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Old Money - How treasure from an eighteen-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple

How treasure from an eighteenth-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple.

HEAVY WEATHER

Some first-generation disaster films were real-life disasters for their actors. D. W. Griffith's 1920 melodrama \"Way Down East,\" featuring the climactic rescue of a woman being carried off on an ice floe in raging currents, was filmed in a real river after a real blizzard.

BIZARRE REALITY

Julio Torres's \"Fantasmas\" finds truth in fantasy.

BEACH BOYS

Eating and drinking through Provincetown.

OVERCORRECTION

On the abolition of prisons.

Abject Naturalism + Sarah Braunstein

The baby's father left before the Cesarean incision had fully healed, when it was still a raised red line, tender to the touch, glistening with Vitamin E oil. Perfidy!

THE BRINK OF WAR

Will Hezbollah's border fight with Israel lead to a wider conflict?

A YOUNG ARTIST

An Italian widow is still discovering the joy of painting at ninety-three.

WRITING PROMPTS

Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller.

DEAD RECKONING

At the Sphere, a fan wrestles with what the Grateful Dead have left behind.

How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap

When I was growing up, in the early two-thousands, I knew of only one way that a mere mortal could be pictured in a bikini for paying subscribers.

GOINGS ON

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

DANCES WITH WOOLF

Does ballet need narrative?

CHARMED

Clairo makes music about the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.

SEX AND SENSIBILITY

The rise and fall of the Bluestockings.

THE SUMMER OF SCI-FI

1982 and the meaning of moviegoing.

BLOCKING

\"Sing Sing.\"

PARADISE BRONX

The borough’ history has always been shaped by its in-between-ness.

INSIDE THE TRUMP PLAN FOR 2025

A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President's return to the White House.

HEAR NO EVIL

An artist uses audio analysis to investigate violence.

BOT THERAPY

He appeared one day on Instagram. He had noticed my posts and asked if I wanted to talk.

THE POWER OF THE PIRATES

Their flag meant death. What else did it mean?

ANTIHERO

“The Boys,” on Prime Video.

HOW THE WEST WAS LONG

“Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1.”

WHEEL OF FORTUNE

Taffy Brodesser-Akner weighs the cost of generational wealth.

TWICE-TOLD TALES

The seditious writers who unravel their own stories.

CASTING A LINE

The hard-bitten genius of Norman Maclean.

TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR

Four years ago, when Ivan Cornejo was a junior in high school, he had a meeting with his family to announce that he was dropping out. His parents were alarmed, of course, but his older sister, Pamela, had a more sympathetic reaction, because she also happened to be his manager, and she knew that he wasn’t bluffing when he said that he had to focus on his career.

THE HADAL ZONE

Arwen Rasmont waits hours at Keflavík International for his flight; they call it as he leaves the men’s room. He walks past the mirrored wall and is assaulted, as usual, by his dead father’s handsome image: high-arched nose, yellow hair.

OPENING THEORY

Ivan is standing on his own in the corner while the men from the chess club move the chairs and tables around.