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The Text of E-mails from My Accountant vs. the Subtext

The Text of E-mails from My Accountant vs. the Subtext

Hi, your dad’s friend Bill here. Neither your father, nor I, knowing very little about you, have any confidence that you can be expected to handle...

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Lana Schwartz

Schools to Root for After Your Bracket Fails

Schools to Root for After Your Bracket Fails

To keep March Madness interesting, why not go with your mom’s alma mater? Or the college with a celebrity’s kid?

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Talib Babb

Poems Dictated to My Phone, Mostly While Waiting in My Car

Poems Dictated to My Phone, Mostly While Waiting in My Car

My thirteen-year-old daughter needed a dress for a wedding, so we went to Aritzia in the Short Hills mall.

20.03.2026 5

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Lauren r. weinstein

The Trad-est Wife

The Trad-est Wife

I decided I would give my children a traditional spin on Pop-Tarts. I started with the first step of any traditional recipe: screaming.

19.03.2026 3

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Megan Amram

Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight

Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight

“I’ll most likely be able to get there a little after 8!” = Bring granola bars. You’ll eat your first bite of dinner at 9:17 P.M.

18.03.2026 2

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Ellen Harrold

Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools

Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools

Internal memo: Meet our new suite of A.I.-optimized losers and douche bags. Although they are fully agentic, we’re sure they will annoy you in all...

16.03.2026 1

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Lizzie Widdicombe

Clickbait, Decoded

“I Turned $10 Into $1,000,000 in One Week—Here’s How!” What it actually means: I very slowly added five zeroes and two commas.

12.03.2026 6

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Jay Martel

A Birthday-Gift Guide by Your Most Absent Aunt

It totally screams “Maya,” because she’s within driving distance, last I heard, so I probably won’t have to pay for shipping.

10.03.2026 6

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Pratima mani

A Day in the Pre-Internet World*

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

09.03.2026 9

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S. m. reznik

I Asked ChatGPT and This Is What It Said

It’s so important to care about your health, and you’re so clever to check!

05.03.2026 10

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Natalya Lobanova

Honest Eyelash-Curler Reviews

Dang, no lashes left behind with this curler. It even reaches those tiny corner lashes. Lifts, separates—the works. Also, the first time I used this...

04.03.2026 7

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Fiona Landers

Baking Cookies as a Modern Human

Hold up . . . do you even own an oven mitt?

03.03.2026 10

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Natalie Horberg

The Modern Conditions

“Keeping Cough,” “Theraphonia,” and, oh, yes, “polio”: common ailments in the age of R.F.K., Jr.

02.03.2026 10

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Alexis Wilkinson

The Devious Mind Behind Wordle

In this comedic short, the new Wordle producer derives immeasurable joy from watching people fail.

01.03.2026 10

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Introducing Our Mind-Blowing Virtual-Reality App

Think you know what reading is? Think again. Test-driving The New Yorker’s newest technological breakthrough.

01.03.2026 7

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What I Imagine My Boyfriend’s Ex-Girlfriends Are Doing Right Now

Your partner’s exes can get inside your head—and they might just enjoy a few mimosas while they’re in there.

01.03.2026 5

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Hallie Cantor

Maybe She’s Born With It. Maybe It’s . . . Something Else

Some women seem to have it all. How do they make it look so effortless?

01.03.2026 4

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Elizabeth Zephyrine Mcdonough

New York’s Best-Dressed Dogs Compete

Zeph McDonough takes a tour through the Annual Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest, and talks to its quirky participants.

01.03.2026 5

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The New Yorker

A Visit with The Talk of the Town

The Most Interesting Man in the World judges ideas for The Talk of the Town.

01.03.2026 5

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The New Yorker

More Places Microplastics Can Be Found

In a funk: They couldn’t help but notice that the over-all vibe of the online chatter was negative.

01.03.2026 4

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Stephanie Redmond

What Is Love?

How do you expect someone to find love, when they don’t even know what love is?

13.02.2026 8

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Yinfan Huang

Why You’re Considered Attractive

If you are deemed attractive while sitting on the toilet, call the police. You are being spied on by a pervert. It might be time to plaster over the...

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Jay Ruttenberg

What to Do When Your Spouse Doesn’t Notice You’re Down

Make noise. A lot of noise. Imagine you’ve just encountered a bear.

11.02.2026 20

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Natalie Waksman

I Will Be Your Next President

You’re going to love my ability to nod and smile while people awkwardly thank me. White bread, straight ahead. That’ll be my slogan.

09.02.2026 8

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Bob Odenkirk

How to Break Up with Your Phone

He knows your rhythms, your insecurities, your REM cycle—your cycle. He’s made himself needed, and now you don’t exist without one another.

