“We’ve seen them overplaying their hand,” the sociologist Brooke Harrington says. “They’re pillaging American cultural institutions. They’re pillaging democracy.”

Local elections across England delivered dire results for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour Party, as they lost over six hundred council seats, with many of them flipping to Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform Party. But the results showed that, remarkably…

Everyone knows there’s something kind of funny about country music. The genre’s cultural identity is linked to a stylized and unapologetically old-fashioned vision of America, which can seem rather hokey. In 1975, the legendary country singer and songwriter…

Who is the protagonist of “Silent Friend”? The film, a beguilingly expansive triptych from the Hungarian director and screenwriter Ildikó Enyedi, is in no hurry to answer. One possibility is Grete (Luna Wedler), an aspiring botanist who, in 1908, becomes…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Harriet Clark’s novel, “The Hill,” is one of the most anticipated works of fiction of the year. It’s a story…

One evening a week, at Eunji Lee’s tiny Manhattan pâtisserie, Lysée, sweets are appetizer, entrée, and everything else.

As a teacher, she would talk about literature with other people’s children. Finally I got the same chance.

To get to Rikers Island, you have to cross a narrow bridge; it has a hump in the middle, which means that, from either end, the other side is invisible. Stanley Richards, the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, pointed this out…

The filmmaker Curry Barker got his start online as a teen-age sketch comedian. Now he’s making his name as Hollywood’s next great horror auteur.

Loved for its cheap seats and derided for its extremely low-frills flights, the American company was arguably a victim of its own success.

One afternoon last May, four detectives knocked on the door of a $3.2-million mansion in Arcadia, a wealthy city in Los Angeles County. Earlier that day, they’d received a call about one of the mansion’s residents: a two-month-old baby named Walter. Walter…

The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis?

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Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.

The Starfish It’s in your DNA to live your best sprawled-out life—slowly extending limbs across every inch of the bed, and whoever’s in it. Like your marine mascot, you’re sensitive to disruptions in your environment but, unlike the starfish, you just don't…

Trump has declared himself the “President of Peace” who has ended ten wars around the world. But his ceasefires are interruptions, not resolutions, to conflicts.

How does a writer update her history of America when the past is a battleground and the President wants to erase the truth?

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Six weeks ago, on a cold and overcast afternoon in Ushuaia, at the southern tip of Argentina, a scientist with a passion for birds boarded the M.V. Hondius, a polar cruise ship with a fortified hull. More than a hundred passengers and sixty-one crew members…

Mark Burns, an evangelical pastor, explains that Trump’s supporters don’t think of him as a godlike figure, even as the President posts pictures of himself as Jesus.