ANNALS OF DESIGN - WATER WORLD

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, \"View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,\" which depicts the construction of Baroque mansions along one of Amsterdam's main canals.

TIME'S UP

The Conservatives have ruled Britain for almost fourteen years. What have they done to the country?

THE ART OF MEMORY

An ambitious new park attempts to tell the history of slavery through sculpture.

SIGNS YOU SHOULD GIVE UP ON A BOOK

You can't stop thinking about the characters and how you'd like to rewrite them as characters from books you've actually enjoyed reading.

CONSIDER THE GUN

The director Lila Neugebauer interrogates the ghosts of \"Uncle Vanya.\"

Shouts & Murmurs – The Affair With My Chair

I’ve heard people call sitting the new smoking. Others say that sitting is the new sugar. Both wrong. I’m here to tell you that sitting is the new sex. It feels so good, especially with the right partner.

You Can't Sit With Us

Why New York restaurants are going members-only.

Profile – A Class of Her Own

Quinta Brunson was a devoted student of the sitcom long before she created "Abbott Elementary."

ALL THAT GLITTERS

The showmanship of Gustav Klimt.

THE ENABLERS

Hitler didn't grab power; he was given it.

HOT AND BOTHERED

How Candida Royalle set out to remake the porn industry.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN

Two entries from a new alphabet of the colonized world, an illustrated ABC.

BID FOR THE STARS

The booming market in the stuff of celebrity.

GONE WITH THE WIND

In pursuit of John Wilkes Booth.

TALKING WITH GOD

John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable” and Brooklyn Laundry.”

BODIES OF EVIDENCE

“Love Lies Bleeding.”

YOU TELL ME

Why Percival Everett cant say what his novels mean.

SPICE ODYSSEY

\"Dune: Part Two.\"

WAR AND PIECES

Two outstanding premières at City Ballet.

HAD TO HAPPEN

Marilynne Robinson on Genesis.

THE LAST CAMPAIGN

Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, President Biden voices defiant confidence.

FORGIVE ME NOT

A revival of Dominique Morisseau's \"Sunset Baby.\"

SWORD PLAY

\"Shogun,\" on FX.

LORDING IT

Can Byron be freed from the Byronic?

IDENTITY CRISIS

A professor claimed for years to be Native. She insists it was just a mistake.

UNREAL LIFE

\"Russian Troll Farm\" lands Off Broadway.

TORN PAGES

The fate and the power of books in wartime.

FOUR YEARS LATER

What we can't learn from 2020.

BORDER TROUBLES

Why are Republicans impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas?

THE CHAOS AGENT

Matt Gaetz threw the House into disarray. What does he want?