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Burn BRIGHT
MICHEAL WARD is leaving audiences dazzled—and his mother slightly scandalized
Different People
When Gilly was young, she lied to her diary. It was not a toy diary. She had dutifully filled several of those already, notebooks in girlish colors, with ostentatious locks and miniature keys.
FALLING BEHIND
What's the matter with men?
PRO CHOICE
\"The Appointment\" skewers the hypocrisy of the abortion debate.
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PERSONAL HISTORY- ONE OF A KIND
When you're a medical patient, being unique can have its drawbacks.
LETTER FROM TBILISI- NOVELS OF EMPIRE
Rereading Russian classics in the shadow of the Ukraine war.
THE CURRENT CINEMA- GROWING PAINS
\"When You Finish Saving the World\" and \"Close.\"
EAT, PRAY, CONCENTRATE
What monks can teach us about paying attention.
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
Those fretting over the future of indie rock can rest assured that the music has found stylish caretakers in the bandmates of Horsegirl, who débuted their trio while still in high school, in Chicago—they’re now spending their college years in New York.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Republicans are, unsurprisingly, in an uproar over the discovery, in three different locations associated with President Joe Biden—his former office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a room in his Delaware home, and his garage—of documents marked as classified.
Everyone's a Critic
What are literary studies for?
A Reporter at Large – Trust Issues
A disgruntled wealth manager exposes her clients' tax secrets.
Annals of Innovation Build Better
Can 3-D printing help solve the housing crisis?
Life is Too Short
Life is short. Why not spend it mired in regret? Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbors’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble?
THE ROYAL ME
In \"Spare,\" Prince Harry must be cruel only to be kind.
THE BOOK OF LOVE
Reimagining the Victorian reformers who defended same-sex desire.
TWO FOR THE ROAD
\"The Last of Us,\" on HBO.
THE SWAMP
Could corruption have led Alex Murdaugh to murder his wife and son?
Wednesday's Child Yiyun Li
The difficulty with waiting, Rosalie thought, is that one can rarely wait in absolute stillness. Absolute stillness?—that part of herself, which was in the habit of questioning her own thoughts as they occurred, raised a mental eyebrow. No one waits in absolute stillness; absolute stillness is death; and when you’re dead you no longer wait for anything. No, not death, Rosalie clarified, but stillness, like hibernation or estivation, waiting for . . . Before she could embellish the thought with some garden-variety clichés, the monitor nearby rolled out a schedule change: the 11:35 train to Brussels Midi was cancelled.
PROFILES A RAUCOUS ASSAULT
How the Iranian American artist Tala Madani sees men and women.
A Critic at Large: the American Beast
Accounting for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
As someone who covers the intersection of sex and technology, I was primed to love Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. A great book could be written on this topic-but this is not it.
A Modern History of 'groomer' Politics
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
THE INFINITE-MONKEY THEOREM: FIELD NOTES
SHOUTS MURMURS
LETTER FROM ITALY: THE MISSING
Many migrants disappear on their way to Europe. Most are never identified.
PROFILES: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
The executive leading Netflixs quest for worldwide domination.
THE CURRENT: CINEMA COLLUSION
“Saint Omer” and Turn Every Page.”
DEEP CUTS
Franz Kafka’ diaries reveal a writer who was antic as well as agonized.
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist (and tobacco apologist) Darrell Huffdetails common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, among them truncating the y-axis of a graph.