THE FALL

Tumbling out of a bedroom window.

METAMORPHOSIS

The godfather of A.I. thinks it’s actually intelligent—and that scares him.

DEAR PARENTS

Dear Parents, Welcome to Kinderkids Nursery School! We so loved meeting you all at orientation.

BEGIN END

A coder on the waning days of the craft.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Twelve months out from Election Day, the Presidential campaign has inescapably begun with the slow, ominous, upward crank of a roller coaster.

WILD REEDS

James Austin Smith proves that an oboist can have an adventurous solo career.

THE THEATRE THE HUMAN COMEDY

Off Of Broadway serves up FOOD,” Redwood,” and Faust.”

Annals of Crime – Desert Captives

An Eritrean started a trafficking business. Then he began kidnapping his clients for ransom.

TRYSTS TROPIQUES

The nested narratives of Tan Twan Eng's \"The House of Doors.\"

DEPT. OF SCIENCE REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR

A documentary renews our fascination with our feared and loved precursors.

THE ORGANIZER

How Bayard Rustin managed the civil-rights movement.

The Critics – Books– Trapped

The life and death of Tupac Shakur

LAST WATCH

In a technological age, lighthouse devotees renew an ancient tradition

THROUGH THE SMOKE

The aftermath of the Maui wildfires

"My Name is Barbra," Excerpted

With her long-awaited memoir, Barbra Streisand offers a funny and frank look at her career, six decades in

American Chronicles: The Pitchfork of History

Beyond the myth of rural America.

REORIENTING "BUTTERFLY"

At Detroit Opera, a new production subverts Puccini’ depiction of Japan.

EYE FOR AN EYE

Henry Taylor and the fraught art of seeing.

DRILLING DOWN

“Killers of the Flower Moon.”

CHINA'S AGE OF MALAISE

Facing a grim economy, disillusioned youth, and fleeing entrepreneurs, Xi Jinping turns to the past

NEEDFUL THINGS

The raw materials for the world we've built come at a cost.

IF NOT NOW, LATER

What gardening offered after a son's death

Personal History – Under the Carpetbag

A sixty-year friendship.

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.

BIG LITTLE LIES

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

THE GROUP THAT OVERTURNED ROE

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

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TOP OF THE LINE

Kwame Onwuachi and the rise of autobiographical cuisine.