CATEGORIES
فئات
THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI
When the elephant disappeared from our town's elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at six thirteen.
LITTLE WING
When homing pigeons leave home.
THE SQUID HUNTER
Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?
PETS ALLOWED
Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?
BUZZED
To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.
HARBORING RATS
Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.
BUTTERFLIES
The childhood of a lepidopterist.
A Neighborhood, Authored
Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”
Presence of Mind
How the critic Jacqueline Rose learned to read the world
American Dirt
Monster trucks, the stars a the modern thrill show, sell more tickets than Taylor Swift
Alfresco
At Santa Fe Opera, a new orchestration of Monteverdi's "Orfeo."
ALTERED STATES
“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”
BLANK SPACE
The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”
THE BIGGEST LOSERS
How the Bible turned a history of defeat into triumph.
MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL
Does the end of Mostly Mozart signal a rising disdain for classical music at Lincoln Center?
THE AUTOPSY
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI
“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”
THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND
Is beekeeping wrong?
MAN OF STEEL
Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.
MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies
Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.
ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha
“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.
DANCE - All-Male Hula, a Tennis Ballet
Outdoor dance is nice, but there’s nothing like being in a theatre, with its dramatic lighting and proscenium.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - Afro-Pop, R. & B.Greats, Hip-Hop Diversity
As a summer full of mellow outdoor concerts comes to a close, the fall makes way for multiplicity.
THE THEATRE - Barn-Burner Sondheim, Irish Drama, Antic Musicals
Sharpen your pencils and grab your backpacks: autumn in New York is back-totheatre season. With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.
TELEVISION - Strikes, Game Shows, Novel Adaptations
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this season.
The Mayor Talks a Good Game
Can Eric Adams get by on bluster alone?
Crazy Town
The singular stories of Steven Millhauser.
SHARK BAIT
The Jaws” ecosystem and Broadway's \"The Shark Is Broken.\"
YOU NAME IT
Carl Linnaeus and the effort to label all of life
ANOTHER COUNTRY
The Ukrainians forced to flee to Russia