From the February 20, 2025, edition of The New Yorker newsletter: Kathryn Schulz on her arachnophobia. Plus: Richard Brody on the L.A. Rebellion; the Trump Administration trashes NATO; and Silicon Valley’s consumer service.

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20.02.2025

The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction | The New Yorker

Kyle Chayka writes about the apparent disengagement of Donald Trump’s opponents from political discourse on social media and elsewhere as the President and his cohorts seek to dismantle large swaths of the federal government.

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20.02.2025

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 19th | The New Yorker

Brendan Loper’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Elon Musk’s efforts to take over the U.S. government, and the January 6th, 2021, attempted coup at the Capitol.

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20.02.2025

The Best Books We’ve Read in 2025 So Far | The New Yorker

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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20.02.2025

The Consequences of Trump’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care | The New Yorker

From the February 19, 2025, edition of The New Yorker newsletter: Emily Witt on what’s next for trans kids. Plus: how South Africa’s history informs the MAGA worldview; Roz Chast on George Booth; and tuning out Trump 2.0.

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20.02.2025

Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women | The New Yorker

Min Jin Lee, the author of “Pachinko,”recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times.

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20.02.2025

The Palantir Guide to Saving America’s Soul | The New Yorker

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” by Palantir’s Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska.

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19.02.2025

The Humans Teaching Birds to Migrate | The New Yorker

From the February 18, 2025, edition of The New Yorker newsletter: Nick Paumgarten on saving a species. Plus: the fracturing of conservative Christians; a film-critic legend on the Hollywood slop of the sixties; and this week’s Laugh Lines.

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19.02.2025

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 18th | The New Yorker

Leise Hook’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on the alternative to screens and devices.

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18.02.2025

The Crossword: Monday, February 17, 2025 | The New Yorker

A free online puzzle published every weekday, with difficulty levels ranging from easy to hard, and answers and clues that exhibit the wit and intelligence of the magazine.

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18.02.2025

Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 17th | The New Yorker

Kim Warp’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on aliens and Donald Trump’s despotic Presidency.

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18.02.2025

Play Laugh Lines No. 7: Mail | The New Yorker

Put your historical detective skills to the test by arranging a series of New Yorker cartoons in the correct order on a time line.

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17.02.2025

Restaurant Review: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch | The New Yorker

Helen Rosner reviews the plate lunch at L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, a chain with locations on the Lower East Side, in East Harlem, and, soon, in Bushwick.

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15.02.2025

The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes | The New Yorker

Chris Wiley writes about the images of Wilson Bentley, the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century microphotographic innovator and bona-fide snowflake obsessive.

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15.02.2025

The Manic Brilliance of “Breakfast of Champions” | The New Yorker

Richard Brody writes on Alan Rudolph’s adaptation, from 1999, of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions.”

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15.02.2025

What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025? | The New Yorker

From the February 14, 2025, edition of The New Yorker newsletter: Danielle Sassoon’s American bravery. Plus: Susan B. Glasser on Putin’s great day in Washington; Stephen A. Smith for President; and revisiting James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind.”

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14.02.2025

Bartees Strange’s Interior Hauntings | The New Yorker

Hanif Abdurraqib reviews “Horror,” on which the genre-spanning Strange deconstructs old fears and finds ways to survive new ones.

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14.02.2025

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 14th | The New Yorker

John McNamee’s Valentine’s Day-themed Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Cupid and getting the ick from a potential romantic partner.

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14.02.2025

Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive | The New Yorker

The staff writer and the cartoonist share their picks from the archive—an essay by Joan Didion, and a caveman cartoon by George Booth—to celebrate The New Yorker’s centennial.

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14.02.2025

The A.C.L.U. vs. Trump 2.0 | The New Yorker

Anthony Romero, the head of the A.C.L.U., says that the United States is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. “We’re at the Rubicon. Whether we’ve crossed it remains to be seen.”

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13.02.2025

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 13th | The New Yorker

Brendan Loper’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Cookie Monster, and Donald Trump’s efforts to insert Elon Musk and other self-enriching billionaires into the U.S. government.

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13.02.2025

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, February 13, 2025 | The New Yorker

A free online puzzle published every weekday, with difficulty levels ranging from easy to hard, and answers and clues that exhibit the wit and intelligence of the magazine.

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13.02.2025

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Beastly Inflation | The New Yorker

Jeremy Nguyen’s Bonus Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on inflation, the price of eggs, and Gaston and LeFou from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”

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13.02.2025

What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025? | The New Yorker

“I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consistent with their values.”

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12.02.2025

The Nocturnal Masterwork “Toute Une Nuit” Comes to Light | The New Yorker

Richard Brody on Chantal Akerman and her film “Toute Une Nuit,” or “One Whole Night,” which is now streaming on the Criterion Channel.

