A voice for working-class women and an icon for all kinds of women, Parton has maintained her star power throughout life phases and political cycles.
By Lauren Michele Jackson
Essays & Criticism
Books
The Heartsick Hilarity of John Berryman’s Letters
Tracking the poet’s chaotic, self-destructive life, his correspondence strains toward the condition of music.
By Anthony Lane
Page-Turner
Louise Glück, Whisperer of the Seasons
The 2020 Nobel laureate in literature is an impersonal artist, whose poems, assembling around you, feel blindingly personal, like the seasons themselves.
By Katy Waldman
Books
Briefly Noted
“The Spymasters,” “Having and Being Had,” “The Perfect Nine,” and “Missionaries.”
Poetry
Poems
“Song”
“Never again: / that is what we do not say.”
By Louise Glück
Poems
“Vectors”
“First extinction in the Galápagos Islands, the least vermillion flycatcher—”
By Arthur Sze
The Writer’s Voice
The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine
Roddy Doyle Reads “Life Without Children”
The author reads his story from the October 19, 2020, issue of the magazine.
More from The New Yorker
Photo Booth
Mike Mandel’s Selfies from the Seventies
Curiosity is the animating force of the photographs. You start to sense that Mandel sees everyone—the stranger and the self—as members of the same team.
By Emma Cline
Kitchen Notes
The French Secret to Ratatouille, a Last Taste of Summer
It was only with this dish that I realized how important the cook-things-separately approach is in French cooking.
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