The Crossword: Wednesday, January 15, 2025

In the eighties, the photographer Kathy Shorr became a chauffeur, capturing working-class New Yorkers on their way to new lives.

A violent act on New Year’s Day allegedly committed by a tourist highlights rising tensions between the island and the mainland United States.

The sci-fi series was hailed as a dark, timely satire of office life—but its return is bogged down by abstract ethical conundrums and rote emotional ones.

Journalists put more stress on accuracy than ever before. The problem is, accuracy is a slippery idea.

The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both acts spoke to a long-standing obsession.

Brady Corbet’s epic takes on weighty themes, but fails to infuse its characters with the stuff of life.

A nationwide movement has funnelled taxpayer money to private institutions, eroding the separation between church and state.

Caught between competing impulses, we praise living in the moment while obsessing about what’s to come.

A beginner-friendly puzzle.