Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.

In the latest revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne’s iconic musical, George C. Wolfe humanizes a ...

The evasions and elisions that are inherent to the format—as here, with the cramming of four eventful years into just over ...

As I watched the time-capsule debate, staffers for the Architect of the Capitol were at work on the West Front, building the ...

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Adam Iscoe on getting a table. Plus: right-wing reporters at the border; Trump’s Cabinet picks in Washington; and Timothée ...

It intensified after Iran’s Revolution. 2024 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The ...

Early one morning in June, 2017, Todd Doan woke his husband, Wylliam Soliwoda-Doan, to say that he was going to the hospital. Doan, a music teacher at an elementary school in East Orange, N.J ...

This year’s standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.

The eight people you meet on Slack. A look back at March 12, 2020. The semi-sadistic seven-minute workout. Here’s why it was ...

Most of my favorite movies of 2024 premièred at overseas film festivals, only to flit through U.S. theatres for a few weeks ...

When a writer dies, the only thing to do is to read her, so it seems worth celebrating Croce briefly in her own words. If ...