CATEGORIES

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.

NOTE TO SELVES

The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities-roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents make occasional appearances.

THE ORCHESTRA IS THE STAR

The Berlin Philharmonic doesn't need a domineering maestro.

HEAD CASE

Paul Valéry's ascetic modernism.

LOVE FOR SALE

When America tried to get on top of the sex trade.

EACH OTHER'S BACK

\"Nickel Boys.\"

NO ROOM FOR A MASTERPIECE

Rashid Johnson's art of masculine vulnerability is going to the Guggenheim.

THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE

President Emmanuel Macron has plunged the country into chaos.

BOOK A STRESS-FREE GETAWAY

Recently refurbished houseboat. Sleeps four guests comfortably, and many more less comfortably, but it's definitely doable and safe, though no jumping all at once, please.

LEG WORK

A surgeon and an engineer reimagine the prosthetic limb.

BASIC INSTINCT

A feminist director takes on the erotic thriller.

NO WAY BACK

The resurgence, in the past decade, of Paul Schrader as one of the most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary movie directors is part of a bigger trend: the self-reinvention of Hollywood auteurs as independent filmmakers.

PRIMORDIAL SORROW

\"All Life Long,\" the title of the most recent album by the composer and organist Kali Malone, is taken from a poem by the British Symbolist author Arthur Symons: \"The heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the sea,/ All life long crying without avail,/As the water all night long is crying to me.\"