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Byline: David Remnick Wartime Lies On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, ordered the invasion of Ukraine, unleashing the full force of his military on an unthreatening neighbor, [...]

Byline: David Remnick Defiance Despite a near-fatal stabbing-and decades of death threats-Salman Rushdie won't stop telling stories. When Salman Rushdie turned seventy-five, last summer, he had every reason to believe [...]

Byline: David Remnick Restless Farewell He's in his eighties. How does Bob Dylan keep it new? In 1956, rock and roll was busy being born. Ike Turner and the Kings [...]

Byline: David Remnick Peter Schjeldahl Sometimes a writer, an artist, a human being is so defiant of mortality that you begin to take him at his word. Just a few [...]

Byline: David Remnick First and Last When word came last week that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union, had died, it was front-page news in [...]

Byline: David Remnick Nobel Gesture In 1901, the Swedish Academy bestowed the first Nobel Prize in Literature on Sully Prudhomme, a French poet of modest distinction in his time and [...]

Byline: David Remnick Keeping Faith The gospel according to Mavis Staples. Mavis Staples has been a gospel singer longer than Elizabeth II has worn the crown. During concerts, sometimes, she [...]

Byline: David Remnick Roger Angell In recent years, as his odometer headed toward triple digits, Roger Angell became known around our office for the way his cheerful longevity complemented his [...]

Byline: David Remnick Heroes 'Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.' The famous line is from Brecht's 'Life of Galileo,' and it's often trotted out in reference to repressive [...]

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Byline: David Remnick Servant of the People At the most consequential hour in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union, as a vengeful and erratic autocrat invades Ukraine alluding [...]

Byline: David Remnick Let History Judge Vladimir Putin delivered a bitter and delusional speech from the Kremlin last week, arguing that Ukraine is not a nation and Ukrainians are not [...]

Byline: David Remnick Putin's War Game Vladimir Putin presents himself to his citizens and to the world as the standard-bearer of a modern counter-enlightenment. He has declared liberal democracy 'obsolete,' [...]

Byline: David Remnick Reputation Laundering For a long time now, the American electorate has been resigned to a 'permanent campaign,' an unceasing carnival of exploratory committees, chicken dinners, and cable [...]

Byline: David Remnick Let the Record Show Half a century after the Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney holds it all together. Early evening in late summer, the golden hour in [...]

Byline: David Remnick Morality Plays The lives of the saints do not alter the fate of nations-except when they do. In 1953, a young physicist named Andrei Sakharov was working [...]

Byline: David Remnick When He Was Good A life of Philip Roth. 'The Ghost Writer' was published in 1979. It was the first of nine novels by Philip Roth narrated [...]

Byline: David Remnick The Final Days On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the East Portico of the Capitol to deliver his first Inaugural Address. The nation was collapsing, [...]

Byline: David Remnick Real News Presidents have always complained about the press. At awards ceremonies and journalism-school conferences, Thomas Jefferson is often remembered for his principled support: in 1787, he [...]

Byline: David Remnick The Biden Prospect American democracy was on the ballot on Election Day, and although American democracy appears to have won, an occasion of immense relief, the margin [...]

Byline: David Remnick Trump Agonistes From the start of his Presidency, Donald Trump has threatened the health and the security of the United States. It has now been made clear [...]

Briefly Noted Life of a Klansman, by Edward Ball (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This brave and often discomfiting portrait examines one of the author's great-great-grandfathers, a Confederate veteran who lived [...]

Briefly Noted tif69tif69tif69tif69 The Golden Thread, by Ravi Somaiya (Twelve). This taut investigative history delves into the death of Dag Hammarskjéld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, who was [...]

Byline: David Remnick Redeeming America tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda11 John Robert Lewis was born in 1940 near the Black Belt town of Troy, Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers, and he [...]

Byline: Isaac Scott Whose Streets Marching through Philadelphia. tifPHOTOGRAPH BY ISAAC SCOTTOutside the Philadelphia Museum of Art, protesters lay down for eight minutes and forty-six seconds, the amount of time [...]

Byline: David Remnick Catnip for Cranks tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda11 On January 6, 2017, at around 8:30 a.m., Donald Trump undoubtedly had serious matters on his mind. In just two [...]

