The New Yorker, February 3, 2025

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

In This Issue:

• The weird charm of the capybara: How did the world's largest rodent become a media darling and an international symbol of unbothered calm amid calamity? Gary Shteyngart investigates.
• Trump's first week back by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
• Fighting the L.A. fires: M. R. O'Connor on containing an inferno
• The face of the Syrian revolution: Jon Lee Anderson on the life and death of a dissident
• Celia Paul's painting of life: Karl Ove Knausgaard on the artist's transformative gaze
• Vinson Cunningham on Tom Brady
• Anna Weiner on the entrepreneurial age
• Fiction by Samanta Schweblin

New York, USA; 210mm x 290mm; 72 pages