Innehållsförteckning för October 6, 2025 från The New Yorker

Jon Lee Anderson (“Deserted Island,” p. 28) is a staff writer who reports often from Latin America. His latest book, “To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban,” was published in August. Ann Patchett (“Glowworms,” p. 12) is the author of, most recently, “Ted Lake.” She will publish a new novel, “Whistlers,” next June. Judith Thurman (Books, p. 63) is a staff writer. Her book “A Left-Handed Woman” received a PEN award for the art of the essay. Louis Menand (A Critic at Large, p. 58), a staff writer, is the author of “The Metaphysical Club,” which received a Pulitzer Prize for history. Robin Coste Lewis (Poem, p. 33) is a National Book Award-winning poet. Her newest collection, “Archive of Desire,” is due out in October. Miriam…

When the Four Horsemen opened, ten years ago, on a quiet stretch of Williamsburg, it became the rare celebrity joint that almost entirely transcended its celebrity associations. Co-owned by James Murphy, of the band LCD Soundsystem, it called itself a wine bar but was a restaurant, really, with an impeccably easygoing atmosphere, great music, and an ever-changing constellation of Cali-European small plates. The natural-wine list, built by the late Justin Chearno, won a Beard Award for best beverage program in America. The food, made by the chef Nick Curtola, earned a Michelin star. The team’s new restaurant, I Cavallini (the name is Italian for “little horses”), opened this summer right across the street. Wisely, instead of trying to replicate the Four Horsemen’s magic, it charts a fresh course. I Cavallini…

Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance. In the early days of e-commerce, he convinced Giorgio Armani, the king of Italian fashion, that selling clothes online would not damage his brand. He also built digital stores for other élite fashion houses, and created Yoox, a high-end online retailer. In 2018, Marchetti, then forty-nine, sold the company at a valuation of six billion dollars. But, instead of retiring, he sought out a new liege. He had served the king of fashion so ably (Armani does very good business online) that it was not entirely surprising when he joined forces with an actual king: Charles III of England. Marchetti was in town during Fashion Week…

As a New York Yankees fan, I spent the summer of 2000 feeling my chest tighten anytime my team was on the field and the ball travelled in the vicinity of second base. Routine grounders caused the greatest stress. The more inconsequential the play should have been, the more likely it was to go wrong. Seemingly overnight, Chuck Knoblauch, the All-Star second baseman, had lost his ability to toss the ball to first, the shortest throw on the diamond. There was a particular lineage to his condition. In the nineteen-eighties, a Mets catcher named Mackey Sasser couldn’t throw the ball back to the pitcher. Years later, Rick Ankiel, a Cardinals pitcher, could no longer throw strikes—yet, when he was moved to the outfield, his accuracy rarely faltered from a greater…

For seven years, while the Torre K23 hotel was under construction in Havana, the locals complained furiously. They said that the building—the “tower of arrogance,” as some called it—would spoil the neighborhood, a leafy district near the city’s seaside promenade. Besides, they pointed out, there was a perfectly good hotel down the hill: the Habana Libre, a former Hilton that Fidel Castro had made his home base after the Revolution. But Cuba, in the midst of a long-running economic crisis, was desperate to attract foreign currency. And the new hotel was erected by an unassailable entity: the commercial arm of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, known as GAESA, which controls the nation’s construction, tourism, finance, and import-export industries. The Torre K23, which opened in February, is now the tallest building on…

COMMENT GRACE AND DISGRACE On a humid Charleston evening ten years ago, a ninth-grade dropout with a bowl haircut named Dylann Roof walked into a Bible-study class at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church, home to the oldest historically Black congregation in South Carolina. Roof, twenty-one, carried a .45-calibre Glock semi-automatic and eight magazines of hollow-point bullets. He settled into a seat near Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor and a state senator, who was leading a discussion of a parable from the Gospel of Mark. Around them sat a dozen parishioners, all Black, mostly women decades older than Roof. Roof had set down his creed on a website he called “The Last Rhodesian”: a lonely, seething hatred of Black people, Jews, Asians, and Hispanics. He posted photographs of himself holding a Confederate…

