The New Yorker: Matt Gaetz’s Chaos Agenda

Matt Gaetz, photographed by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker.

Profiles

Matt Gaetz’s Chaos Agenda

The Florida Republican is among the most brazen and controversial figures in Donald Trump’s G.O.P. He’s also among the most influential.

ByDexter Filkins

The Political Scene:Jon Lovett, the co-host of “Pod Save America,” explains how the withering of the media and the threat of political violence are warping the Presidential campaign, and what Biden’s team needs to do.Listen and follow »

An illustration of a book with a knife sliced through the spine, with fallen paper shavings.

Editor’s Pick

Jack Chadwick in front of shelves of books.

Page-Turner

The Bartender and the Lost Literary Masterpiece

How a Manchester native rescued “Caliban Shrieks,” Jack Hilton’s working-class opus.

BySimon Parkin

News from The New Yorker

The writer Luke Mogelson in a trench with members of the Ukrainian military. Mogelson is holding a black smartphone.

News Desk

The New Yorker’sLuke Mogelson and Masha Gessen Win Polk Awards

Mogelson received the Magazine Reporting prize for his work in the trenches in Ukraine, and Gessen was honored for their commentary on historical memory and the Israel-Hamas war.

ByThe New Yorker

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Culture Dept.

Books

From Homer to Gaza, the History of Books in Wartime

Nazis burned books; the U.S. shipped them to its troops; Alexander the Great, Hitler, and Stalin were keen bibliophiles. How to make sense of all this?

ByClaudia Roth Pierpont

Books

In Tommy Orange’s Latest, a Family Tree Grows from Severed Roots

“Wandering Stars” probes the aftermath of atrocity, seeing history and its horrors as heritable.

ByParul Sehgal

The Talk of the Town

Illustration by João Fazenda

The case brought against Gwyneth Paltrowby a retired optometrist over a skiing accident in Utah was the trial of last year—the perfect combination of the stylish and the absurd. Now it’s the subject of a new play, written by Linus Karp and Joseph Martin, which is selling out in London. “Like the rest of the world, we just thought it was very silly and ridiculous,” Karp said. “Like, how is this a real thing?” Anna Russell has the story.Read more »