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TIPPING POINTS

The path from the tossed coin to the swivelling iPad.

UNSAFE PASSAGE

A Palestinian poet's perilous journey out of his homeland.

Watch This Space

The global ambitions of Invader's street art.

MUSICAL REVOLUTION

\"Buena Vista Social Club\" and \"How to Dance in Ohio.\"

ROYAL BLUES

The end of \"The Crown,\" on Netflix.

SPACING OUT

The novelist Samantha Harvey sends astronauts, and readers, into orbit.

FAMILY MATTERS

Am I one of the last living relatives of Bruno Schulz?

A GLOSSARY OF LAUGHS

\"... Ha!\" You're at a cocktail party and someone just made a reference to the Kenneth Lonergan play \"This Is Our Youth\" that you didn't find particularly funny, but you still want everyone to know that you understood it.

REARRANGEMENTS

Crosswords, immigrants, and the American melting pot.

GRAY AREAS

\"The Zone of Interest\" and \"Anselm.\"

DISPOSSESSED

\"Manahatta\" and \"Life & Times of Michael K.\"

TOKYO STORY

Greenpoint's upscale portal to Japan.

I SPY

The Espionage Act is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

LAUGH LINES

The funny thing about comedy.

The Good Denis

When—after I'd long hesitated, lost my nerve, thought better of it—I finally gathered the strength to ask my decreasingly lucid mother if she remembered a certain scene that still brought an ache to my grownup heart, she gave me a mystified, offended stare, a stare of virtuous indignation, and then, collecting herself, answered gently, as you might answer a very old person who, you realize, didn't mean to say such a ridiculous thing, that what I was talking about not only hadn’t happened but could not, in any case, possibly have happened.

WHAT MAKES A MURDER?

How a draconian legal doctrine imprisons people for killings they didn't commit.

TERMS OF AGGRIEVEMENT

The Gen Z comedian Leo Reich blasts his elders-and himself.

FOLDING THE EARTH IN HALF

[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. -The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022.

SLEEPER CELLS

To catch more carcinogens, we need to widen our scope.

Annals of Hollywood – The Man Behind the Nose

How Kazu Hiro transformed Bradley Cooper.

You're Glowing

Ilana Harris-Babou'’s impish take on wellness culture.

The Critics – Books– Your Lying Eyes

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

HERE COMES TROUBLE

“Napoleon” and Monster.”

SONGS OF HERSELF

“Hell's Kitchen,” at the Public, and The Gardens of Anuncia,” at Lincoln Center.

FRATERNAL ECLIPSE

The strange case of Israel Joshua Singer.

STAR CROSSED

The first rule of the celebrity couple: It always involves more than two people.

incoming teju cole

The night before everything came to an end, Ms. Prosper finally agreed to sing for us.

THE AFTERMATH

Kristin Kinkel, the sister of a school shooter, is still reckoning with her brother’ crimes.

THE CHOSEN CHIP

How Nvidia is powering the A.I. revolution.

SHOUTS & MURMURS: THINGS I'VE HEARD MYSELF SAY ALOUD TO MY KIDS

I just told everyone to keep their bodies to themselves in the car, and then you put your feet on the back of your brother's head, and we see you're on your phone, which we repeatedly asked you to leave at home, and so now there's going to have to be a big consequence, and now a chasm has opened between my consciousness and the words emerging from my mouth, and I hear a cascade of scolding clichés rush forth in a frictionless flow, as if I'm an A.I. chatbot with the prompt \"Lecture my kids in a style that they will completely ignore and will cause me deep sadness,\" because I don't know where all this boilerplate hectoring comes from, but the reason we keep our bodies to ourselves is that we treat our bodies and other people's bodies with respect, and if you keep doing that we're going to tell Nana how you behaved.