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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

World leaders are dismantling global health programs and cutting back foreign aid. Will an extraordinary new medicine be able ...

Robert Giard spent his career photographing hundreds of cultural luminaries and niche literary figures in the hopes of ...

With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for ...