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This year's standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.

From the daily newsletter: David Remnick on a surreal year. Plus: a cancer-causing virus hiding in millions of Americans; learning from the failures of the Arab Spring; and the afterimage of Arlene Croce.

Timothée Chalamet's performance is a remarkable act of mimicry that reveals little of the real Bob Dylan.

The Islamic Republic is weaker--on multiple fronts--than it's been in nearly half a century.

With her writing for The New Yorker, Croce put dance criticism and dance itself on the cultural map.

The eternal struggle.

Across culture and politics, 2024 was a year of great expectations followed by disastrous misses. What space might these upsets open up in their wake?

Entertainment Today: Watches television shows about people gossiping, fighting, and having sex. Entertainment in 1884: Gossiping, fighting, and having sex.

"Joe Biden set out not just to defeat Donald Trump but to defeat Trumpism," Chotiner says. "And he failed at that."

The American Ambassador to Syria at the start of the uprising believes that the U.S. could still help give the Syrians a fighting chance at stable self-governance.