Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference.

A priest, a rabbi, and a poet walk into a barand we’re laughing already, calculating their clashing philosophies—New Testament, the Torah, W. B. Yeats—allthe earnest sacraments undertaken in the name of world harmony:loaves & fishes, bitter herbs, the spread…

At seventy-five, she may be New Zealand’s greatest living artist.

“Welcome to the Party” is a frenetic evolution of Brooklyn drill, set apart by Pop Smoke’s sneering baritone.

A sense of impending doom—that was how Weary had described the feeling many people got, like a heaviness in the chest.

The author Helen Simpson reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

The singer-songwriter and Weezer front man on the making of the band’s new LP, the Gold Album, his relationship with his father, and the stories we tell about ourselves.

When Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and C.E.O. of Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has tried to defend his business to the public, it’s generally gone poorly. (“I think I’m actually well known to be sort of bad at this,” the billionaire confessed…

“It is raining, raining, raining. / The sky is falling, falling, falling.”

The author discusses her story “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub.”

A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.

The Black Shield, by Wilbert L. Cooper (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In this multilayered work, a journalist examines a Black police organization, known as the Black Shield, that emerged in Cleveland in the nineteen-forties, alongside his own parents’ membership…

Matisse’s “Femme au Chapeau” (1905), or “Woman with a Hat,” is a strong contender for my least favorite masterpiece of the twentieth century. When it was first exhibited, in Paris, waves of journalists ridiculed it, viewers laughed and jeered, and at least…

Earlier this summer, a small night club in Passaic, New Jersey, hosted a brief performance by one of the year’s most talked-about musicians. A post on Instagram had promised attendees “an unforgettable night,” although not necessarily a long one: the only…

Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before this honorable court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. Today, the court will issue a decision in the case Coyote v. Acme. A special judge has been drafted…

Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.