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Personal History – A New Life
Becoming a parent, ending a marriage.
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.
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?
IS A.I. THE DEATH OF I.P.?
The copyright wars, revised and expanded.
DETAIL ORIENTED
The precision comedy of Jacqueline Novak.
DO NO HARM
Oregon tried a more humane way to address addiction. Then came the backlash.
HOSTAGES
As Benjamin Netanyahu clings to power, his country pays a price.
GHOST TOWN
The return of \"True Detective,\" on HBO.
IMPASSE
\"Prayer for the French Republic\" comes to Broadway.
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.
Broken and Rebuilt
Bijayini Satpathy and a new understanding of Indian classical dance.
Shamelessly Dramatic
In the plays of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, ugly feelings find sophisticated forms.
The Life of the Mother
A high-risk pregnancy in a climate of fear about abortion.
MAKE IT HURT
Amid the ebbing of empire, Frantz Fanon and Ian Fleming agreed on one thing.
FRESH DIRECT
A passion-fruit devotee's pilgrimage west.
THE LONG WAY
Adventures of a teen-age world traveller.
SHOWING UP
Has school attendance become optional?
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.
MIND IN FLUX
The viscerally complex music of George Lewis.
A Maui Love Story
When 18-year-olds Lanz Aguinaldo and Isabella Lynch's hometown went up in flames, they turned toward each other to survive.
DIVIDED HOUSE
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's \"Appropriate\" comes to Broadway.
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.
GENGHIS THE GOOD
Nomadic warriors like the Mongol hordes, scholars argue, built our world.
THE VENTRILOQUIST
How Hollywood's most in-demand script doctor found his own voice.
TIPPING POINTS
The path from the tossed coin to the swivelling iPad.
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.
OPEN SEASON
The rising popularity of polyamory.
WINTER SUN
How Camille Pissarro went from mediocrity to magnificence.
UNSAFE PASSAGE
A Palestinian poet's perilous journey out of his homeland.