My favorite episodes of “Overheard at National Geographic,” which presents sophisticated stories about fascinating and far-flung realms, take place underwater.Summer, with its bright sunshine, improve ...

Louis Armstrong’s aura has amazed and confounded his fans for more than a hundred years. How could he, born indisputably black at the height of Jim Crow and raised poor, be so happy?A lot of kids grow ...

In “Midsommar,” the rigid order of a Swedish society quickly appears coercive and soon turns deadly.Ari Aster is a writer and director of cult movies—his two features, “Hereditary,” from 2018, and “Mi ...

“Ocean sunset with birds flying and dolphins or whales swimming”—Jose (California)Willie Sterling III imagined this: a line of people, bonded by a belief in his humanity, travelling up a hill in south ...

It hurts my heart to think about how my five-month-old son would feel in the arms of a stranger, hungry, abandoned, alone.Over the summer, when the Trump Administration was taking children from their ...

In his Twitter videos, O. J. Simpson’s all-American bonhomie is perhaps just as dark as the veiled threats that follow it.Some things feel so inevitable, so apropos of a particular moment, that when t ...