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‘A Different Man” and The Substance.”

THE FOOTBALL BRO

Pat McAfee brings a casual new style to ESPN.

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

Proximity to wealth proves perilous in Rumaan Alam’ novel Entitlement.”

EYES WIDE SHUT

How Monet shared a private world.

WITH THE MOSTEST

The very rich hours of Pamela Harriman.

HUGO HAMILTON AUTOBAHN

On the Autobahn outside Frankfurt. November. The fields were covered in a thin sheet of snow.

TRY IT ON

How Law Roach reimagined red-carpet style.

SORRY I'M NOT YOUR CLOWN TODAY

Bowen Yang's trip to Oz, by way of conversion therapy and S..N.L.”

SNIFF TEST

A maverick perfumer tries to make his mark on a storied fashion house.

LET'S HAVE A LONG TALK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP JUST BEFORE BED!

Babe, are you nodding off? I know we’re both exhausted after a long day, a dinner party at which you made a three-word comment that left me feeling like you don’t know me at all, and the subsequent ninety-minute fight that culminated in a tentative truce.

JOY RIDE

Grant Petersen wants to preserve the craft, and delight, of cycling.

Drug of Choice - The natural world contains many billions of potential medications. The question is how to find the ones that work.

AI. is transforming the way medicines are made. Bacteria produce numerous molecules that could become medicines, but most of them aren’t easily identified or synthesized with the technology that exists today. A small percentage of them, however, can be constructed by following instructions in the bacteria’s DNA. Burian helped me search the sequence for genes that looked familiar enough to be understandable but unfamiliar enough to produce novel compounds. We settled on a string of DNA that coded for seven linked amino acids, the same number found in vancomycin. Then Burian introduced me to Robert Boer, a synthetic chemist who would help me conjure our drug candidate.

Screams from a Marriage

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

Fly with Me

The children’s books of Katherine Rundell.

The Mystery of Pain

Garth Greenwell’s novel of extreme affliction and ordinary happiness.

The Show Must Go On

What if Ronald Reagan’ Presidency never really ended?

LAST COFFEEHOUSE ON TRAVIS

For a few months, I stayed with my aunt's friend in Midtown, back when she could still afford to live there.

Tales from the New World

The novelist Richard Powers considers our changing earth.

Land of the Flea

What America 1s buying and selling.

The Dark Time

On the Arctic border of Russia and Norway, an espionage war is emerging.

The Post-Moral Age

If conscience is merely a biological artifact, must we give up on goodness?

How We Got the Story

This five-part series, which includes this three-part series on how we got the story, is the result of a two-year investigation, involving dozens of legal filings, scores of interview requests, several interviews, innumerable Zoom meetings, and five 311 calls.

People of the Magazine

Jewish Currents wants to criticize Israel while holding on to Jewishness.

AFFINITY COMEDY

The state of the Netflix standup special.

DUTY DANCING

How Seamus Heaney wrote his way through a war.

DESPERATELY SEEKING

The supreme contradictions of Simone Weil.

WILD THING

MJ Lenderman resists the smoothing, neutering effects of technology.

LUCK OF THE DRAW

Nate Silver argues that poker can help us game our uncertain world.

GREEN SLEEVES

“What I want to know,” the woman said to the therapist, “is why the voices always say mean, terrible things.

EVERY OBITUARY'S FIRST PARAGRAPH

Alfred T. Alfred, whose invention of the plastic fastener that affixes tags to clothing upended the tag industry and made him one of America’s youngest multimillionaires—until he lost his plastic fastener fortune in a 1993 game of badminton, as depicted in the Lifetime original movie “Bad Minton”— died on Saturday. He was eighty-one.