Archaeology
A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD CITY
Archaeologists are reconstructing the complicated 400-year history of Virginia's colonial capital
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
BOUND FOR HEAVEN
During excavations of a Byzantine monastery in 2017 just north of Jerusalem's Old City, a team led by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists Zubair 'Adawi and Kfir Arbiv discovered an unusual burial in a crypt beneath the altar of the complex's church.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
Birds of a Feather
Intriguing rock art in the Four Corners reveals how the Basketmaker people drew inspiration from ducks 1,500 years ago
8 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL BRAIN
When most people envision the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, they think of the casts of their bodies made by pouring plaster into voids left by their decaying corpses. Yet not all the physical remains of those who perished in the cataclysm decayed. In one case, a remarkable transformation occurred—a man’s brain turned to glass.
3 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
In Search of Lost Pharaohs
Anubis Mountain conceals the tombs of an obscure Egyptian dynasty
3 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
SOLDIERS OF ILL FORTUNE
The Schmalkaldic War, which began in 1546 and lasted less than a year, pitted the forces of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V (reigned 1519-1556) against the Schmalkaldic League, a Protestant alliance formed by German principalities and cities within the empire.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
SAINTS ALIVE
Since 2019, archaeologists have been excavating in Berlin's oldest square, known as the Molkenmarkt, or Whey Market.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
Setting Sail for Valhalla
Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
ITALY'S GARDEN OF MONSTERS
Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone
10 min |
July/August 2025
The New Yorker
WITHOUT BORDERS
A Palestinian doctor in Israel treats people on both sides of the conflict.
10+ min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
VISITING DIGNITARY OLD HAUNTS
When Stephen Colbert landed in New Zealand in 2019, his ride from the airport was Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister.
3 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
The Queen of Bad Influences
Throughout her childhood, Constance called the gorse that grew on the hillsides above her house \"honey-bottle,\" and gathered fistfuls of it despite the spines, so that her hands would smell of it, a smell that seemed to combine oatmeal and hot metal and sun.
10+ min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins's “Good Cooking”
By 1974, when Calvin Tomkins wrote his definitive Profile of Julia Child, she had published both volumes of the wildly successful “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” and was twelve years into her television show, “The French Chef,” on public television in Boston.
3 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
TOXIC
What the pop culture of the two-thousands did to millennial women.
10+ min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
GOINGS ON JUNE II - 17, 2025
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.
4 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
ACTION!
Inside the world of intimacy coördinators.
10+ min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
BODIES, BODIES, BODIES
The British artist Jenny Saville has dedicated her career to painting human flesh.
10+ min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
PHOTO BOOTH
How American Photography Came Into Its Own
2 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
MEETUP: A NATTERING OF NAOMIS
At any given moment, there may well be a number of people named Naomi scattered across Prospect Park’s five hundred-odd acres.
3 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
MATCH ME IF YOU CAN
“Materialists.”
6 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Everett F. Drumright, the American consul-general in Hong Kong, believed that the United States was confronting a grave threat to its national security.
4 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
ENDANGERED SPECIES: MEAT HOOKS
You pronounce John T. Jobbagy's last name with the accent on the first syllable: “Joe-bagee.”
3 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
TRAILBLAZER DEPT.SPACE ODYSSEY
The other day, amid throngs of schoolkids, a septuagenarian woman with a puff of gray hair, in a black turtleneck and pearl earrings, stepped into the Rose Center for Earth and Space.
3 min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
WHIZ KID
What Old Hollywood’s “boy genius” understood.
10+ min |
June 16, 2025
Vanity Fair US
ROAD ΤΟ DAMASCUS
Returning to anewly liberated Syria, veteran war correspondent JANINE DI GIOVANNI discovers a nation wary of its untested leaders, haunted by five decades of trauma, and yet imbued with hope and possibility
10+ min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
Kathy Bates
She hasn't always been on “the A-team going to Ibiza or whatever”— and thank heavens for that. A candid interview with a legend in a league of her own
10+ min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
A Dose of REALITY
The Emmys would be less—what's the word?—boring if they stopped snubbing the grand circus of reality TV By John Ross
2 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
Full SCREEN
At 20, YouTube has hosted billions of videos, launched stars—and made Hollywood nervous.
10 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
Revenge PLOT
Nearly 20 years post-Oprah brouhaha, JAMES FREY is back with a sexy, funny novel that's headed straight to the screen
2 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
MOLLY GORDON writes her own ticket
“I’ve never been in something that people watch,” says Molly Gordon, “which is a very different experience.”
3 min |