These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

More precise names for the “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia. Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask. It’s becoming pretty clear that something is going on with the crossword ...

Brad Holland, an artist whose conceptual work and iconoclastic ways delighted — and often maddened — generations of art ...

The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a ...

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Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...

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That Famous Thurber Spot Drawing for The New Yorker First, a brief reminder of what’s what: New Yorker “Spot” drawings are not New Yorker cartoons. Once upon a time, pre-Tina Brown era, Spots were ...

Left with a Jewish identity in name only, Adam Sobsey traveled to his great-grandparents' hometown in Romania to see what he ...

Near the end of Donald Trump’s first term, his top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, encouraged Administration officials ...

The New Yorker began its second century of publication in February. Its initial cover showed the dandy Eustace Tilley looking ...