Books & Culture

So much winning to enjoy.

The scandal suggests that everything awful we’ve ever believed is true.

To assimilated German Jews in the South, the Holocaust was unimaginable. One solution was to shut it out.

After eleven seasons, the show was tired. In the reboot, none of the new characters are pretending to be something they’re not.

The writer discusses a few of the works that influenced his new book, “A World Appears.”

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

A book of reportage on kinky subcultures describes how “deviant desire” can be transcendent —and completely mundane.

“To Catch a Fascist,” “Southern Imagining,” “Good People,” and “Every One Still Here.”

This year’s leading Oscar contenders are invigorated by performers notable for their personalities and wider-world accomplishments.

A retrospective at Lincoln Center showcases the French filmmaker’s masterworks of social conflict and inner struggle.

Emerald Fennell’s new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned.

In nearly sixty years of nonfiction filmmaking, Wiseman passionately probed the nodal points of political and social power and connected them in a cinematic universe of his own.

At a new establishment, the chefs behind the hit Ha’s Snack Bar are pushing past the hype, with food that is no less thrilling.

Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place.

A new restaurant from the team behind Corner Store offers exclusivity, and great steak to boot.

Annie Shi’s wine bar, on Doyers Street, is self-assured enough to practice restraint.

The skater Ilia Malinin, the snowboarder Chloe Kim, and the Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid are a few of the athletes who battled it out at the Winter Games.

In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing.

Sally Wainwright’s irresistible new series follows a group of middle-aged women who start a band—and find an outlet for the kinds of female grievances that tend to go unsung.

The Canadian actress’s oddball utterances became lasting comedic earworms, among them her one-word scream in “Home Alone”: “Kevin!”

Two plays soaked in technological anxiety.

A Broadway revival arrives at a moment when paranoia plots are everywhere.

It’s been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown.

In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts—from Sarah Snook’s one-woman “Dorian Gray” to Michael B. Jordan’s twin turn in “Sinners”—made their mark.

The event’s theme: Fugitives.

The pop star’s new film parodies documentaries that sanitize their celebrity subjects—but her satire isn’t any more satisfying.

People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs.

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.