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"The Failures of the Fauci Hearing" by Amy Davidson Sorkin is our pick from the August 10, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/08/10?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
The Failures of the Fauci Hearing
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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect" by Mike Spies (@mikespies.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/08/03?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect
The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying.
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Another pick from the August 3 issue: "Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now?" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/08/03?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now?
It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging?
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"If it were all piled up and a match put to it, he'd die of old age before the fire went out." Gourevitch on a debt-collection billionaire, written 25 years ago with the precision of a scalpel. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2001/07/30
Debt and the Salesman by Philip Gourevitch — The New Yorker, July 30, 2001 | New Yorkerest
Profile of entrepreneur Bill Bartmann... He appeared on Forbes’s 1997 annual ranking of the richest Americans, tied with his wife. Philip Gourevitch's piece is the pick from The New Yorker's July 30, 2001 issue.
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"Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief" by Molly Young is our pick from the August 3, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/08/03?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief
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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Testing" by Min Jin Lee. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/27?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
“Testing”
An excerpt from “American Hagwon,” by Min Jin Lee, the author of “Pachinko.” In less than twenty-four hours, he would take the Suneung again, and, for the past three years, he had done little but sleep, eat, and study for this exam.
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Another pick from the July 27 issue: "Trump’s War on Journalists" by Ruth Marcus (@ruthmarcus.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/27?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
Trump’s War on Journalists
The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him.
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"The length of a man's boat should match his age in years." The Victorians never imagined 200-foot superyachts. Three years ago, Evan Osnos (@eosnos.bsky.social) tracked the ultra-rich buying them in record numbers. The fleet has only grown since. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2022/07/25
The Haves and the Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos — The New Yorker, July 25, 2022 | New Yorkerest
Luxury ships attract outrage and political scrutiny, but the ultra-rich are buying them in record numbers, Evan Osnos writes. The pick from The New Yorker's July 25, 2022 issue.
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"How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran" by David D. Kirkpatrick (@davidkirkpatrick.bsky.social) is our pick from the July 27, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/27?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran
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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Gatekeeping" by Bryan Washington. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/20?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
“Gatekeeping”
Fiction by Bryan Washington, the author of “Palaver” and “Family Meal”: My brother answered the phone. He told me that there’d been an accident but not to panic.
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Another pick from the July 20 issue: "Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center" by Jonathan Blitzer (@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/20?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.
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"Her dreams of revolution got her twenty years behind bars." Kolbert's 2001 New Yorker profile of Kathy Boudin is a clinic in moral complexity — precise, cold-eyed, never sentimental. 25 years old and still unsettling. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2001/07/16
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"An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like" by Elizabeth Kolbert (@elizkolbert.bsky.social) is our pick from the July 20, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/20?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like
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"Music makes the people come together." Madonna's Grammy definition launched Alex Ross into 29 volumes of Grove's music dictionary — and what followed is a tour de force of criticism. 25 years ago, The New Yorker made encyclopedias feel alive. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2001/07/09
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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold" by David Remnick. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/06?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s “Regime Change” is packed with news about the Trump White House that will stay news.
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Another pick from the July 6 & 13 issue: "Pig Lab" by Will Mackin. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/06?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
“Pig Lab”
Fiction by Will Mackin, the author of “Bring Out the Dog”: In this upside-down world there’d be a pig like Ted Waters, who, one blue winter night outside Marjah, had his leg blown off by a bomb disguised as a guardrail.
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"Trump is strong-arming NATO allies into paying up — and it's working." A year ago, The New Yorker mapped exactly how. Now, with the alliance's future being rewritten in real time, this piece is the essential guide to what just happened. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2025/06/30
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"The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us" by Burkhard Bilger is our pick from the July 6 & 13, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/07/06?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Colson Whitehead’s Big Score" by Julian Lucas (@jcljules.bsky.social). https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/29?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Colson Whitehead’s Big Score
As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.
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Another pick from the June 29 issue: "The Readers" by Ben Lerner. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/29?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
“The Readers”
Fiction by Ben Lerner, the author of “Transcription” and “The Topeka School”: It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my protagonists resemble me, how could I know you weren’t mixing us up?
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"Her calm performance as deputy for her father struck the crowds—and the papers, all of a heap." Mollie Panter-Downes on a young Princess Elizabeth, 75 years ago. Precise, wry London prose about the woman who would be Queen. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/1951/06/23
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"The Difference Between the Knicks and the White House Cage Fight" by Adam Gopnik is our pick from the June 29, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/29?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
The Difference Between the Knicks and the White House Cage Fight
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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions" by Gary Sernovitz. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/22?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions
The hedge-fund titan is an unabashed big spender, from pièds-a-terre to politics.
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Another pick from the June 22 issue: "Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland" by Ben Taub. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/22?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.
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"I feel for her. She was my grandmother's age." A woman confessing to a murder she didn't commit — and meaning it. Rachel Aviv's (@rachelaviv.bsky.social) 2017 piece on false memory and wrongful conviction remains one of The New Yorker's most unsettling. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2017/06/19
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"Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General" by Ruth Marcus (@ruthmarcus.bsky.social) is our pick from the June 22, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/22?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General
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Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse" by Heidi Blake. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/15?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekend_reading
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Another pick from the June 15 issue: "Constellation" by Andrea Bajani. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/06/15?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alternative_pick
“Constellation”
Fiction, excerpted from “The Anniversary,” by Andrea Bajani, and translated, from the Italian, by Geoffrey Brock: There was something absurd and distressing in that prelude to the domestic drama.
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4 years ago: A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2022/06/13
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