Culture, criticism, arts, and commentary from the magazine.
More than ever, we resort to sweeping statements about “good people” and “bad people,” the innocent and the evil. What’s lost in that process will take work to regain.
In James Gray’s new crime drama, starring Miles Teller, Scarlett Johansson, and Adam Driver, a Queens couple’s life is turned upside down by a scheme for easy money.
Also: Bill Irwin and Rachel Bloom in Molière, a new movie from Kogonada, the torrid post-punk of Sweeping Promises, and more.
In with the new.
In this new kind of show, an ensemble tells an individual’s story in unison, sometimes down to the thoughts inside her head.
The painter’s “Rome, from Mount Aventine,” currently in private hands, is showing in New York, prior to being sold at auction in December.
In Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s film “Oh, Whale,” a journalist reflects on a weird, odorous story that defined his career—and on what it taught him about fate.
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Chatting with the author of “The Brightness” about the books that influenced him and the one he recommends reading next.
The French writer’s latest book is a conflicted, strikingly nuanced portrait of his mother, a celebrated Sovietologist who defended Putin before the invasion of Ukraine.
In Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s historical triptych, dramas of gay repression and liberation dovetail in ways more reductive than illuminating.
An A.I.-generated Josh Shapiro talking about “deleting incriminating e-mails.” An A.I.-generated Abdul El-Sayed and the words “DEATH TO AMERICA.” They’re not real, but can voters…