In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s historical drama, “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” a series of puzzling crimes at a besieged fortress ...

Cases such as Lindsay Clancy’s, in which mentally ill mothers kill their children, often present a vexing, circular logic.

The real name of this section is Irishtown, although the name never appears in the newspapers, which are very tender toward ...

Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I. The first indications ...

Doreen St. Félix, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017, is a regular contributor to the weekly column Critic’s ...

The Committee continues to recognize National Pizza Day, but denies the petition for a distinct New York-Style Pizza Day.

In the early hours of Independence Day, 2018, I found myself awake. I put it down to jet lag: I’d just returned from South Africa, where my wife—like me, a physician—and I were working with a medical ...

The Voice of America was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its ...

Some novels about city life are poems of alienation, interior portraits of the existentially isolate, but James McBride’s vision of New York is one of overwhelming human profusion. His new novel, ...

Elizabeth Meriwether’s new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny.

Sheila Heti —whose new story “ Earthly Delights ,” about the mysteries of lust, appears in this week’s issue—wrote one of my ...

The poet John Ashbery, in 1983, said that Fairfield Porter was “perhaps the major American artist of the century.” It’s not ...