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When the two lead actresses in Shawn's play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The stand-ins? Deborah Eisenberg and Shawn himself.

The director's native city drives him crazy--and drives him to make loony, brilliant films.

I will wear the perfect amount of sunscreen so that I don't look like clown-faced Mark Zuckerberg on that surfboard or red-faced Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing.

Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.

On the "Midnight Sun" tour, the Swedish artist makes a comeback that feels like a début.

The next generation.

The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation.

New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion--and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash--it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.