“The book is a repository for the past,” Kate Atkinson once remarked about her début work. “The book is, in its own way, my ...

As President Trump stages a reception for Xi Jinping, in Washington, it appears that, in curious ways, the two men mirror each other, Ishaan Tharoor writes.

After Donald Trump barred CNN, Politico, and MSNOW from the White House, the entire TV press pool announced a boycott of the ...

It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert Baird ...

After allowing Macklemore to be removed from his tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, the pop star took the stage in Philadelphia alone, said he was sorry, and then apologized for apologizing.

The transformations that have decimated protest movements—undone by digitization, atomization, and the evanescence of online life—have also affected shame and its ability to mediate social norms ...

Flash, Flash is fine. 'Cause you got the greatest name ever. Ever. [Grandmaster Flash laughing] Thank you so much. To be known as Grandmaster and Flash. Thank you. We're just going to go by Flash, ...

One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for.

Nearly a year after the ceasefire in Gaza, the analyst Jaser Abu Mousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the ...

The director of the new “Sense and Sensibility” film chats about marketing Jane Austen for Gen Z, with a little help from ...

W​hen some of you asked if I’d record my thoughts as I hang by my fingertips over my impending death, I thought, Why not?

For the cover of the September 28, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays the rising fears surrounding the exponential growth of A.I. and the possibility of its being a threat to humanity.