In today’s newsletter, the ritualistic sights and scenes at Pope Francis’s funeral. Plus: I watched the funeral for Pope ...

Now everything must change. That kind of knowledge production has, in effect, been automated. As a result, the “scientistic” ...

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an ...

As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of ...

How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential ...

Also: reviews of Broadway’s “Smash” and “John Proctor Is the Villain”; New York’s financial crisis of 1975 in “Drop Dead City ...

From the daily newsletter: what happens when we can optimize pregnancy. Plus: Susan B. Glasser on Trump’s confused desires.

It makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human.

It took its current form in 2018, under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—a pugnacious, swaggering populist known ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display ...