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In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents.

Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s “Trilogy About the Boy” is set in the remote Westfjords but its ambition is universal.

The state’s Democratic primary was dominated by an unlikely left-wing insurgent—it became a three-week sprint for Party insiders to select the next best thing.

New interviews with former Biden officials reveal early signals that Israel wasn’t prioritizing civilian lives in Gaza. So why was the Administration so reluctant to use its influence?

Health-care workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are fighting the third-largest outbreak in history—and trying not to get infected themselves.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Yes, pulling the shade was my nightly task, and she’d never think to do it, but already I was half an hour away from home.

The President goes green.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature, starring her own relatives in a fictional drama, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions.

The comedians try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.

The final book in the author’s Harlem Trilogy is out now; read our recommendations from his œuvre.

Andy Biggs wins the Republican gubernatorial primary; Mark Lamb is the G.O.P.’s pick to fill Biggs’s seat in Congress.

French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side.

Primary among the Secretary of State’s targets is the International Criminal Court.

Early tickets are now on sale, with events taking place October 23rd through 25th and featuring leading figures from the worlds of literature, entertainment, and more.

Featuring live-band karaoke and B.Y.O.T. (bring your own tortilla) Tuesdays.

In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country. He’s been in jail upstate ever since.

We used to worry about people going to the cinema at all; now film lovers are making pilgrimages to one of the twenty-five theatres in the country equipped to project “The Odyssey” in its intended format: IMAX 70-mm.

His new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a screen.

How’s cash sound?

Soulless moguls and wealth porn are out. Amid a real-life economic downturn, the greatest shows of 2026—from “Beef” to “The Comeback”—are all about scraping by.

The closure of the scrappy New York landmark is just one of the signs that U.S. horse racing is running out of track.

The “S.N.L.” cast member partners with Liva Pierce in a musical revue about best friends with bad jobs and no girlfriends.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

A new game show features celebrities competing for the title of “Nation’s Dumbest.” How did stupidity become a badge of honor?

Get down to Inbox Zero. Or at least Inbox 7,329, which would still be a big improvement.

One sweat-soaked American’s adventures in A.C. deprivation.

For two decades, Emily Shur, who shot for glossy magazines in the early two-thousands, has been sitting on a trove of images from a bygone era of fame.

The World Cup halftime show, which also featured Justin Bieber, BTS, and Shakira, was premised on the idea that music—and celebrity—can serve as a cross-cultural panacea.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Don’t believe what the other kids have to say; Dad is the one to tell you about the importance of Stephen Sondheim.

When cultural preservationists cast every extinction as murder, they can ignore speakers’ decisions—and the costs of keeping a fading tongue alive.

At his pink palazzo, in the West Village, the artist packs up paintings for a Pace exhibit and discusses his new movie, about Dante—produced by, and guest-starring, Martin Scorsese.

“You may take my word / for their being very nearly as hard to herd / as people.”

“Like all tyrants, / my mother made / decrees.”

The artist’s extreme use of the body has caused viewers to puke, faint, and leave her shows. At the Venice Biennale, though, her vision has made her a star.

Revisiting Mrs. Mintz’s medical woes and veal Parmesan.

With a populist touch, and a focus on affordability and raising up left-behind communities, Britain’s new Prime Minister has drawn comparisons to Zohran Mamdani.

Zendaya, with the help of the unerring instincts of her stylist Law Roach, led the way as she and her castmates put on a goddess-themed celebration of high fashion.

Downtown steam.

A likely Democratic Presidential candidate says the U.S. must end unconditional support for Israel. Emanuel explains his proposal for Middle East peace, and his position on trans rights.

Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., a Presidential sidekick from Atlanta and a triumphal-arch enthusiast, is just back from Russia, where he hung out with Putin and Steven Seagal.

The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities.

“Talking Classics,” “The Cruelty of Nice Folks,” “Glyph,” and “A Real Animal.”

The ninety-two-year-old theatre producer and prison activist stopped by 54 Below to make a career pivot—standup comedy, dishing on Charles Laughton and Peggy Lee.