CATEGORIES

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS - YOUNG AND RESTLESS

Michael R. Jackson writes a soap-opera musical.

A Reporter at Large - The Fog

Adoptees reckon with the secrets of the adoption industry and its emotional cost.

Blasted

The I.R.A., the Brits, and a bomb that shook the nations.

Cheryl Strayed is Here for You

The Tiny Beautiful Things author revisits her advice column in a television series

Saving The Seine

Inside the radical effort to clean up the world's most romantic river

Fiction – Alisa Lyudmila Ulitskaya

By the time life was brought to perfection, old age had arrived. The last costly touch was a small bathtub, installed after a lot of reflection and searching.

Crossover Artist

A neuroscientist and musician unites his two passions.

A Reporter at Large - The Smear Factory

Rumors ruined Hazim Nada's business. Hackers told him who did it.

Nan Goldin's Happy Ending

The demimonde photographer has long considered herself a filmmaker. What happened when a movie was made about her?

The New Light Is Bad

There's something off about LED bulbs-which will soon be, thanks to a federal ban, the only kind you can buy.

UPCOMING LANDMARKS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

SHOUTS & MURMURS

GENTLEMAN'S GAME

\"Great Expectations,\" on Hulu.

BLUES MEN

\"Hang Time,\" by Zora Howard.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES DATA-DRIVEN

Machines have given powerful way of knowing things. There are others.

ANNALS OF RELIGION UNDER GOD

How Christian is Christian nationalism?

THE STORY GOES

The shape-shifting fictions of Kelly Link.

LONG DIVISION

How the East German novelist Brigitte Reimann electrified socialist realism.

THE OZEMPIC ERA

Will new medications change how we think about being fat and being thin?

Minority Report

I dream often of a man I knew more than thirty years ago. When I say “knew,” that is not accurate; I barely I than thirty years ago. When I say “knew,” that is not accurate; I barely knew him at all.

COSTUME DRAMA

J. Crew and the paradoxes of prep.

SEEING THINGS

Sebastian Barry's Irish marvels.

PLEASE INVITE ME TO YOUR PARTY

I’m a great guest. For one, I will appreciate all your deep cleaning. The baseboards you scrubbed, the silverware you polished to a high gleam, the corners you awkwardly maneuvered the Swiffer into, to sweep the last crumbs and bits of cat hair out of sight.

PINS AND NEEDLES

How Demna engineered the rise— and near-fall—of the house of Balenciaga.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

\"Inside\" and \"What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?\"

GEORGIA ON OUR MIND

The musical \"Parade\" revisits the charged trial of Leo Frank.

GHOSTS ON THE STAGE

Pina Bausch's legacy.

HIVE MIND

\"Swarm,\" on Prime Video.

DRAWING BOARD

The graphic designer Milton Glaser made America cool again.

Τimes of the Sign

The Hollywood sign began its life, fittingly enough, as a flashy billboard no more permanent than a film set. In the 100 years since. it has been rebuilt, rebranded, and reborn as a beacon for aspiring stars from around the world and a reminder of just how few dreams of fame and fortune come true.

A Gut-Renovated Doll's House

Jessica Chastain stars in Jamie Lloyd's very bare staging.