The cruellest irony is that of a President who addresses the Iranian people in the language of liberation and then threatens freedom of the press back home.

Amanda Peet writes, “I admire people who can sit with uncertainty in matters of life and death. I’m not one of them. I suck ...

Most of the way up the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which rises to a height of more than eighteen thousand feet, in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, there is a large alpine field called Yunshanping ...

In her new Marc Jacobs documentary, “Marc by Sofia,” Sofia Coppola prioritizes style over substance. “The documentary nonetheless feels quite meaningful,” Naomi Fry writes.

Chicago has a way of making things difficult for riders. Remember how the horse show at the Fair out there was held up for an hour or so because Honey Craven, the ringmaster, wanted to blow his ...

Two new historical dramas, “Two Prosecutors” and “Palestine ’36,” are built around courageous acts of opposition and unfold ...

From the daily newsletter: a civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repression.

Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to ...

Until the very end, our friend and colleague Calvin Tomkins looked at his life with a sense of wonder and wry amusement. He ...

Jason Bateman excels as the Everyman, reeking of ennui and buried impulses, in the new HBO comic whodunnit, also with David ...

This month, Zohran Mamdani announced that Bellevue—which has operated as a shelter since 1984—is closing. What does the move signal about his approach to homelessness?

That’s the question I ask myself whenever I sit down at that folding table to write. It’s perfectly fine, of course, for projects to be incomplete; it takes time to do pretty much anything of value.