Translation is Carson’s primary art form. One way to describe it is as the art of sustained metaphor: a word in one language ...

Judith Thurman, who covers books and culture for The New Yorker, began contributing to the magazine in 1987 and has been a staff writer since 2000. Her subjects have included Emily Wilson’s radically ...

In Aaron Sorkin’s overwritten sequel to “The Social Network,” inspired performances by Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White ...

The exchange that ensues is funny, pervy, and startling—and suddenly the play begins to glide along a fresh, unusual path, ...

Of the sixteen novels that John Steinbeck published before his death, in 1968, “East of Eden” was his favorite. “I think ...

Powers in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, and beyond are being drawn toward a conflict between political factions in ...

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A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still ...

The patrolmen hired to protect the city’s wealth operate in a culture of paranoia, inequality, and fragile but well-armed ...

As the global game gets entwined with global capital, some fans are finding relief in the ninth tier of English football.

Oil exports in the Gulf have rebounded as the U.S. escorts ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But the obstacles to a lasting ...

During week two of the New York Film Festival, Richard Brody saw what he considers to be one of the best films of both the ...