The Brutalist Report

The New Yorker

• What Is Hakeem Jeffries’s Plan for the Midterms, and After? [18d]
• A Booming Shadow Market of Sketchy A.I. Investments [18d]
• Marie Arana and Writing Between Reality and Imagination [18d]
• Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, Really, We All Lost [18d]
• A Republican Bloodbath in the Texas Senate Primary Is Giving Democrats Hope [18d]
• Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 20th [19d]
• Relics of the Not So Distant Past [19d]
• Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest [19d]
• The Redemption of “Vanessa,” a Neglected Operatic Masterpiece [19d]
• The New Yorker’s Ava Kofman Wins a 2026 National Magazine Award [19d]