THE THEATRE - PHOTO REALISM

Moisés Kaufman's Here There Are Blueberries.”

FAMILY PORTRAIT

In his latest novel, Garth Risk Hallberg shrinks his frame.

THE WORLD OF TELEVISION CASTOFFS

REALITY-TV CONTESTANTS ARE BARELY PAID, AND THE EXPERIENCE CAN FEEL LIKE ABUSE. SHOULD THEY UNIONIZE?

Thataway Thomas McGuane

The two sisters were growing old now, but they went on gazing toward Palm Springs from this windblown prairie town as though to Mecca.

A REPORTER AT LARGE YOU MAKE ME SICK

How corporate scientists discovered—and then helped to conceal—the dangers of forever chemicals.

ANNALS OF INQUIRY WAIT FOR IT

Suspense in literature and life.

AGE OF ANXIETY

The love songs of Billie Eilish.

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH TECHNOLOGY ABRIDGED TOO FAR

The world according to Blinkist.

SHOUTS & MURMURS IDENTIFIED

A panel of scientific experts commissioned by NASA to study unidentified anomalous phenomena,” more widely known as UFOs, said Thursday that it found no evidence that any of the reported objects were extraterrestrial in origin.

A CRITIC AT LARGE SAY THE WORD

Why liberals struggle to defend liberalism.

EYES UP HERE

The perils and pleasures of a nice rack.

THE CURRENT CINEMA APOCALYPSE WHEN

“Megalopolis.”

A Critic at Large - Off the Leash

The wacky and wonderful world of the Westminster Dog Show.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES - THE RIGHT TO HUG

Children are fighting to visit their parents in county jails.

PERSONAL HISTORY - TABULA RASA

THE WORDLE PHILOSOPHY

BLAME GAME

“Baby Reindeer” and Under the Bridge.”

THE INSTIGATOR

How Miranda July starts again.

Consolation

Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before.

NEIGHBORLY

My name is Margaret Jo Stinson, and I’d like to share my own perspective on this sort of thing.

LOADED

We used to think the rich had a social function. What are they good for now?

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

Zemlinsky, Schulhoff; and other neglected Jewish composers of Central Europe.

BOOKS - FORGET IT

A neuropsychologist says that we're thinking about memory all wrong.

Alfred Molina

The actor, currently starring in Uncle Vanya on Broadway, on his love of vinyl, New York, and not being the worst dad in the world

Devil's Eve, 1982

Before she was killed by her ex-boyfriend, Dominique Dunne had been poised for Hollywood stardom. The crime launched her father, Dominick, into his calling, covering high-profile court cases for this magazine. The tragedy also reshaped their family, as Griffin Dunne writes in his memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club

MEMBERS ONLY

Scott Sartiano's private club, Zero Bond, became postpandemic New York's celeb-friendliest playground, luring the likes of Taylor, Elon, and Mayor Eric Adams. What's the secret sauce?

OF GODS AND MEN

Despite playing Thor for years, Chris Hemsworth is every inch a human being: an introspective family man with real questions about his career and future. We meet up in Australia on the eve of his favorite role in more than a decade in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

RUNNING for His Life

His freedom in the balance, Donald Trump's campaign has been big on autocracy and low on the drama that marked previous runs. What might this newfound if terrifying competency mean?

IN VITRO VERITAS

More than half a century ago, in a dusty Roman library, men of science and men of faith gathered together to unlock the mysteries of female fertility. The answer: urine from the brides of Christ. And lo, those nuns gaveth

CITIZEN CHAMBERS

Until very recently, Jim \"Fergie\" Chambers was an heir to Cox Enterprises and one of the largest family fortunes in America. With hundreds of millions of dollars on hand, a zeal for revolution, and an innate sense for confrontation, he's becoming America's go-to radical communist

A Campus in Crisis

Dissent and defiance at Columbia's pro-Palestine protests.