The New Yorker - December 29, 2025 - January 05, 2026

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Publisher:Condé Nast|Category:Culture|Language:English|Frequency:Weekly

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine that features journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded in 1925 and is published by Condé Nast. The magazine is known for its in-depth reporting, its sharp and witty writing, and its iconic cartoons. The New Yorker has a long and distinguished history. It has published some of the most important and influential writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, John Updike, Philip Roth, and Susan Sontag. The magazine has also won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The New Yorker is a must-read for anyone who wants to stay informed about current events and culture. It is also a great source of entertainment and thought-provoking essays. Here are some of the things you can expect to find in The New Yorker Magazine: *In-depth reporting on current events, politics, and culture *Sharp and witty commentary on the news and the world around us *Essays on a wide range of topics, from personal experiences to philosophical musings *Fiction by some of the best writers in the world *Satire and cartoons that poke fun at the powerful and the ridiculous If you are looking for a magazine that is intelligent, informative, and entertaining, then The New Yorker is the magazine for you. It is a magazine that has something to offer everyone.

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In this issue

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

According to the New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Zohran Mamdani will not actually be the city's hundred-and-eleventh mayor, as many people have assumed. A historian named Paul Hortenstine recently came across references to a previously unrecorded mayoral term served in 1674, by one Matthias Nicolls. Consequently, on New Year's Day, after Mamdani places his right hand on the Quran and is sworn in at City Hall, he will become our hundred-and-twelfth mayor—or possibly even our hundred-and-thirty-third, based on the department's best estimates. “The numbering of New York City ‘Mayors’ has been somewhat arbitrary and inconsistent,” a department official disclosed in a blog post this month. “There may even be other missing Mayors.”

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ALPHABET SOUP

We know how to help kids with dyslexia, but often fail to. Why?

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PREMEDITATED

Tipped for the Oscars, “Hamnet” was released on November 26th. When the movie showed at film festivals, the director, Chloé Zhao, invited the audience to join her in an act of collective meditation before the screening. Among her instructions: “Close your eyes,” “Feel your own weight,” “Take deep breaths with sound,” “Sigh out loud,” and “Gently say to yourself, “This is my heart. These are our hearts.”

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FOR RICHER OR POORER

Saying yes to the prenup.

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LAST HIGHWAY

How Willie Nelson sees America.

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Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling's "The Great State"

During the 1959 session of the Louisiana state legislature, Governor Earl Long, the less famous younger brother of Senator Huey Long, “went off his rocker,” as the tickled writer A. J. Liebling recounted in this magazine, adding, “The papers reported that he had cursed and hollered at the legislators, saying things that so embarrassed his wife, Miz Blanche, and his relatives that they had packed him off to Texas in a National Guard plane to get his brains repaired in an asylum.”