A hero to the left and a favored villain of the right, the New York congressional representative sits for a long interview with David Remnick.

The singer, who never has writer’s block, crafts songs by the dozen to pick and choose for her albums. She spoke with the New Yorker critic and performed “I Really Like You.” 

Serving as Poet Laureate, Smith took literature to community centers, senior centers, prisons—anywhere people needed it. 

Adapting a classic novel for the stage, the writer had a few bones to pick with the heroic figure of Atticus Finch.

The author of the best-selling autobiographical novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” visits the food court at a largely Asian mall in Queens that reminds him of home. 

The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic doesn’t just review shows; she’s making an argument about television as a medium that deserves respect on its own terms.  

A Mexican writer travels to the American Southwest, where performances of Wild West history run up against the reality of the border crisis. 

The Trump Administration says it has made combatting human trafficking a priority, but it has undermined a critical visa program designed to help trafficking’s victims.

The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody's playing chicken now.”