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

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The Alabamian writer Rick Bragg has published multiple acclaimed memoirs about his humble roots and is at work on another, which may be his last. His writing has also been dogged by controversy.

"To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery," Gibney says in the documentary. "How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?"

In N.F.L. commentary, expertise is celebrated, even craved, by the masses.

In Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or-winning drama, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, a family of conservative Christian immigrants in Norway collide with the progressive values of the European welfare state.

From the daily newsletter: after a passenger was killed, the longtime movement to ban the practice gained momentum.

A report from the President's campaign tour through the formerly safe precincts of red America.

The new Nobel laureate uses finely wrought forms to constrain a terrible excess of feeling.