Vladimir Putin’s Dangerous Game

Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner's Wives,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1995.

As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of perspectives.

The eighty-seven-year-old French director, in town for a rerelease of “A Man and a Woman,” his swinging-sixties “make-out movie,” ponders what he believes will be his final film.

Now you’re going to sit in that chair and watch me load the dishwasher my way. And you’re not going to say a single word.

The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses the beauty of weightlessness.