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12.02.2025

How the Tiger Really Got His Stripes | The New Yorker

People have wondered forever what determines the patterns that animals wear. We’re starting to figure it out, Rivka Galchen writes.

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12.02.2025

Digging Deep with Jilaine Jones | The New Yorker

Hilton Als writes about the sculptor Jiliane Jones’s show at 15 Orient.

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12.02.2025

Kelefa Sanneh on the Spiritual Quests of Mike White | The New Yorker

From the February 11, 2025, edition of The New Yorker newsletter: Kelefa Sanneh on the man behind “The White Lotus.” Plus: Elon Musk takes aim at the Labor Department; the Profile that Ernest Hemingway could never escape; and Kendrick Lamar’s existential halftime show.

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12.02.2025

An Argentinean Writer and the Movement for Women’s Rights | The New Yorker

Graciela Mochkofsky writes that Selva Almada’s work is central to the battle to protect hard-won victories that President Javier Milei has vowed to overturn.

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12.02.2025

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 11th | The New Yorker

Bob Eckstein’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on highway signs, current events, and having had enough.

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03.02.2025

“My Friend Pinocchio,” by David Rabe | The New Yorker

Fiction by David Rabe, about a long-term friendship between two men on the margins of Hollywood.

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03.02.2025

Restaurant Review: Provence in the West Village, at Zimmi’s | The New Yorker

Helen Rosner reviews Zimmi’s, a Provençal restaurant in the West Village from Jenni Guizio and the chef Maxime Pradié.

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03.02.2025

David Rabe on the Mystery of Friendship | The New Yorker

Deborah Treisman interviews the writer David Rabe about his story “My Friend Pinocchio,” which appears in the February 10, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

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03.02.2025

Lessons for the End of the World | The New Yorker

Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on Octavia Butler, the Los Angeles fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.

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03.02.2025

David Rabe Reads “My Friend Pinocchio” | The New Yorker

On The Writer’s Voice podcast, David Rabe reads “My Friend Pinocchio,” his story from the February 10, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

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02.02.2025

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next | The New Yorker

“We are up against perhaps the biggest, most malignant political operation in American history,” Whitehouse says.

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02.02.2025

The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires | The New Yorker

Alex Ross on the historical architecture in Los Angeles that was both affected by and left untouched by the recent fires in the area.

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02.02.2025

Anne Enright Reads John McGahern | The New Yorker

On the Fiction Podcast, Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977.

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02.02.2025

“Eusexua,” the Dance-Floor Album That Doesn’t Need Berlin or Prague | The New Yorker

Doreen St. Félix writes that on FKA Twigs’s new record, “Eusexua,” the artist both engages in exhibitionism and reveals her hermetic side—the monkishness of the night-life circuit girl.

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 20th | The New Yorker

The Cannibals Who Live Among Us | The New Yorker

The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction | The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 19th | The New Yorker

The Best Books We’ve Read in 2025 So Far | The New Yorker

The Consequences of Trump’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care | The New Yorker

Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women | The New Yorker

The Palantir Guide to Saving America’s Soul | The New Yorker

The Humans Teaching Birds to Migrate | The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 18th | The New Yorker

The Crossword: Monday, February 17, 2025 | The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 17th | The New Yorker

Play Laugh Lines No. 7: Mail | The New Yorker

Restaurant Review: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch | The New Yorker

The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes | The New Yorker

The Manic Brilliance of “Breakfast of Champions” | The New Yorker

What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025? | The New Yorker

Bartees Strange’s Interior Hauntings | The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 14th | The New Yorker

Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive | The New Yorker

The A.C.L.U. vs. Trump 2.0 | The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 13th | The New Yorker

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, February 13, 2025 | The New Yorker

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Beastly Inflation | The New Yorker

What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025? | The New Yorker

The Nocturnal Masterwork “Toute Une Nuit” Comes to Light | The New Yorker

How the Tiger Really Got His Stripes | The New Yorker

Digging Deep with Jilaine Jones | The New Yorker

Kelefa Sanneh on the Spiritual Quests of Mike White | The New Yorker

An Argentinean Writer and the Movement for Women’s Rights | The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 11th | The New Yorker

“My Friend Pinocchio,” by David Rabe | The New Yorker

Restaurant Review: Provence in the West Village, at Zimmi’s | The New Yorker

David Rabe on the Mystery of Friendship | The New Yorker

Lessons for the End of the World | The New Yorker

David Rabe Reads “My Friend Pinocchio” | The New Yorker

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next | The New Yorker

The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires | The New Yorker

Anne Enright Reads John McGahern | The New Yorker

“Eusexua,” the Dance-Floor Album That Doesn’t Need Berlin or Prague | The New Yorker

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