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THE SWAMP
Could corruption have led Alex Murdaugh to murder his wife and son?
Wednesday's Child Yiyun Li
The difficulty with waiting, Rosalie thought, is that one can rarely wait in absolute stillness. Absolute stillness?—that part of herself, which was in the habit of questioning her own thoughts as they occurred, raised a mental eyebrow. No one waits in absolute stillness; absolute stillness is death; and when you’re dead you no longer wait for anything. No, not death, Rosalie clarified, but stillness, like hibernation or estivation, waiting for . . . Before she could embellish the thought with some garden-variety clichés, the monitor nearby rolled out a schedule change: the 11:35 train to Brussels Midi was cancelled.
PROFILES A RAUCOUS ASSAULT
How the Iranian American artist Tala Madani sees men and women.
A Critic at Large: the American Beast
Accounting for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
As someone who covers the intersection of sex and technology, I was primed to love Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. A great book could be written on this topic-but this is not it.
A Modern History of 'groomer' Politics
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
THE INFINITE-MONKEY THEOREM: FIELD NOTES
SHOUTS MURMURS
LETTER FROM ITALY: THE MISSING
Many migrants disappear on their way to Europe. Most are never identified.
PROFILES: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
The executive leading Netflixs quest for worldwide domination.
THE CURRENT: CINEMA COLLUSION
“Saint Omer” and Turn Every Page.”
DEEP CUTS
Franz Kafka’ diaries reveal a writer who was antic as well as agonized.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist (and tobacco apologist) Darrell Huffdetails common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, among them truncating the y-axis of a graph.
ANNALS OF INQUIRY: THOUGHT PROCESS
What really goes on between our ears?
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Public’s Under the Radar, now in its eighteenth installment, is a lively showcase of experimental performance. Last year’s edition was scuttled by the Omicron surge, but the festival returns, through Jan. 22, with work contemplating desire, loss, queerness, chain restaurants, and King Leopold II. Among the offerings: LatinXoxo,” by the Venezuelan-born performance artist Migguel Anggelo above), who uses Spanish boleros, comedy, and pop songs to subvert Latin-lover tropes and his own father’s machismo.
U.S. JOURNAL: THE TOTAL PACKAGE
UPS offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs, so why is a strike looming?
HAMMER ATTACK
Three Virgin Marys kept their baleful eyes on the back of Allen’s head. But more powers were needed—of clemency, of healing—so, to accompany the dolorous mothers, somebody had also taped to the wall behind Allen’s hospital bed half a dozen Jesuses (a few were laminated), the famous “Last Supper” painting, and a grave-looking figure who, Alice, one of Allen’s sisters, told Gina, was St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, of last hope.
THE THEATRE: LANDS OF THE LOST
London’ Orlando,” My Neighbour Totoro,” and The Burnt City.”
A Critic at Large – Blood Lines
Seventy-five years after Indian Partition, have we learned how to say what happened?
We Never Left the Titanic
Twenty-five years later, discourse around the film is as lively as ever.
A reporter at large – Trapped in the Trenches
On Ukraine's battle fil, drone surveillance ae it almost ete sible to maneuver.
The Unrelenting Roar of a Crypto Mine Tore This Town Apart
Cryptocurrency aims to revolutionize finance, but its mines are destroying communities across America.
NOTIONS OF THE SACRED
AYŞEGÜL SAVAŞ
TOP OF THE HEAP
“Babylon” and Corsage.”
DOLOROUS HAZE
“Fleishman Is in Trouble,” on FX on Hulu.
LIVE, FROM NEW YORK
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres's portraits of the South Bronx.
DOWN THE HATCH
Alcohol-fuelled catharsis in Des Moines” and Between Riverside and Crazy.”
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
After skipping two years, for obvious reasons, a beloved holiday tradition is back in the streets of East Harlem-El Museo del Barrio's Three Kings Day Parade and Celebration, which is now in its fortysixth year. Some revellers show up dressed as the wise men, but there are other Biblical trios: look for fresh faces self-styled as la Sagrada Família (pictured above, in 2020). Everyone is welcome to join the hour-long procession, which begins at 11 A.M., on Jan. 6, but registration, via elmuseo.org, is required.
UNEASY RIDER
When you want some extra oomph on two wheels.
TABLES FOR TWO
Markus Glocker, the chef and co-owner of Koloman a new French-Viennese restaurant in the former Breslin space, adjoining the Ace Hotel in NoMad-has a clarity of vision that springs from the philosophy of the turn-of-the-century artist Koloman Moser.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The New Yorker