All baby toys and cat toys are interchangeable. Both baby and cat are obsessed with me and won’t shut the fuck up about it.

In “The Enchanted April,” by Elizabeth von Arnim, four Englishwomen are transformed by a temporary loss of self.

There will be time to sort out whether the tragedy could have been averted, but the devastation is still unfolding, and it is ...

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Dress this story up or down: on the page and on the screen, one plot—the trauma plot—has arrived to rule them all. Unlike the marriage plot, the trauma plot does not direct our curiosity ...

The HBO series is peppered with references to real-life personages and historical events—but it lacks the anything-goes energy of the era in which it’s set.

Albert Serra’s new documentary about the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey offers a keenly observed—and surprisingly moving—depiction of the blood sport.

Shahn was an American phenomenon, but a new retrospective suggests that we’ve come to prize his politics over his accomplishments.

How Things Are Made, by Tim Minshall (Ecco). In this lively book, Minshall, the head of Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing, assumes the role of an excitable engineer as he ...

The basketball star’s domination on the court is one of the most inspiring things in all of sports. Does it represent a revolution or evolution?

Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Han Ong about “Happy Days,” his story from the June 30, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

How the movement might cohere—if it does at all—remains an open question.