THE BARRON Identity

The world's most famous college freshman is as mysterious a presence at NYU as he is in the American psyche By Dan Adler

BERNADETTE PETERS

The Broadway legend talks high- maintenance dogs, Chinese philosophy, and her love for Stephen Sondheim

CHANGE AGENT

Ex-CIA analyst ELISSA SLOTKIN, the moderate freshman senator from Michigan, is a rising Democratic star in a party that desperately needs them

Poetic HARMONY

With “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” at the Guggenheim Museum, RASHID JOHNSON revisits his archive

FLIGHT RISK

IT'S SUSPECTED THAT A RECENT SPATE OF GLOBAL AVIATION INCIDENTS INVOLVING EXPLODING CARGO, HACKED GPS SYSTEMS, OR SPOOFED COORDINATES TRACES BACK TO RUSSIAN AGGRESSORS. THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE ATTACKS ONLY RIVALS RUSSIA'S PENCHANT FOR BRUTALITY, SO WHAT'S NEXT? THE SKY'S THE LIMIT

The Artist's WAY

Multitalented ESTHER MCGREGOR finds her footing in front of the camera

OPEN ROAD

F1 ACADEMY, THE ALL-WOMEN RACING LEAGUE LAUNCHED IN 2023, IS AIMING ITS DRIVERS AT THE SPORT'S HIGHEST ECHELON

Working THROUGH IT

VF's royals correspondent reveals how she fought her own battle with cancer—‘ile reporting on the Windsors’ diagnoses

UNITED WE STAN

FROM MARVEL ANTI-HERO TO TRUMP AND TOMMY LEE, SEBASTIAN STAN HAS EMERGED—SLOWLY AND NOW SEEMINGLY ALL AT ONCE—AS ONE OF THE MORE FEARLESS ACTORS OF OUR TIME

ROMAN EMPIRE

JOE ANOA'I SLAMMED HIS WAY TO WWE STARDOM AS “ROMAN REIGNS.” NOW THE BRAWNY BRAWLER IS LOOKING TO HOLLYWOOD FOR HIS NEXT STARRING ROLE

IN GOOD COMPANY

AS THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL KICKS OFF ITS PLAN TO GO TUITION-FREE, VF GATHERED SOME AUGUST ALUMNI TO TALK ABOUT MEMORIES AND DREAMS

Feeling THIS

In a full-hearted new memoir, Blink-182’S MARK HOPPUS confronts friendship breakups and a cancer diagnosis

ACHY BREAKY

The rise of Megan Moroney, emo cowgirl.

BRIEFLY NOTED

Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron).

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

One hundred days, one hundred classics.

THE ROAD TO "SINNERS"

Ryan Coogler’s vision of music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

NOCTURNAL CREATURES

It's the spring after the bedbug scare has finally abated for good when I pull up in front of the bakery, which I won't name, but it’s the one right off Exit 17.

WESTWARD OY!

When Jews seeking a homeland dreamed of Texas.

IS IT HAPPENING HERE?

Many democracies have gradually slid into autocracy. That may be where we're headed—or where we are.

UPDATED U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION QUESTIONNAIRE

Welcome to the United States of America.

MR. NICE GUY

The unlikely lawyer behind Young Thug and Diddy.

UP THE RIVER

Capturing Mark Twain.

Dhruv Khullar on Oliver Sacks's "The Case of Anna H."

In 1999, Oliver Sacks, the eclectic neurologist who was dubbed the “poet laureate of medicine,” received a letter from a pianist, Anna H.

DEEP DOWN

“Floyd Collins,” “Rheology,” and “I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan.”

HOSPITALS IN RUINS

A doctor witnesses what remains of a ravaged health-care system.

CONSUMING PASSIONS

\"Sinners.\"

ACROSS THE GULF

Can President Claudia Sheinbaum manage Trump—and Mexico’s fragile democracy?

TORTOISESHELL

I have never been honest with myself. It’s an attribute that has always disturbed me.

FOLLOW THE LEADER

A culture of obedience reigns in Trump's Washington.

Carrie Brownstein on Richard Avedon's Portrait of Cat Power

It's 2003, and Cat Power exists in is bandied about, an exotic label for an American singer-songwriter on an indie label.