Teen-agers

Molly Manning Walker’s first feature is empathetically centered on three teen-age girls whose lives it leaves unconsidered.

I was eager to escape my parents. Then they befriended a couple from Belgium, who seemed eager to replace me.

The conservative education activist Erika Donalds envisions a world where parents unsatisfied with their public schools can opt out by putting their kids in a headset.

The director of “Shiva Baby” and “Bottoms” on indies, male validation, third-wave feminism, and whether you need to be a dick to be successful.

People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.

Mr. Forry’s driver’s-ed class, in Pennsylvania, is training eighteen-year-olds to drive eighteen-wheelers as Congress lowers the minimum age for driving a big rig across state lines, in an attempt to ease the country’s logistical woes.

Rue lights a bridge on fire. Then she lights an entire city block on fire. Then she flips a bunch of police cars over and lights those on fire. 

The rock-and-roll icon talks about style, spirits, and writing one of her best songs ever.

The second season of the hit HBO show is a thing of beauty—a stylized, heightened, art-directed fantasia of a dark suburbia where really bad things look really good.

How the show’s co-creators found comedy in the pain of revisiting adolescence.

At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.

The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

Felipe Romero Beltrán’s series shows North African youths at an internment facility as they laze, play, and perform for his lens.

Please enjoy both screaming and hearing “Get off the phone!” every day of your pubescent life.

Instagram and TikTok erased the authority of the traditional teen magazine, but teen-agers still want guidance and a community.

“Team Meryland” follows a teen-ager’s journey from the Watts housing projects to the Junior Olympics.

In a U.S. Open final with no precedent, the qualifier Emma Raducanu held her nerve to see off Leylah Fernandez.

The dishwasher has become a nucleus of daily life, simultaneously saving time and generating a cycle of dependence.

I hadn’t yet crossed that threshold Black adolescents cross in America’s codified subconscious—adorable kid to dangerous threat.

A teen-ager explains how his parents’ resistance to vaccination has strained their family life, and the options he’s explored for receiving the shot without their permission.