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The Ghosts of Gloria Lara
Before that year, I knew nothing about Colombia—nothing real. I was eleven and too focussed on the Dominican Republic I’d left behind and on my own immigrant bullshit to worry about anywhere else
LAST WATCH
In a technological age, lighthouse devotees renew an ancient tradition
THROUGH THE SMOKE
The aftermath of the Maui wildfires
"My Name is Barbra," Excerpted
With her long-awaited memoir, Barbra Streisand offers a funny and frank look at her career, six decades in
A Reporter at Large: Hot Air
Carbon offsets are sold as a fix for climate catastrophe—but brands have paid millions for worthless credits.
American Chronicles: The Pitchfork of History
Beyond the myth of rural America.
REORIENTING "BUTTERFLY"
At Detroit Opera, a new production subverts Puccini’ depiction of Japan.
EYE FOR AN EYE
Henry Taylor and the fraught art of seeing.
DRILLING DOWN
“Killers of the Flower Moon.”
CHINA'S AGE OF MALAISE
Facing a grim economy, disillusioned youth, and fleeing entrepreneurs, Xi Jinping turns to the past
THE WRESTLER
How Jim Jordan prosecutes Trump's conspiracy theories in Congress.
NEEDFUL THINGS
The raw materials for the world we've built come at a cost.
IF NOT NOW, LATER
What gardening offered after a son's death
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.
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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.