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 ...

Also: A private-school meltdown in “Eureka Day,” jam rock comes to town, Richard Brody reviews “Babygirl” and “A Complete ...

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

A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork.

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 ...

In his latest film, the director Brady Corbet depicts the fate of a brilliant Hungarian architect, who lands in the United ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Ambassador to Syria at the start of the uprising believes that the U.S. could still help give the Syrians a ...

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