SPICE ODYSSEY

\"Dune: Part Two.\"

WAR AND PIECES

Two outstanding premières at City Ballet.

HAD TO HAPPEN

Marilynne Robinson on Genesis.

THE BOY WHO CRIED ART

Was Keith Haring a brilliant painter or a brilliant brand?

HARLEM IS EVERYWHERE

Denise Murrell takes on the Harlem Renaissance at the Met.

HOSTEL

I’ve never told my husband this story, but I suppose I will eventually, on some sticky night in, say, February, as we lie naked in bed with the ceiling fan set at its highest speed.

THE FORTY-THREE

After a group of Mexican students disappeared, their parents fought for justice.

THE LAST CAMPAIGN

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

SCENES FROM MY OPEN-ISH MARRIAGE

There’s a scene in Molly Roden Winter’s debut, “More: A Memoir of Open Marriage,” that should come with a warning. Winter is at her home in Brooklyn.

HIGH ANXIETY

The playwright Lucy Prebble is expert at getting inside worried people's heads.

ROLE PLAY

RuPaul, who brought drag mainstream, fears the end times.

Letter from the West Bank – The Dispossessed

Israeli settlers are escalating attacks on their Palestinian neighbors.

Arrested Development

The long adolescence of Carson McCullers.

UNLEARNED LESSONS

\"About Dry Grasses.\"

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?

THE SPIT OF HIM

Kevin didn't have a rain jacket and for that reason he wasn't wearing one. A pair of \"Bananas in Pyjamas\" pajama bottoms bunched over the shafts of his rain boots. From his left shoulder, a flat laptop bag dangled. It had been consigned to his school's lost-property box and had remained there more than four months before he'd claimed it for himself. Now it flapped rhythmically against his hip. It contained next to nothing, but he felt that it lent him a professional air.

INVISIBLE WORKERS

How North Korea operates a forced-labor program in China.

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.

DISPOSSESSED

In Tommy Orange's \"Wandering Stars,\" history and its horrors are heritable.

NORTHERN ATTITUDE

How Noah Kahan went from rural Vermont to the world.

ON THE NIGHT OF THE KHATAM

Through no fault of our own (naturally), we were late. Our wives, you see, had decided to tag along.

BORDER TROUBLES

Why are Republicans impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas?

THE CHAOS AGENT

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

SKIN IN THE GAME

Inside the frenzied business of designer ball pythons.

EXCERPTS FROM A POSTING FOR MY IDEAL JOB

You are an experienced writer who lives and breathes finding excuses to avoid writing.