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ORIGIN STORY

What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?

DEATH IN VENICE

At the Biennale, the past dignifies the weird, desperate present.

WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I

\"You'll never get away with this!\" Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. \"You may destroy me, but you'll never destroy what I stand for!\"

STONES OF CONTENTION

The British Museum faces accusations of cultural theft-and actual theft.

ARROW RETRIEVER

I am an arrow retriever. After a batrows are costly and time-consuming to make. It seems like a terrible waste-and maybe even a sin―for an arrow to fall to the ground without hitting someone. Even if the arrow kills somebody, it can be reused to kill someone else. As Randolf the Scot famously said, \"Arrows don't grow on trees.\"

READ THE LABEL

How psychiatric diagnoses create identities.

NEW TRICKS

An animal trainer to the stars prepares a Great Dane for his film début.

Beastly Matters

Where the logic behind the concern for animal welfare begins and ends.

TRIPLE FAULT

A meal is never just a meal in a Luca Guadagnino movie; each bite is a prelude to a kiss, every feast a form of foreplay.

NIGHT MUSIC

“Stereophonic” and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” on Broadway.

LITTLE OLD HER

Is Taylor Swift doing too much?

PULSE

He footed off his shoes, the logs balanced on an arm, and tugged the door shut.

TOWER IN FLAMES

What kind of right is academic freedom?

THE BATTLE FOR ATTENTION

How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?

ON NATIVE GROUNDS

Deb Haaland faces the cruel history of the agency she now leads.

DESIGN FOR LIVING

Can converting office towers into apartments save empty downtowns from ruin?

HOROSCOPES WRITTEN BY MY MOTHER

Your zodiac alignment this month is governed by Venus, the planet of intuition, something my daughter Bess seems to lack.

THE PHANTASM

Why was Judith Butler burned in effigy? They have a theory about that.

Our Local Correspondents – Trash, Trash Revolution

What would it take to really clean up New York City?

Fiction – Bozo

The man stood in front of an arrangement of bottles and glasses.

Profiles – Mr. Vengeance

The director of "Oldboy” and "The Handmaiden” brings his gift for spectacle to American television.

A Reporter at Large – The Assault

One of Ukraine's most skilled fighting units battles beneath a canopy of drones.

SNAP JUDGMENTS

Is it the end of the world if Kirsten Dunst isn’t around to witness it? I’m beginning to wonder.

BLEEDING HEART

Olivia Rodrigo’s exuberant yearning.

WARP SPEED

Anni Albers helped establish weaving as art—then left it behind.

THE MISSING LINK

How Delmore Schwartz tried to change poetry.

LOVE MACHINES

Why stories about robotic romance push our buttons.

HOW GULLIBLE ARE YOU?

Dont believe what theyre telling you about misinformation.

GET REAL

How video-game engines became the invisible infrastructure of our world.

FLIGHT OF FANCY

Flying cars have long been a symbol of a future that never came. Are they finally here?