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Get Happy

The business of contentment.

Epic Proportions

Two new intergenerational sagas explore the American legacy.

Possession

What happens when a novelist writes a follow-up to someone else’s novel.

Horny on Main

Troye Sivan’ songs of desire.

LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO: Spectacular Fall

The city was on top, until it wasnt. But how broken 1s it, really?

5 ways to tap into nostalgia's health benefits

When people walk into Keri Piehl's retro toy store in Albuquerque, N.M., their eyes light up. Wooden spinning tops, yo-yos, trolls, rainbow lava lamps, scratch-and-sniff stickers-it's like time travel, unlocked.

War Οf Τhe Worlds

The US military is pivoting its training operations from the anti-guerrilla tactics used in Afghanistan and Iraq to plans for a full-on, dug-in, nuclear-armed confrontation with an enemy superpower like Russia or China. Novelist and ex-Marine Phil Klay and photojournalist Peter Van Agtmael report on war's grave new frontier

Estate of Play

Once you’re 200 or so miles north of London, everything seems to be bigger and bolder, including the country houses. This is Yorkshire, the Texas of England.

The Last Descent

Though the world wouldn't catch on until disaster struck, a tight-knit community of seafarers, explorers, and bold submariners worried for years that Stockton Rush's OceanGate implosion was all but guaranteed. SUSAN CASEY, author of The Underworld, reveals the hardest truths about the Titan

Bad Bunny's Year of Rest and Relaxation

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio swears he's taking a breather from ultra-mega global superstardom to enjoy life in puerto rico and some downtime with his girlfriend. Just don't ask him about the album he's about to release

Personal History – Under the Carpetbag

A sixty-year friendship.

American Chronicles – Passages

A trans teen in an anti-trans state.

THE SHADOW ARMADA

China has expanded a fleet of far-flung fishing vessels. This has come at grave human cost.

CLOSE TO HOME

Reckoning with history on \"Reservation Dogs.\"

MELTING POT

Jocelyn Bioh's comedy \"Jaja's African Hair Braiding.\"

CRYPTOBALL

Michael Lewis’ big contrarian bet on Sam Bankman-Fried.

THIN ICE

\"Anatomy of a Fall.\"

LONG EXPOSURE

In Teju Cole's new novel, a photographer trains his lens on art's trespasses.

TRIAL BY COMBAT

Inside the White House's battle to keep Ukraine in the fight.

Don't Meet Your Heroes, Especially the Dead Ones

In 1933, Hemingway needed money. Esquire needed a writer. A boat brought them together. It's a mostly true story that speaks volumes about the lives of men then and now.

SONGS OF SURRENDER

The musical legacy of a notorious Mississippi prison.

CABIN FEVER

What tradition means at the historic Neshoba County Fair.

HEART

Before 2015, I'd never been to Beijing, which is quite odd-an adult who's been working a few years ought to have visited the capital for a meeting or a classmate's wedding or simply to view the corpses of great men. For some reason, anyway. But I never did-a training session in Shenzhen, a business trip to Sichuan, but never Beijing. I never even got as far as Hebei.

FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS

Writers reimagine Mary Shelley and the monster she created.

TOP OF THE LINE

Kwame Onwuachi and the rise of autobiographical cuisine.

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THE GROUP THAT OVERTURNED ROE

Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it's targeting trans rights.

BIG LITTLE LIES

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino got famous studying dishonesty. Did they fabricate some of their work?

PREACHER MAN

Leslie Odom, Jr., stars in \"Purlie Victorious.\"

THIS IS FINE

Ed Ruscha's calmly collapsing America.