From internet personalities and athletes to Isaac Mizrahi and David Mamet, Safdie explains how and why he found the perfect ...

Finding moments of pleasure, peace, and fun in a dizzying year The post What Brought Us Joy in 2025 first appeared on The Walrus.

What exactly is wassailing — and why does it keep showing up in Christmas songs? From medieval drinking bowls to danceable ...

In challenging times, when we must face ourselves as a nation and consider how far we’ve come, it’s important to remember the scaffolding that is our history, and tear it all down. The White House ...

The 38-year-old filmmaker discusses his socially charged comedy, inspired by a real-life student revolt over Japan’s outdated school rules. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief With Blonde, premiering ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook A gleefully provocative new musical and a quiet 1930s domestic drama speak to each other across time, resounding quite loudly in our ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday dismissed an AI-generated video President Trump posted, showing him wearing a crown in a fighter jet and dropping brown sludge on “No Kings” protesters, as ...

The questions, social media outrage and all-around facepalming began weeks before the new Mexican restaurant Whitexicans even opened in Queens. Some of the hundreds of people who weighed in on ...

Re “What if liberals banned books” (Opinion, Oct. 3): It’s so sad to see the first line of Renée Loth’s column: “The following satire is protected speech.” There was a time when people were smart ...

Dan Houser shed some light on how he managed to write Grand Theft Auto’s biting American satire. Of course, the elephant in the room is that the Housers were from the UK. There must be some level ...

A university that can’t take a joke has a bigger problem than the joke itself. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, UF was home to The Orange Peel, a satirical magazine that skewered campus life ...