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THE ART WORLD DUTCH TREAT

A bravura show at the Rijksmuseum gathers more Vermeers at once than the artist himself ever saw.

TURN OFF THE LIGHT

What’s lost when darkness becomes endangered?

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Ever since Nora, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s proto-feminist masterwork “A Doll’s House,” from 1879, walked out on her husband and out of her domestic cage, actresses have yearned to play her. Jessica Chastain (above, center), last year’s Best Actress Oscar winner, steps into the role for a sixteen-week Broadway run, now in previews at the Hudson, opening March 9. Jamie Lloyd directs a new adaptation, by Amy Herzog, featuring (from left to right) Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Okieriete Onaodowan (“Hamilton”).

135 Minutes With ...Jonathan Majors

Everyone seems to be in love with the newest MCU star. But he's more than a pretty face.

Why New Jersey?

A groundbreaking photographer's lost project.

Annals of Psychology: Not Fooling Anyone

The dubious rise of impostor syndrome.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Amy Davidson Sorkin on the debt-limit showdown; Pussy Riot's orthodoxy; night and day at the museum; awkward arrangements; remembering Tom Verlaine.

NOSTALGIA CYCLES

Why contemporary artists love the teen-age angst of early Paramore.

TIME FRAME

A new production of Samuel Beckett's \"Endgame.\"

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS: THE MERRY WIDOW

The ninety-year-old aristocrat known for her cheeky accounts of the British élite.

LETTER FROM TEXAS: NO CITY LIMITS

My town, Austin, known for laid-back weirdness, is transforming into a turbocharged tech capital.

THE CURRENT CINEMA: AT LARGE

\"Knock at the Cabin\" and \"Godland.\"

NICOLE KIDMAN COMES TO MORE PLACES

The Oscar-winning actor and pandemic-era AMC spokesperson is pressed into further service.

FICTION: MARIANA ENRIQUEZ MY SAD DEAD

First, I think I should describe the neighborhood.

THE MARRYING KIND

The afterlives of Chaucer's Wife of Bath.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx, in 1973, when DJ Kool Herc used two turntables to make the first breakbeat.

PROFILES: DEFIANCE

Despite a near-fatal stabbing and decades of death threats-Salman Rushdie won't stop telling stories.

DESPERATELY NORMAL

Daughters outgrow their parents in Gwendoline Riley's unsparing novels.

Death Tripping

On the road in rural Wisconsin, the author knocks on the doors of houses that bear the darkest American symbols and flags, behind them finding guns, ammo, and a modern philosophy of civil war

Elizabeth Taylor – The Role of Her Life

A new biography reveals the details of Elizabeth Taylor's lonely battle as activist during the AIDS crisis-and her struggle to persuade her famous Hollywood friends to help

George Saunders

The Booker Prize-winning author of Liberation Day on Lincoln's filthy jokes, an eagerness to please, and watching his back

The Montreal Mafia Murders

When an unwitting rural Canadian couple met two local Mob henchmen, Coen brothers-level mayhem ensued. But the gory murders they became party to were anything but a joke

Channing Tatum – Magic Man

After a lengthy hiatus, Channing Tatum is back to cap off his blockbusting strip trilogy. The man with the moves opens up about laughing, crying, dancing, and finding love with Zoë Kravitz

The Revolution That Wasn't

It's been five years since #MeToo rocked Hollywood. Insiders say not enough has changed

Annals of Entertainment: Ballad of the Oscar Streaker

What happened to the man who ran across the screen naked in 1974?

Onward and Upward With the Arts - The First Composer

The cosmic musical visions of Hildegard of Bingen.

THE MIDDLE VOICE

The woman brings her hands together in front of her chest. Frowns, and looks up at the blackboard.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Madison Square Park hosts the acclaimed Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander's first public project, \"Havah... to breathe, air, life,\" a striking pair of female figures, on view through June 4. One sculpture appears on the rooftop of the neighboring Courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (pictured above, mid-installation). The second monument graces the park itself, where an augmented-reality component helps visitors locate her soaring companion.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

COMMENT: HISTORIC BATTLES

A CRITIC AT LARGE - MAKING THE NEWS

The press, the state, and the state of the press.