Sunday Morning

The New Yorker, the beloved weekly magazine, is celebrating its one-hundredth birthday. I have been a staff writer at the magazine since 2008, and Bruce Diones has been at The New Yorker since, well, not quite since the beginning. “1978,” he said. “I was in the cradle. They left me …

Nestled the rolling hills of rural Massachusetts. swathed by manicured grounds, sits the Norman Rockwell Museum. And there, side-by-side with the wholesome works of America’s most beloved illustrator, is the world’s dumbest cover boy: Alfred E. Neuman. “It’s sacrilegious! It’s an outrage!” laughed political cartoonist Steve Brodner. “But I do …

At the Gagosian Gallery in New York, an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s works opened last month – one of nearly 50 shows this year in museums and galleries around the world marking the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death, from sculptures in Spain, to landscapes in Mississippi, even one exhibit …

Some people use a diary to pen their innermost thoughts. Charles Schulz had “Peanuts.” “It was a release for his emotions,” said his widow, Jean Schulz. “He drew because he had to do it.” When asked if he were a happy person, Jean paused: “Um …. I think he was.” …

Twenty-eight-year-old Kera Cheney works for the government, lives in a basement apartment with her boyfriend in San Francisco, and stresses about her college loans. Her student debt now stands at around $280,000.   She followed the classic recipe for success, by graduating from Penn State. But now, she’s facing down …

It is a cliché of politics that candidates campaign in poetry, but govern in prose. But at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman’s poetry anticipated the rough prose to come: “We lift our gaze not to what stands between us,but what stands before us. …We’ve seen a force that would …

Things are different, right? An example: I used to do stand-up comedy. No, really, I did. I mean, I barely remember, but there was time when I would go on stage and make people laugh, as a job. Well, that was the intention. I would perform pretty much every night. …

The musical “Paradise Square,” which premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, Calif., in 2019, tells a story set in 1863 New York, in the violent Five Points neighborhood, where Irish and Black cultures meet. The show, which premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, Calif. in 2019, was written …

In his vintage Ford pickup, Jim Bachor is on the prowl looking to find what most drivers hope to avoid: Potholes. “There’s a trio [of potholes] right behind me that look perfect,” Bachor said. Perfect potholes? Preposterous. But Bachor may be the only person behind a steering wheel who sees …

In this extended transcript of his interview with correspondent Tracy Smith for “Sunday Morning,” broadcasting giant Howard Stern opens up about his parents and wife, psychoanalysis, apologizing for his past interviews, the freedom of being on SiriusXM satellite radio, and the art of the interview which, he says, is disappearing.  …