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THE LAST GROWN UP

She heard their footsteps on the stairs. Water running in their bathroom. She sensed her daughters every where, but it was just her imagination.

TABLES FOR TWO

Legacy Pizza: Naples vs. N.Y.C.

ANNALS OF INQUIRY YOU FIRST

Does anyone really know what it means to be \"Indigenous\"?

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Ever since Nora, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s proto-feminist masterwork “A Doll’s House,” from 1879, walked out on her husband and out of her domestic cage, actresses have yearned to play her. Jessica Chastain (above, center), last year’s Best Actress Oscar winner, steps into the role for a sixteen-week Broadway run, now in previews at the Hudson, opening March 9. Jamie Lloyd directs a new adaptation, by Amy Herzog, featuring (from left to right) Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Okieriete Onaodowan (“Hamilton”).

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, ordered the invasion of Ukraine, unleashing the full force of his military on an unthreatening neighbor, and the full force of his propagandists on his own population.

THE ART WORLD DUTCH TREAT

A bravura show at the Rijksmuseum gathers more Vermeers at once than the artist himself ever saw.

TURN OFF THE LIGHT

What’s lost when darkness becomes endangered?

DEATH BECOMES HER

Rebecca Makkai confronts our true-crime obsession.

OUT OF FOCUS

\"Pictures from Home\" and \"Cornelia Street.\"

FLUIDITY

Justin Peck finds his feet.

LETTER FROM ISRAEL MINISTER OF CHAOS

Itamar Ben-Gvir and the politics of reaction.

LATE SHIFT

After a career made from amiable roles, Randall Park breaks out of character.

135 Minutes With ...Jonathan Majors

Everyone seems to be in love with the newest MCU star. But he's more than a pretty face.

Why New Jersey?

A groundbreaking photographer's lost project.

Annals of Psychology: Not Fooling Anyone

The dubious rise of impostor syndrome.

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS: THE MERRY WIDOW

The ninety-year-old aristocrat known for her cheeky accounts of the British élite.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Amy Davidson Sorkin on the debt-limit showdown; Pussy Riot's orthodoxy; night and day at the museum; awkward arrangements; remembering Tom Verlaine.

LETTER FROM TEXAS: NO CITY LIMITS

My town, Austin, known for laid-back weirdness, is transforming into a turbocharged tech capital.

THE CURRENT CINEMA: AT LARGE

\"Knock at the Cabin\" and \"Godland.\"

NOSTALGIA CYCLES

Why contemporary artists love the teen-age angst of early Paramore.

TIME FRAME

A new production of Samuel Beckett's \"Endgame.\"

NICOLE KIDMAN COMES TO MORE PLACES

The Oscar-winning actor and pandemic-era AMC spokesperson is pressed into further service.

FICTION: MARIANA ENRIQUEZ MY SAD DEAD

First, I think I should describe the neighborhood.

THE MARRYING KIND

The afterlives of Chaucer's Wife of Bath.

PROFILES: DEFIANCE

Despite a near-fatal stabbing and decades of death threats-Salman Rushdie won't stop telling stories.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx, in 1973, when DJ Kool Herc used two turntables to make the first breakbeat.

DESPERATELY NORMAL

Daughters outgrow their parents in Gwendoline Riley's unsparing novels.

Death Tripping

On the road in rural Wisconsin, the author knocks on the doors of houses that bear the darkest American symbols and flags, behind them finding guns, ammo, and a modern philosophy of civil war

Elizabeth Taylor – The Role of Her Life

A new biography reveals the details of Elizabeth Taylor's lonely battle as activist during the AIDS crisis-and her struggle to persuade her famous Hollywood friends to help

George Saunders

The Booker Prize-winning author of Liberation Day on Lincoln's filthy jokes, an eagerness to please, and watching his back