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Agentspotlight
Seasoned literary agents on the business of publishing.
Cold Case
The final season of "Happy Valley."
Measure for Measure
On the frontiers of penile enhancement, competition for patients grows cutthroat.
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
The Jamaican-born artist Ebony G. Patterson’s installation “. . . things come to thrive . . . in the shedding . . . in the molting . . . ,” at the New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx (through Oct. 22), is the result of a four-year residency. Dotting the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and its lawn are glittering black-foam vultures and glass sculptures of feet and plants, just some of the pieces with which Patterson probes the garden’s surface. “How do I get people to look beneath the landscape?” she asks. “There’s a secret that’s being concealed.”
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT HAZY DAYS The masks came out again this month-only, contrary to the COVID years, New Yorkers donned them outdoors and slid them off when they stepped inside. As smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires drifted across the northern U.S. border, engulfing much of the eastern seaboard in an orange miasma, it sent New York's air quality to the worst levels on record, and, at one point, the worst in the world. Planes were grounded, outdoor activities were cancelled, and patients with asthma and other respiratory conditions filled emergency rooms. Senator Chuck Schumer called on the Biden Administration to send more American firefighters up North to stave off a \"summer of smoke.\"
MAN CHILD
Raising a boy in a world of male monsters.
WITCH HUNT
Juliet Stevenson stars in \"The Doctor.\"
YOU GOOD?
Aristotle's guide to human flourishing.
THE ANCIENT WORLD DIVINE COMEDY
The godlike aspirations and all too human last moments of Roman emperors.
LETTER FROM CHENGDU - A DOUBLE EDUCATION
Educating American twins in China revealed two disparate systems, despite a history of mutual influence.
A TRILLION LITTLE PIECES
How plastics are poisoning us.
Next Generation Leaders – Argentina - Bizarrap
Elusive hitmaker
Role of a Lifetime
Why Sarah Jessica Parker keeps playing Carrie Bradshaw.
The Pandemic Generation
Remote school was devastating for many kids. How can they get back on track?
READING BODY LANGUAGE LIKE THE EXPERTS
We can understand so much about W people are communicating by simply paying attention to their physical cues. Let's say that you're walking down the street and pass a guy who raises his arm in the air, then swings a knife at you. Body-language-wise, he wants to stab you.
Status in flux
For two years, no one travelled. Countries closed their borders to other countries that had closed their borders first.
LONDON CALLING
\"Operation Mincemeat,\" \"Guys and Dolls,\" and \"The Motive and the Cue.\"
NOW YOU SEE IT
The curious allure of the heist.
OUT OF PLACE
Megan Fernandes's map of desire.
NOWHERESVILLE
\"Asteroid City\" and \"Maggie Moore(s).\"
SHOW OF SUPPORT
Is the Army Tactical Bra ready for deployment?
BITTER PILL
Dying patients wanted access to a new drug of uncertain benefit. But hasty approval comes at a cost.
Ben Smith's One Neat Trick for Going Viral
The Semafor editor and former BuzzFeed News editor in chief on the online media explosion of the 2000s
An Elegant Enigma
The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck
Ancient Egyptian Astrology
For centuries, layers of soot have coated the ceilings and columns in the entrance hall of Egypt's Temple of Esna. Now, an Egyptian-German team of researchers, led by Hisham El-Leithy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen, is restoring the temple's vibrant painted reliefs to their original brilliance.
LIVES IN THE BALANCE
Why do \"dowry deaths\" persist?
THE STORY OF US
The startling intimacy of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
SONIC SIGNATURES
The unique sound worlds of Salvatore Sciarrino and Kaija Saariaho.
MORTAL COIL
Loving and letting go in Lorrie Moore's new novel.
DANCE OF DEATH
“The Comeuppance,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.