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UKRAINE'S LOST CAPITAL

In 1708, Peter the Great destroyed Baturyn, a bastion of Cossack independence and culture

A Very Close Encounter

New research has shown that human figures painted in red on a rock art panel in central Montana depict individuals engaged in a life-or-death encounter during an especially fraught historical moment.

A Sword for the Ages

A zigzag pattern, now tinged with the green-blue patina of oxidized metal, adorns the octagonal hilt of a rare sword dating to the Middle Bronze Age in Germany (1600-1200 B.C.) that was recently excavated in the Bavarian town of Nördlingen.

Why So Serious?

The delights of "Harley Quinn," on Max.

Crazy Town

The singular stories of Steven Millhauser.

MOST WANTED

\"Passages\" and \"Lady Killer.\"

The True Margaret

Meera was recalling the tragedy of her first marriage. Married off to an Indian doctor in 1959, she had moved to London only to discover that her new husband, Ravi, already had a wife in the city.

THE GIFT

What should you do with an oil fortune?

YOU HAD TO BE THERE

How a ramshackle street shaped a generation of artists.

HIGH STRUNG

A violinist reinvents her instrument-and her musical persona.

Youth Movement

What happened when the country's schoolgirls took off their veils.

TASTE OF CHERRY

Ann Patchett's pandemic novel

EVOLUTION

Bethany Cosentino's songs of self-actualization

LOVER BOΥ

Erica Schmidt revives Tennessee Williams's \"Orpheus Descending.\"

THE MAKING OF A MUTINY

How the Wagner Group went from fighting in Ukraine to staging an armed uprising at home

HIDDEN DEPTHS

How an amateur diver became a true-crime sensation

THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE

In 1956, a Tennessee high school was desegregated; two years later, it was dynamited. What happened?

DREAMING IN BABYLON

Revisiting a Rastafari childhood in Jamaica

I'M A HACK, BY CHATGPT

Hello and welcome. I’m an artificial intelligence. One of the Writers Guild of America strike issues is me

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

In Israel, the saying goes, there are four seasons: election, war, strike, and summer

Bodies of Work

Lisa Yuskavage's art shows it all

What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us?

From Barnard to Barbie, the director has always been interested in female ambition, including her own

A French Doll

Fiction

SICKENING

How bad is processed food?

Ice Cream Is Good for You

According to nutritionists, wine will either extend your life or shorten it

COURTING FAME

How Alex Spiro became the trial lawyer celebrities want on their side

BROTHERS IN LAW

Dostoyevsky’s novel of a family at war with itself

THE CURRENT CINEMA SHOCK WAVES

“Oppenheimer” and Barbie.”

MONEY ON THE WALL

How Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world.

BREAKING NEWS

A small-town paper takes on the county sheriff