Chicago has a way of making things difficult for riders. Remember how the horse show at the Fair out there was held up for an hour or so because Honey Craven, the ringmaster, wanted to blow his ...

Two new historical dramas, “Two Prosecutors” and “Palestine ’36,” are built around courageous acts of opposition and unfold ...

From the daily newsletter: a civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repression.

Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict. An expert discusses what Israel really hopes to ...

Until the very end, our friend and colleague Calvin Tomkins looked at his life with a sense of wonder and wry amusement. He ...

Jason Bateman excels as the Everyman, reeking of ennui and buried impulses, in the new HBO comic whodunnit, also with David ...

This month, Zohran Mamdani announced that Bellevue—which has operated as a shelter since 1984—is closing. What does the move signal about his approach to homelessness?

Also: Ro Reddick’s absurdist “Cold War Choir Practice,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of Marc Jacobs, Paige Williams on music for spiritual uplift, and more.

That’s the question I ask myself whenever I sit down at that folding table to write. It’s perfectly fine, of course, for projects to be incomplete; it takes time to do pretty much anything of value.

The German auteur Christian Petzold made his name with haunting psychological thrillers. His new film was shaped by losses of his own.

My thirteen-year-old daughter needed a dress for a wedding, so we went to Aritzia in the Short Hills mall.

From the daily newsletter: a conversation with our critic about the exasperating crowd-pleaser “Project Hail Mary.” ...