THE SPORTING SCENE: NO JOKE

Somehow, Nikola Joki¢ has become the world’s best basketball player.

REALMS OF THE SENSES

“The Taste of Things” and Ennio.”

LUSH LIFE

“Days of Wine and Roses” and The Animal Kingdom.”

THE FRIENDSHIP CHALLENGE

How envy destroyed the perfect connection between two teen-age girls.

MY WAITING LIST

I am happy to announce that I have opened a new waiting list, for people who have been trying to get on my regular waiting list. When and if there are openings on the regular list, those on the new list will be eligible to move into one of the open slots, after paying a transfer fee.

293 minutes with ...Cecile Richards

The former president of Planned Parenthood is still fighting for abortion access—even while living with brain cancer.

BURN NOTICE

What's really fuelling the wildfire crisis?

MAD, CONCEITED, RIDICULOUS

Why Margaret Cavendish was considered both a genius and an eccentric.

DEPTH OF FIELD

\"Public Obscenities\" triumphs Off Broadway.

THE NEXT SCENE

Lucian Grainge helped the music industry survive file-sharing. Now he wants to do the same with A.I.

A SLIPPERY SLOPE

How a rural ski resort became embroiled in an international fraud.

EVERY TEN-BEST LIST

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Post-Apocalypse Now

The experimental Ukrainian opera "Chornobyldorf," at La Mama.

A Reporter at Large – Democracy in Darkness

What Ukraine has already lost in its fight against Russia.

Homeward Bound

As a new revival of The Wiz eases its way back to New York, the enchanting cast and sprawling creative team has history and legacy on their minds.

THRONE OF GAMES

Wordle. Connections. Spelling Bee. Ye olde crossword. THE NEW YORK TIMES is home to the most popular brainteasers online-and that fandom is key to the paper's bottom line. Meet the mischievous masterminds stumping the solvers and running the show

BARBARIANS at the GLADES

Palm Beach, long a sleepy bastion for the leisurely elite, is straining under the weight of an influx of MAGAS with money, COVID exiles, and Gen X newbies. And don't even get them started on West Palm

THE FOG of War

How can we trust the images we see from the Israel-Hamas conflict?

PRETTY Boys

This Oscar season has redefined the himbo

Speak MEMORY

Two authors consider resilience in memoirs of mourning one a divorce, the other a dear friend's death

Cult Classics

Prada Beauty looks to the future while mining the house codes.

Open BOOK

On stage and screen, RENEÉ RAPP plays a queen bee. In real life, she's more a Janis Ian type

BOHEMIAN Rhapsody

At a jewel box of a hotel in Mexico City, lush pleasures come in an exquisite package

Salon CULTURE

A Met exhibition on the impact of the Harlem Renaissance illuminates a link between beauty pioneer Madam C.J. Walker and contemporary art

TICKET TO RIDE

SIXTY YEARS AGO, HISTORY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL ROCK BAND TOOK THE WORLD BY STORM DURING THEIR FIRST-EVER TRIP TO THE US. AS A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, I WAS WITH THEM FOR THE HARD DAYS AND UPROARIOUS NIGHTS

Late Bloomer

Thirty years ago, after David Letterman decamped to CBS, NBC made a historic decision-to give Late Night to a nobody. An oral history of CONAN O'BRIEN's tumultuous (and hilarious) first year

MARISKA HARGITAY

The star of Law & Order: SVU, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, on sharks, tap dancing, and making time stand still

Poor Houdini

Four very thin trees stand above their own reflections and hesitate, as cold girls do. She thinks of rhymes for girls do. Whirls through. Pearls anew. Use it in a sonnet? Eddy's mother lives by a lake. It is a gray: and glassy evening. Supper was all reminiscences, Eddy recalling slow white mists drifting over the schoolyard each day at five, when the chemical plant incinerated its Styrofoam, and how he broke his collarbone and no one believed him for three days, his mother at the head of the table smiling and continuing with her fruit cup, his brother sitting opposite with his head down, a man tall and thin as a door, closed like a door. He ate as if expecting more. Four, chore, whore, underscore ran through her mind perkily. She mumbled something, got up from the table, and left. Now, at the lake, no one swimming, she watches the water slide from slate to black.

ANNALS OF POLITICS: RULING-CLASS RULES

How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.

DOUBLE VISION

The mystique of twins.