1,908 stories from The New Yorker
In this year's offerings, the mood ranged from baffled sorrow to laughter in extremis, reflecting our unsettled times.
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this fall.
This historical drama, about efforts to clear the wrongly convicted French captain Alfred Dreyfus, brings to mind the director's own legal troubles.
Arman scoffed at the idea of a life beyond death, and Dad pointed out the irony of a ghost denying the afterlife.
His rendition of the talk show is innately subversive, at direct odds with the squeaky-clean, white-bread humor that is typical of its cable counterpart.
After quitting his gig with the Kennedy Center in protest, the Gen X indie rocker is turning his talents toward MAGA trolls and Charlie Brown.
An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin's true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.
"Shade," "Empty Vessel," "Culpability," and "Lili Is Crying."
Plus: Lady Gaga and the Black Keys, Indian dance by the New York Harbor, the Time:Spans festival, and more.
The "Call Me by Your Name" author on novels about people misunderstanding the situations in which they find themselves.
"The Sisters," "Necessary Fiction," "Make It Ours," and "Exophony."
The Bru Zane label is recording dozens of forgotten works that testify to a Romantic golden age.
In Hulu's soapy "Washington Black," about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the material.
Also: the nostalgia of Vacation sunscreen, the heartwrenching songs of Stevie Nicks, Tiler Peck's Jerome Robbins festival, and more.
Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.
Right thinks we are a good person. Left does not.
The podcast host recommends three recent favorites"about the gentrification of punk, what makes a great actor, and the corrosive influence of social-media platforms.
The late songwriter's targets are mostly forgotten"so why do new generations keep discovering him?
Need a meaty, cloddish, yet affable Everyman who can act? Paul Walter Hauser knows how to own the body type.
Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt's documentary short follows a creative community held together by collaboration and the efforts of a woman who is part landlady, part fairy godmother.
Also: Superheroic sentimentality in "The Fantastic Four," the popular crowd goes down in "Heathers: The Musical," the arcane mythology of Lord Huron, and more.
Jeremy O. Harris, at his first Williamstown Theatre Festival as creative director, turns up the heat under rare works by the great Southern playwright.
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
After years of progress in diversity, many companies' upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. The backslide has prompted an outcry.
A Washington, D.C., improv theatre invited recently laid-off civil servants to a free workshop. The goals: stay adaptable, and maybe even laugh.
