1,908 stories from The New Yorker
Jordan Tannahill's explicit new play fetishizes the British Royal Family but has more than sex on its mind.
The HBO series is peppered with references to real-life personages and historical events"but it lacks the anything-goes energy of the era in which it's set.
Pygmalion's visceral rendition of the B-Minor Mass.
The actor who became famous as Luke Skywalker now plays a math-obsessed grandfather in "The Life of Chuck." At MoMath, he studied fractals and rode a square-wheeled tricycle.
Getting Hugh home after his hip replacement involved a thick cushion and a car with legroom. "Ow!" he said whenever I tried to help. "You're making everything worse!"
The author discusses his story "Happy Days."
Why shouldn't Matthew Lim play Winnie? Inside his body, the role would be no spoof at all but the purest of incarnations.
Also: Bill McKibben's nature-doc picks, the full-bodied soul of Baby Rose, new work from Pam Tanowitz, and more.
In dark times, many novelists, poets, and performers turn to their work to process and express what they're feeling. What do these texts born of tragedy offer their audience?
In Sarah Friedland's début feature, Kathleen Chalfant plays an octogenarian with dementia adapting to the constraints and possibilities of assisted living.
The television series gives period-drama treatment to one of the most scandalous families of twentieth-century Europe.
It once seemed unlikely that four Swedes in sequins would become global pop icons. A new biography describes how the band became ubiquitous.
The novelist on her unclassifiable new work, "The Möbius Book"; the limits of autobiography; and the appeal of multiplicity.
The legend discusses her new album, her complicated relationship to performing, and recording a duet with Bob Dylan decades after he first asked her to collaborate.
What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly "normal nature" of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty.
Also: Paul Simon goes on tour, Taylor Mac adapts Molière, and more.
We have tended to imagine machines as either being our slaves or enslaving us. Martha Wells, the writer of the "Murderbot" series, tries to conjure a truly alien consciousness.
"Call Me Izzy" and "Angry Alan" feature two stars up close and personal.
The author's novels are critiques of Regency England's high society. Why, two hundred and fifty years after her birth, does her work resonate so strongly with modern audiences?
Maybe, somehow, he was still out there, somewhere.
The documentary "Videoheaven" and MOMA's series "A Theater Near You" consider how people watch films and why it matters.
In Celine Song's follow-up to "Past Lives," Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend.
Gertrude Berg's "The Goldbergs" was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.
At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer learned about Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood's most controversial job.
Extreme wealth has long been an obsession within American culture"but Jesse Armstrong's new film reflects a sea change in the way we view the über-rich.
