Fresh from playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” Bill Irwin chats about reviving and starring in Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” on Broadway.

A new biography of the director Frank Capra inspires wonder at his irresistible vision of America and his immigrant journey.

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

Undoing the Hindenburg disaster, and other romantic things to do on a time-travel date.

Game on.

On Amsterdam Avenue by the Metropolitan Opera House—a day before Mayor Mamdani announced his new free-opera-tickets initiative—two supernumerary performers in Puccini’s “La Bohème,” the Met’s most popular opera, disembarked from a horse trailer. Wanda, a…

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On Friday, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers who were harvesting olives in the West Bank. In the process, they also beat up an American Washington Post photographer, Heidi Levine, who was there to cover the annual olive harvest. The…

A remarkable memoir recounts a writer’s struggles with alcoholism and religious faith—and the unsettling ways in which each has fed her longing for the other.

People love talking about the tragic fates from which their rescue dogs were spared. Kill shelters, international conflicts, New Jersey—pups are rescued from all kinds of precarious situations. Yet a brief look back through dog history shows that most canines…

One morning earlier this month, deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, the couple at the center of a nationwide surrogacy scandal. Officers had staked out the pair’s ten-thousand-square-foot mansion…

Scratchers that aren’t total eyesores, toys your feline friend might play with at least once (before fixating on the packaging), books and accessories for cat-obsessed humans, and some ideas for dog people, too.

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Last week, a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association—using data from a sample of nearly five hundred military members—reported that approximately twenty-five per cent of participants had at least one measured testosterone…

“Fatherland” dramatizes the novelist Thomas Mann’s 1949 return to Germany. Its filmmaker, Paweł Pawlikowski, also tweaks the facts to fit his own style—one with little room for variety or range, Richard Brody writes.

The wonder of the online world was built by a community of eccentric volunteers. Can it survive the A.I. models it helped train?

Brazil’s once towering leftist leader may soon be swept away by Latin America’s right-wing tide.

Our critic’s favorite works by the new Nobel laureate. Plus: Colm Tóibín’s reading recommendations.

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In the run-up to the election, the Trump Administration is turning its immigration crackdown into a desperate hunt for voter fraud.