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EXIT, VOICE, AND LOYALTY
A Libyan can't quit London in Hisham Matar's \"My Friends.\"
WITCHY WOMEN
The surprising persistence of the witch trial.
IS A.I. THE DEATH OF I.P.?
The copyright wars, revised and expanded.
CHANCE THE CAT: DAVID MEANS
Does it matter that a cat story resides solely in the body of a cat, remaining neutral as the creature moves through the landscape, operating on pure instinct, and, no matter what, embodying the projected will of the human?
HOSTAGES
As Benjamin Netanyahu clings to power, his country pays a price.
DO NO HARM
Oregon tried a more humane way to address addiction. Then came the backlash.
MILLENNIAL FABLE
Once upon a time, around 2010 or so, there lived a hardworking ant and a carefree grasshopper. The grasshopper was hopping to his heart’s content one sunny morning when the ant trudged by, bearing a large load.
DETAIL ORIENTED
The precision comedy of Jacqueline Novak.
Shamelessly Dramatic
In the plays of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, ugly feelings find sophisticated forms.
MIND IN FLUX
The viscerally complex music of George Lewis.
FRESH DIRECT
A passion-fruit devotee's pilgrimage west.
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.