CATEGORIES

ROYAL TREATMENT

The unrivalled omnipresence of Queen Elizabeth IL.

WELL, WELL, WELL

Eating—and not-in the epicenter of hype diets.

NEWARK STATE OF MIND

Mayor Ras Baraka's reasonable radicalism.

DOOM SCROLLING

Social media and the teen-suicide crisis.

THE WORKER REVOLT

Harris and Walz try to stop blue-collar Americans from drifting to Trump.

THE CHIT-CHATBOT

Is talking with a machine a conversation?

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

At the 1940 Republican National Convention, in Philadelphia, an uneasy affair marked by bomb scares, a British espionage scandal, and the imminence of global conflict, ten names were placed in nomination.

Sniff Test - A maverick perfumer tries to make his mark on a storied fashion house.

What does conspicuous consumption smell like? On a December afternoon in 2013, the Parisian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian was scheduled to meet with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Baccarat at the company’s chandelier-crammed headquarters, near the Arc de Triomphe. The C.E.O. at the time, Daniela Riccardi, had commissioned Kurkdjian to create a limited-edition fragrance to mark the company’s two-hundred-andfiftieth anniversary. Baccarat planned to produce two hundred and f ifty diamond-cut crystal flacons of the new perfume, priced at three thousand euros each, and wanted the scent to reflect the quality and opulence of its vessel.

FAMILY STYLE

\"La Maison,\" on Apple TV+.

CLOSE QUARTERS

Jen Silverman's \"The Roommate\" and Celine Song's \"Family.\"

IMMATERIAL GIRL

Sophie is gone. Her music lives on.

MERELY PLAYERS

Race, politics, and the theatre collide in Alan Hollinghurst's

MOVE TO TRASH

Is it time for a new Constitution?

RHYTHM COLLECTOR

Eblis Álvarez's Meridian Brothers unites the many strands of Latin music.

Ambrose

Lily wants to live in the old days. Her mom, Debra, says, No, you don’t, because in the old days all women did was cook and sew and die in childbirth, but Lily still wishes she could travel back in time.

THE ESCAPE ARTIST

The Italian priest who helps women in the Mafia flee the criminal underworld.

UNCOMMITTED

Among the Gaza protest voters in Michigan.

SENSORY OVERLOAD

A wild Danish restaurant combines avant-garde dining with immersive theatre.

The Football Bro - Pat McAfee brings a casual new style to ESPN.

If, on a cool weekend morning in autumn, you happen to be watching “College GameDay,” on ESPN, don’t worry about figuring out which of the broadcasters behind the improbably long desk is Pat McAfee. He’s the one with the roast-pork tan, his hair cut high and tight, likely tieless among his more businesslike colleagues. The rest of the onair crew—Lee Corso, Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, and, newly, the former University of Alabama coach Nick Saban—tend to look and dress and talk like participants in an old-school Republican-primary debate. McAfee, though, favors windowpane checks on his jackets and a slip of chest poking out from behind his two or three open buttons. If the others are politicians, he’s the cool-coded megachurch pastor who sometimes acts as their spiritual adviser.

The Dark Time. - On the Arctic border of Russia and Norway, an espionage war is emerging.

On the Arctic border of Russia and Norway, an espionage war is emerging. The point of contact between NATO and Russia's nuclear stronghold is the small town of Kirkenes. For years, Russia has treated the area as a laboratory, testing intelligence and influence operations before replicating them across Europe.

MIRROR IMAGES

‘A Different Man” and The Substance.”

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

Proximity to wealth proves perilous in Rumaan Alam’ novel Entitlement.”

EYES WIDE SHUT

How Monet shared a private world.

WITH THE MOSTEST

The very rich hours of Pamela Harriman.

HUGO HAMILTON AUTOBAHN

On the Autobahn outside Frankfurt. November. The fields were covered in a thin sheet of snow.

TRY IT ON

How Law Roach reimagined red-carpet style.

SORRY I'M NOT YOUR CLOWN TODAY

Bowen Yang's trip to Oz, by way of conversion therapy and S..N.L.”

LET'S HAVE A LONG TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP JUST BEFORE BED!

Babe, are you nodding off? I know we’re both exhausted after a long day, a dinner party at which you made a three-word comment that left me feeling like you don’t know me at all, and the subsequent ninety-minute fight that culminated in a tentative truce.

JOY RIDE

Grant Petersen wants to preserve the craft, and delight, of cycling.

Drug of Choice - The natural world contains many billions of potential medications. The question is how to find the ones that work.

AI. is transforming the way medicines are made. Bacteria produce numerous molecules that could become medicines, but most of them aren’t easily identified or synthesized with the technology that exists today. A small percentage of them, however, can be constructed by following instructions in the bacteria’s DNA. Burian helped me search the sequence for genes that looked familiar enough to be understandable but unfamiliar enough to produce novel compounds. We settled on a string of DNA that coded for seven linked amino acids, the same number found in vancomycin. Then Burian introduced me to Robert Boer, a synthetic chemist who would help me conjure our drug candidate.