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Personal History – Under the Carpetbag
A sixty-year friendship.
PREACHER MAN
Leslie Odom, Jr., stars in \"Purlie Victorious.\"
THIS IS FINE
Ed Ruscha's calmly collapsing America.
SONGS OF SURRENDER
The musical legacy of a notorious Mississippi prison.
CHICAGO IS BURNING
The blaze that ravaged a metropolis, and the lies that it launched.
FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS
Writers reimagine Mary Shelley and the monster she created.
HEART
Before 2015, I'd never been to Beijing, which is quite odd-an adult who's been working a few years ought to have visited the capital for a meeting or a classmate's wedding or simply to view the corpses of great men. For some reason, anyway. But I never did-a training session in Shenzhen, a business trip to Sichuan, but never Beijing. I never even got as far as Hebei.
BIG LITTLE LIES
Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino got famous studying dishonesty. Did they fabricate some of their work?
THE GROUP THAT OVERTURNED ROE
Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it's targeting trans rights.
CABIN FEVER
What tradition means at the historic Neshoba County Fair.
OTHER DETECTORS
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TOP OF THE LINE
Kwame Onwuachi and the rise of autobiographical cuisine.
American Chronicles – Passages
A trans teen in an anti-trans state.
Epic Proportions
Two new intergenerational sagas explore the American legacy.
Horny on Main
Troye Sivan’ songs of desire.
Possession
What happens when a novelist writes a follow-up to someone else’s novel.
Get Happy
The business of contentment.
The French Connection
Manet and Degas had a long, often petty friendship. The result was modern art.
I AM PIZZA RAT - HAN ONG
At the San Mateo Community Center, a sign tacked up at the end of the hallway says \"If you're here for FALLING, NATURALLY you've walked too far. Go back. It's the middle door.\" On closer inspection, the comma turns out to be some schmutz or stray ink.
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO: Spectacular Fall
The city was on top, until it wasnt. But how broken 1s it, really?
Terms and Conditions
We (hereafter \"I\") have updated our (hereafter \"my\") Terms and Conditions. If you do not consent to them, you cannot continue to enjoy the privileges and perks of being friends with me, Patty (\"In the friendship business for over sixty years!\"TM).
ANNALS OF LAW: Fierce Attachments
How foster parents are battling birth families for custody.
Behind a Locked Door
As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was sent to a mysterious villa where a doctor performed cruel experiments. Decades later, she learned why.
THIN ICE
\"Anatomy of a Fall.\"
CLOSE TO HOME
Reckoning with history on \"Reservation Dogs.\"
MELTING POT
Jocelyn Bioh's comedy \"Jaja's African Hair Braiding.\"
LONG EXPOSURE
In Teju Cole's new novel, a photographer trains his lens on art's trespasses.
CRYPTOBALL
Michael Lewis’ big contrarian bet on Sam Bankman-Fried.
THE SHADOW ARMADA
China has expanded a fleet of far-flung fishing vessels. This has come at grave human cost.
TRIAL BY COMBAT
Inside the White House's battle to keep Ukraine in the fight.