Byline: Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg A New York Masquerade [...]

Byline: The Editors Pamela Maffei McCarthy tif15 Of the many things that we've missed in these bewildering weeks of homebound distancing, one is the ability to mark properly the joyful [...]

Byline: Karen Cunningham A City Nurse Healing in the I.C.U. during COVID-19. tif'When I wear a uniform, I put it on and take on my nurse self,' Cady Chaplin says. [...]

Byline: David Remnick The Politics of the Virus tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda11 When has New York known a grimmer week? The sirens are unceasing. Funeral parlors are overwhelmed. Refrigerator trailers [...]

Byline: Jessica van Voorhees Ramping Up tifIllustration BY Jo?o Fazenda12tifIllustration BY Jo?o Fazenda13 For ten years, I've been an attending emergency-medicine physician at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, in Park Slope. As [...]

Byline: David Remnick Life at the Epicenter tifIllustration by Jo?o Fazenda11 The streets of New York City are so desolate now that you half expect tumbleweed to blow along the [...]

Byline: David Remnick Opportunistic Infections tifPhotograph by Doug Mills / NYT / ReduxWith the coronavirus, Trump cannot bend the harsh realities of the world to his fantasies.9 Early last week, [...]

Byline: David Remnick Impeachment Whirlwind tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda21 Long before Alexander Hamilton became an icon of the Broadway stage, he glimpsed the harrowing qualities of a man like Donald [...]

Byline: David Remnick Words and Wounds tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda13 In December, 1993, Toni Morrison flew to Stockholm to deliver the lecture required of those awarded the Nobel Prize in [...]

Byline: Photographs by Cait Oppermann First Drafts The new freshman class of the N.B.A. tifJa Morant was an unknown until an assistant coach at Murray State, who had gone searching [...]

Byline: David Remnick Partners in Division tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda13 Twenty-one years ago, Benzion Netanyahu, a scholar of medieval history and the father of an Israeli Prime Minister serving his [...]

Byline: David Remnick It's Mueller Time tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda13 Late last year, Vintage Books reissued 'Night of Camp David,' a political thriller from 1965 that seemed to rhyme with [...]

Byline: David Remnick Holding the Note Is the guitarist and singer Buddy Guy the last bluesman? tifPhotograph by Stefan Ruiz for The New YorkerIn spite of his accolades, Guy has [...]

Byline: The EditorsThe City of Dreams tifILLUSTRATION BY JO�O FAZENDA15Like so many figures who come to be enshrined as 'quintessentially New York,' Harold Ross, the founder and first editor of [...]

Byline: David Remnick Philip Roth tifPhotograph by Irving Penn, 'Philip Roth, New York, 1983' / � The Irving Penn Foundation45 The meaning of life is that it stops. Especially in [...]

Byline: David Remnick Account Settings tifIllustration by Tom Bachtell23 When it comes to the phenomenon of Donald Trump, you have to give him this: sanctimony is not foremost among his [...]

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Byline: David Remnick Illiberal Arts tifIllustration by Tom Bachtell31 Minute by minute, the wheels are coming off the clown car that is the Trump Administration. The circus animals are deserting, [...]

Byline: David Remnick The Lost Emperor What made the Emperor Nero tick, Suetonius writes in 'Lives of the Caesars,' was 'a longing for immortality and undying fame, though it was [...]

Byline: David Remnick Autumn of the Patriarchy In 1975, Susan Brownmiller published a startling and controversial volume in the literature of feminism. It was called 'Against Our Will: Men, Women, [...]

Byline: David Remnick S. I. Newhouse, Jr. Forty-eight years ago, Gardner Botsford, a longtime editor at the magazine, wrote an obituary and appreciation in these pages of his stepfather, Raoul [...]

Byline: David Remnick Still Here Hillary Clinton looks back in anger. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who, as she puts it, won 'more votes for President than any white man' in American [...]

Byline: David Remnick Occupational Hazards In Israel, a hit TV show is set in the West Bank. What's left offscreen? In 1949, Yizhar Smilansky, a young Israeli veteran, national legislator, [...]

Byline: David Remnick The Divider Early last November, just before Election Day, Barack Obama was driven through the crisp late-night gloom of the outskirts of Charlotte, as he barnstormed North [...]