The New Yorker

Most polls show Donald Trump leading in swing states, but the Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg believes the President’s chances are better than the surveys suggest.

“We all bought a town house together because we think society puts too much emphasis on fighting about money with your spouse and not enough on fighting about money with your friends.”

Character who lives at Green Gables: four letters.

Diane Seuss says, of writing her latest collection, “Modern Poetry,” “I really did feel that I didn’t know how to move forward without something like an answer.”

The classic midlife crisis, with its flashy sports cars and covert affairs, has become a cliché in itself. Miranda July’s novel “All Fours” is part of a new wave of fiction that’s challenging expectations of what middle age can be.

The bonsai tree from “The Karate Kid,” Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, and more.

A memoir by Nicholas Kristof and a biography of Barbara Walters invoke halcyon days in the news business. What can we learn from their lives?

An ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space.

George Miller’s latest addition to the “Mad Max” franchise plunges into the backstory of the action hero memorably introduced by Charlize Theron.

OpenAI’s snafu over its “Her”-like voice assistant might be funny if it didn’t portend a larger crisis in the integrity of digital information.