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PLAYTIME
“Past Lives” and “Squaring the Circle.”
UNCANNY VALLEY
Mannequins and mystification in Dorothy Tse’s dreamlike Hong Kong.
BORDER CONTROL
The economics of immigration vs. the politics of immigration.
MINORITY RULES
LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA | The once fringe legal theory that became a threat to democracy.
COMIC EFFECT
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS | How the Marvel Cinematic Universe swallowed Hollywood.
THE INTERVIEW ARTIST
James Grissom met Tennessee Williams—and suddenly knew everybody.
Lesser-Known Postpartum Mood Disorders
Shouts & Murmurs
Profiles – Words Fail
The tortured bond of Alice Sebold and Anthony Broadwater, the man wrongfully convicted of her rape.
SHOOTING STAR
Christine and the Queens’ restless self-inventions.
THE PIT AND THE PODIUM
Gustavo Dudamel, at the Philharmonic, and Nathalie Stutzmann, at the Met.
PLEASANT SORROWS
The mysticism of Paul Simon.
NO MORE RULES
The long afterlife of libertarianism.
LETTING GO
What women writers give up in order to come into their own.
Do You Love Me? Hila Blum
The first time I saw my granddaughters, I was standing across the street, didn’t dare go any closer.
SOUL SURVIVORS
A trove of unreleased songs reveals a hidden history of Stax.
POP UP
Kim Petras has dreamed of superstardom since she was a teen-ager. Has her moment arrived?
FRONT MAN
Matty Healy, of the 1975, remains torn between the heartfelt and the arch.
THE TRIALS OF ED SHEERAN
Who owns a groove?
Nicole Krauss – Long Island
Fiction
Chaos Theory
How a disaster expert prepares for the worst
THE CURRENT CINEMA SNIPPY
“You Hurt My Feelings” and “Master Gardener.”
THE MOZART EFFECT
The composer in his time, and ours.
SUCCESSION
Dynasty as the engine of human history.
THE SOCCER BALLS OF Mr. KURZ
For Bragonzi, the only beautiful thing in the sad life of the boarding school in Quarto dei Mille was the soccer matches. And yet even that beauty was anguished.
LETTER FROM UKRAINE UNDERWORLD
The unrelenting horrors faced by infantrymen on the Zero Line.
THE CONTROL OF NATURE ROOT AND BRANCH
What we owe our trees.
PARTICIPATION TROPHY
SHOUTS & MURMURS
ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY AMERICAN FLAVOR
A television host puts Black cuisine at the center of the nation’s history.
Fractured Land
The earthquakes authoritarianism in Turkey highlighted the corruption and of President Erdoğan. Can he be defeated?
Behind the Lens
The making of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy