CATEGORIES
Crazy Town
The singular stories of Steven Millhauser.
MOST WANTED
\"Passages\" and \"Lady Killer.\"
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?
YOU HAD TO BE THERE
How a ramshackle street shaped a generation of artists.
HIGH STRUNG
A violinist reinvents her instrument-and her musical persona.
Youth Movement
What happened when the country's schoolgirls took off their veils.
TASTE OF CHERRY
Ann Patchett's pandemic novel
EVOLUTION
Bethany Cosentino's songs of self-actualization
LOVER BOΥ
Erica Schmidt revives Tennessee Williams's \"Orpheus Descending.\"
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
THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
In 1956, a Tennessee high school was desegregated; two years later, it was dynamited. What happened?
DREAMING IN BABYLON
Revisiting a Rastafari childhood in Jamaica
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
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In Israel, the saying goes, there are four seasons: election, war, strike, and summer
Bodies of Work
Lisa Yuskavage's art shows it all
What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us?
From Barnard to Barbie, the director has always been interested in female ambition, including her own
A French Doll
Fiction
SICKENING
How bad is processed food?
Ice Cream Is Good for You
According to nutritionists, wine will either extend your life or shorten it
COURTING FAME
How Alex Spiro became the trial lawyer celebrities want on their side
BROTHERS IN LAW
Dostoyevsky’s novel of a family at war with itself
THE CURRENT CINEMA SHOCK WAVES
“Oppenheimer” and Barbie.”
MONEY ON THE WALL
How Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world.
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
PANIC AT THE DISCO
“Here Lies Love” boogies onto Broadway
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
THE CURRENT CINEMA: THE HUNT IS ON
Like the beat, beat, beat of the tomtom, a pounding of the drums tells us that another installment of “Mission: Impossible” is under way.