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How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry.

Cooking his mother's maqluba recipe, the Palestinian activist describes his detention in Louisiana: losing fifteen pounds and a cleaning contest with pizza as a prize.

A devastated community fights for rebirth.

In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read--and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker's style for a century.

"Shadow Ticket," Pynchon's first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but it lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions.

The "Morning Show" actor strolls the theatre district, remembering his star turn in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing" and recalling the way Mike Nichols always joked that he was Jewish.

Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

His new novel, "What We Can Know," imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they've missed out on.

Large language models are transforming medicine--but the technology comes with side effects.