CATEGORIES

MAKE IT HURT

Amid the ebbing of empire, Frantz Fanon and Ian Fleming agreed on one thing.

THE BEACH HOUSE

She was hoping he would leave her the beach house, counting on this actually, though he had told her he wasn’t going to.

SHOWING UP

Has school attendance become optional?

THE LONG WAY

Adventures of a teen-age world traveller.

The Cats of L.A.

The "No Kill” movement helps keep cats outdoors. The consequences belie the name.

A Reporter at Large Speed

The competition to create the world's fastest road cars and the rich people who drive them.

DIVIDED HOUSE

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's \"Appropriate\" comes to Broadway.

GENGHIS THE GOOD

Nomadic warriors like the Mongol hordes, scholars argue, built our world.

WINTER SUN

How Camille Pissarro went from mediocrity to magnificence.

OPEN SEASON

The rising popularity of polyamory.

Crown Heights North

The dead man decided to try the running app. He hadn’t run for years. Not since his mid-thirties. Now he was in his early fifties. Or he had been in his early fifties, recently enough. Would he be in his early fifties forever? He tapped the gray oblong and waited as the percentage-downloaded dial advanced, slowly. Much has yet to be revealed, he whispered to himself, in a tone he had used more often when he was a kid, when he had expected his life to resemble a tale of adventure, or of horror, or one with a mystery to solve, or a magical stone to obtain.

THE VENTRILOQUIST

How Hollywood's most in-demand script doctor found his own voice.

NATURE, WOW

Spend five minutes in nature and you’ll see what everyone’s talking about, with the mountains and zoos and watermelons. It’s breathtaking.

TIPPING POINTS

The path from the tossed coin to the swivelling iPad.

UNSAFE PASSAGE

A Palestinian poet's perilous journey out of his homeland.

Watch This Space

The global ambitions of Invader's street art.

MUSICAL REVOLUTION

\"Buena Vista Social Club\" and \"How to Dance in Ohio.\"

ROYAL BLUES

The end of \"The Crown,\" on Netflix.

SPACING OUT

The novelist Samantha Harvey sends astronauts, and readers, into orbit.

FAMILY MATTERS

Am I one of the last living relatives of Bruno Schulz?

A GLOSSARY OF LAUGHS

\"... Ha!\" You're at a cocktail party and someone just made a reference to the Kenneth Lonergan play \"This Is Our Youth\" that you didn't find particularly funny, but you still want everyone to know that you understood it.

REARRANGEMENTS

Crosswords, immigrants, and the American melting pot.

GRAY AREAS

\"The Zone of Interest\" and \"Anselm.\"

DISPOSSESSED

\"Manahatta\" and \"Life & Times of Michael K.\"

TOKYO STORY

Greenpoint's upscale portal to Japan.

I SPY

The Espionage Act is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

LAUGH LINES

The funny thing about comedy.

The Good Denis

When—after I'd long hesitated, lost my nerve, thought better of it—I finally gathered the strength to ask my decreasingly lucid mother if she remembered a certain scene that still brought an ache to my grownup heart, she gave me a mystified, offended stare, a stare of virtuous indignation, and then, collecting herself, answered gently, as you might answer a very old person who, you realize, didn't mean to say such a ridiculous thing, that what I was talking about not only hadn’t happened but could not, in any case, possibly have happened.

WHAT MAKES A MURDER?

How a draconian legal doctrine imprisons people for killings they didn't commit.

TERMS OF AGGRIEVEMENT

The Gen Z comedian Leo Reich blasts his elders-and himself.