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In New York, rent seems to go up much faster than new apartment buildings. A look at the city’s history can help us understand why.

“So I began Advent waiting—anxiously, watchfully—not with the yes I thought I would share with Mary, but for the no of a passing pregnancy.”

Christmas crèches have always included a prophetic purpose. This year, some churches are using their nativity scenes to call out mass deportations.

Patti Smith's memoir is an act of resistance against a culture of forgetting. Memory here isn’t an archive—it’s a living organism.

The question at the center of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' is what generosity looks like—and whether one needs material possessions in order to be truly generous.

For Elias Canetti, death was nothing short of a cosmic scandal, the ultimate humiliation, absurdity itself.

Trump feels entitled not only to his own “facts” but to a docile press corps that will repeat them uncritically.

New York governor Kathy Hochul has described herself as a “social-justice Catholic.” Social justice demands that she veto the state's bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide.

To understand this troubling moment in American democracy, look at the history and making of the New Right.

Our critic recommends his favorite books released in 2025, including works by Joy Williams, Helen Garner, and John Haskell.

Three new books on the rise and fall of glossy magazines, alt weeklies, and gilded journalism.

I’ll be binge-reading Jane Austen again this winter, in honor of her 250th birthday. Few novelists of any era offer as much perception, delight, and insight on every page.