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WELCOME TO OUR FIRST/FINAL BOOK CLUB!

Thank you, everyone, for coming to our first/final book-club meeting. Apologies for how long it's taken us to settle on a date, but in between work, kids, and the pretense of joining adult recreational sports leagues, it seems that we all have incredibly busy schedules.

THE POISON MACHINE

The talk-show host Yinon Magal's hard-line tactics.

MEAN TIME

“Hard Truths.”

ENLIGHTEN ME

The secret beauty of mandalas.

THE BEST OF THEM

His was a genius for the ages. Will Gottfried Leibniz ever get his due?

DEATH CULT

Yukio Mishima’ tortured obsessions were his making—and his unmaking.

Prophecy

The night of Dev’s twenty-second birthday, he was invited to sit with the elders after dinner.

A TALE OF TWO DISTRICTS

Lauren Boebert and Colorado’s red-blue divide.

THE TIKTOK TRAIL

Andean migrants draw others to the U.S. with videos depicting themselves as living the American Dream.

LOVE AND THEFT

Did a best-selling romantasy novelist steal another writer's story?

OUR NEW TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM

Our two-factor authentication system is expanding because text messages and e-mailed codes are becoming less secure. Also, we’re committed to making sure your log-in process is more of a hassle than it needs to be.

STILL PROCESSING

Why is the American diet so deadly?

ART OF STONE

\"The Brutalist.\"

MOMMA MIA

Audra McDonald triumphs in \"Gypsy\" on Broadway.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

\"Black Doves,\" on Netflix.

NATURE STUDIES

Kyle Abraham's “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.”

WHAT GOOD IS MORALITY?

Ask not just where it came from but what it does for us

THE SPOTIFY SYNDROME

What is the world's largest music-streaming platform really costing us?

THE LEPER - LEE CHANGDONG

. . . to survive, to hang on, waiting for the new world to dawn, what can you do but become a leper nobody in the world would deign to touch? - From \"Windy Evening,\" by Kim Seong-dong.

YOU WON'T GET FREE OF IT

Alice Munro's partner sexually abused her daughter. The harm ran through the work and the family.

TALK SENSE

How much sway does our language have over our thinking?

TO THE DETECTIVE INVESTIGATING MY MURDER

Dear Detective, I'm not dead, but a lot of people can't stand me. What I mean is that breathing is not an activity they want me to keep doing. What I mean is, they want to knock me off. My days are numbered.

WORKING MAN

The Hollywood slog that led Adam Scott to “Severance.”

HOLIDAY PUNCH

\"Cult of Love\" on. Broadway and \"No President\" at the Skirball.

THE ARCHIVIST

Belle da Costa Greene's hidden story.

OCCUPY PARADISE

How radical was John Milton?

CHAOS THEORY

What professional organizers know about our lives.

UP FROM URKEL

\"Family Matters\" and Jaleel White's legacy.

OUTSIDE MAN

How Brady Corbet turned artistic frustration into an American epic.

STIRRING STUFF

A secret history of risotto.