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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

With projects like “IMG_0001,” an online compendium of YouTube home videos, Riley Walz is calling attention to the hidden ...