Jessica Winter A staff writer covering politics, family, and education.

Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless” embraces the legend of the French New Wave and ...

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and ...

People tend to think about mother-daughter relationships as ones where influence runs in one direction: mothers shape their ...

To understand how grudging Amy Coney Barrett’s new book is when it comes to revealing personal details, consider that one of ...

Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his ...

A slim, compelling book about one of the first orphanages in Europe contains painful echoes of the present.

At the 2025 New Yorker Festival, a panel of experts across media, medicine, and academia discussed The USC Annenberg ...

The jaunty and absorbing new miniseries “Death by Lightning” posits that America had the closest thing to such a leader in ...

The political influencer Laura Loomer swears that her loyalty lies only with the President and his MAGA agenda. But how true ...

Popular parental advice to teens throughout history. What I imagine strangers think when they see me reading a book in public ...

At school, I wave goodbye to my son, but he doesn’t even look back, such is his hurry to get to the singing of the Soviet ...