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FRESH DIRECT

A passion-fruit devotee's pilgrimage west.

THE LONG WAY

Adventures of a teen-age world traveller.

SHOWING UP

Has school attendance become optional?

THE BEACH HOUSE

She was hoping he would leave her the beach house, counting on this actually, though he had told her he wasn’t going to.

MIND IN FLUX

The viscerally complex music of George Lewis.

A Maui Love Story

When 18-year-olds Lanz Aguinaldo and Isabella Lynch's hometown went up in flames, they turned toward each other to survive.

DIVIDED HOUSE

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's \"Appropriate\" comes to Broadway.

Crown Heights North

The dead man decided to try the running app. He hadn’t run for years. Not since his mid-thirties. Now he was in his early fifties. Or he had been in his early fifties, recently enough. Would he be in his early fifties forever? He tapped the gray oblong and waited as the percentage-downloaded dial advanced, slowly. Much has yet to be revealed, he whispered to himself, in a tone he had used more often when he was a kid, when he had expected his life to resemble a tale of adventure, or of horror, or one with a mystery to solve, or a magical stone to obtain.

GENGHIS THE GOOD

Nomadic warriors like the Mongol hordes, scholars argue, built our world.

THE VENTRILOQUIST

How Hollywood's most in-demand script doctor found his own voice.

TIPPING POINTS

The path from the tossed coin to the swivelling iPad.

NATURE, WOW

Spend five minutes in nature and you’ll see what everyone’s talking about, with the mountains and zoos and watermelons. It’s breathtaking.

OPEN SEASON

The rising popularity of polyamory.

WINTER SUN

How Camille Pissarro went from mediocrity to magnificence.

UNSAFE PASSAGE

A Palestinian poet's perilous journey out of his homeland.

The Cats of L.A.

The "No Kill” movement helps keep cats outdoors. The consequences belie the name.

A Reporter at Large Speed

The competition to create the world's fastest road cars and the rich people who drive them.

ROYAL BLUES

The end of \"The Crown,\" on Netflix.

A GLOSSARY OF LAUGHS

\"... Ha!\" You're at a cocktail party and someone just made a reference to the Kenneth Lonergan play \"This Is Our Youth\" that you didn't find particularly funny, but you still want everyone to know that you understood it.

MUSICAL REVOLUTION

\"Buena Vista Social Club\" and \"How to Dance in Ohio.\"

REARRANGEMENTS

Crosswords, immigrants, and the American melting pot.

FAMILY MATTERS

Am I one of the last living relatives of Bruno Schulz?

SPACING OUT

The novelist Samantha Harvey sends astronauts, and readers, into orbit.

Time - Person of the Year: Taylor Swift

Since 1927, Time has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors' assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.

FOLDING THE EARTH IN HALF

[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. -The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022.

DISPOSSESSED

\"Manahatta\" and \"Life & Times of Michael K.\"

The Good Denis

When—after I'd long hesitated, lost my nerve, thought better of it—I finally gathered the strength to ask my decreasingly lucid mother if she remembered a certain scene that still brought an ache to my grownup heart, she gave me a mystified, offended stare, a stare of virtuous indignation, and then, collecting herself, answered gently, as you might answer a very old person who, you realize, didn't mean to say such a ridiculous thing, that what I was talking about not only hadn’t happened but could not, in any case, possibly have happened.

TERMS OF AGGRIEVEMENT

The Gen Z comedian Leo Reich blasts his elders-and himself.

I SPY

The Espionage Act is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

SLEEPER CELLS

To catch more carcinogens, we need to widen our scope.