Browsing: Culture Desk

Vasily Grossman covered WWII for Soviet propaganda and produced journalism that ended up as Nuremberg evidence. His full work was suppressed until after his death.

David Wain discusses his first film in eight years, the State’s legacy, and original comedy’s shrinking space in Hollywood.

The New Yorker asked luminaries to name their favorite American. The answers — scientists, playwrights, pop stars, bureaucrats, one cartoon — reveal more than any ranked list could.

Natural law once fueled progressive constitutional arguments. Conservatives now hold that tradition almost entirely — and the left hasn’t found a counter-framework.

A New Yorker’s summer protest against trendy dessert lines involves making sheep sounds at tourists and transplants. The New Yorker covered it.

Will Mackin’s “Pig Lab” in The New Yorker opens with soldier Ted Waters losing his leg to a bomb disguised as a guardrail outside Marjah. A close read.

Tim Pughsley built a sports-betting site that moved billions before the IRS shut it down. His case exposes how thin the line is between criminal bookmaking and FanDuel.

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.