05.02.2026 10

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Juliana Castro Varón

Discovering Where Your Interests Lie

Your interest in baking is a lie, although your interest in baked goods remains very much true.

04.02.2026 20

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Talia Argondezzi

Murder Most Wordle

What kind of mischief and mayhem can five mysterious letters cause?

03.02.2026 10

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Anthony Lane

America!: Mamdani Goggles and Other Products to Maximize a Brief Surge in Idealism

Maternal Labubus and whimsically shaped surveillance drones available now.

30.01.2026 30

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Ali Fitzgerald

Diagnosis: Wellness Guru

Infection can occur while browsing lymphatic rompers on Goop. Left untreated, you may end up making your own laundry detergent.

28.01.2026 10

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Alyssa Brandt

Why Shouldn’t We Let Demons Do Homework?

Using a demon is not cheating. Cheating is pawning off somebody else’s work as your own. A demon is not “somebody.” A demon is a being of pure malice.

28.01.2026 30

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Charlie Dektar

Of Course You Can Bring Your Husband Along

Seriously, it’s electrifying how many third rails exist whenever he’s around, such as politics, or any subject that doesn’t revolve around him.

26.01.2026 20

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Emily Bressler

National Security Begins Behind the Toaster

I’m not saying that the apartment’s a hotbed of narcotic activity, but does anybody need that many plastic baggies for sandwiches?

26.01.2026 10

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Patricia Marx

George Clooney’s Duolingo

Je vais à la bibliothèque avec mon ami Brad Pitt.

21.01.2026 30

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Susanna Wolff

Reality Shows for Your Thirties

“My Super Sweet 36th Birthday” and “Punk’d: Medical Bills” available for streaming now.

21.01.2026 10

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Michael Lukk Litwak

Have You Saved Enough for Retirement If Your Life Culminates in Decades of Escalating Misfortune?

You need assets that grow in value constantly, like original paintings by legendary artists, or houses that haven’t been carried away by drones or...

21.01.2026 20

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Jonathan Zeller

Ask Xander & Mariluisa

Relationship advice from the internet: on Friday Afternoon Sex Clubs, adoption, and synchronized waterskiing.

21.01.2026 10

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Michael J. Arlen

I Am the Person Who Controls Your Appliances

Speaking of, it’s time for me to turn your gas stove off.

21.01.2026 10

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Broti Gupta

Mom and Dad: The Performance Review

​Accomplished: Mom made partner and ditched skinny jeans; I quit cello and started seventh grade; Dad looked for a job.

12.01.2026 20

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Bruce Headlam

AllTrails Guide to Cringe Mountain

The lower section of this trail is gentle and promises landscape features familiar to most millennials, including plenty of heckin’ puppers and...

08.01.2026 10

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Hallie Cantor

Updated Rules for Children at Our Brewery

Our chairs are for sitting on, not for constructing elaborate forts.

07.01.2026 10

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Eddie Small

The Boyosphere

On today’s episode of the podcast, why mommies are obsolete and naps are for the weak.

06.01.2026 40

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Teddy Wayne

A Day in My Highly Optimized, Convenient Life

With a single tap on the screen, I open the blinds, with another, I turn on the espresso machine, and with a third, I review the footage from my Ring...

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Meghana Indurti

Finishing School: Hands Off Our Pencils

Given the wild fluctuations in the market, I did what anyone with a crippling dependence on pencils would do: I took inventory.

30.12.2025 10

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Mary Norris

“All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Edited by Someone in Couples Therapy

Oh, I won’t ask for much this Christmas, mainly because “asking” suggests that you’re doing me a favor, when, in actuality, I’m setting some...

25.12.2025 10

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Anna Pook

Dear Pepper: Slaying the Self-Doubt Dragon

It is easier for me to write my truth than to speak it.

23.12.2025 10

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Liana Finck

Premeditated

Close your eyes. Breathe in. Experience “Titanic” and “The Wizard of Oz” the Chloé Zhao way.

23.12.2025 8

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Anthony Lane

Holiday Movies We’re Going to Skip

“A Child’s Christmas in a Waymo,” “Alan Dershowitz Is Coming to Town,” and more.

19.12.2025 20

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Scott Jacobson

So You Want to Come to My New Vinyl-Listening Bar

You may get up to use the restroom, but only between sides. During songs, please remain still. Any movement above shoulder level will be interpreted...

17.12.2025 30

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Brian Braiker

Holiday Gifting

Ideas for under the tree: Expired canned goods? Nonworking appliance? Unwanted adult child?

16.12.2025 10

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Paul Rudnick

The People You Imagine Reading Your Letterboxd Posts

“I must hire this reviewer to write the screenplay for my next project!”

12.12.2025 10

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Jason Adam Katzenstein