Letter from Roraima – The Amazon Patrol

As mining devastates the rain forest, an armed environmental unit fights back.

Fiction – Allah Have Mercy

A huge hand grabbed the back of my neck as I stepped out of the Rex Cinema, and, instinctively.

TRUTH OR DARE

A new production of Henrik Ibsen's \"An Enemy of the People.\"

TWIN FEATS

The Escher Quartet's Bartók marathon; Igor Levit's symphonic piano recital.

SKIN DEEP

The hit-or-miss body art of the Whitney Biennial.

AROUND AND AROUND

You say you want a revolution. But what counts as one, anyway?

BALLPARKING IT

When America's pastime was New York's.

ANNALS OF DESIGN - WATER WORLD

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, \"View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,\" which depicts the construction of Baroque mansions along one of Amsterdam's main canals.

NIGHTBRAWLER

Imagine that you're a bouncer in a scuzzy small-town bar where some of the world's nastiest drunks go at one another with fists, knives, and broken beer bottles and that's on a good night.

CONSIDER THE GUN

The director Lila Neugebauer interrogates the ghosts of \"Uncle Vanya.\"

SIGNS YOU SHOULD GIVE UP ON A BOOK

You can't stop thinking about the characters and how you'd like to rewrite them as characters from books you've actually enjoyed reading.

THE ART OF MEMORY

An ambitious new park attempts to tell the history of slavery through sculpture.

TIME'S UP

The Conservatives have ruled Britain for almost fourteen years. What have they done to the country?

461 Minutes With...Hanif Abdurraqib

The MacArthur-grant winner's unclassifiable new book is as idiosyncratic as the author himself.

'Smoking Opium Is Not Our Vice'

America’s first drug war was driven by xenophobia against chinese migrants.

A Man for All Seasons

With the upcoming Netflix series Ripley, Andrew Scott furthers his ascent, proving himself one of the most chameleonic and charming actors around.

The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

"The 1920s, water went into a generator, and DC Power came out. Now electrons go into a generator, and intelligence comes out."

You Can't Sit With Us

Why New York restaurants are going members-only.

CHAOS THEORY

\"3 Body Problem,\" on Netflix.

Neighbors

Not long after our twins turned three, my wife, Anna, accepted a transfer to the West Coast. The opportunity was lucrative, but that wasn’t why we were eager to go. Anna had spent that March and April involved with another man, a colleague, someone whose name I’d never heard until she told me about him. She said that it had been a terrible mistake, that it had only made her hate herself, and that this person had now begun almost to frighten her, continuing to call after she’d asked him to stop, declaring that he’d leave his family, demanding to speak with me. I was surprised to find that, more than anything, I felt sorry for her.

MAGA MIKE

House Speaker Mike Johnson uses a s uses a soft touch to push hard-right politics.

BID FOR THE STARS

The booming market in the stuff of celebrity.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN

Two entries from a new alphabet of the colonized world, an illustrated ABC.

ALL THAT GLITTERS

The showmanship of Gustav Klimt.

HOT AND BOTHERED

How Candida Royalle set out to remake the porn industry.

THE ENABLERS

Hitler didn't grab power; he was given it.

Profile – A Class of Her Own

Quinta Brunson was a devoted student of the sitcom long before she created "Abbott Elementary."

Shouts & Murmurs – The Affair With My Chair

I’ve heard people call sitting the new smoking. Others say that sitting is the new sugar. Both wrong. I’m here to tell you that sitting is the new sex. It feels so good, especially with the right partner.

City of Thieves

In L.A., cops battle crime rings that steal everything from purses to power tools.

MELANIE ANN DONOGHUE WEDS WORDLE

Melanie Ann Donoghue, thirty-two, of Westchester County, New York, was wed on Saturday to Wordle.