Browsing: Culture Desk

D.S.A. co-chair Megan Romer defends the organization’s boldest positions on the New Yorker Radio Hour, arguing voters want fighters, not hedgers.

Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel “Yesteryear” became a best-seller after diving into trad wife culture. Now Anne Hathaway wants to adapt it.

Conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, backed by Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, pushed ibogaine into Republican politics. Here’s how a fringe psychedelic became a G.O.P. talking point.

Jordan Harper’s “A Violent Masterpiece” flips noir’s core pessimism, raising real questions about hope, the Epstein era, and what the genre can argue.

Eric Wareheim turned post-divorce plant collecting into a real business, with Martha Stewart and Kelly Wearstler among his clients.

A Spanish firefighter’s warning about fires exceeding all response capacity points to a European crisis built from drought, heat, and decades of neglect.

Elizabeth Meriwether’s Hulu series “Furious” follows a female killer targeting an abuse network — brutal, funny, and harder to dismiss than its premise suggests.

Bari Weiss applies 60 Minutes-style balance to Lake Mead’s position relative to the Hoover Dam. The results are geographically ambitious.

Gregg Araki’s new film stars Charli XCX and Johnny Knoxville. He tells The New Yorker that heartbreak and confusion are worth having.

Emily Eakin’s new book recovers the human lives behind French theory’s forbidding reputation, reviewed in The New Yorker August 2026.