Humor & Cartoons

Shouts & Murmurs

So Sorry—I Was Just Reminded of My Own Mortality

I think it’s best that I stay here cradling these baby squirrels. That’s pretty much all I’m capable of doing right now.

By Julie Sharbutt

Sketchbook

A Grandmother’s Life in Photos

As long as I’d known her, Laolao had a point-and-shoot camera loaded and ready to record—gardens, meals, new outfits, and visitors.

By Leise Hook

Shouts & Murmurs

What I Know About You Based on How Many of Your Friends Are Becoming Therapists

If one of your friends is studying to be a therapist, it’s your wife and she’s thinking of leaving you.

By Annah Feinberg

Shouts & Murmurs

Our Mom-and-Pop Data Center

Mornin’, tech brothers and sisters! Come take a walk on our information super country road.

By Jed Feiman and Nehemiah Markos

Shouts & Murmurs

Social-Media Advertisements vs. Reality: Postpartum-Clothes Edition

Many people are eager to warn you of the body horrors caused by pregnancy, but no one tells you what’s going to happen in the months (maybe years?!) after birth.

By Julia Wertz

Daily Cartoons

1/15

“It’s finally sweater-carrying weather.”

Cartoon by Ali Solomon

Cartoon Caption Contest

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Celebrity Caption Contest

Michael Ian Black Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The actor and comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Sarah Sherman Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Amelia Dimoldenberg Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Celebrity Caption Contest

Ilana Glazer Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest

The actor, writer, and comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

By The New Yorker

Cartoons from the Issue

1/21

Cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan

Shorts & Murmurs

Screening Room

In “Stickworld,” Sticks Grow on Trees

A short film by Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough helps viewers discover a new world.

Film by Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonoughText by Emma Allen

Shorts & Murmurs

Friends Who Folk: Click If You’re Politically Aware

It’s important to be aware. But if no one knows how aware you are, does it still count?

By Rachel Wenitsky and Ned Riseley

Shorts & Murmurs

Cartoon Cautionary Tales

Edward Steed animates some of life’s most crucial lessons.

By The New Yorker

Shorts & Murmurs

A Visit with The Talk of the Town

The Most Interesting Man in the World judges ideas for The Talk of the Town.

By The New Yorker

Pretty Out There

Shouts & Murmurs

Major Tom: The NASA Investigation

Multiple lapses by Ground Control, compounded by astronaut error, led to the stranding in space of U.S.A.F. Major Thomas D. Ogletree.

By George Meyer

Shouts & Murmurs

Space Tourism: A Message from the Cockpit

Put the oxygen mask over your mouth and nose, and breathe normally. You’ll know oxygen is flowing if your eyeballs don’t immediately explode.

By Claire Friedman

Shouts & Murmurs

Exploring Our Universe

BANG. That’s the sound that gave birth to the universe—the very same universe that would go on to be featured in the Oscar-winning film “Gravity.”

By Colin Nissan

Shouts & Murmurs

Elon Musk’s Guide to Tomorrow: How to Fix Earth, and Also Leave It

Not having to associate with other humans is the least I deserve for working so hard to make their lives better.

By Ben Solomon and Ricardo Angulo

Comics

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

But this time he means it.

By Barry Blitt

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Who’s In, Who’s Out at the Department of War

Look who’s looksmaxxing.

By Barry Blitt

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Trump Goes Postal

Following the letter of the law.

By Barry Blitt

Sketchbook

A Bingo Card for Spring in New York City

Do you have “UPS Guy in Shorts,” “Stoop Weirdo,” or “Park Teeming with Hinge Dates”?

By Emily Flake

More Humor

Shouts & Murmurs

How to Be Deep in a Marketable Way

Post vague quotes about self-realization that are universal, but ultimately mean nothing. For instance, “Follow your own light,” with a picture of you holding an unlit match.

By Emily Menez

Shouts & Murmurs

If I Made Novelty T-Shirts

Ever wondered why “I’m with Stupid”? Let me explain.

By Jesse Eisenberg

Shouts & Murmurs

Dear Pepper: Are You There Husband? It’s Me, Wife

Over the years, I’ve begun to feel like a piece of furniture.

By Liana Finck

Shouts & Murmurs

Operation Name That Excursion!

Operation Trump: The War, Operation Gulf War III, Operation Venezuela 2: Atomic Boogaloo, and other runners-up.

By Bruce Handy

Shouts & Murmurs

The Text of E-Mails from My Accountant vs. the Subtext

Hi, your dad’s friend Bill here. Neither your father, nor I, knowing very little about you, have any confidence that you can be expected to handle filing your taxes by yourself.

By Lana Schwartz

Shouts & Murmurs

Schools to Root for After Your Bracket Fails

To keep March Madness interesting, why not go with your mom’s alma mater? Or the college with a celebrity’s kid?

By Talib Babb

Shouts & Murmurs

Poems Dictated to My Phone, Mostly While Waiting in My Car

My thirteen-year-old daughter needed a dress for a wedding, so we went to Aritzia in the Short Hills mall.

By Lauren R. Weinstein

Shouts & Murmurs

The Trad-est Wife

I decided I would give my children a traditional spin on Pop-Tarts. I started with the first step of any traditional recipe: screaming.

By Megan Amram

Shouts & Murmurs

Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight

“I’ll most likely be able to get there a little after 8!” = Bring granola bars. You’ll eat your first bite of dinner at 9:17 P.M.

By Ellen Harrold

Shouts & Murmurs

Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools

Internal memo: Meet our new suite of A.I.-optimized losers and douche bags. Although they are fully agentic, we’re sure they will annoy you in all the ways you’re accustomed to.

By Lizzie Widdicombe and Paige Ferrari