Harris has forged an unlikely career with sharp institutional critiques. Now he’s almost an institution unto himself.

Harris has forged an unlikely career with sharp institutional critiques. Now he’s almost an institution unto himself.

Even as it inexorably rolls toward tragedy, Spike Lee’s masterpiece takes in the symphonic scale of the human condition in all its variety and precariousness.

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“I have an abundance mind-set.”

In the comedian and writer’s new HBO show, guest stars and surreal distractions provide witty symbolic keys to serious themes.

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This year’s series, between the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks, featured many wonderful players but no obvious main character.

On a new culture podcast, The New Yorker’s critics take on some of the defining texts of our era, from Rushdie to “The Real Housewives.”

The N.B.A. star’s litany of accomplishments, on and off the court, has a mythic quality.

In his new video for “Not Like Us,” the hip-hop artist claims victory in his long battle with Drake.

Jeremy Strong finds urgency and conversational menace in Ibsen’s 1882 drama, also with Michael Imperioli, in a new version by Amy Herzog, directed by Sam Gold.

As the 2024 Games come to a close, taking stock of watching Noah Lyles, Nic Fink, Sha’Carri Richardson, and more through NBC’s lens.

Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and a theatre critic at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He co-hosts the podcast "Critics at Large" and his writing has appeared...

How Vice-President Harris’s public persona has evolved, from tough prosecutor to frozen interviewee to joyful candidate.

Vinson Cunningham’s sophisticated book earns its comparisons to Henry James.

Moisés Kaufman’s play dramatizes the discovery of a photo album of Nazis at leisure at Auschwitz, and the reckoning it provoked.

Also: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Carnegie Hall celebrates Juneteenth, the film “Naked Acts,” and more.

With the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, Mr. Dozier wrote dozens of singles that reached the pop or R&B charts, including “You Can’t Hurry Love,” by the Supremes.

Writer Vinson Cunningham (The New Yorker) on the stakes of the 2024 election, his debut novel “Great Expectations,” and fatherhood.

“I have an abundance mind-set.”

Fiction allows author Vinson Cunningham to find small moments of beauty in ways that a memoir of his own campaign experience would not.

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“Straight Line Crazy,” the British playwright’s portrait of the tsarist urban planner, scrupulously declines to portray Moses as blinkered and corrupt.

We’re taking that culture, the grit we know we have, that hunger and desire to win, to the playoffs.

This year’s series, between the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks, featured many wonderful players but no obvious main character.

The band’s new album, “Only God Was Above Us,” is a treatise on inheritance, decay, generational dissonance, and the delicate idea of choosing optimism.