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Books – Abolish the Poor

Matthew Desmond argues that poverty persists because we let it.

A Little-Known Planet

An entomologist races to find caterpillars before they disappear.

A Little Bit Rock 'n' Roll

HARDY brings fresh energy to an unfashionable genre.

USE YOUR HANDS

How Maylis de Kerangal turns work into writing.

FALSE STAR

Sterling Holy White Mountain

MAGIC REALISM

The novelist H. G. Carrillo's inventions went too far.

PAY DIRT

Leafing through the seed catalogues.

VILLAGEGATE

At a downtown paper, a fight over succession-and Sarah Jessica Parker.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

More than half of abortions in the United States are accomplished with pills, rather than with surgeries.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Three years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a blockbuster exhibition by Gerhard Richter one of the most important artists working today that was shuttered by the pandemic after only nine days.

CLOSE LISTENING

Jessica Chastain stars in \"A Doll's House.\"

THE GOOD EARTH

Senga Nengudi's journeys through air, water, and sand.

DRILL BITS

Central Cee brings Americans on a tour of British hip-hop.

HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE IN A TV SHOW

As someone who writes for TV but lives in the real world, I’ve compiled a handy guide

I Have Questions for ChatGPT

ChatGPT enables users to ask questions or tell a story, and the bot will respond with relevant, natural-sounding answers and topics. —Quoted in Forbes.

VILLAGE PEOPLE

A revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.”

THE GARDENER

How Eleanor Catton thickens the plot.

RUNNING SCARED

Jenny Odell takes on time and its captors.

RIVKA GALCHEN - HOW I BECAME A VET

When I say “vet,” I do not mean veteran. A veteran is someone formerly in contact with death on a regular basis. A veterinarian is someone currently in contact with death on a regular basis. A part of me is moved to specify that not all veterans have been in contact with death, nor are all veterinarians so on a regular basis. But I’m older now. I know that many people experience such clarifications as weird. Weirdness does, though, generate uncommon strengths. Such was my experience with the suicide dogs, who, like most of us, were not what they seemed.

THE WAY THINGS WORK

Money, politics, and the public good in the fight over Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.

MARRIAGE OF THE MINDS

The philosopher Agnes Callard'’s search for what one human can be to another human.

MILKING IT

Can breast milk—the gold standard in infant nutrition—bve re-created in a lab?

NEWS IN EXILE

How Russian journalists are covering the war in Ukraine.

Writer's Bloc

What a Serbian British novelist makes of her homelands.

THE PRICE OF BELIEF

The unravelling of Wirecard, the biggest fraud in German history.

THE END OF THE ENGLISH MAJOR

Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

ELEMENTAL NEED

Phosphorus helped save our way of life—and now threatens to end it.

TWITTER CHECK MARKS, UPDATED

Twitter launched a new verified program this winter with manual authentication and different-colored check marks for different types of users. The C.E.O., Elon Musk, tweeted, “Gold checks for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) . . . Painful, but necessary.”

TALKING TO OURSELVES

Can artificial minds heal real ones?

SHOCKING THE CONSCIOUSNESS

The New Age sounds of Laraaji.