CATEGORIES

On the Right Track

Italy is reviving old railways as visitor attractions and breathing life back into underappreciated regions. Taras Grescoe rides a locomotive through the Piedmont countryside.

A CULINARY CONNECTION

On Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, food traditions include a little-known history of Jamaican influence.

IT'S ONLY NATURAL

The concept of the eco-lodge-now so prevalent around the world-was perfected in Costa Rica. Almost four decades since the first property of its kind opened in the country, Gina DeCaprio Vercesi meets the new generation of pioneers taking green tourism to the next level.

COMMON GROUNDS

The Costa Rican bean is prized among coffee connoisseurs, but, as Tom Vanderbilt discovers, it's just one of a cornucopia of unique foods produced in the country.

ORIGIN STORIES

Think of a visit to Costa Rica, and you'll probably imagine ziplines and eco-lodges. But there's a deeper way to interact with this environment: through the Indigenous communities that have called it home for centuries.

FRESH BREEZES

A superyacht charter represents the newest and most exclusive - way to explore the country.

Fiction – According to Alice

My name is Alice and I was born from an egg that fell out of Mommy’s butt. My mommy’s name is Alice. My mommy’s mommy was also named Alice.

The Critics – Books– Your Lying Eyes

People now use A.I. to generate fake videos indistinguishable from real ones. How much does it matter?

A Critic at Large – Made You Look

The desert illusions of the Sphere and "City.”

TABLES FOR TWO

Lagos TSQ_ 727 Seventh Ave.

IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES

Does facial-recognition technology lead police to ignore contradictory evidence?

INFINITE ART

The artist Holly Herndon prepares for a world shaped by ALL.

GOINGS ON NOVEMBER 15 - 21, 2023

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

THE WAR ON CHAPLIN

Why the Tramp had to be brought low.

REALITY BITES

“The Curse,” on Showtime.

THE THEATRE THE HUMAN COMEDY

Off Of Broadway serves up FOOD,” Redwood,” and Faust.”

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Twelve months out from Election Day, the Presidential campaign has inescapably begun with the slow, ominous, upward crank of a roller coaster.

METAMORPHOSIS

The godfather of A.I. thinks it’s actually intelligent—and that scares him.

DEAR PARENTS

Dear Parents, Welcome to Kinderkids Nursery School! We so loved meeting you all at orientation.

WILD REEDS

James Austin Smith proves that an oboist can have an adventurous solo career.

BEGIN END

A coder on the waning days of the craft.

5 ways to cultivate hope when you don't have any

There's a sense, once a whisper, that's growing louder every day. Glaciers are melting, children are being slaughtered, hatred runs rampant. Sometimes it feels like the world's approaching a nadir. Or like you are.

We Need to Talk About Perimenopause

It's a milestone health experience that may come for us all...so why are we so clueless?

3 Ways to Keep Your Dog From Freezing This Winter

...and from just hating every single thing about the cold.

6 Acne Treatments Our Editors Swear By

The experts (hi, we're the experts) have spoken.

Get In, GirliesWe're Going Hot-Springing

Fact: Hot springs make the ultimate vacation destinations. And we found seven across the world worthy of your precious PTO. Let's all percolate in (Mother-Nature-made!) paradise.

Welcome to Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic

Yes, it's a real thing, providing real medical care. And its outlandish strategy may just be the most genius reproductive justice play of our time. Or a detrimental distraction, depending on who you ask.

It's Time to Reclaim Wash Day

Let's turn a historically annoying task into something distinctively more dope, says beauty editor-at-large

Goth Glam

Because beauty's getting in on it too.

My Sugar Mama Flew Me First Class to Shanghai So We Could Have Sex Without Her Husband

Turns out, you can get paid to go on vacay.