The Magazine
February 9, 2026
Goings On
Goings On
A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies
Also: the dream-pop of Hatchie, Elevator Repair Service tackles “Ulysses,” the theatre-district pub Haswell Green, and more.
Photo Booth
William Eggleston’s Lonely South
In his show “The Last Dyes,” the photographer presents a world that feels fictional but fact-based.
The Talk of the Town
Jonathan Blitzer on D.H.S.; a school in Minneapolis confronts the crackdown; “Survivor” superfans; Matthew Schaefer.
Comment
Why the D.H.S. Disaster in Minneapolis Was Predictable
For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.
Minneapolis Postcard
The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis
As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe.
Make a Wish Dept.
For “Survivor” ’s Season 50, Superfans Flock to Fiji
Five hard-core diehards won a trip to watch the show filming. What challenges will be on once they arrive?
Rookie Dept.
Matthew Schaefer, Hockey’s Youngest (and Nicest) Big Shot
The eighteen-year-old Islander was last year’s No. 1 pick in the N.H.L. draft. On a recent day off, he shoots a commercial, chats with Tom Brady, and raves about babysitting.
Reporting & Essays
Personal History
Living in Tracy Chapman’s House
Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of misfits, in a chaotic, run-down communal home, desperately trying to figure out who we were meant to be.
Brave New World Dept.
Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece
Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?
Profiles
Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game
California’s governor has been touted as the Democrats’ best shot in 2028. But first he’ll need to convince voters that he’s not just a slick establishment politician.
A Reporter at Large
Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe
How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent.
Takes
Takes
David Remnick on S. N. Behrman’s “The Days of Duveen”
In a wry Profile of the British-born art dealer Joseph Duveen, Behrman captures the workings of a canny commercial intelligence wreathed in connoisseurship and charm.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
Murder Most Wordle
What kind of mischief and mayhem can five mysterious letters cause?
Fiction
Fiction
“This Is How It Happens”
Everyone loves you here. Most days you are pretty sure of that. Everyone touches you all the time.
The Critics
A Critic at Large
How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News
Today, the name represents a story of profit and power unlike any other. But tracing the genealogy of Murdoch sleaze requires a long memory.
Books
Marx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism
A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left.
Books
Briefly Noted
“Cape Fever,” “A Very Cold Winter,” “Strangers,” and “The Death and Life of Gentrification.”
Books
The Perennial Predicament of the Artist with an Office Job
In “The Copywriter,” by Daniel Poppick, a poet searches for meaning in the grindset.
The Theatre
“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell
Two plays soaked in technological anxiety.
The Current Cinema
In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com
Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on.
Poems
Cartoons
Puzzles & Games
