Boat Fish Don't Count

The wild, obsessive, dangerous pursuit of Montauk's biggest striped bass

The Anti-Rock Star

Leonard Cohen's battle against shameless male egoism

A Brief History of Yuval Noah Harari

How the scholar became Silicon Valley's favorite guru

Rachel Kushner's Surprising Swerve

She and her narrators have always relied on swagger-but not this time.

Men on Trips Eating Food

Why TV is full of late-career Hollywood guys at restaurants

You Think You're So Heterodox

Joe Rogan has turned Austin into a haven for manosphere influencers, just-asking-questions tech bros, and other \"free thinkers\" who happen to all think alike.

What Abortion Bans Do to Doctors

In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients' lives at risk.

THE LOYALIST KASH PATEL WILL DO EXACTLY WHAT TRUMP WANTS.

A 40-year-old lawyer with little government experience, he joined the administration in 2019 and rose rapidly. Each new title set off new alarms.

THE RADICAL CONVERSION OF MIKE LEE

IN 2016, HE TRIED TO STOP TRUMP FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT. BY 2020, HE WAS TRYING TO HELP TRUMP OVERTURN THE ELECTION. NOW HE COULD BECOME TRUMP'S ATTORNEY GENERAL.

HYPOCRISY, SPINELESSNESS, AND THE TRIUMPH OF DONALD TRUMP

He said Republican politicians would be easy to break. He was right.

MAPPING MISSISSIPPI'S VIOLENT PAST

I wanted to understand the forces that shaped my state's dark history. I ended up in Spain, holding an object I'd never known existed.

THE END OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE

One of America's greatest achievements could disappear overnight.

'Lord, Help Us Make America Great Again' - A close reading of Trump-rally prayers

A week before Christmas, an evangelical minister named Paul Terry stood before thousands of Christians, their heads bowed, in Durham, New Hampshire, and pleaded with God for deliverance. Th e nation was in crisis, he told the Lord— racked with death and addiction, led by wicked men who “rule with imperial disdain.”

Seventy Miles in the Darién Gap - The Impossible Pad to America - I went to the Darién Gap in December with the photographer Lynsey Addario because I wanted to see for myself what people were willing to risk to get to the United States.

I went to the Darién Gap in December with the photographer Lynsey Addario because I wanted to see for myself what people were willing to risk to get to the United States. Before making the journey, I spoke with a handful of journalists who had done so before. They had dealt with typhoid, rashes, emergency evacuations, and mysterious illnesses that lingered for months. One was tied up in the forest and robbed at gunpoint. They said that we could take measures to make the journey safer but that ultimately, survival required luck.

An Intoxicating 500-Yearold Mystery - The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars-and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists.

The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars-and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.

Pity the Bad Man

A bold new novel invites the reader to consider the plight of the bullies and the boors.

The Wild Adventures of Fanny Stevenson

Her surprising marriage to Robert Louis Stevenson changed literary history.

Does the World Need a Great American Biracial Novel?

The hero of Danzy Senna’ new satire is trying, and failing, to write one.

How Greed Got Good Again

In HBO's Industry, Gen Z reveals itself to be just as moneyobsessed as the corporate raiders of Wall Street.

My Mother the Revolutionary

She cared about saving the world more than she cared about me.

HOW M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD

The filmmaker weathered some of the wildest hype and harshest backlash that Hollywood has to offer. Then he found a different path.

AMERICAN FURY

For years, experts have warned of a wave of political violence. We should prepare for things to get worse before they get better.

Kafka's Not Supposed to Make Sense - Kafka died a century ago this year at the age of 40, and since then a mighty industry has arisen to deliver all of the messages that Kafka said would never be delivered.

It would be foolish to claim that Kafka learned his metaphysical wordplay from Jewish texts alone. He read widely: Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He admired the understated prose of Anton Chekhov and Heinrich von Kleist. He read literary magazines that published cutting-edge work, too. Still, his regular reading of the Bible—nightly, during some periods of his life—contributed a laconic quality to his classical prose that doesn’t make him anachronistic; it makes him original.

A Novel Without Characters

Rachel Cusk's lonely experiment: Parade. Her new book, a novel of elusive vignettes, it can be seen as an allegory about both fiction and the gendered shapes of selfhood.

THE GLACIER RESCUE PROJECT

Can the mighty Thwaites be stopped from tumbling into the sea?

The Industry That Ate America

The long and lurid history of lobbying

Tornado Watch

How Lee Isaac Chung reimagined Twister, one of the biggest climate-disaster thrillers of all time

Too Cute to Fail

Koalas are threatened by climate change, cars, and chlamydia. Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal?

THE FIRST THREE MONTHS

What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19

THE VALLEY

Searching for the future in the most American city