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Michael Ondaatje had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of “The English Patient,” teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation.

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.”

Political labels can be useful shorthand. But some doubt how much they tell us about what draws voters to candidates.

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. During her tenure as The New Yorker’s television critic, Emily Nussbaum famously railed against ranking the…

Every weekday at 4:45 P.M. the man comes in—he never brings a list. She is usually behind the counter at the deli slicing turkey, her brown hair held back in a net underneath a maroon visor, the store’s logo in white stitching across the front. She hears…

If you wear a yellow polka-dot bikini, that means you were deeply affected by a Yoplait Light commercial as a youth and consider this suit to be the physical manifestation of confidence.

“America, Actually,” a new offering from Vox, is trying to talk about politics without talking about the President. Is that even possible?

For much of last year, Head Start, the federal program that provides child-care and preschool services for low-income families, appeared to have a doubtful future. Project 2025, the policy blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term, had called for the total…

Spare a thought for the sailors of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. As the United States’ campaign against Iran drags on, their deployment aboard the aircraft carrier has already lasted months longer than planned, and has spawned myriad news reports about deteriorating…

Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow-drinkers’ deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic.

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Trump claims that the Smithsonian has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise.

In films like “One Night Only” and “I Want Your Sex,” our prudish age becomes the scene of a crime.