LETTER FROM ITEN - A TRAGIC RUN

Why were two female running champions killed in Kenya's track capital?

Fooled Again

What can we learn from the strategies of deception in the animal world?

A Reporter at Large - The Smear Factory

Rumors ruined Hazim Nada's business. Hackers told him who did it.

A Reporter at Large - The Fog

Adoptees reckon with the secrets of the adoption industry and its emotional cost.

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS - YOUNG AND RESTLESS

Michael R. Jackson writes a soap-opera musical.

UPSTATE FANTASY

SHOUTS & MURMURS

ANNALS OF EDUCATION - THE CITADEL

Hillsdale College’s battle for the soul of American education.

THE FERRY

Hey I understand you’re angry, the first message said. A man’s voice, probably a man my age. I would be angry, too. I know I messed up. I know it’s not the first time I messed up. I have been dealing with a lot.

IT'S NOT THAT DEEP

How Preston Sturges found life on the surface.

FAMILIAR HAUNTS

A sonically thrilling revival of “Sweeney Todd” on Broadway.

THE CURRENT CINEMA - OUTLIERS

“Joyland” and “Acidman.”

GENTLEMAN'S GAME

\"Great Expectations,\" on Hulu.

BLUES MEN

\"Hang Time,\" by Zora Howard.

THE STORY GOES

The shape-shifting fictions of Kelly Link.

LONG DIVISION

How the East German novelist Brigitte Reimann electrified socialist realism.

ANNALS OF RELIGION UNDER GOD

How Christian is Christian nationalism?

UPCOMING LANDMARKS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

SHOUTS & MURMURS

AMERICAN CHRONICLES DATA-DRIVEN

Machines have given powerful way of knowing things. There are others.

Good Talk

Can conversation save our souls?

Mysteries of Love

Kate Soper’s "The Romance of the Rose,” and Wagner's "Lohengrin” at the Met.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

\"Inside\" and \"What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?\"

HIVE MIND

\"Swarm,\" on Prime Video.

GEORGIA ON OUR MIND

The musical \"Parade\" revisits the charged trial of Leo Frank.

GHOSTS ON THE STAGE

Pina Bausch's legacy.

SEEING THINGS

Sebastian Barry's Irish marvels.

COSTUME DRAMA

J. Crew and the paradoxes of prep.

Minority Report

I dream often of a man I knew more than thirty years ago. When I say “knew,” that is not accurate; I barely I than thirty years ago. When I say “knew,” that is not accurate; I barely knew him at all.

PINS AND NEEDLES

How Demna engineered the rise— and near-fall—of the house of Balenciaga.

DRAWING BOARD

The graphic designer Milton Glaser made America cool again.

PLEASE INVITE ME TO YOUR PARTY

I’m a great guest. For one, I will appreciate all your deep cleaning. The baseboards you scrubbed, the silverware you polished to a high gleam, the corners you awkwardly maneuvered the Swiffer into, to sweep the last crumbs and bits of cat hair out of sight.