Although it has been more than sixty years since students at the University of Detroit played a jukebox prank, the idea of paying for a moment of silence still feels relevant.In 1959, a group of under ...

Sam Mendes’s “1917,” a film of patriotic bombast, has an imagination-free script filled with melodramatic coincidences that trivialize the life-and-death action by reducing it to sentiment.The most vu ...

“I have fewer goals now, in a nice way,” John Mulaney says, of his career after “S.N.L.”Anyone who has John Mulaney pegged as America’s most wholesome comedian is only partially correct. Yes, the thir ...

The history of intelligent machines is one of moving goalposts: Sure, a machine can do this, but can it do that? The “that” is often an achievement that strikes us as strongly connected to emotion—tha ...

The first episode of “The Paris Review Podcast” features Maya Angelou discussing her writing process with George Plimpton.Happy 2020, podcast enthusiasts. This year, the traditional January sensations ...

There was no more eloquent acceptance-speech plea than that of Michelle Williams, who was recognized for her performance in “Fosse/Verdon” at the Golden Globes on Sunday.“You’ll be pleased to know thi ...