Browsing: Culture Desk

Kevin Warsh signaled rate cuts before becoming Fed chair, then pivoted to inflation hawk once confirmed. The shift raises questions about which position reflects his actual doctrine.

Colson Whitehead closes his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” a reckoning with the city that shaped him and the private pressures behind his restless reinventions.

The Knicks’ N.B.A. championship parade down Broadway was Mayor Mamdani’s moment — but NYC public-school students had Regents exams that day.

Steven Spielberg returns to blockbuster filmmaking with Disclosure Day, fifty years after Jaws created the commercial template Hollywood still uses.

Scott McTominay’s acrobatic goal against Denmark sent Scotland to its first World Cup in 27 years, ending a drought that shaped a generation of fans.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s memoir “When We See You Again” documents her son Hersh’s 330-day captivity in Gaza and his murder. A raw account of public grief.

America’s official children’s book advocate called most kids’ books “crud.” But poor literacy rates trace to access and infrastructure, not editorial quality.

A question hangs over the Commonwealth Short Story Prize: did AI write a winning entry? The real issue is what it reveals about how we judge fiction.

Danielle Allen’s *Radical Duke* argues the American Revolution was propelled by a transnational elite, centered on a rowdy English nobleman an ocean away.

Trump’s historic low approval ratings should be a Democratic windfall. But many in the party are anxious about what winning the House and Senate in November actually means.