Possession

What happens when a novelist writes a follow-up to someone else’s novel.

Horny on Main

Troye Sivan’ songs of desire.

LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO: Spectacular Fall

The city was on top, until it wasnt. But how broken 1s it, really?

5 ways to tap into nostalgia's health benefits

When people walk into Keri Piehl's retro toy store in Albuquerque, N.M., their eyes light up. Wooden spinning tops, yo-yos, trolls, rainbow lava lamps, scratch-and-sniff stickers-it's like time travel, unlocked.

War Οf Τhe Worlds

The US military is pivoting its training operations from the anti-guerrilla tactics used in Afghanistan and Iraq to plans for a full-on, dug-in, nuclear-armed confrontation with an enemy superpower like Russia or China. Novelist and ex-Marine Phil Klay and photojournalist Peter Van Agtmael report on war's grave new frontier

Estate of Play

Once you’re 200 or so miles north of London, everything seems to be bigger and bolder, including the country houses. This is Yorkshire, the Texas of England.

The Last Descent

Though the world wouldn't catch on until disaster struck, a tight-knit community of seafarers, explorers, and bold submariners worried for years that Stockton Rush's OceanGate implosion was all but guaranteed. SUSAN CASEY, author of The Underworld, reveals the hardest truths about the Titan

Personal History – Under the Carpetbag

A sixty-year friendship.

LONG EXPOSURE

In Teju Cole's new novel, a photographer trains his lens on art's trespasses.

TRIAL BY COMBAT

Inside the White House's battle to keep Ukraine in the fight.

Don't Meet Your Heroes, Especially the Dead Ones

In 1933, Hemingway needed money. Esquire needed a writer. A boat brought them together. It's a mostly true story that speaks volumes about the lives of men then and now.

TOP OF THE LINE

Kwame Onwuachi and the rise of autobiographical cuisine.

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THE GROUP THAT OVERTURNED ROE

Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it's targeting trans rights.

BIG LITTLE LIES

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino got famous studying dishonesty. Did they fabricate some of their work?

PREACHER MAN

Leslie Odom, Jr., stars in \"Purlie Victorious.\"

THIS IS FINE

Ed Ruscha's calmly collapsing America.

CHICAGO IS BURNING

The blaze that ravaged a metropolis, and the lies that it launched.

67 Minutes With... Werner Herzog

The filmmaker famous for bending the truth tries his hand at memoir.

DIGITAL MEMORY

The emotionally haunted electronic music of Oneohtrix Point Never.

VALHALLA-ON-THAMES

A new \"Rheingold\" exemplifies a troubled but feisty London scene.

PLANT LIFE

Rebecca Gilman's \"Swing State\" and Theresa Rebeck's \"Dig.\"

MOM GENES

Michelle Buteau's caring comedy.

DARK Matter

Nodding to gothic horror and cyber dystopia, moody makeup brings a glamorous edge to existential concerns

NEW DIRECTIONS

NIA DACOSTA, DIRECTOR AND COWRITER OF THE MARVELS, IS LESS CONCERNED ABOUT THE BARRIERS SHE'S BROKEN THAN THE WORLDS SHE'LL TAKE ON NEXT

SWAMP Things

Ron DeSantis won't hesitate to race Trump to the bottom. Take it from a native Floridian

The Life of the Party

Your FAVORITE RAPPER'S FAVORITE BILLIONAIRE loves nothing more than to have a few hundred of his famous friends over to his Hamptons estate. How did a sports-licensing CEO from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, become this generation's Gatsby?

BEST FOOT FORWARD

How to feel about an \"okay\" rating of your feet by strangers on the Internet.

THEY CAME BY NIGHT

\"A Haunting in Venice\" and \"El Conde.\"

THE MOTHER TRAP

Everyone's talking about \"mom rage,\" but what is it?