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.

In town to talk about his new album, “Lottery,” and en route to a collaboration with Sting, the Grammy-winning reggae star stretches and shakes at a reformer workout class.

See today’s Daily Cartoon.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s government is bringing radical change to the country’s democratic institutions.

In its first week, the seventy-ninth edition of the festival unveiled standout new works by James Gray, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.

The race between Thomas Massie and Ed Gallrein in Kentucky asks the question: Can a Republican defy Trump in this day and age, and still expect to win?