This week, we bring you half a century of New Yorker Profiles, reporting, essays, fiction, and poetry about American dissent, from the #NewYorkerArchive. nyer.cm/mGMgNjk
In his introduction to this week’s issue, David Remnick reflects on the life and legacy of John Lewis, and the essential role dissent plays in America’s story and future. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
From 2002, @specterm profiles Larry Kramer, the activist who warned the U.S. about AIDS—and helped revolutionize American medicine. newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
From 2003, Hilton Als profiles Toni Morrison, who, as an editor, author, and professor, fostered a generation of Black writers. newyorker.com/magazine/2003/…
From 2009, @ElizKolbert profiles James Hansen, known as the “father of global warming,” whose early climate models predicted most of what has happened to the climate since. newyorker.com/magazine/2009/…
The #MetGala begins! The artist @bao__haus is on the carpet, drawing all the action live. Follow along to see her illustrations of the star-studded arrivals, beginning with Chloe Fineman and her cat bag, a reference to Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette.
.@HeidilBlake reports on Dubai’s runaway princesses, who attempted to flee lives of unimaginable privilege and oppression, and details the brutal measures that Sheikh Mohammed and his allies have taken to quell their rebellions. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
.@amandapetrusich spends time with the National, a band of “sad dads” that became famous for music that speaks to the ambient melancholy of adulthood. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
.@jiatolentino has won a National Magazine Award for her columns on the political, social, and moral implications of the end of Roe v. Wade. Revisit a selection of her writing on the evolving abortion landscape in the U.S. #ASMEawards
In February, 2022, after Roe v. Wade marked its 49th anniversary, Tolentino warned that the legal precedent was unlikely to survive to its 50th. nyer.cm/zIBzx2B
“We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy,” Tolentino wrote, on the day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. nyer.cm/j8ug0w2
Inside the Spring Style & Design Issue of The New Yorker: nyer.cm/oy9m44X
Jia Tolentino investigates the back-channel purveyors of new weight-loss drugs, and considers how the widespread use of these medications may change the way we think about our bodies. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Lauren Collins goes inside a post-scandal Balenciaga with Demna, the brand’s provocative artistic director who is now trying to resuscitate the house’s image with a return to the fundamentals of fashion. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…