Obama
Critics at Large
The New Coming-of-Age Story
Vinson Cunningham discusses his début novel, “Great Expectations,” a bildungsroman that captures a particular moment in American life—and that offers some clues about where the genre is heading.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Obama Offers to Read His Book Aloud to Trump
Obama said that he had thought about sending Trump the audiobook version, but then realized that “there would be no one to help him when he got to a word he didn’t understand.”
By Andy Borowitz
Daily Comment
The Proper Response to Roseanne—and to Trump
Michelle Obama famously noted that “when they go low, we go high.” The question is, How does that work out in real life?
By Jelani Cobb
The Political Scene Podcast
From Obama to Trump: Ten Years of The Political Scene
New Yorker writers join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the upheavals in American politics since The Political Scene débuted, a decade ago.