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Ice Cream Is Good for You

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

The Ice-Cream Truck

Not a lot of good sounds could be heard on our street. Police sirens and ambulances.

Becoming Tennessee

A portrait of the playwright as a young artist.

THIS MORTAL COIL

Ato Blankson-Wood stars in \"Hamlet\" in the Park.

THE PRICE IS RIGHT

The rise and fall of neoliberalism.

BEAR SEASON

Where the wild things

THE CURRENT CINEMA: THE HUNT IS ON

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tomtom, a pounding of the drums tells us that another installment of “Mission: Impossible” is under way.

The Maths Tutor

In her thirties, Lorraine was unfaithful once or twice; she didn’t tell her husband. Quentin owed her, she reckoned, in that long accounting of pluses and minuses which is marriage.

A LAND HELD HOSTAGE

Overrun by gangs and neglected by rich allies, Haiti tries to save itself.

SUBTLE REVOLUTION

In the treatment of M.S., small steps add up to a new approach to disease.

FUTURE INDIANA JONES SEQUELS

SHOUTS & MURMURS

THE POLITICAL SCENE: THE NEW BLUE WALL

How Gretchen Whitmer made Michigan a Democratic stronghold.

Galaxy Brain

How Samuel R. Delany reimagined science fiction.

Measure for Measure

On the frontiers of penile enhancement, competition for patients grows cutthroat.

Last Gasps

\"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\" and \"Biosphere.\"

Lives of the Artists

Gabriela Lena Frank's \"El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,\" in San Francisco.

Tell No Tales

Storytelling has been sold as the solution to everything. But it comes at a cost.

Roberta at the Morrison

One day in 2010, I dropped in to the Morrison Center, in Union Square. The office was high-ceilinged and light-filled, and its I.V. room contained potted ferns and many recliners.

Colorín Colorado

SHOULD THEY HEAR THIS? - The day they came for the interview, I woke up too early, thinking about Bernard Loiseau. This happens when I'm nervous-not thinking about Loiseau, specifically, but thinking in my sleep, waking up mid-thought.

A Lesson for the Sub

During my mid-twenties, I hit what you might call a bottom. Since college, I'd partaken too liberally in wine and song, although in this case the wine was cheap beer and street drugs and the song was my self-sabotaging punk band.

P's Parties

I should note straightaway that P's parties took place every year at her house, on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, during the mild winters we typically enjoy in this city.

Toy Story

Barbie's now a movie star. Can Mattel gin up plots for Hot Wheels and UNO?

Night of the Happy Bodies

I like parties where you sit around and talk to people. But I love parties where you dance and make noise with people. This may seem strange for a writer, but I can find spoken words overly complex and unwieldy, especially in the fast-moving currents of a party.

The Kitchen God

I tried peeling the kitchen wall with my fingernails, but that didn't work, so I pressed hard with my fingers and a flake of the \"stucco,\" which is what I call it, fell off.

Killing Dickens

Why I wrote a historical novel.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

COMMENT: AFTER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION- Any proper obituary for affirmative action (1961-2023) in higher education would be obliged to note that it had been in decline for years before it met its ultimate demise last week. The policy had weathered successive legal challenges dating back to the nineteen-seventies. It was often difficult to tell whether the effect of these suits was to inspire more nuanced and legally sustainable approaches for insuring diversity or to better define the target opponents were aiming at. As with other untimely passings, the scale of what has been lost is difficult to assess in the moment. But not entirely impossible.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Boasting Thurston Moore as a record-label honcho and having shared bills with Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, Big Joanie feels like an honorary member of an indie world of yore.

Cold Case

The final season of "Happy Valley."

Role of a Lifetime

Why Sarah Jessica Parker keeps playing Carrie Bradshaw.

WITCH HUNT

Juliet Stevenson stars in \"The Doctor.\"