The President with No Shortage of Half-Baked Ideas

How to Figure Out Your Life

Oliver Burkeman, the writer of respective books astir getting comfy with imperfection, discusses immoderate books that person shaped his reasoning astir however to unrecorded a little harried, much enchanted life.

April Bernard Reads John Ashbery

The writer joins Kevin Young to work and sermon “A Worldly Country,” by John Ashbery, and her ain poem “Beagle oregon Something."

What We’re Reading

Our editors and critics reappraisal notable caller fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 28th

A drafting that riffs connected the latest quality and happenings.

The Forecast Wars connected Weather Twitter

Traditional meteorologists talk successful potentialities and probabilities. A caller benignant of social-media influencer takes a antithetic approach, exaggerating possibilities and fomenting hype successful the lead-up to a large storm.

The Crossword: Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Free transit enactment betwixt Manhattan and Staten Island: 5 letters.

The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center

How migration authorities person weaponized aesculapian neglect to promote self-deportations.

The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”

Although Ernest Hemingway’s caller makes affirmative claims astir what 1 should be—brave, admiring of quality and grace—its architecture is held up chiefly by hatred.

Shuffalo: Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Can you marque a longer connection with each caller letter?

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 27th

A drafting that riffs connected the latest quality and happenings.

Why an Agnostic Animal-Rights Activist Went to Seminary

Wayne Hsiung has gone to tribunal and done jailhouse clip to amended the lives of animals. Now he’s going to church.

The Crossword: Tuesday, January 27, 2026

A moderately challenging puzzle.