CATEGORIES
YOU WON'T GET FREE OF IT
Alice Munro's partner sexually abused her daughter. The harm ran through the work and the family.
THE LEPER - LEE CHANGDONG
. . . to survive, to hang on, waiting for the new world to dawn, what can you do but become a leper nobody in the world would deign to touch? - From \"Windy Evening,\" by Kim Seong-dong.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
\"Black Doves,\" on Netflix.
NATURE STUDIES
Kyle Abraham's “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.”
ART OF STONE
\"The Brutalist.\"
THE SPOTIFY SYNDROME
What is the world's largest music-streaming platform really costing us?
WHAT GOOD IS MORALITY?
Ask not just where it came from but what it does for us
MOMMA MIA
Audra McDonald triumphs in \"Gypsy\" on Broadway.
WORKING MAN
The Hollywood slog that led Adam Scott to “Severance.”
TALK SENSE
How much sway does our language have over our thinking?
TO THE DETECTIVE INVESTIGATING MY MURDER
Dear Detective, I'm not dead, but a lot of people can't stand me. What I mean is that breathing is not an activity they want me to keep doing. What I mean is, they want to knock me off. My days are numbered.
ISLAND OF FREEDOM
Many of the enslaved Africans sent to Brazil beginning in 1549 were from what is now Angola, where one of the most widely spoken languages was Kimbundu.
DANCING DAYS OF THE MAYA
In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions
Medieval England's Coveted Cargo
Archaeologists dive on a ship laden with marble bound for the kingdom's grandest cathedrals
ORIGINS OF PERUVIAN RELIGION
While investigating looters' holes at the site of La Otra Banda in northern Peru's Zaña Valley, archaeologist Luis A. Muro Ynoñán of the Field Museum and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru spotted carved blocks around seven feet below the surface.
LOST GREEK TRAGEDIES REVIVED
How a scholar discovered passages from a great Athenian playwright on a discarded papyrus
Unearthing a Forgotten Roman Town
A stretch of Italian farmland concealed one of the small cities that powered the empire
TOP 10 DISCOVERIES OF 2024
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year's most exciting finds
BAD MOON RISING
The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 B.C. and the first century A.D.
COLONIAL COMPANIONS
The ancestry of dogs in seventeenth-century Jamestown offers a window into social dynamics between Indigenous people and early colonists.
NAZCA GHOST GLYPHS
From the 1940s to the early 2000s, geoglyphs were discovered in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru depicting animals, humans, and other figures at the rate of 1.5 per year.
HOLIDAY PUNCH
\"Cult of Love\" on. Broadway and \"No President\" at the Skirball.
THE ARCHIVIST
Belle da Costa Greene's hidden story.
STIRRING STUFF
A secret history of risotto.
OCCUPY PARADISE
How radical was John Milton?
UP FROM URKEL
\"Family Matters\" and Jaleel White's legacy.
OUTSIDE MAN
How Brady Corbet turned artistic frustration into an American epic.
CHAOS THEORY
What professional organizers know about our lives.
BASIC INSTINCT
A feminist director takes on the erotic thriller.
THE ORCHESTRA IS THE STAR
The Berlin Philharmonic doesn't need a domineering maestro.