newyorker.com / .newyorker-com-magazine / Page 6

Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

The filmmaker behind "One Battle After Another" specializes in stories about people who are cut off, adrift, desperately seeking connection. His films are studies of American loneliness.

"From my upstairs-bedroom window, I used to ponder / its sagging timber shoulders and open gable roof."

Governor Kathy Hochul's recent policy cracks down on phones in schools. Her enforcer? A freaky neon-green creature.

When clock radios, film cameras, and the Yellow Pages ruled the world.

In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance are allowed to speak for themselves.

What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down, but there's a reason it swept the world.

As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin.

Angel or devil, book or TV, tea or Martini--in the eternal conflict, which side wins out?

Short reviews of recent releases.