A collaborative work by a photographer, a poet, and an artist, “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” newly reissued, tells stories through funerary portraits.

Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, his apartment, his allowance, his shining boots, and, most profoundly, his ...

Alex Barasch A culture editor and horror-movie aficionado.

The Trump Administration, looking for another TV-ready fight in Oregon, is ready to sic the National Guard on the city’s inflatable-costumed protesters.

The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine seems like the embodiment of the dirtbag left. But there’s another way to understand his ...

Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President's most disruptive, significant, and truly ...

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress’s specific gifts; at Powerhouse: International, the ...

It does not feel like a place a human being should be inside. In fact, they try to limit the amount that people go into them.

THE portraits by Miss Maria von Kammerer, a young Hungarian, at the Jacques Seligmann Galleries might be taken as the text for a sermon on the curse of talent and success. The pictures are done in a ...

The “Daily Show” host talks with David Remnick about his contract with Paramount Skydance, the government’s attack on political satire, and how our institutions got so weak.

The first feature by the Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, featuring nonprofessional actors in natural settings, explores ...

“Big Kiss, Bye Bye” is a portrait of frustrated intimacy—and the ungovernable force of a woman’s mind.