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NAPOLEON COMPLEX
Does Ridley Scott see himself in the hero of his epic new film?
CARLOS GOFFMÁN, (EL GUAPO) FACT CHECKER
During a period of incarceration scheduled to last fifty years to life, Carlos (El Guapo) Goffmán, the former drug lord, has started a new career as a fact checker and researcher to earn cigarette money in prison. Authorities have looked the other way at Goffmán’s nonobservance of the rule against inmate cell-phone use, but have recorded his end of the calls.
DEPT. OF SCIENCE REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR
A documentary renews our fascination with our feared and loved precursors.
THE ORGANIZER
How Bayard Rustin managed the civil-rights movement.
The Critics – Books– Trapped
The life and death of Tupac Shakur
LOOSE LIPS
Clandestine affairs in Fellow Travelers.”
MASTERING
“The Killer” and The Holdovers.”
THE BRUNCH BUNCH
Stephen Sondheim’ last musical, Here We Are,” at the Shed.
THE BELIEVER
Did Mitt Romney save his soul?
BOXED OUT
The passing of prestige TV
ON THE LINE
The future of American labor politics
The Ghosts of Gloria Lara
Before that year, I knew nothing about Colombia—nothing real. I was eleven and too focussed on the Dominican Republic I’d left behind and on my own immigrant bullshit to worry about anywhere else
LAST WATCH
In a technological age, lighthouse devotees renew an ancient tradition
THROUGH THE SMOKE
The aftermath of the Maui wildfires
"My Name is Barbra," Excerpted
With her long-awaited memoir, Barbra Streisand offers a funny and frank look at her career, six decades in
A Reporter at Large: Hot Air
Carbon offsets are sold as a fix for climate catastrophe—but brands have paid millions for worthless credits.
American Chronicles: The Pitchfork of History
Beyond the myth of rural America.
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.”
CHINA'S AGE OF MALAISE
Facing a grim economy, disillusioned youth, and fleeing entrepreneurs, Xi Jinping turns to the past
THE WRESTLER
How Jim Jordan prosecutes Trump's conspiracy theories in Congress.
NEEDFUL THINGS
The raw materials for the world we've built come at a cost.
IF NOT NOW, LATER
What gardening offered after a son's death
Personal History – Under the Carpetbag
A sixty-year friendship.
PREACHER MAN
Leslie Odom, Jr., stars in \"Purlie Victorious.\"
THIS IS FINE
Ed Ruscha's calmly collapsing America.
SONGS OF SURRENDER
The musical legacy of a notorious Mississippi prison.
CHICAGO IS BURNING
The blaze that ravaged a metropolis, and the lies that it launched.
FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS
Writers reimagine Mary Shelley and the monster she created.