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SIGNS YOU SHOULD GIVE UP ON A BOOK

You can't stop thinking about the characters and how you'd like to rewrite them as characters from books you've actually enjoyed reading.

CONSIDER THE GUN

The director Lila Neugebauer interrogates the ghosts of \"Uncle Vanya.\"

Shouts & Murmurs – The Affair With My Chair

I’ve heard people call sitting the new smoking. Others say that sitting is the new sugar. Both wrong. I’m here to tell you that sitting is the new sex. It feels so good, especially with the right partner.

City of Thieves

In L.A., cops battle crime rings that steal everything from purses to power tools.

West Side Story

Ian Munsick brings his Wyoming sound to Nashville.

You Can't Sit With Us

Why New York restaurants are going members-only.

Profile – A Class of Her Own

Quinta Brunson was a devoted student of the sitcom long before she created "Abbott Elementary."

CHAOS THEORY

\"3 Body Problem,\" on Netflix.

ALL THAT GLITTERS

The showmanship of Gustav Klimt.

THE ENABLERS

Hitler didn't grab power; he was given it.

HOT AND BOTHERED

How Candida Royalle set out to remake the porn industry.

Neighbors

Not long after our twins turned three, my wife, Anna, accepted a transfer to the West Coast. The opportunity was lucrative, but that wasn’t why we were eager to go. Anna had spent that March and April involved with another man, a colleague, someone whose name I’d never heard until she told me about him. She said that it had been a terrible mistake, that it had only made her hate herself, and that this person had now begun almost to frighten her, continuing to call after she’d asked him to stop, declaring that he’d leave his family, demanding to speak with me. I was surprised to find that, more than anything, I felt sorry for her.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN

Two entries from a new alphabet of the colonized world, an illustrated ABC.

MAGA MIKE

House Speaker Mike Johnson uses a s uses a soft touch to push hard-right politics.

BID FOR THE STARS

The booming market in the stuff of celebrity.

GONE WITH THE WIND

In pursuit of John Wilkes Booth.

THE TIME BEING

In my early thirties, I began to cultivate the friendship of older people—people born twenty or thirty or even fifty years before me. I read many novels in those days.

TALKING WITH GOD

John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable” and Brooklyn Laundry.”

BODIES OF EVIDENCE

“Love Lies Bleeding.”

O.K., DOOMER

Some people want to build ALI. faster. Others want to pull the plug. Who will decide the fate of humanity?

INVISIBLE CITY

> After ists fell in Syria, supporters and victims alike were herded into a giant outdoor prison— and effectively given lifetime sentences.

YOU TELL ME

Why Percival Everett cant say what his novels mean.

MELANIE ANN DONOGHUE WEDS WORDLE

Melanie Ann Donoghue, thirty-two, of Westchester County, New York, was wed on Saturday to Wordle.

OLD SCHOOL

Have the liberal arts gone conservative?

Starburst

The next big solar storm could devastate our power grid and communication systems. Are we prepared?

SPICE ODYSSEY

\"Dune: Part Two.\"

WAR AND PIECES

Two outstanding premières at City Ballet.

HAD TO HAPPEN

Marilynne Robinson on Genesis.

THE BOY WHO CRIED ART

Was Keith Haring a brilliant painter or a brilliant brand?

HARLEM IS EVERYWHERE

Denise Murrell takes on the Harlem Renaissance at the Met.