Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But those who aren’t familiar with Smith’s wor...

“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment,” the col...

The director talks with Justin Chang about his latest work on artistic genius. One dramatizes the decline of Lorenz Hart; the other details the triumphant début of Jean-Luc Godard.

The staff writer Emma Green reports on how the MAGA movement aims to implement fundamental change in both private and public colleges, and in how Americans think about education.

The Democratic candidate for mayor would be one of the youngest and the first Muslim in the job. He discusses threats from Donald Trump, and what socialism means in practice.

The director stopped shooting movies years ago to focus on writing film scores and his own records. He shares some inspirational work from film history with the producer Adam Howard.

The singer talks with Hanif Abdurraquib about his career’s “mountaintops and valleys,” being bullied as a child, and how the Commodores did the “dumbass shit” they wanted to avoid. 

Robert P. George opposed Roe v. Wade, same-sex marriage—and the rise of MAGA. “I say to my [liberal] colleagues,” he claims, “it was you guys who gave us Donald Trump!”

The writer and podcaster on why he thinks Democrats need to broaden their scope—to both the right and the left—and what people misunderstand about his role in politics and media.