A family of four walked into a bar. A The kids—boys, aged ten and thirteen—requested Shirley Temples. “Only two problems,” the bartender replied. “We don’t have grenadine, and we don’t have Sprite.” They didn’t have wine, either, not that it bothered the parents (Tanq-and-tonic, bud). Another patron, anticipating his wife’s arrival, brought a couple of bottles of wine in a paper bag and handed them to the bar’s front man, Tracy Westmoreland, who looked unfazed. It’s an unusual bar where the customers supply the booze that they intend to consume, but Westmoreland’s joints have always been special. He opened Siberia in a former K.G.B. drop spot in the subway station at Fiftieth and Broadway in 1996. “It was, like, the size of a shipping container,” Greg Gutfeld recalled recently, on…

ACROSS 1 Centerpieces of many sixties protests 11 Proposes as a price 15 Phrase of self-acceptance 16 Singular bird that’s a plural bird spelled backward 17 Occasion for some summer parades 18 Alien’s adjective for an earthling, perhaps 19 Apt scoreboard abbreviation for the Mariners 20 Name shared by a human and a nonhuman in a 1988 heist comedy 21 Firm cherries 22 Foundations 23 Adult-hits radio network 24 Nickname for one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 27 Up to 28 Fight back against, in a way 29 Take requests? 34 “You can’t just say stuff” 38 What’s earned during a revolution 39 Org. whose trustees include Halle Berry and James L. Brooks 42 Tip 43 “Copy that” 44 Aesthetic exemplified by Hello Kitty 46 Plenty 49 Statement from…

The New-York Historical Society moved into its current home, on Central Park West, in 1908. The building, grand as it was, wound up being much smaller than the Society had intended. The money ran out, as it will, and as it would again in the decades to come, when the N.Y.H.S. failed thrice more to realize its full scale. Now the New York Historical (a rebranding last year dropped both fussy hyphen and fusty noun) is achieving its deferred ambitions, with a hundred-and-seventy-five-million-dollar expansion. It broke ground nearly two years ago. For a new edifice that will adjoin the old one on West Seventy-sixth Street, the Historical (if we must) and Robert A. M. Stern Architects (or RAMSA, if you insist) wanted to use the same kind of granite, to…

Why do I think that death would be manageable if I knew in advance when it was coming? Death is not manageable, and the answer to the question of when is never going to be anything more than a good guess. In 2024, I was scheduled to go on book tour in Australia and New Zealand. Flights had been purchased for me and my husband, Karl, and tickets to various literary-festival events at which I was to appear had been sold. But, as our May 9th departure inched closer, three things became increasingly clear: first, Karl’s hundred-and-two-year-old mother, Jo VanDevender, was not going to make it to a hundred and three; second, my friend Jim Fox, who, at eightyfour, had been diagnosed as having pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to…

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by revitalizing key cultural institutions…. The Order directs the Vice President … to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.—White House fact sheet, March 27, 2025. Dr. Seuss Enterprises … reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer. These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.—Dr. Seuss Enterprises, March 2, 2021. I am Big Shot Despot—tremendous, colossal!My name’s…

At a crucial moment in “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s electrifying new action thriller, someone cries out, “Who are you?!” A fair question. The man being asked is Bob Ferguson (Leonardo Di-Caprio), who, in a past life, was known as Pat, Ghetto Pat, and Rocket Man. The movie opens in that past life, with Pat a member of the French 75, a ragtag band of militants who free imprisoned migrants and bomb the offices of pro-life politicians. Their objective is for America to one day be “free from fear,” to quote Pat’s partner, who has only one name, Perfidia Beverly Hills, but it’s enough. She’s played by Teyana Taylor, who lit up the independent drama “A Thousand and One” (2023) as an excon determinedly raising a son. Here,…