Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. on ...

On October 26, 2025, the New Yorker staff writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman joined the executive editor Daniel Zalewski onstage at the 26th ...

“Blues Run the Game,” by Jackson C. Frank. The earlier it gets dark, the more I put this song into rotation. A classic anthem ...

“Courtin’ Time,” the musical comedy that opened at the National last week, is notably light, or, to put it another way, scrawny. It would seem to have been produced, as so many things in the same ...

In a series of daring, often yearlong works—locking himself in a cage, refusing to go indoors, tying himself to another ...

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When Tom Fool, who also is by Menow, was withdrawn from the Futurity because the track was muddy, Mr. Headley, who seldom talks about a horse he’s going to run, said to a horseman he knew, “My Menow ...

Breeziness, rather than wit, characterizes “All About Love.” Indeed, the nearest approach to humor in “All About Love” is in a rowdy song explaining the disadvantages of being a chorus girl in the ...

In a series of daring, often yearlong works—locking himself in a cage, refusing to go indoors, tying himself to another ...

I say surprising because, of course, when it comes to Renoir, we think almost at once of his paintings: all those ...

After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits have come out against legalized betting. But the case that they’re ...

In this way and in many others, Rosalía is exceptional. She is a trained flamenco singer from Spain who found an ...