MOTHERS OF US ALL

Paula Vogel's \"Mother Play,\" Shaina Taub's \"Suffs,\" and Amy Herzog's \"Mary Jane.\"

DEATH IN VENICE

At the Biennale, the past dignifies the weird, desperate present.

ARROW RETRIEVER

I am an arrow retriever. After a batrows are costly and time-consuming to make. It seems like a terrible waste-and maybe even a sin―for an arrow to fall to the ground without hitting someone. Even if the arrow kills somebody, it can be reused to kill someone else. As Randolf the Scot famously said, \"Arrows don't grow on trees.\"

READ THE LABEL

How psychiatric diagnoses create identities.

NEW TRICKS

An animal trainer to the stars prepares a Great Dane for his film début.

STUNTED

\"The Fall Guy.\"

STONES OF CONTENTION

The British Museum faces accusations of cultural theft-and actual theft.

A CAMPUS IN CRISIS

Dissent and defiance at Columbia's pro-Palestine protests.

ORIGIN STORY

What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?

PURE PLEASURE

The \"Radical Optimism\" of Dua Lipa.

PARADISE LOST

The search for a home that never was in Claire Messud's new novel.

WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I

\"You'll never get away with this!\" Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. \"You may destroy me, but you'll never destroy what I stand for!\"

Beastly Matters

Where the logic behind the concern for animal welfare begins and ends.

HOROSCOPES WRITTEN BY MY MOTHER

Your zodiac alignment this month is governed by Venus, the planet of intuition, something my daughter Bess seems to lack.

THE PHANTASM

Why was Judith Butler burned in effigy? They have a theory about that.

DESIGN FOR LIVING

Can converting office towers into apartments save empty downtowns from ruin?

TOWER IN FLAMES

What kind of right is academic freedom?

ON NATIVE GROUNDS

Deb Haaland faces the cruel history of the agency she now leads.

PULSE

He footed off his shoes, the logs balanced on an arm, and tugged the door shut.

THE BATTLE FOR ATTENTION

How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?

LITTLE OLD HER

Is Taylor Swift doing too much?

TRIPLE FAULT

A meal is never just a meal in a Luca Guadagnino movie; each bite is a prelude to a kiss, every feast a form of foreplay.

NIGHT MUSIC

“Stereophonic” and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” on Broadway.

STORIES FROM THE TRUMP BIBLE

Now, Noah was very faithful, so God commanded him to build a mighty ark, telling him, “Take your family and two of every living thing.”

GOINGS ON

The Martha Graham Dance Company won’t officially turn a hundred until 2026, but it’s starting the party early with multiple centennial seasons. The theme of the first, at City Center, is “American Legacies.”

HOW GULLIBLE ARE YOU?

Dont believe what theyre telling you about misinformation.

THE MISSING LINK

How Delmore Schwartz tried to change poetry.

BLEEDING HEART

Olivia Rodrigo’s exuberant yearning.

SNAP JUDGMENTS

Is it the end of the world if Kirsten Dunst isn’t around to witness it? I’m beginning to wonder.

LOVE MACHINES

Why stories about robotic romance push our buttons.