PHILLIS LEVIN <br> A flood of associations and memories ensues, a fantasia of cultural and personal histories—casualties of natural disasters, casualties of human massacres; and a need to escape (or b...

To much of the world, Crimea is mostly synonymous with the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine — once a precious Black Sea resort, the peninsula was seized at gunpoint in 2014 and transformed into a...

June 18, 2025 – “Choreography is a way of organizing chaos.”

Since the current administration began rolling out its draconian immigration policies, people have frequently cited the WWII Exclusion and Incarceration of Japanese Americans as a historical preced…

I hold hands with strangers. I do it quite often, and for long minutes at a time. I wrap my arms around them to bring them close in an embrace. I search their faces. I fit my body to their dips and ho...

Diane Mehta on learning the frantic art of scrambling for words from her speedy and strategic 21-year-old son.

The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.

Congress forks over more power to the president.

When I feel most invisible, I turn to YouTube and watch videos of freediving. I became enthralled when I was researching the motions and rhythms of being proficiently underwater for a scene in my n…

"Be yourself in prose, allow ideas to emerge, and go on riffs—into brambly, wild places. I don’t mean let just anything happen, but follow your mind."

With one thousand dollars in her pocket, my mother went on a European tour in June 1957, when she was twenty-three years old. She took a ferry to England and caroused across several continents.

Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy...

"Maybe it's only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover."

“I think you must be limber / in the heart the way I used to be.”

In Happier Far, Diane Mehta takes us on a funny and engrossing tour of the absurdities and dilemmas of becoming a writer, and how family can sometimes help u...

2025 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners 2023 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism Louis Menand Louis Menand is Professor of English at Harvard and a staff writer at Th...

A Divine Comedy reading group with two artist friends deepens the author’s understanding of Dante’s transcendent friendship with Virgil. By Diane Mehta