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Crazy Town

The singular stories of Steven Millhauser.

The True Margaret

Meera was recalling the tragedy of her first marriage. Married off to an Indian doctor in 1959, she had moved to London only to discover that her new husband, Ravi, already had a wife in the city.

THE GIFT

What should you do with an oil fortune?

MOST WANTED

\"Passages\" and \"Lady Killer.\"

YOU HAD TO BE THERE

How a ramshackle street shaped a generation of artists.

HIGH STRUNG

A violinist reinvents her instrument-and her musical persona.

Youth Movement

What happened when the country's schoolgirls took off their veils.

THE MAKING OF A MUTINY

How the Wagner Group went from fighting in Ukraine to staging an armed uprising at home

LOVER BOΥ

Erica Schmidt revives Tennessee Williams's \"Orpheus Descending.\"

TASTE OF CHERRY

Ann Patchett's pandemic novel

EVOLUTION

Bethany Cosentino's songs of self-actualization

HIDDEN DEPTHS

How an amateur diver became a true-crime sensation

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

In Israel, the saying goes, there are four seasons: election, war, strike, and summer

THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE

In 1956, a Tennessee high school was desegregated; two years later, it was dynamited. What happened?

I'M A HACK, BY CHATGPT

Hello and welcome. I’m an artificial intelligence. One of the Writers Guild of America strike issues is me

DREAMING IN BABYLON

Revisiting a Rastafari childhood in Jamaica

Bodies of Work

Lisa Yuskavage's art shows it all

What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us?

From Barnard to Barbie, the director has always been interested in female ambition, including her own

A French Doll

Fiction

THE CURRENT CINEMA SHOCK WAVES

“Oppenheimer” and Barbie.”

Ice Cream Is Good for You

According to nutritionists, wine will either extend your life or shorten it

COURTING FAME

How Alex Spiro became the trial lawyer celebrities want on their side

MONEY ON THE WALL

How Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world.

BROTHERS IN LAW

Dostoyevsky’s novel of a family at war with itself

SICKENING

How bad is processed food?

BREAKING NEWS

A small-town paper takes on the county sheriff

ROYALLY SPEAKING

Harry spoke with multiple producers and production houses . . . to discuss possible shows

PANIC AT THE DISCO

“Here Lies Love” boogies onto Broadway

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

“How does this indictment affect his candidacy?” Bill Hemmer, of Fox News, asked the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley last week

THE CURRENT CINEMA: THE HUNT IS ON

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tomtom, a pounding of the drums tells us that another installment of “Mission: Impossible” is under way.