1,898 stories from The New Yorker
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.
J. Hoberman's teeming history of New York's avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of voices.
Also: Sister Nancy's eternal party, the acoustic sculptures of Jennie C. Jones on the Met roof, American Ballet Theatre's season at the Met, and more.
The poet and Pulitzer-nominated playwright discusses four books by her closest teachers.
In Jesse Armstrong's new satire, tech is never morally in the black, and the people who create it are no better than despots"inept ones, at that.
The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set design of the Broadway musical, which stars Darren Cri…
I need to open the door now, it's not the end of the world, it's just that it's been such a long time since anyone's knocked on my door.
The author discusses his story "Elias."
The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his two new albums of ambient music, and his book "What Art Does," a pocket-size argument for the value of feelings in our lives.
Also: the skateboarding play "Bowl EP," the off-kilter divas Grace Jones and Janelle Monae; Jamie Lee Curtis's early "Love Letters," and more.
