The business of the midterms is the redress of old grievances and the introduction of new characters. In Tuesday night’s twin primaries for the U.S. Senate in Texas, which opened the 2026 midterms, each party was navigating a balance between its current iteration…

Early on in Shakespeare’s comedy “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” the con man Pistol is scorned by his friend Sir John Falstaff, who refuses to lend him money. Enraged, Pistol issues a thinly veiled threat: “The world’s mine oyster,” he snarls at Falstaff, “which…

If you are a fan of the thirty-nine-year-old comedian Chris Fleming, you might have trouble setting foot in a Trader Joe’s grocery store without thinking of a standup bit of his, known as “the Snacks at Trader Joe’s that Only Women Can See.” In the segment…

Many of the strangest, most striking horror films, from “The Night of the Living Dead” to “The Blair Witch Project,” come from first-timers working on shoestring budgets—but these days Hollywood is looking to YouTube for the next generation of horror auteurs.

This Eyelash Curler Will Change Your Life If the eyes are the windows to the soul, the lids are the squeegees, and the lashes are the squeegee handles, and, girl, those handles had better be curled. You think someone’s gonna fall in love with flat-ass squeegee…

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Yasmin van Dorp’s short film depicts beautiful destinations—and the crowds of cell-phone photographers who inundate them.

Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East.

The opera director—whose Met début, “Tristan und Isolde,” premières next week—discusses a few of his influences.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.

Is the U.S. repeating the mistakes of the invasion of Iraq?

The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes.

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. On this episode of Critics at Large, with the ninety-eighth Academy Awards just around the corner, Vinson…

It’s so important to care about your health, and you’re so clever to check!

The Oscar nominee, who plays a hoodoo healer in “Sinners,” stops at a Brooklyn apothecary and reflects on pregnancy, learning Yoruba, and blessing Michael B. Jordan’s bag.

The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.

The new mayor’s plans require funding. How will he get it?

On April 22, 1793, President George Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality in the war that had just been declared between France and Britain. The United States, Washington decreed, “should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly…

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This weekend, after Israel and the United States assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian government promised vengeance, swearing to “strike you with such painful blows that you will beg for mercy.” Across the Middle East, a network of Iranian allies…