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THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.
THE GREAT INDOORS
How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.
HOLY MATRIMONY
George Eliot’s secular sacraments.
SIBERIAN WOOD
The thing about horseradish vodka is that it makes you forget that you’re drinking vodka.
TALK TO ME
Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?
CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
HIGHER CALLING
Scammers with ambition in “Telemarketers” and “BS High.”
THE COUP
In Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, a billionaire has a scheme to save the planet.
Animal Magnetism
Disney takes the high road to profit.
FARM TO FABLE
George Orwell's animal allegory.
BARK
Do dogs have history?
THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI
When the elephant disappeared from our town's elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at six thirteen.
BUTTERFLIES
The childhood of a lepidopterist.
THE SQUID HUNTER
Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?
BUZZED
To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.
HARBORING RATS
Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.
LITTLE WING
When homing pigeons leave home.
PETS ALLOWED
Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?
To Match a Predator
Dating apps promise to hook you up with romance. But they can deliver con artists, rapists, and murderers.
The Point of the Past
Early on, Zadie Smith became something of a reluctant poster child for multicultural Britain. Her new, historical novel excavates her country's history. Zing Tsjeng goes along for the journey.
A Neighborhood, Authored
Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies
Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.
MAN OF STEEL
Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.
THE AUTOPSY
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
THE THEATRE - Barn-Burner Sondheim, Irish Drama, Antic Musicals
Sharpen your pencils and grab your backpacks: autumn in New York is back-totheatre season. With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.
ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha
“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.
DANCE - All-Male Hula, a Tennis Ballet
Outdoor dance is nice, but there’s nothing like being in a theatre, with its dramatic lighting and proscenium.
THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI
“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”
THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND
Is beekeeping wrong?