From the daily newsletter: reading for the year ahead. Plus: direct democracy comes to America; requiem for a refugee camp; ...

New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter. The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books ...

The New Yorker’s critic on holiday-season films that he’s excited about. “These are not upbeat movies,” Chang admits, “but they are among the most thrilling that I’ve seen this year.” ...