The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

In the spirit of summer travel, we’ve asked some of our writers living outside New York City to share a few of their favorite ...

He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.

So it was telling that the only victory on the floor that Democrats scored during the hours of drama this week leading up to ...

On “Virgin,” her fourth and latest album, Lorde examines the myths that make up her identity. This introspection comes after ...

She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

Song of the summer” is a complex characterization—it’s not simply the most popular track of the season (that’s likely to be ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

My Sharon is dealing with “the Change,” which seems also to be on Paley’s mind in “My Father.” (“We should probably begin at ...

In Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, the sport has not only its next great rivalry but a moment that highlights everything ...