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PUNISHMENT
And so the Lord created two huAmass in His image, called Adam and Eve. And He put them in the Garden of Eden and provided them with everything that they could want.
The Awkward Age
With its offbeat premise, stirring score, and superlative cast, Kimberly Akimbo is planting a flag for the wonderfully weird on Broadway.
Why Read Literary Biography?
What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
White Noise Used to Be Satire
What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Thirty-nine years ago this month, an African American Navy bombardier-navigator named Robert Goodman was taking part in a mission to destroy Syrian munitions in Lebanon when his plane was shot down.
NEW AGAIN
“Merrily We Roll Along” and “Some Like It Hot.”
ENVISIONING EXTINCTION
Tragicomic creatures of a terrifying future.
FAMILY ALBUM
Robin Coste Lewis travels to the past in her second book.
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The origami menagerie that graces the tree at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 8) includes beetles, butterflies, and grasshoppers, in both a nod to the past and a preview of coming attractions.
NO LIMITS
What Kevin McCarthy will do to gain power.
FLESH WOUND
Norman Mailer went to war and wrote a big novel about it. Did he ever really come back?
STICK FIGURES
The divergent conducting careers of Klaus Mäkelä and Xian Zhang.
THE LOWER DEPTHS
“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Living.”
THE NUMBERS GAME
Mystic quests and mathematicians in Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels.
THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING
How the quantum computer will change the world—eventually.
THE THEATRE :OUT OF THE DARKNESS
“Your Own Personal Exegesis” and “Ohio State Murders.”
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Before last month’s midterm election, progressives—and centrists, and socialists, and anyone, really, who thought that it was a bad idea to put election deniers in charge of state elections—braced for a red wave.
THE KING AND I
Remembering the late, great film director Jean-Luc Godard.
ON TELEVISION :NAKED AMBITION
\"Welcome to Chippendales,\" on Hulu.
THE OTHER PARTY
My daughter walked into the house with a boy named Brendan. She came into the kitchen limping a little, her mascara smeared, and lay down on the floor in front of the stove.
The Culture Pages – Buckle Up
In Jordan E. Cooper's bawdy Broadway debut, Ain't No Mo, no one is safe.
Patti Smith Keeps Working
As the artist, writer, and musician gears up for a new show, Smith looks back on an astonishing 50-year career and what drives her forward
Mstyslav Chernov – Photojournalist, The Associated Press; documentarian, 20 Days in Mariupol; and author, The Dreamtime
"Boundaries between work and life have blurred"
Consuming Passions
“The Fabelmans” and “Bones and All.”
Talk Therapy
Sarah Polley, a former child star, has made a searingly frank film about sexual assault.
Goings on About Town
In 1949, the writer Adrienne Kennedy, now ninety-one, enrolled at Ohio State University, where she became enamored with “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” but, as one of only a few Black female students, was stung by racism within the institution. She revisited this time in her 1992 one-act “Ohio State Murders.” The play’s Broadway première is now in previews, starring the theatrical luminary Audra McDonald (above). Kenny Leon’s production marks Kennedy’s Broadway début, and the first show at the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre.
Hugh Jackman
The award-winning actor and star of The Son on birthday presents, the ocean, and his love for Bill Nighy
Inventing Ivana
Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York Cityand help define its "greed is good" era. From her heyday presiding over her husband's properties to her decadent postDonald denouement selling costume jewelry and cavorting with a series of "freaky" Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name