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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.
TOWER IN FLAMES
What kind of right is academic freedom?
HOROSCOPES WRITTEN BY MY MOTHER
Your zodiac alignment this month is governed by Venus, the planet of intuition, something my daughter Bess seems to lack.
THE PHANTASM
Why was Judith Butler burned in effigy? They have a theory about that.
DESIGN FOR LIVING
Can converting office towers into apartments save empty downtowns from ruin?
THE BATTLE FOR ATTENTION
How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?
ON NATIVE GROUNDS
Deb Haaland faces the cruel history of the agency she now leads.
LITTLE OLD HER
Is Taylor Swift doing too much?
TRIPLE FAULT
A meal is never just a meal in a Luca Guadagnino movie; each bite is a prelude to a kiss, every feast a form of foreplay.
NIGHT MUSIC
“Stereophonic” and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” on Broadway.
PULSE
He footed off his shoes, the logs balanced on an arm, and tugged the door shut.
THE MISSING LINK
How Delmore Schwartz tried to change poetry.
HOW GULLIBLE ARE YOU?
Dont believe what theyre telling you about misinformation.