From the daily newsletter: reading for the year ahead. Plus: direct democracy comes to America; requiem for a refugee camp; ...

John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century. He died in 2009. It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s reëlection for young men ...

Despair permeates white, Black, and Latino working-class life. Democrats will have to find a new way to speak to it. Dana White, the C.E.O. of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, helped Trump ...

Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article ... The answer to Gotham's query as to "Who is the typical New Yorker?" must at present be: There is none. View Full Article in ...