Alexander Chee’s début novel, “Edinburgh,” published twenty-five years ago, collapses past and present in a brilliant account ...

Is M.I. hopping our guardrails? If unchecked, it can lead to “recursive self-improvement,” such as dyeing a “fun streak of ...

In your story “ A Very Safe Place ,” a boy and his father, in Singapore, find a man on the beach who has clearly swum to the island in the hope of establishing a better life. Father and son take the ...

“Pa?” Shawn ventured. He stood slightly behind Chee Meng, at a distance from the prone man. Though barely nine, he knew that ...

In the captivating new Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” only one note rings false: the softening of John Steinbeck’s ...

During week two of the New York Film Festival, Richard Brody saw what he considers to be one of the best films of both the ...

Jeremy Strong on finding sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg, Kendall Roy, and Roy Cohn—and why the New Yorker Profile of him still ...

Test engineers stage reality, sometimes by extreme means, to make sure airplanes don’t fall apart, children can’t open pill ...

The Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and ...

Oil exports in the Gulf have rebounded as the U.S. escorts ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But the obstacles to a lasting ...

In “I Am Tony,” a retrospective at the New Museum, the artist takes his remixing of the past to its outer limits.

In 1976, the artist behind the “Nancy” comic was slighted on “S.N.L.” A new Off Off Broadway show tells the tale of the day ...