The effect of the President’s executive orders was to convey an open season, in which virtually nothing—including who gets to ...

She’d seen enough movies to know that this was the moment when she needed to brandish the gun and threaten the man.

We’re warned that sleeplessness takes a serious toll. But obsessing over how to cure it may be even more damaging.

A few months ago, when Tom Brady was beginning his career as an N.F.L. commentator for Fox Sports, a commercial aired. It ...

Zwerin pieced together “Gimme Shelter” in a cruddy room at the Londonderry Hotel, the film cannisters piled on windowsills.

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a ...

The freeways were traffic-free, and so were hotels, where a handful of forlorn locals waited for what would come next.

The comedian, who stars in a new one-man show, “Grandiloquent,” explains why he keeps returning to his childhood in ...

Once, they were everywhere—in laugh tracks for “The Big Bang Theory,” in breathless think pieces about social-media ...

As the flames approached his house and studio, Robert J. Lang had time to rescue only one piece of art work: a cuckoo clock ...

This book considers the influence on Elvis Presley of Black musicians, especially the gospel and R. & B. pioneers of the ...