Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In 1945, while recovering from an ankle injury he got while skiing in Bavaria, Doctor Maertens discovered that a new use for ...

At the end of the Feb. 16 broadcast of “ SNL50 ,” a tribute to the half-century reign of “Saturday Night Live” over American ...

Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ...

She won a National Magazine Award and was on the longlist for the 2020 CBC Short Story Prize. She teaches writing at ...

The museum founder’s life and legacy are celebrated in "ghost story," a new song cycle by Phil Kline that premieres at the ...

Presidents Day has changed dramatically over the years. For some historians, the holiday has lost discernible meaning.

On its 100th anniversary, Matthew Ricketson considers The New Yorker’s remarkable journalism and vital role in our chaotic, ...

There has been “an air of kismet” about Susan Morrison’s 10-years-in-the-making biography of Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the author said. The New Yorker editor ...

Ke Huy Quan, star of The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, has recalled a hilarious prank director Steven ...