From the daily newsletter: our TV critic on the new Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel.

The combative culture warrior in the Pentagon may soon be Congress’s top target.

While Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist duke it out as John Steinbeck’s Trask brothers, Florence Pugh’s Cathy is a gothic villain you can’t help but root for.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences?

The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix it?

The dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness.

In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw.

See today’s Daily Cartoon.

While Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist duke it out as John Steinbeck’s Trask brothers, Florence Pugh’s Cathy is a gothic villain you can’t help but root for.

The dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Awaiting Orders,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005.

Iconic roles and death-defying stunts have made Tom Cruise’s name synonymous with movie magic. In “Digger,” he breaks his action streak to show us something new—for better or for worse.

Green deluge at the Kids’ Choice Awards: five letters.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

After scouring billions of ballots, we have identified countless instances of voter fraud. They are countless, in part, because we are unwilling and unable to count past 34.

Can you sort the items into the correct order?

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Even if Maine’s longtime senator is finally defeated by a Democrat, her lengthy tenure speaks to the power of bringing federal money home—and asking voters to overlook other misgivings.

The White House has quietly paused an order to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, a move that came after months of lobbying from the construction industry and other interest groups.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

The melodramatic power of Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway is squandered in “Verity,” a romantic tale that’s ludicrously muddled by suspicions of monstrous misdeeds.

Parenting is a practice, the hockey dad learns. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.

In the novel “Ply,” Hernan Diaz imagines a ruined New York, a fractured society, and the ultimate structure of existence.

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.

See today’s Daily Cartoon.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl's Night,” by Mahmoud Darwish, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones.”

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

The Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate new novel, “Partita,” is out next week.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

Midler who played herself in a “Seinfeld” episode: five letters.

Can you sort the items into the correct order?

In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Leaders of cities around the world are standing up for democracy, even if the leaders of their countries are not.

Parenting is a practice, the hockey dad learns. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.

From the daily newsletter: the weather still growing in the Pacific is truly fearsome. What should we expect?

The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix it?

The journalist Evan Gershkovich details the delicate rapport he developed with his cellmate at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

The journalist Evan Gershkovich details the delicate rapport he developed with his cellmate at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

Caleb Hammer, the host of the popular YouTube series “Financial Audit,” claims that his goal is to make his viewers more financially literate, with his down-and-out interviewees serving as extreme test cases for what not to do.

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Outfit Only: I totally look like I’m in a sexy version of “Little House on the Prairie,” but I refuse to do a single chore.