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Wherever he goes, LEWIS PULLMAN is in his element

Last fall, while filming Apple’s Lessons in Chemistry, adapted from the beloved novel by Bonnie Garmus, showrunner Lee Eisenberg made an on-the-fly change: The actor Lewis Pullman’s turn as Calvin, a progressive, introverted chemist in 1960s Los Angeles, was so winning that Eisenberg wrote him into more episodes than originally planned. Earlier this year, the Top Gun: Maverick scene-stealer wowed festival-goers at Sundance with The Starling Girl and at Tribeca with The Line. As he braces for leading man attention, Pullman reflects on life in and out of Hollywood.

Breaking the BINARY

Inside the fight to de-gender awards shows

THE AMERICANS

On the eve of the US Open, VF  catches up with the next generation of tennis stars

PICTURE PERFECT

A new volume of portraits by photographer Slim Aarons, including never-before-seen work, reanimates a lost world

YOU NAME IT

Carl Linnaeus and the effort to label all of life

VOICE-OVERS FROM "SEX AND THE SPACE STATION"

As I watched Sergei climb into his formfitting spacesuit, I couldn't help but wonder: Did I want a white Russian form cosmonaut or just a White Russian and a Cosmo?

ANOTHER COUNTRY

The Ukrainians forced to flee to Russia

THERE AND BACK AGAIN

How product returns became an industry

SHARK BAIT

The Jaws” ecosystem and Broadway's \"The Shark Is Broken.\"

Alfresco

At Santa Fe Opera, a new orchestration of Monteverdi's "Orfeo."

American Dirt

Monster trucks, the stars a the modern thrill show, sell more tickets than Taylor Swift

Presence of Mind

How the critic Jacqueline Rose learned to read the world

LAPAKAHI VILLAGE, HAWAII

Standing beside a cove on the northwest coast of the island of Hawaii, the fishing village of Lapakahi, which is surrounded by black lava stone walls, was once home to generations of fishers and farmers known throughout the archipelago for their mastery of la'au lapa'au, or the practice of traditional Hawaiian medicine. \"

Secrets of Egypt's Golden Boy

CT scans offer researchers a virtual look deep inside a mummy's coffin

RITES OF REBELLION

Archaeologists unearth evidence of a 500-year-old resistance movement high in the Andes

PREVENTING THE RETURN OF THE DEAD

An archaeological team excavating a necropolis at the site of Sagalassos in southwest Turkey uncovered an unusual and very eerie tomb.

RAM HEADS FOR RAMESSES

While exploring the surroundings of the temple of the pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned ca. 1279-1213 B.C.) in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, archaeologists from New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World uncovered an enormous collection of mummified animal heads in an ancient storage area.

NOSE TO TAIL

Los Angeles' first Chinatown was settled starting around 1880, south of the city's historic center, the Los Angeles Plaza. Over the next two decades, the densely populated neighborhood expanded to the northeast and became home to a range of Chinese-owned businesses. These included markets that sold fare such as plum sauce for seasoning roast meat and restaurants that served up delicacies such as bird's nest soup and century eggs.

SUNKEN CARGO

Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists have begun to investigate 44 tons of marble building materials that a swimmer spotted in shallow water 600 feet off the coast of the ancient Roman port of Caesarea after they were exposed by a recent storm.

ROYAL WHARF

During excavations in Oslo's Bjørvika neighborhood, archaeologists have uncovered a portion of the foundations of a medieval wharf.

PIZZA! PIZZA?

When Pompeian authorities recently unveiled a new wall painting, it launched an international debate.

When Lions Were King

Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection

UKRAINE'S LOST CAPITAL

In 1708, Peter the Great destroyed Baturyn, a bastion of Cossack independence and culture

A MORE COMFORTABLE RIDE

Although the date is much debated, most scholars believe people 5,000 years ago. For thousands of years after that, they did so without saddles. \"In comparison with horse riding, the development of saddles began relatively late, when riders began to care more about comfort and safety in addition to the horse's health,\" says University of Zurich archaeologist Patrick Wertmann.

DRAMATIC ENTRANCE

Four miniature terracotta masks found in the Roman city of Jerash in Jordan shed light on its theater district in the second century A.D. Excavators from the University of Jordan unearthed the masks in a doorway of a structure.

THE ELEPHANT AND THE BUDDHA

While working in the village of Gada Balabhadrapur on the banks of the Daya River in India's state of Odisha, archaeologists unearthed a three-foot-tall sculpture of an elephant dating to the third century B.C., a time when Buddhism flourished in the area.

BRONZE AGE POWER PLAYERS

How Hittite kings forged diplomatic ties with a shadowy Greek city-state

A Very Close Encounter

New research has shown that human figures painted in red on a rock art panel in central Montana depict individuals engaged in a life-or-death encounter during an especially fraught historical moment.

A Sword for the Ages

A zigzag pattern, now tinged with the green-blue patina of oxidized metal, adorns the octagonal hilt of a rare sword dating to the Middle Bronze Age in Germany (1600-1200 B.C.) that was recently excavated in the Bavarian town of Nördlingen.

Why So Serious?

The delights of "Harley Quinn," on Max.