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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.”
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 1st

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?
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.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 17th

Daily Comment

Comment from the May 23, 2016, Issue

Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 6th

News Desk

Netanyahu and Obama: The Two Realities

Currency

Privacy Versus Security in Silicon Valley

News Desk

What Is a New War Authorization Worth?

John Cassidy

Obama’s Budget: Ten Takeaways

Amy Davidson Sorkin

Sent to Guantánamo as a Teen-Ager, and Now to Estonia

Daily Comment

Why Obama Should Pardon Don Siegelman

Daily Comment

The Keystone XL Test: Can Obama Make a Deal?

News Desk

The Political Scene: Keystone and Congress

News Desk

The Political Scene: Obama and Immigration