Various characters in my book ponder the role of chance, fate, and free will in their lives. If there is such a thing as fate ...

In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has ...

Jia Tolentino A staff writer covering news and culture since 2016.

CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have set an end date for one of the last public pipelines to some version of the truth ...

Lutnick is “an amplifying influence” on Trump, another person close to the Commerce Secretary told me. He and the President ...

Let’s forget the au-pair idea. No one even knows what those words mean.

The Peacock reality show, filmed in Fiji, offers a parallel America in which nearly naked contestants attempt to pair up and ...

From the daily newsletter: the fracturing of the MAGA base. Plus: how Dartmouth College became the Ivy League’s Switzerland; and what “Eddington” tries to say about America.

These bagpipes had mostly been hidden away in the backs of cupboards,” the Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society journal ...

In the age of MAGA, the show’s small-town values are both a relief and slightly outdated. In the end, will we and the ...

She never ate dinner, considering lunch superior. However you rate lunch, it is probably the original meal—for much of ...

Summer is the season of long, often tedious, travel days. New Yorker staffers recommend some audiobooks to make those road ...