Neighbors

Not long after our twins turned three, my wife, Anna, accepted a transfer to the West Coast. The opportunity was lucrative, but that wasn’t why we were eager to go. Anna had spent that March and April involved with another man, a colleague, someone whose name I’d never heard until she told me about him. She said that it had been a terrible mistake, that it had only made her hate herself, and that this person had now begun almost to frighten her, continuing to call after she’d asked him to stop, declaring that he’d leave his family, demanding to speak with me. I was surprised to find that, more than anything, I felt sorry for her.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN

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

MAGA MIKE

House Speaker Mike Johnson uses a s uses a soft touch to push hard-right politics.

BID FOR THE STARS

The booming market in the stuff of celebrity.

GONE WITH THE WIND

In pursuit of John Wilkes Booth.

THE TIME BEING

In my early thirties, I began to cultivate the friendship of older people—people born twenty or thirty or even fifty years before me. I read many novels in those days.

TALKING WITH GOD

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

BODIES OF EVIDENCE

“Love Lies Bleeding.”

O.K., DOOMER

Some people want to build ALI. faster. Others want to pull the plug. Who will decide the fate of humanity?

INVISIBLE CITY

> After ists fell in Syria, supporters and victims alike were herded into a giant outdoor prison— and effectively given lifetime sentences.

YOU TELL ME

Why Percival Everett cant say what his novels mean.

MELANIE ANN DONOGHUE WEDS WORDLE

Melanie Ann Donoghue, thirty-two, of Westchester County, New York, was wed on Saturday to Wordle.

OLD SCHOOL

Have the liberal arts gone conservative?

Starburst

The next big solar storm could devastate our power grid and communication systems. Are we prepared?

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.