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THE STUNTMAN
At a certain point in his career, the artist D, perhaps because he could find no other way to make sense of his time and place in history, began to paint upside down. This is how I imagine it.
WALK THE LINE
In Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies,” the Boston busing protests are murder.
GUIDING LIGHT
“Regretfully, So the Birds Are” and “White Girl in Danger.”
INSPIRATION, INC.
How “creativity” was created.
THE CRUNCH BUNCH
How Taco Bell fired the first shot in the stunt-food wars.
PARENT TRAPS
“Beau Is Afraid” and “Everything Went Fine.”
SECURITY BREACH
Criminals presumed that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. Big mistake.
American Madness
Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.
Yohji Yamamoto – The Master
His peers are long gone. His craft is a vanishing art. But Yohji Yamamoto high fashion's master tailor is still making clothes for the ages.
Inside Donald Glover's Orchard of Ideas
He changed the course of television with Atlanta and laid out a blueprint for a whole era of dark comedy. And now, out in Ojai, California, the multihyphenate star is preparing for the next phase of his career, building something even bigger and more ambitious that only he could have imagined.
Zonked
The exhausting history of fatigue.
A Reporter at Large - The Bunker
A covert operation to solve the murder of one of Mexico's bravest investigative journalists.
THE CURRENT CINEMA - TREAD SOFTLY
\"Air\" and \"Paint.\"
POP MUSIC - AMAZING GRACE
The other worldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun.
THE THEATRE - CORN COUNTRY
\"Shucked\" premières on Broadway.
SHOUTS & MURMURS - MY HUSBAND'S SECRET LIFE
You never really know someone. I had been married for only a year when I learned my husband’s secret.
ODDBALLS AND ODYSSEYS
The road trips, revenge plots, and secret societies of Charles Portis.
LETTER FROM ITEN - A TRAGIC RUN
Why were two female running champions killed in Kenya's track capital?
MUSICAL EVENTS - DE MINIMIS
Max Richter's doleful arpeggios, and Cassandra Miller's piercing lament.
ON TELEVISION - HELL ON WHEELS
\"Beef,\" on Netflix.
ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY - SPECIAL SAUCE
The Slutty Vegan burger chain puts the party in plant-based eating.
AMERICAN CHRONICLES - FAMILY VALUES
How a mother's love for her gay son started a revolution.
EVENSONG
This is not an account of a love affair, and it is not the story of a religious conversion, although elements of both pertain. Of course, in life, which is full of surprises, it is hard to know what anything is.
37 Minutes With... Paul Schrader
At Coterie, the Hudson Yards senior-living facility the screenwriter moved into to stay close to his wife.
Emma Tucker's Deadline
The new Wall Street Journal editor, recently imported from London by Rupert Murdoch, knew little about America, New York, or her staff. And then Evan Gershkovich got arrested in Russia.
The Man in the Middle
How an ingenious royal official transformed Persian conquerors into proper Egyptian pharaohs
Rituals of the Cattle Raiders
Rock art in the mountains of South Africa tells the story of how the Khoe and San peoples resisted enslavement
Peru's Great Urban Experiment
A millennium ago, the Chimú built a new way of life in the vast city of Chan Chan
AROUND THE WORLD
Researchers determined that a mastodon living in the Pacific Northwest 13,900 years ago was wounded when it was struck by a spear.
REUSING THE PAST
Archaeologists discover how an embattled Assyrian king fortified Nineveh