EYES UP HERE

The perils and pleasures of a nice rack.

A CRITIC AT LARGE SAY THE WORD

Why liberals struggle to defend liberalism.

THE WORLD OF TELEVISION CASTOFFS

REALITY-TV CONTESTANTS ARE BARELY PAID, AND THE EXPERIENCE CAN FEEL LIKE ABUSE. SHOULD THEY UNIONIZE?

SHOUTS & MURMURS IDENTIFIED

A panel of scientific experts commissioned by NASA to study unidentified anomalous phenomena,” more widely known as UFOs, said Thursday that it found no evidence that any of the reported objects were extraterrestrial in origin.

A Critic at Large - Off the Leash

The wacky and wonderful world of the Westminster Dog Show.

A Campus in Crisis

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

Consolation

Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before.

THE INSTIGATOR

How Miranda July starts again.

LOADED

We used to think the rich had a social function. What are they good for now?

BLAME GAME

“Baby Reindeer” and Under the Bridge.”

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

Zemlinsky, Schulhoff; and other neglected Jewish composers of Central Europe.

BOOKS - FORGET IT

A neuropsychologist says that we're thinking about memory all wrong.

PERSONAL HISTORY - TABULA RASA

THE WORDLE PHILOSOPHY

NEIGHBORLY

My name is Margaret Jo Stinson, and I’d like to share my own perspective on this sort of thing.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES - THE RIGHT TO HUG

Children are fighting to visit their parents in county jails.

STUNTED

\"The Fall Guy.\"

MOTHERS OF US ALL

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

PURE PLEASURE

The \"Radical Optimism\" of Dua Lipa.

PARADISE LOST

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

ORIGIN STORY

What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?

DEATH IN VENICE

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

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!\"

STONES OF CONTENTION

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

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.

Beastly Matters

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

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.

LITTLE OLD HER

Is Taylor Swift doing too much?