Grandmothers
The Weekend Essay
My Grandmother and the Canine Detective
How the Austrian police procedural “Inspector Rex” bridges gaps between languages.
The New Yorker Documentary
An Octogenarian Tackles Her Bucket List in “FLOAT!”
Azza Cohen’s bubbe, who didn’t think she was important enough to be the subject of a documentary, learns to swim.
Annals of Inquiry
A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s
Every resident of the Village Landais has dementia—and the autonomy to spend each day however they please.
Dept. of Heirlooms
The Rescued Portrait of My Italian Grandmother
How a matriarch’s image was lost and found.
Personal History
What My Grandmother Knew About Dying
As a physician, I trained in the delicate art of preparing people for death. Losing Harriet made me see the work differently.
Shouts & Murmurs
Explaining My Daily Screen-Time Average to the Spirit of My Great-Great-Grandmother
What exactly am I staring at for five hours and twenty-one minutes each day?
Cover Story
Roz Chast’s “Hi, It’s Mom”
The artist discusses her inner Jewish mother and why she doesn’t like warm seawater.
Growing Pains
I Do Live Here
I hadn’t yet crossed that threshold Black adolescents cross in America’s codified subconscious—adorable kid to dangerous threat.
Shouts & Murmurs
My Persian Grandmother Reviews My Favorite Brands
Hilma: These pills claim to boost immunity but did not come with a hot-water bottle or six glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice. A scam. One star.
Fiction
Silver Tiger
Fiction
How Did We Come to Know You?
A Reporter at Large
A Mexican Town Wages Its Own War on Drugs
When the authorities could no longer be trusted, Nestora Salgado organized a citizens’ police force. Did she go too far?
Personal History
Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead
Through a practice that is part therapy and part séance, children of war come to terms with their history.
Fiction
Upside-Down Cake
Fiction
First Husband
Letter from Budapest
Anti-Semite And Jew
Fiction
Katania
Shouts & Murmurs