Alexander Nazaryan

Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial.

New York’s Bill de Blasio seems irritated by the need to fight the coronavirus.

The storms that mark political life in Washington obscure the ruthlessly effective work happening across the federal government.

An experiment on Bowery alcoholics who had prostate cancer reminds of the ethics involved in medical trials.

Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited her as a “master of the contemporary short story.”

A new e-book features the first prison interviews with the notorious Philadelphia abortion doctor.

Book reviewer Lee Siegel says that negative criticism has no place in today's cultural milieu. But in doing so, he too readily cedes authority.

In her new book, Confronting the Classics, Cambridge scholar Mary Beard reminds that ancient Greece and Rome remain relevant today.

In his latest novel, Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem leaves Brooklyn for a planned community in Queens that remains one of the great curiosities of 20th century urban planning. 

While the design changes coming to The New Yorker's pages this week are seemingly on a small scale, they represent one of those rare instances when the magazine actually makes an alteration to aspects of its appearance