Critics at Large is a weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker. Every Thursday, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and... more
For nearly as long as we’ve been waging war, we’ve sought ways to chronicle it. “Warfare,” a new movie co-directed... more
The tension between art and commerce is a tale as old as time, and perhaps the most dramatic clashes in... more
Gossip, an essential human pastime, is full of contradictions. It has the potential to be as destructive to its subjects... more
The first episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” released in 2009, consisted mostly of its host smoking weed, cracking jokes,... more
In 1939, reviewing the beloved M-G-M classic “The Wizard of Oz” for The New Yorker, the critic Russell Maloney declared... more
For many of us, daily life is defined by a near-constant stream of decisions, from what to buy on Amazon... more
“The Pitt,” which recently began streaming on Max, spans a single shift in the life of a doctor at an... more
“Severance” is an office drama with a twist: the central characters have undergone a procedure to separate their work selves... more
The first episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which aired in October of 1975, was a loose, scrappy affair. The sketches... more
A few years back, novels classed as “romantasy”—a portmanteau of “romance” and “fantasy”—might have seemed destined to attract only niche... more