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A REPORTER AT LARGE - STOPPING THE VIOLENCE

Amid a murder crisis, law enforcement isn't enough. What else works?

ON TELEVISION THRILLS AND RED PILLS

“Poker Face” and Paul T: Goldman,” on Peacock.

MUSICAL EVENTS: FAREWELL SYMPHONY

Michael Tilson Thomas remains exuberant in the final phase of his career.

THE THEATRE: SOLITARY CREATURES

Colin Quinn, Anthony Rapp, and Evan Silver take the mike.

LETTER FROM UKRAINE: THE COLLABORATORS

Taking sides during the Russian occupation of Izyum.

Our Local Correspondents – Friend of the Mayor

Why did Eric Adams take a fraudster Brooklyn church leader under his wing?

Silver BELLE

Tiffany & Co. might conjure images of sparkling stones and gleaming gold, but the brand's history is forged in silver too: baby rattles swaddled in eggshell blue cloth, the Elsa Peretti heart it was Tiffany that set the American sterling standard.

From THE BRINK

Midterm voters sent antidemocratic candidates packing. It might be time for optimism

Burn BRIGHT

MICHEAL WARD is leaving audiences dazzled—and his mother slightly scandalized

Different People

When Gilly was young, she lied to her diary. It was not a toy diary. She had dutifully filled several of those already, notebooks in girlish colors, with ostentatious locks and miniature keys.

FALLING BEHIND

What's the matter with men?

PRO CHOICE

\"The Appointment\" skewers the hypocrisy of the abortion debate.

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Republicans are, unsurprisingly, in an uproar over the discovery, in three different locations associated with President Joe Biden—his former office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a room in his Delaware home, and his garage—of documents marked as classified.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Those fretting over the future of indie rock can rest assured that the music has found stylish caretakers in the bandmates of Horsegirl, who débuted their trio while still in high school, in Chicago—they’re now spending their college years in New York.

THE CURRENT CINEMA- GROWING PAINS

\"When You Finish Saving the World\" and \"Close.\"

LETTER FROM TBILISI- NOVELS OF EMPIRE

Rereading Russian classics in the shadow of the Ukraine war.

EAT, PRAY, CONCENTRATE

What monks can teach us about paying attention.

PERSONAL HISTORY- ONE OF A KIND

When you're a medical patient, being unique can have its drawbacks.

Everyone's a Critic

What are literary studies for?

A Reporter at Large – Trust Issues

A disgruntled wealth manager exposes her clients' tax secrets.

Annals of Innovation Build Better

Can 3-D printing help solve the housing crisis?

Life is Too Short

Life is short. Why not spend it mired in regret? Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbors’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble?

THE ROYAL ME

In \"Spare,\" Prince Harry must be cruel only to be kind.

THE BOOK OF LOVE

Reimagining the Victorian reformers who defended same-sex desire.

TWO FOR THE ROAD

\"The Last of Us,\" on HBO.

PROFILES A RAUCOUS ASSAULT

How the Iranian American artist Tala Madani sees men and women.

Wednesday's Child Yiyun Li

The difficulty with waiting, Rosalie thought, is that one can rarely wait in absolute stillness. Absolute stillness?—that part of herself, which was in the habit of questioning her own thoughts as they occurred, raised a mental eyebrow. No one waits in absolute stillness; absolute stillness is death; and when you’re dead you no longer wait for anything. No, not death, Rosalie clarified, but stillness, like hibernation or estivation, waiting for . . . Before she could embellish the thought with some garden-variety clichés, the monitor nearby rolled out a schedule change: the 11:35 train to Brussels Midi was cancelled.

THE SWAMP

Could corruption have led Alex Murdaugh to murder his wife and son?

A Critic at Large: the American Beast

Accounting for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.