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DIVORCE STORY
Sarah Manguso’ blow-by-blow account of a fracturing marriage.
THE INHERITOR
What does Robert F: Kennedy, Jr, actually want?
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
The life of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
THE TAIL END
Bidding farewell to a cat
PROMISED LAND
How tribal nations are reclaiming Oklahoma.
Forbidden Desires - Debussy, Strauss, and a new opera about John Singer Sargent, in Des Moines.
Debussy, Strauss, and a new opera about John Singer Sargent, in Des Moines.
What Happened To The Yuppie?– In 1979, an article by Blake Fleetwood in the Times Magazine reported a surprising phenomenon: young people were moving to big cities
Tom McGrath's "Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation" (Grand Central) is an entertaining recap of that period. McGrath doesn't offer a novel sociological interpretation of the yuppies. What he has to say about them would have been conventional even during their time.
STATE OF PLAY
Politics and the real” at the Festival d‘Avignon.
BORN AGAIN
The past and future of Christian fundamentalism.
THE FIN AND THE FURY
Beware of sharkless waters.
attila
Martha got the knife away from her mother and shut her in the garage. The garage was not for cars; it had been converted by the house’s previous owners into what the broker called a “mother-in-law apartment.”
BLOOD RELATIVES
Did the U.K.’ most infamous family massacre end in a miscarriage of justice?
UNCONVENTIONAL
No fear and loathing in Milwaukee, just confidence.
PLAYING THE NUMBERS
My mother, the gambler.
OUT THERE
In midlife, Gillian Anderson is proving that she’s not so buttoned-up.
Old Money - How treasure from an eighteen-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple
How treasure from an eighteenth-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple.
HEAVY WEATHER
Some first-generation disaster films were real-life disasters for their actors. D. W. Griffith's 1920 melodrama \"Way Down East,\" featuring the climactic rescue of a woman being carried off on an ice floe in raging currents, was filmed in a real river after a real blizzard.
BIZARRE REALITY
Julio Torres's \"Fantasmas\" finds truth in fantasy.
BEACH BOYS
Eating and drinking through Provincetown.
OVERCORRECTION
On the abolition of prisons.
Abject Naturalism + Sarah Braunstein
The baby's father left before the Cesarean incision had fully healed, when it was still a raised red line, tender to the touch, glistening with Vitamin E oil. Perfidy!
THE BRINK OF WAR
Will Hezbollah's border fight with Israel lead to a wider conflict?
A YOUNG ARTIST
An Italian widow is still discovering the joy of painting at ninety-three.
WRITING PROMPTS
Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller.
DEAD RECKONING
At the Sphere, a fan wrestles with what the Grateful Dead have left behind.
How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap
When I was growing up, in the early two-thousands, I knew of only one way that a mere mortal could be pictured in a bikini for paying subscribers.
GOINGS ON
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.
DANCES WITH WOOLF
Does ballet need narrative?
CHARMED
Clairo makes music about the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.
SEX AND SENSIBILITY
The rise and fall of the Bluestockings.