“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.

Short reviews of recent releases.

The city as a blank canvas.

Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again?

Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.

On a trip to Liberty Island, the actor chats about his new memoir, “Never Say Die,” which chronicles his journey from refugee to child star in “Indiana Jones” to winning an Oscar, for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

At the Conservatory Garden, the singer reflects on her new two-album set, “Sonic Memoir: Demos 1989-1998”; launching Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlan; and the time Jay Leno made fun of her armpit hair.

Earlier this year, when Keke Palmer was featured on “Open Door,” a video series of celebrity-home tours published by Architectural Digest, the actress was eager to draw attention to the evidence of a large family: a sister’s shelf of horror paperbacks, a…

Billionaires have never been more central to the cultural and political conversation, more impressed with themselves, or more consumed with a sense of their own victimhood. From “Billions” and “Succession” to the latest social-media spasms of Musk or Ackman…

In 2023, the comedian, actor, writer, and banjo virtuoso Steve Martin was walking through SoHo, followed closely by two men holding a laptop. The laptop was connected by an Ethernet cable to a 3-D-printed plastic box, and the box was connected by wires to…

What the weak-willed lack in discipline, they make up for in ingenuity. Although the story of Odysseus binding himself to the mast to resist the Sirens’ song may belong to the mythical imagination, plenty of desperate souls have gone to heroic lengths to…

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Is John Wilson famous? In his new movie, “The History of Concrete,” Wilson explores this question the way he explores everything around him: through video footage, most of it captured by his own unsteady hand, cut into sequences that can be jarring, self…

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