BARK

Do dogs have history?

THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI

When the elephant disappeared from our town's elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at six thirteen.

LITTLE WING

When homing pigeons leave home.

THE SQUID HUNTER

Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?

PETS ALLOWED

Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?

BUZZED

To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.

HARBORING RATS

Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.

BUTTERFLIES

The childhood of a lepidopterist.

A Neighborhood, Authored

Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”

Presence of Mind

How the critic Jacqueline Rose learned to read the world

American Dirt

Monster trucks, the stars a the modern thrill show, sell more tickets than Taylor Swift

Alfresco

At Santa Fe Opera, a new orchestration of Monteverdi's "Orfeo."

ALTERED STATES

“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”

BLANK SPACE

The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”

THE BIGGEST LOSERS

How the Bible turned a history of defeat into triumph.

MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL

Does the end of Mostly Mozart signal a rising disdain for classical music at Lincoln Center?

THE AUTOPSY

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI

“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”

THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND

Is beekeeping wrong?

MAN OF STEEL

Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.

MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies

Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.

ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha

“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.

DANCE - All-Male Hula, a Tennis Ballet

Outdoor dance is nice, but there’s nothing like being in a theatre, with its dramatic lighting and proscenium.

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - Afro-Pop, R. & B.Greats, Hip-Hop Diversity

As a summer full of mellow outdoor concerts comes to a close, the fall makes way for multiplicity.

THE THEATRE - Barn-Burner Sondheim, Irish Drama, Antic Musicals

Sharpen your pencils and grab your backpacks: autumn in New York is back-totheatre season. With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.

TELEVISION - Strikes, Game Shows, Novel Adaptations

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this season.

The Mayor Talks a Good Game

Can Eric Adams get by on bluster alone?

Crazy Town

The singular stories of Steven Millhauser.

SHARK BAIT

The Jaws” ecosystem and Broadway's \"The Shark Is Broken.\"

YOU NAME IT

Carl Linnaeus and the effort to label all of life