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Describing a work of art as “didactic” has become a way of writing it off. But works such as HBO’s “The Pitt” push us to reconsider the merits of trying to teach.

During his visit with Xi Jinping, the President touted his entourage of C.E.O.s, kept the press at arm’s length, and avoided offering a clear answer about Iran.

Brian Finke’s photographs document riders breaking through the constraints of the city’s crowded landscape—and showing off while they do.

A new law in the U.K. bars young people from buying cigarettes for the rest of their lives. For the British government, even a sixty-year-old will someday be underage.

The author discusses her story “The Dreamdrive.”

Their electoral prospects are finally improving, but opportunities can quickly give way to divisions. Does the Party have a plan?

The author name reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

The AMC dramedy “The Audacity” treats its terrifying tech less like a distorted dystopian future and more like a reflection of our current course.

Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.

Dean’s, a new restaurant from the team behind King, isn’t really a pub; it’s a hot downtown restaurant wearing a pub’s clothing, Helen Rosner writes.

Each morning, he “awoke”—not the term he would have used—exhausted, having not slept and having driven all night.

Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.

At the Morgan Library’s Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish on playing classical music’s most notorious rivals, on Starz’s new “Amadeus” reboot.

Americans are losing their appetite for booze. Could the mini Martini lure them back?

An unprecedented gerrymandering effort led by Donald Trump—and internal divisions among Democrats—has made the Minority Leader’s path to victory harder than ever.

“You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you’re in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my apartment, totally nude, except for my ankle monitor.”

Impressions of spring.

Short reviews of recent releases.

The Trump Administration has started repaying more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars to companies that paid its import duties. So far, most of their customers are still waiting to see much benefit.