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THERE AND BACK AGAIN
How product returns became an industry
VOICE-OVERS FROM "SEX AND THE SPACE STATION"
As I watched Sergei climb into his formfitting spacesuit, I couldn't help but wonder: Did I want a white Russian form cosmonaut or just a White Russian and a Cosmo?
Why So Serious?
The delights of "Harley Quinn," on Max.
Youth Movement
What happened when the country's schoolgirls took off their veils.
Bodies of Work
Lisa Yuskavage's art shows it all
MOST WANTED
\"Passages\" and \"Lady Killer.\"
YOU HAD TO BE THERE
How a ramshackle street shaped a generation of artists.
The True Margaret
Meera was recalling the tragedy of her first marriage. Married off to an Indian doctor in 1959, she had moved to London only to discover that her new husband, Ravi, already had a wife in the city.
THE GIFT
What should you do with an oil fortune?
HIGH STRUNG
A violinist reinvents her instrument-and her musical persona.
LOVER BOΥ
Erica Schmidt revives Tennessee Williams's \"Orpheus Descending.\"
EVOLUTION
Bethany Cosentino's songs of self-actualization
TASTE OF CHERRY
Ann Patchett's pandemic novel
THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
In 1956, a Tennessee high school was desegregated; two years later, it was dynamited. What happened?
THE MAKING OF A MUTINY
How the Wagner Group went from fighting in Ukraine to staging an armed uprising at home
HIDDEN DEPTHS
How an amateur diver became a true-crime sensation
I'M A HACK, BY CHATGPT
Hello and welcome. I’m an artificial intelligence. One of the Writers Guild of America strike issues is me
DREAMING IN BABYLON
Revisiting a Rastafari childhood in Jamaica
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In Israel, the saying goes, there are four seasons: election, war, strike, and summer
A French Doll
Fiction
American Chronicles: The Nashville Underground
Tennessee's politics have turned hard red, and the ruling sound in Music City is still bro country. Can other voices grab the mike?
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
“How does this indictment affect his candidacy?” Bill Hemmer, of Fox News, asked the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley last week
PANIC AT THE DISCO
“Here Lies Love” boogies onto Broadway
SICKENING
How bad is processed food?
BROTHERS IN LAW
Dostoyevsky’s novel of a family at war with itself
MONEY ON THE WALL
How Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world.
THE CURRENT CINEMA SHOCK WAVES
“Oppenheimer” and Barbie.”
BREAKING NEWS
A small-town paper takes on the county sheriff
ROYALLY SPEAKING
Harry spoke with multiple producers and production houses . . . to discuss possible shows
COURTING FAME
How Alex Spiro became the trial lawyer celebrities want on their side