The New Yorker Culture

Missy Mazzoli’s operatic adaptation of George Saunders’s novel is a charismatic, openhearted work.

In India, a group of uncles plan to subvert the A.I. that is replacing them, in a mockumentary that celebrates the weirdness of regular intelligence.

Gizmos and gadgets to enable artistry.

Most of the best mysteries deal with the imperfect fit between the law and justice.

Nate Lippens’s autobiographical series has earned a word-of-mouth following for its coruscating prose and frank view of Midwestern gay life.

Lance Hammer’s new drama, starring Anna Calder-Marshall, Tom Courtenay, and Juliette Binoche, sharply observes the private agonies and public quandaries of dementia.

The French writer and photographer’s portraits of love.

But don’t feed the trolls!

The question may be less who will inherit the mantle than who in his right mind would want to.

A new book by Hamish McKenzie, the platform’s co-founder, argues that writers today are more empowered than ever. But online newsletters form their own kind of attention economy.

The best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick sees links between eighteen-fifties California and the current A.I. boom. What can the history of the action-packed gold rush actually tell us?

Broadway once thrived on the collision of musical traditions. Now, amid jukebox shows and Hollywood adaptations, can it recover its creative daring?

“Ausländer,” “Frivolity: A Defense,” “May We Feed the King,” and “Sophie, Standing There.”

Two new outposts of the London institution make a vibrant case for handmade craft in an age of A.I. slop.

An election strategy.

Renzo Cozza’s short film gives a classic monster a moral dilemma.

The comedian on being the subject of a Judd Apatow documentary, her passion for open-book accounting, and dating in her fifties.

Good Time Country Buffet, in the East Village, is a painstaking homage to a turn-of-the-millennium Southern steam-table joint.

Nakira Griner said that her toddler fell down the stairs. A jury convicted her of murder. What really happened that day?

The series, which has been remade in dozens of countries, is derivative of other reality-competition shows. What’s different is the mood: it is both quaint and greasy, and perfectly in tune with our culture of incentivized fraud.