The New Yorker: Reporting

Richard Darman was my source in the Reagan and Bush Administrations, and my best friend.

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

They power our phones, cars, dishwashers, and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry.

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America believe deeply in the possibility of a class revolution. Meanwhile, they’re running for office, and winning.

Waymo wants us to give up the car keys. But what are we if not drivers? Molly Fischer on the view from the back seat.

In remote parts of the country that lack internet and cellphone service, isolated gauchos communicate through daily bulletins on AM stations. Jordan Salama reports from Patagonia.

The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms.

In the last Turkish town on the road to Aleppo, jihadis and spies mixed with reporters trying to prove themselves, Ben Taub writes.

My cousin Laura had a diva’s charisma and a siren’s voice. She also had a mysterious past. When she died, she left me to tell the story of her defiant reinvention.

After a young tourist was killed in a Central Park carriage accident this summer, the City Council is considering whether to ban horse-drawn carriages forever. Michael Schulman reports.