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As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with "Cool Machine," the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.

It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my protagonists resemble me, how could I know you weren't mixing us up?

Sports, spectacle, and what Juvenal would have made of this moment.

Full of violence, desire, monsters, and magic, Homer's epic has tempted directors for decades. Can Christopher Nolan's new adaptation survive the voyage?

The N.B.A. championship was a win for Mayor Mamdani, but the city's public-school kids, stuck taking their Regents exams as the ticker-tape parade thundered past their windows, weren't so sure.

In Olivia Wilde's bickersome couples comedy, an evening of refreshments and recriminations leads to an intriguing proposition.

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