The animal crisis in Lake Tahoe. Plus: the best jokes of 2024; the asymmetry of the abortion-rights movement; and Calvin ...

Follow @newyorkercartoons on Instagram and sign up for the Daily Humor newsletter for more funny stuff.

As I thumbed through the serious dictionary, the first word that caught my eye was mees —a word that even someone with only a ...

In Paul Schrader’s latest film—his most audacious religious vision yet—a documentarian on his deathbed confesses, on camera, ...

Real pros would resolve a point far more quickly, but this is tennis as modern erotic opera, and the scene ends with one of ...

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to ...

Films for the season. Plus: the triumph of the post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich; arguing about expiration dates; and the ...

Variants of the sandwich are available at diners and sandwich shops throughout the year, seasonality be damned: piles of ...

Kathy Baum, who curates new books for the Denver-area independent-bookstore institution, shares some of her fall and winter ...

A report from Lebanon. Plus: stopping the escalation in Ukraine; a portrait of the artist as an Amazon reviewer; and ...

Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered ...