I’m not sure why, but more and more of late I’ve found myself drawn to characters who can’t stop making mistakes. It’s ...

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In Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s “Chronovisor,” nothing is scarier than a life of the mind. “It has the cadence of a burgeoning obsession,” Becca Rothfeld writes.

What makes up a life?” ...

In seeking to revoke the citizenship of a sitting congresswoman, the Trump Administration has sent a chilling message about ...

Martin McDonagh’s comic thriller “Wild Horse Nine,” set on the eve of the Pinochet dictatorship, diverts our tears toward the ...

Corruption is always an issue, but this year will it finally catapult from a topic of chronic bellyaching to an actual ...

I had been staying with my parents in L.A., shooting “The Graduate,” but my father was driving me crazy. Every day, I’d get ...

The former President’s riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but ...

The Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin talks with David Remnick about his hope for a midterm blue wave, the possibility of ...