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Wake Up!

I HAVE LONG BEEN OF the belief that a low, sultry eyelid is a thing of beauty. Lauren Bacall made a career on it! Eyes down, then flicked up, two arrows through Humphrey Bogart’s heart. You know how to whistle, don’t you? Zendaya too. These days you can find the white-hot starlet in any number of high fashion advertisements, eyes elegantly lowered to half-mast, a modern master of the “smize”—a Tyra Banks–credited invention from America’s Next Top Model, employed as shorthand to entreat the aspiring Christys and Naomis and Kates to “smile with their eyes” in a sort of purposeful, unwrinkled microsquint, transforming an image from average to alluring.

Barn This Way

When a young Brooklyn family fell hard for rural Connecticut, an unprepossessing dairy farm turned into a busy, bustling home away from home.

Melody Maker

Finding hidden music in a role has long been a theme of Carey Mulligan's astonishing career but never more so than in the symphonic new film Maestro.

Rebel Rebel

Angelina Jolie has always done things her way. Is it any surprise, then, as Chioma Nnadi discovers, that she's shaking up the world of fashion?

BIG LIGHTS

This month, Hell’s Kitchen, a new musical based on Alicia Keys’s years growing up in that vibrant but rough Manhattan neighborhood, arrives at the Public Theater. It’s a New York story, for everyone.

Seed of Change

A line of outdoor textiles springs from a historic restoration.

The Second Year

War is a long story, with many chapters. Reporting from Ukraine, Wendell Steavenson sees dogged optimism, banished illusions, inspiring acts of generosity, and resilience in all its forms.

Pastoral Care

A fresh breed of British getaways Is redefining the rural wellness experience.

The Power To: Berghain-ify the City

One must "come correct” to get into GeGa Japaridze and Téa Abashidze's Queens nightclub, Basement.

The Power To: Make the Whitney Less White

Rujeko Hockley is changing the museum.

The Power To: Enforce the Mayor's Petty Grudges

Ingrid Lewis-Martin "is the Adams administration."

THE WRESTLER

How Jim Jordan prosecutes Trump's conspiracy theories in Congress.

IF NOT NOW, LATER

What gardening offered after a son's death

NEEDFUL THINGS

The raw materials for the world we've built come at a cost.

CHINA'S AGE OF MALAISE

Facing a grim economy, disillusioned youth, and fleeing entrepreneurs, Xi Jinping turns to the past

REORIENTING "BUTTERFLY"

At Detroit Opera, a new production subverts Puccini’ depiction of Japan.

EYE FOR AN EYE

Henry Taylor and the fraught art of seeing.

DRILLING DOWN

“Killers of the Flower Moon.”

LEAD YOUR FORMER BOSS'S REVENGE CAMPAIGN

When Andrew Cuomo was governor, was his right hand. With an eviscerating new book, she’s settling scores and prepping a comeback

MAKE CHEFS BEG FOR CABBAGE

They all want S sweet, juicy leaves.”

BUILD THE LARGEST AMERICAN LUXURY CONGLOMERATE

Fashion groups in New York have always been dwarfed by their Parisian rivals. A merger led by Joanne Crevoiserat might change that.

BROKER PEACE BETWEEN TECH AND CITY HALL

The reason they don’t hate each other—like they do in San Francisco—is Julie Samuels.

PROPEL COMEDIANS ONTO NETFLIX

Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia have charted a path from small theater to Broadway to beyond.

FIX THE KIDNEY LIST

The transplant process relied on a racist algorithm. Michelle Morse changed that.

Statement Fever

AS THE HORRORS MOUNTED in Israel and Palestine, in America we did what we do best: We issued statements. Then we found fault with those statements and issued new statements.

Hello, Sailor

The Brooklyn bistro exhibits the understated confidence of its famous co-captains.

Comedy's Scrappiest All-Stars

RDC World turned its funny videos into a content empire. Now Hollywood is calling for the group's 29-year-old mastermind.

Terrible Fire

Why do some of the most expensively made movies in history have trouble depicting a simple flame?

His Rose Is Timeless

America’s new favorite hunk is a’72-year-old widower. He may be the best thing ever to happen to The Bachelor franchise.

MAKE (OR BURY) A CAREER AT THE 'TIMES'

Carolyn Ryan decides who gets a good beat, and who gets beaten down.