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TURN OFF THE LIGHT

What’s lost when darkness becomes endangered?

THE ART WORLD DUTCH TREAT

A bravura show at the Rijksmuseum gathers more Vermeers at once than the artist himself ever saw.

THE LAST GROWN UP

She heard their footsteps on the stairs. Water running in their bathroom. She sensed her daughters every where, but it was just her imagination.

LETTER FROM ISRAEL MINISTER OF CHAOS

Itamar Ben-Gvir and the politics of reaction.

ANNALS OF INQUIRY YOU FIRST

Does anyone really know what it means to be \"Indigenous\"?

LATE SHIFT

After a career made from amiable roles, Randall Park breaks out of character.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, ordered the invasion of Ukraine, unleashing the full force of his military on an unthreatening neighbor, and the full force of his propagandists on his own population.

TABLES FOR TWO

Legacy Pizza: Naples vs. N.Y.C.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Ever since Nora, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s proto-feminist masterwork “A Doll’s House,” from 1879, walked out on her husband and out of her domestic cage, actresses have yearned to play her. Jessica Chastain (above, center), last year’s Best Actress Oscar winner, steps into the role for a sixteen-week Broadway run, now in previews at the Hudson, opening March 9. Jamie Lloyd directs a new adaptation, by Amy Herzog, featuring (from left to right) Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Okieriete Onaodowan (“Hamilton”).

Annals of Psychology: Not Fooling Anyone

The dubious rise of impostor syndrome.

Why New Jersey?

A groundbreaking photographer's lost project.

Onward and Upward With the Arts - The First Composer

The cosmic musical visions of Hildegard of Bingen.

Annals of Entertainment: Ballad of the Oscar Streaker

What happened to the man who ran across the screen naked in 1974?

THE CURRENT CINEMA: AT LARGE

\"Knock at the Cabin\" and \"Godland.\"

TIME FRAME

A new production of Samuel Beckett's \"Endgame.\"

NOSTALGIA CYCLES

Why contemporary artists love the teen-age angst of early Paramore.

DESPERATELY NORMAL

Daughters outgrow their parents in Gwendoline Riley's unsparing novels.

THE MARRYING KIND

The afterlives of Chaucer's Wife of Bath.

FICTION: MARIANA ENRIQUEZ MY SAD DEAD

First, I think I should describe the neighborhood.

PROFILES: DEFIANCE

Despite a near-fatal stabbing and decades of death threats-Salman Rushdie won't stop telling stories.

LETTER FROM TEXAS: NO CITY LIMITS

My town, Austin, known for laid-back weirdness, is transforming into a turbocharged tech capital.

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS: THE MERRY WIDOW

The ninety-year-old aristocrat known for her cheeky accounts of the British élite.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Amy Davidson Sorkin on the debt-limit showdown; Pussy Riot's orthodoxy; night and day at the museum; awkward arrangements; remembering Tom Verlaine.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx, in 1973, when DJ Kool Herc used two turntables to make the first breakbeat.

NICOLE KIDMAN COMES TO MORE PLACES

The Oscar-winning actor and pandemic-era AMC spokesperson is pressed into further service.

Our Local Correspondents – Friend of the Mayor

Why did Eric Adams take a fraudster Brooklyn church leader under his wing?

ON TELEVISION THRILLS AND RED PILLS

“Poker Face” and Paul T: Goldman,” on Peacock.

THE THEATRE: SOLITARY CREATURES

Colin Quinn, Anthony Rapp, and Evan Silver take the mike.

MUSICAL EVENTS: FAREWELL SYMPHONY

Michael Tilson Thomas remains exuberant in the final phase of his career.

A CRITIC AT LARGE - MAKING THE NEWS

The press, the state, and the state of the press.