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Horny on Main
Troye Sivan’ songs of desire.
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO: Spectacular Fall
The city was on top, until it wasnt. But how broken 1s it, really?
5 ways to tap into nostalgia's health benefits
When people walk into Keri Piehl's retro toy store in Albuquerque, N.M., their eyes light up. Wooden spinning tops, yo-yos, trolls, rainbow lava lamps, scratch-and-sniff stickers-it's like time travel, unlocked.
War Οf Τhe Worlds
The US military is pivoting its training operations from the anti-guerrilla tactics used in Afghanistan and Iraq to plans for a full-on, dug-in, nuclear-armed confrontation with an enemy superpower like Russia or China. Novelist and ex-Marine Phil Klay and photojournalist Peter Van Agtmael report on war's grave new frontier
Estate of Play
Once you’re 200 or so miles north of London, everything seems to be bigger and bolder, including the country houses. This is Yorkshire, the Texas of England.
The Last Descent
Though the world wouldn't catch on until disaster struck, a tight-knit community of seafarers, explorers, and bold submariners worried for years that Stockton Rush's OceanGate implosion was all but guaranteed. SUSAN CASEY, author of The Underworld, reveals the hardest truths about the Titan
Bad Bunny's Year of Rest and Relaxation
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio swears he's taking a breather from ultra-mega global superstardom to enjoy life in puerto rico and some downtime with his girlfriend. Just don't ask him about the album he's about to release
Personal History – Under the Carpetbag
A sixty-year friendship.
American Chronicles – Passages
A trans teen in an anti-trans state.
THE SHADOW ARMADA
China has expanded a fleet of far-flung fishing vessels. This has come at grave human cost.
CLOSE TO HOME
Reckoning with history on \"Reservation Dogs.\"
MELTING POT
Jocelyn Bioh's comedy \"Jaja's African Hair Braiding.\"
CRYPTOBALL
Michael Lewis’ big contrarian bet on Sam Bankman-Fried.
THIN ICE
\"Anatomy of a Fall.\"
LONG EXPOSURE
In Teju Cole's new novel, a photographer trains his lens on art's trespasses.
TRIAL BY COMBAT
Inside the White House's battle to keep Ukraine in the fight.
Don't Meet Your Heroes, Especially the Dead Ones
In 1933, Hemingway needed money. Esquire needed a writer. A boat brought them together. It's a mostly true story that speaks volumes about the lives of men then and now.
SONGS OF SURRENDER
The musical legacy of a notorious Mississippi prison.
CABIN FEVER
What tradition means at the historic Neshoba County Fair.
HEART
Before 2015, I'd never been to Beijing, which is quite odd-an adult who's been working a few years ought to have visited the capital for a meeting or a classmate's wedding or simply to view the corpses of great men. For some reason, anyway. But I never did-a training session in Shenzhen, a business trip to Sichuan, but never Beijing. I never even got as far as Hebei.
FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS
Writers reimagine Mary Shelley and the monster she created.
TOP OF THE LINE
Kwame Onwuachi and the rise of autobiographical cuisine.
OTHER DETECTORS
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THE GROUP THAT OVERTURNED ROE
Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it's targeting trans rights.
BIG LITTLE LIES
Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino got famous studying dishonesty. Did they fabricate some of their work?
PREACHER MAN
Leslie Odom, Jr., stars in \"Purlie Victorious.\"
THIS IS FINE
Ed Ruscha's calmly collapsing America.
CHICAGO IS BURNING
The blaze that ravaged a metropolis, and the lies that it launched.
Fight at the Museum
Political pressure led the new Latino-history museum to scrap an exhibit on youth movements
The Anxiety and Ecstasy of Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson was a blue-chip artist whose work offered a radically fresh portrayal of Black cultural identity. Then he got sober, found God, and began to transform the art world from the inside.