THE GREAT INDOORS

How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.

SIBERIAN WOOD

The thing about horseradish vodka is that it makes you forget that you’re drinking vodka.

TALK TO ME

Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.

CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Animal Magnetism

Disney takes the high road to profit.

Elon Musk's Shadow Rule

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

FARM TO FABLE

George Orwell's animal allegory.

BARK

Do dogs have history?

THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI

When the elephant disappeared from our town's elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at six thirteen.

LITTLE WING

When homing pigeons leave home.

THE SQUID HUNTER

Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?

PETS ALLOWED

Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?

BUZZED

To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.

HARBORING RATS

Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.

BUTTERFLIES

The childhood of a lepidopterist.

A Neighborhood, Authored

Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”

Presence of Mind

How the critic Jacqueline Rose learned to read the world

American Dirt

Monster trucks, the stars a the modern thrill show, sell more tickets than Taylor Swift

Alfresco

At Santa Fe Opera, a new orchestration of Monteverdi's "Orfeo."

ALTERED STATES

“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”

BLANK SPACE

The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”

THE BIGGEST LOSERS

How the Bible turned a history of defeat into triumph.

MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL

Does the end of Mostly Mozart signal a rising disdain for classical music at Lincoln Center?

THE AUTOPSY

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI

“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”

THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND

Is beekeeping wrong?

MAN OF STEEL

Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.

MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies

Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.

ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha

“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.