Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on?

On their new albums, Charli XCX and the Strokes flirt with the idea of “rock music.” But it seems more like they’re inhabiting the machine than like they’re raging against it.

The new adaptation, though visually exquisite, swaps the story’s much-loved comfort for dutiful tedium.

Liana Finck writes a humorous advice column about the choices a couple faces after having their first born.

Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok—and it’s not great. Brady Brickner-Wood examines the content so far.

The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him.

The author of “Motherhood” answers our questions about her reading habits.

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The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.”

A devastating personal story reveals why firearm suicide has remained a blind spot in America’s gun debate.

When the angel came to Craig, he was seven, squatting in the outhouse at camp. You had to flush it with a bucket of water, if you remembered, which Craig always did, and the angel was a field of pink and blue about a foot wide, with no depth at all. Flat…

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Colson Whitehead’s ascent in the literary world has seemed, like much of what he does, impressively effortless.…

Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former.

Elizabeth Meriwether’s new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny.

The Committee continues to recognize National Pizza Day, but denies the petition for a distinct New York-Style Pizza Day.

The Voice of America was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its journalists being paid to stay home, it’s delivering a very different message.

Ode to a sitting senator.

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Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I.

Steven Pruitt spends his evenings identifying errors that most people never notice and making fixes that hardly anyone ever thanks him for. He toils at a desk in a town house in Alexandria, Virginia, surrounded by books—the kind of working clutter that suggests…