From the daily newsletter: a report from the scene in Kerr County. Plus: a hundred years of book recommendations.

All baby toys and cat toys are interchangeable. Both baby and cat are obsessed with me and won’t shut the fuck up about it.

Plus: the economic consequences of the “big, beautiful bill”; the Republicans now doubting Trump; and how Elmore Leonard ...

In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

“A victory, basically, for Combs.” A reflection on the trial of Sean Combs, in which the rapper was acquitted of the most ...

Every issue of the magazine dating back to its founding, in 1925, is available to subscribers at archives.newyorker.com. Every article since 2007, whether published in the magazine or only on the Web, ...

Song of the summer” is a complex characterization—it’s not simply the most popular track of the season (that’s likely to be ...