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CONCEALED CARRY

What's really in your pocket?

MAKEOVER

Building a billion-dollar beauty brand in the influencer

THE NARROW WAY: LILIANA COLANZI

The Devil can be a cloud, a shadow, a gust of wind that shakes the leaves. He can be the nightjar flying across the sky or a reflection on the surface of the river.

OUTSIDE MAN

Jeremy O. Harris, before and after \"Slave Play.\"

THE SUITOR

Thom Browne's eccentric American tailoring.

BEST FOOT FORWARD

How to feel about an \"okay\" rating of your feet by strangers on the Internet.

BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT. DESIGNING THE APOCALYPSE

A young architect faces the climate crisis.

Annals of literature – Mother Tongue

Emily Wilson makes Homer modern.

Dangerous Designs

Gene editing gives us transformative powers. But should we use them?

EUROTRIP

Romy's exuberant solo début.

HOT AND BOTHERED

James Ellroy finally takes on Marilyn Monroe.

ABSENCE AFRICAINE

A Prix Goncourt-winning novel about a quest to unearth a literary legend.

THE CATALYST

Betty Friedan and the movement that outgrew her.

THE X-MAN

How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain.

OFF THE STREET

A journey from homelessness to a room of one's of one's own in New York City.

OLD MEN AND SEA

Plot Summary and Study Guide

THE BELIEVER

How the Times columnist Ross Douthat translates faith to the secular world.

GLOW IN THE DARK

What Kate DiCamillo understands about childhood.

HIGHER CALLING

Scammers with ambition in “Telemarketers” and “BS High.”

THE COUP

In Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, a billionaire has a scheme to save the planet.

HOLY MATRIMONY

George Eliot’s secular sacraments.

THE GREAT INDOORS

How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.

SIBERIAN WOOD

The thing about horseradish vodka is that it makes you forget that you’re drinking vodka.

TALK TO ME

Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.

CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Animal Magnetism

Disney takes the high road to profit.

Elon Musk's Shadow Rule

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

FARM TO FABLE

George Orwell's animal allegory.

BARK

Do dogs have history?