things—but as an artist he’s become one of the keenest observers of American politicians. Blitt has contributed more than eighty covers ...
5 Dec 201733min
Praying for Tangier Island
Residents of Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, live through each hurricane season in fear of a major storm that would decimate their land. With its highest point only four feet above sea level, t...
1 Dec 201722min
