CATEGORIES
AMERICAN CHRONICLES - THE RIGHT TO HUG
Children are fighting to visit their parents in county jails.
PERSONAL HISTORY - TABULA RASA
THE WORDLE PHILOSOPHY
BLAME GAME
“Baby Reindeer” and Under the Bridge.”
THE INSTIGATOR
How Miranda July starts again.
OUT OF THE DARKNESS
Zemlinsky, Schulhoff; and other neglected Jewish composers of Central Europe.
BOOKS - FORGET IT
A neuropsychologist says that we're thinking about memory all wrong.
Consolation
Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before.
NEIGHBORLY
My name is Margaret Jo Stinson, and I’d like to share my own perspective on this sort of thing.
LOADED
We used to think the rich had a social function. What are they good for now?
Alfred Molina
The actor, currently starring in Uncle Vanya on Broadway, on his love of vinyl, New York, and not being the worst dad in the world
Devil's Eve, 1982
Before she was killed by her ex-boyfriend, Dominique Dunne had been poised for Hollywood stardom. The crime launched her father, Dominick, into his calling, covering high-profile court cases for this magazine. The tragedy also reshaped their family, as Griffin Dunne writes in his memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club
Of Gods and Men
Despite playing Thor for years, Chris Hemsworth is every inch a human being: an introspective family man with real questions about his career and future. We meet up in Australia on the eve of his favorite role in more than a decade in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
MEMBERS ONLY
Scott Sartiano's private club, Zero Bond, became postpandemic New York's celeb-friendliest playground, luring the likes of Taylor, Elon, and Mayor Eric Adams. What's the secret sauce?
RUNNING for His Life
His freedom in the balance, Donald Trump's campaign has been big on autocracy and low on the drama that marked previous runs. What might this newfound if terrifying competency mean?
IN VITRO VERITAS
More than half a century ago, in a dusty Roman library, men of science and men of faith gathered together to unlock the mysteries of female fertility. The answer: urine from the brides of Christ. And lo, those nuns gaveth
CITIZEN CHAMBERS
Until very recently, Jim \"Fergie\" Chambers was an heir to Cox Enterprises and one of the largest family fortunes in America. With hundreds of millions of dollars on hand, a zeal for revolution, and an innate sense for confrontation, he's becoming America's go-to radical communist
A Campus in Crisis
Dissent and defiance at Columbia's pro-Palestine protests.
MOTHERS OF US ALL
Paula Vogel's \"Mother Play,\" Shaina Taub's \"Suffs,\" and Amy Herzog's \"Mary Jane.\"
DEATH IN VENICE
At the Biennale, the past dignifies the weird, desperate present.
ARROW RETRIEVER
I am an arrow retriever. After a batrows are costly and time-consuming to make. It seems like a terrible waste-and maybe even a sin―for an arrow to fall to the ground without hitting someone. Even if the arrow kills somebody, it can be reused to kill someone else. As Randolf the Scot famously said, \"Arrows don't grow on trees.\"
READ THE LABEL
How psychiatric diagnoses create identities.
NEW TRICKS
An animal trainer to the stars prepares a Great Dane for his film début.
STUNTED
\"The Fall Guy.\"
ORIGIN STORY
What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?
PURE PLEASURE
The \"Radical Optimism\" of Dua Lipa.
PARADISE LOST
The search for a home that never was in Claire Messud's new novel.
WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I
\"You'll never get away with this!\" Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. \"You may destroy me, but you'll never destroy what I stand for!\"
STONES OF CONTENTION
The British Museum faces accusations of cultural theft-and actual theft.
A Marriage of Food and Fiction
In the kitchen with Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans
Beastly Matters
Where the logic behind the concern for animal welfare begins and ends.