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The New Yorker staff writer examines America's unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem.

The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five's biggest hit was the beginning of the end.

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

Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" and Adam Jentleson's "Supermajority" grapple with how to defeat Trumpism.

Natasha Singer's book "Coding Kids" tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today.

Marlon James, Louise Erdrich, Edwidge Danticat, and more.

"Exit Party" is an elegant crime story with sci-fi shadings.

After industry-wide calls for A.I. regulation, what's most concerning isn't that the problems are real. It's that there are no guaranteed solutions.

John Wilson's first feature, a whimsical personal documentary, reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of concrete: the most-often-used substance on Earth besides water.

What agentic A.I. is best at is optimizing processes that, not too long ago, were presented as the already maximally optimized version of a once analog experience.