Sara Nics

Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.

Acclaimed fiction writer Nathan Englander has always worked around the clock, but now he is trying the notoriously grueling CrossFit.

Larry Wood has won The New Yorker Cartoon Caption contest seven times. He shares his tricks with The New Yorker's Susan Morrison.

In this interview, Koenig tells Remnick why she never fit in as a newspaper writer, and how that led her to the style she cultivated as a producer of This American Life and Serial.

What’s the funniest way to spook a horse? In this installment of Life’s a Batch, cartoonists Matt Diffee and Emily Flake hash out some joke ideas over the course of a work week.

Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, co-directors of the new film "Anomalisa," talk to staff writer Tad Friend about making a puppet movie for adults.

If all you want for Christmas is a Netflix special with Bill Murray and other stars singing carols in the Carlyle Hotel, you’re in luck.

In “Citizen,” poet Claudia Rankine offers an unsparing account of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of racism.

Robert Glasper, a Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, says the genre’s become a museum of itself, obsessed with the great players of the mid-20th century at the expense of new talent.

There was no Planet Fitness on Malcolm X Blvd. when Sylvia’s, the soul food restaurant, moved to its current location in 1967. Sylvia's family tells us how they've stayed in the game.

George Booth started cartooning at three-and-a-half years old, when he drew a picture of a race car stuck in the mud. Nearly 90 years old, he still contributes to The New Yorker.

Staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman spent time with Taylonn Murphy to understand how and why he has dedicated his life to ending the feud that killed his daughter.

Staff writer Judith Thurman introduces us to linguist Daniel Kaufman, whose mission it is to preserve some of New York City's endangered languages.

Larissa MacFarquhar, a New Yorker staff writer, spent time with the Badeaus, a family that adopted twenty children.

When the U.N. Conference on Climate Change convenes later this month, countries with different priorities and forms of government will attempt to agree on how to address global warming.

Carolyn Kormann tries out BirdGenie, a new app that works like Shazam for birders.

The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates about James Baldwin's enduring influence on Coates' writing.