Joy Williams reads her story “Stuff,” from the July 25, 2016, issue of the magazine. Williams is the author of five story collections and four novels, including “Breaking and Entering” and “The Quick and the Dead.” Her collection “99 Stories of God” was published by Tin House this month. She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1981.
Fiction
“Five Bridges”
Being undocumented at a time when no one bothered much about illegal Irish people had almost suited him.
By Colm Tóibín
This Week in Fiction
Colm Tóibín on the Undocumented Irish and Writing in Real Time
The author discusses his story “Five Bridges.”
By Deborah Treisman
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Tim Walz Might Run for President in 2028 if You Ask Him Nicely
Kamala Harris’s running mate describes losing in 2024, opposing Donald Trump now, and his future.
By David Remnick
The Lede
Geothermal Power Is a Climate Moon Shot Beneath Our Feet
The center of the Earth is so hot that it could satisfy the entire world’s energy needs. But can scientists safely tap into it?
By Brent Crane
The Writer’s Voice
Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges”
The author reads his story from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine.
Takes
Ian Frazier on George W. S. Trow’s “Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse”
The writer and his great subject—Ahmet Ertegun, the head of Atlantic Records—shared a deeply American restlessness.
By Ian Frazier
Postscript
Roberta Flack’s Musical Transformations
Flack sang like she had been holding on to a secret that was waiting to become yours.
By Hanif Abdurraqib
Comment
Trump’s Disgrace
While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing.
By David Remnick
Critic’s Notebook
“Paradise” Is Manna for the Moment
The clanking didacticism of Dan Fogelman’s new Hulu series, which involves climate disaster, nuclear war, and the insurgency of the billionaire class in politics, is deeply satisfying.
By Doreen St. Félix
The Weekend Essay
The Imperialist Philosopher Who Demanded the Ukraine War
For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.
By James Verini
Fiction Podcast
Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1958.
The Political Scene Podcast
Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool
“It's something that is at the top of the authoritarian playbook list,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. “You know, go after the independent press.”