Katy Waldman A staff writer covering books and culture.

Sea lampreys—invasive, leechlike creatures that once nearly destroyed the Great Lakes’ fishing economy—are kept in check by a ...

As the Trump Administration tries to rescue symbols of the Lost Cause, an exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, ...

In Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, ripe with eco-paranoia, the actress and Jesse Plemons come to physical and psychological blows.

Follow @newyorkercartoons on Instagram and sign up for the Daily Humor newsletter for more funny stuff.

A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria ...

No. 302 West Twelfth Street has three and four-room apartments only. Though these rooms are similar in proportion to the others, many have the added charm of odd angles, because of the unusual shape ...

All that could be heard was the remnant of tenor tones that must have been thrilling in days when phonograph records were a greater drain on the purse. A little later, we saw Paoli in the flesh—no ...

Dartmouth did swing out off the tackles, and did it effectively with the old criss-cross play that dates back to the time when Pa Corbin was wont to coach school teams. It was the correct choice, ...

But here they are and helping to make a show that the season may find hard to duplicate. We feel that the case of Young America could almost rest on the work of these men. With an addition or two, we ...

THE STRAND has “The Prince of Tempters,” a story of royal love with more than a certain amount of royal bunk, and which dwells on what happens to profane love when the real thing comes into a man’s ...

Jacobson & Company, Who make architectural and decorative ornaments, could build you a house in which nothing, outside or in, would be what it seemed; and yet it could be of durability and variety of ...