In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly ...

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 O.K. to do what we did.

Radical revisionism is a strong contender for the theme of this disruptive year, in which some unique property of political ...

Almost exactly a year ago, a few days before Christmas, after a year replete with death and sorrow, I learned that I’d be a ...

New Year’s Eve is the only holiday with so much built-in pressure that even those standing under the ball in Times Square are ...

It is not good to go back on a covenant, even one implicitly made and foggy regarding what would constitute a violation. Few monogamous couples, that is, get down to the brass tacks of chalking ...

Of the hundreds of restaurant dishes I’ve had in the past twelve months, the vast majority were quite enjoyable, a portion ...

Charlie Brown sighs and continues walking, alone. He comes upon Snoopy decorating his doghouse with Trump paraphernalia. The ...

New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter. The New Yorker’s editors and critics ...

Robert Eggers’s take expands significantly on the 1922 classic—and makes a pivotal change, with sickening implications.

Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that ...

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