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CONCEALED CARRY
What's really in your pocket?
MAKEOVER
Building a billion-dollar beauty brand in the influencer
THE NARROW WAY: LILIANA COLANZI
The Devil can be a cloud, a shadow, a gust of wind that shakes the leaves. He can be the nightjar flying across the sky or a reflection on the surface of the river.
OUTSIDE MAN
Jeremy O. Harris, before and after \"Slave Play.\"
THE SUITOR
Thom Browne's eccentric American tailoring.
BEST FOOT FORWARD
How to feel about an \"okay\" rating of your feet by strangers on the Internet.
BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT. DESIGNING THE APOCALYPSE
A young architect faces the climate crisis.
Annals of literature – Mother Tongue
Emily Wilson makes Homer modern.
Dangerous Designs
Gene editing gives us transformative powers. But should we use them?
EUROTRIP
Romy's exuberant solo début.
HOT AND BOTHERED
James Ellroy finally takes on Marilyn Monroe.
ABSENCE AFRICAINE
A Prix Goncourt-winning novel about a quest to unearth a literary legend.
THE CATALYST
Betty Friedan and the movement that outgrew her.
THE X-MAN
How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain.
OFF THE STREET
A journey from homelessness to a room of one's of one's own in New York City.
OLD MEN AND SEA
Plot Summary and Study Guide
THE BELIEVER
How the Times columnist Ross Douthat translates faith to the secular world.
GLOW IN THE DARK
What Kate DiCamillo understands about childhood.
HIGHER CALLING
Scammers with ambition in “Telemarketers” and “BS High.”
THE COUP
In Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, a billionaire has a scheme to save the planet.
HOLY MATRIMONY
George Eliot’s secular sacraments.
THE GREAT INDOORS
How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.
SIBERIAN WOOD
The thing about horseradish vodka is that it makes you forget that you’re drinking vodka.
TALK TO ME
Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.
CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Animal Magnetism
Disney takes the high road to profit.
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
FARM TO FABLE
George Orwell's animal allegory.
BARK
Do dogs have history?