The New Yorker, January 27, 2025

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

In This Issue:

• Norman Foster's Empire: The British architect, now nearly ninety, has built a sprawling global practice that still resembles a boutique firm, even as it has produced some of the world's most famous buildings and made him as rich as some of his clients. Ian Parker repots.
• Climate whiplash in L.A. by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The special relationship in the MAGA age: Sam Knight on the U.K.'s path between courtship and containment.
• Is the attention-span panic a distraction? Daniel Immerwahr on whether we're really losing the ability to focus.
• Living with the ghost of a cinéma-vérité pioneer: Michael Schulmann on Charlotte Zwerin's obscured legacy
• Fiction by Sheila Heiti
• Adam Gopnik on the science of sleep
• Richard Brody on 'Presence'

New York, USA; 210mm x 290mm; 78 pages