Trump drawing to be first New Yorker cover featuring courtroom sketch
Jane Rosenberg was one of three permitted sketch artists during the hearing involving the ex-president on Tuesday
September 2022
Newspapers around the world pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II – in pictures
A look at how global media covered the death of the monarch in their print editions
February 2022
Patrick Radden Keefe on exposing the Sackler family’s links to the opioid crisis
The journalist tracked the billionaire arts philanthropists’ role in the OxyContin scandal in his gripping bestseller. He talks about why the bad guys are still getting away with it
December 2021
Madness in their method: have we fallen out of love with actorly excess?
US author to give away £10,000 prize cash over role of sponsor in opioid crisis
July 2021
The French Dispatch review – Wes Anderson’s ode to print journalism is a periodic delight
The Cat Person debate shows how fiction writers use real life does matter
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
June 2021
Helen Garner on Janet Malcolm: ‘Her writing turns us into better readers’
Whether in her deft reports and profiles for the New Yorker or her studies of Sylvia Plath and psychoanalysis, Malcolm wrote with breathtaking eloquence and insight
Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer, dies aged 86
New Yorker writer, whose scepticism about her trade brought her both praise and blame, was also famed for studies of psychoanalysis and Sylvia Plath
‘Who are we performing for?’: Will McPhail on the strange art of small talk
The New Yorker cartoonist’s debut graphic novel In follows an aimless artist who struggles to connect with others. He talks about his own experiences, and his love for drawing ‘characterful’ pigeons
April 2021
Observer New Review Q&A
David Remnick: ‘There is no vaccine for climate change’
The New Yorker editor on Fragile Earth, a new collection of the magazine’s climate crisis writing
March 2021
New Yorker staffers vote to authorize strike amid tensions with Condé Nast
New Yorker, Ars Technica and Pitchfork unions said they are in their third year of bargaining with the media company
February 2021
Crossword blog
Crossword blog: the New Yorker prints a new weekly puzzle
We talk about the technicalities of grid construction with the magazine’s puzzle editor, Liz Maynes-Aminzade
October 2020
New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for allegedly masturbating on Zoom call
Magazine says it is investigating matter while Toobin says ‘I thought I had muted the Zoom video’ in apology
May 2020
Ronan Farrow: master #MeToo reporter hit by surprise New York Times takedown
Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist rejects claims from paper’s Ben Smith that work exhibits ‘shakiness at its foundations’
April 2020
Scholars hit back over New Yorker ‘hatchet job’ on Edna O'Brien
Irish literary critics unite to defend novelist after article portrayed her as ‘deceitful, flighty and self-pitying’
June 2019
Paul Schrader remembers Pauline Kael: 'She was my second mother'
In an edited version of his 2001 Film Comment essay, the director and screenwriter recalls his heartbreaking relationship – and reconciliation – with the critic who kickstarted his career
February 2019
We rush to condemn fakers such as Dan Mallory but the world has made impostors of us all
Rachel Cooke
The reaction to the exposure of the bestselling American author as a serial liar reveals more about our own insecurities than his duplicity
The Guardian view on Dan Mallory: a twisted tale of publishing
Editorial: The story of Dan Mallory, aka the bestselling author AJ Finn, reads like a thriller. But it asks uncomfortable questions of the literary world
First thoughts
The talented Dan Mallory affair: is this high noon for the privileged white male?
Jonathan Freedland
The exposure of a novelist’s ‘dissembling’ could spell trouble for unreliable narrators, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
