What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

Twenty-five years ago, President George W. Bush made a sweeping pledge shortly after Al Qaeda’s airborne hijackers slaughtered almost three thousand people, from more than a hundred countries, at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania,…

In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a little trickier.

In the twenty-five years since 9/11, the U.S. has waged several military campaigns against extremism around the world, resulting in the deaths of almost a million people. What has it accomplished?

In “The Uprising,” Paul Greengrass’s dramatization of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the imperatives of historical re-creation and hyperkinetic action filmmaking fight each other to a draw.

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The documentary filmmaker met up with the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz at Wilson’s independent movie theatre to discuss his newest endeavor.

In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.

Democrats have the numbers on their side, but their success in the midterms is far from a sure thing.

Generational wealth shapes our futures and friendships, whether we talk about it or not.

The director—and brother of Ken Burns—is releasing two new episodes of his long-running “New York: A Documentary Film,” this time covering Superstorm Sandy, COVID, and Eric Adams.

“In the gut, / In the mouth, / In the irreducible / ‘Bile’ humor.”

Joyce Carol Oates discusses her story “Lost Child.”

The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma.

A new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the back-to-the-landers movement alive.

“Lost Child,” fiction by Joyce Carol Oates: It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside.

“Now the air / is darker; my garden plots are empty.”

Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.

The author Joyce Carol Oates reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on power still exist.