With Great Care

A woman self-sacrifices in Diane.

Oklahoma Was Never Really O.K.

A new production exposes the darkness that’s always been at the heart of the musical—and the American experiment.

The National Interest: Blunt Instruments Of Power

Another astonishing victory redefines what the presidency is.

Susan Choi's Trust Exercise Is Spring's Most-Talked-About Novel

How rage and the Access Hollywood tape inspired this spring’s most inventive and polarizing novel.

Everyone Believed Larry Nassar

I - Larissa Boyce was 10 when her coach, John Geddert,forced her legs into a split so hard she cried. He pulled her right leg up toward his torso, sending shooting pains through her groin and hamstrings, and he kept pulling. “Racking,” as it’s called, was common practice at the gym, but it was evidently too much for Larissa’s mother, whomarched onto the mats and told Geddert to take his handsoff her daughter. From then on, Larissa would train under Kathie Klages, a relatively low-key coach with unruly red hair and glasses at Michigan State University’s Spartan youth gymnastics team. Klages, like Geddert, considered herself a dear friend of an athletic trainernamed Larry Nassar and sent her gymnasts to him. ¶ When, six years later, Larissa felt ready to talk about the fact that Larry had penetrated her with his hand without warning, she approachedKlages. Larissa remembers her office as a small room with a desk, a window, and green carpet. “ ‘I have known Larry for years and years,’ ” Larissa recalls Klages saying. “ ‘He would never do anything inappropriate.’ ”

The Good-Intentions Trap

Don’t feel bad for being dissatisfied with American Son.

The Magnificent Six

The Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a half-dozen mini-Westerns.

The Cut - Grunge By Marc Jacobs

Why he brought 1992 back to life now.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Trump, Trapped A weakened president takes another step to protect himself at all costs.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Awful can still get worse however the midterms go, the immediate future of the Republican Party is clear.

Swingin' Belgrade

In Tito’s Yugoslavia, the Soviet bloc was anything but drab.

Queen Of The Mockumentary

My life in Christopher Guest movies.

Una Pizza Risurrezione

A Neapolitan-pie master returns to New York with less trailblazing, more polish and comfort.

A Modest Proposal

Facebook is basically a nation-state. Which means it needs a constitution.

Documented: Absence Of History

The spaces where bronze Confederates once stood.

Tribes: The 125 Million-People-Strong Battle Royale

Fortnite has become the Snapchat of video games.

211 Minutes With.... Julia Salazar

Meet the other Democratic Socialist running in a New York election.

Collusion: A Plausible Theory Of Donald Trump, Russian Asset Since 1987

A CRAZY QUILT OF CONNECTIONSConfused? Turn the page for how it all could have played out.

The Extinction Of The Middle Child

They’re becoming an American rarity, just when America could use them the most.

Petty Crime

Drake settles scores—lots of them—on Scorpion.

This Killing Machine Called America

East Village artist and culture warrior gets an overdue—but very timely— retrospective.

Once More Into The Storm

A misbegotten King Lear that Glenda Jackson does not redeem.

All That Jazz And Then Some

Fosse/Verdon goes deep on its subjects.

Night Moves

Two downtown daytime joints extend their hours with delicious results. by robin raisfeld and rob patronite

The Half Billion-Dollar "Leonardo"

How an art picker and a gallerist, plus a couple of restoration experts, alongside a handful of scholars and museum directors, not to mention two auction houses, a Russian oligarch, and the Saudi crown prince, turned a $1,000 bet into a $ 450 million Leonardo Da Vinci.

The Political-Parent Trap

Domestic platforms what changes when the presidential field is full of mothers, not just fathers.

180 Minutes With Natasha Lyonne

Existentialism at the East Village Planetarium.

Not Looking For The End Of The World

A TROVE OF OVER 60 exquisitely beautiful, quasi-abstract coloured-pencil landscapes by Joseph Yoakum are emitting undulant optical auroras on Madison Avenue right now.

Lady Vengeance

In The Nightingale, the director of The Babadook returns with a tale of real-life monsters.

The Most Gullible Man In Cambridge

A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?