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White Noise Used to Be Satire

What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.

Can a Building Be Too Tall?

The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Thirty-nine years ago this month, an African American Navy bombardier-navigator named Robert Goodman was taking part in a mission to destroy Syrian munitions in Lebanon when his plane was shot down.

FAMILY ALBUM

Robin Coste Lewis travels to the past in her second book.

NEW AGAIN

“Merrily We Roll Along” and “Some Like It Hot.”

ENVISIONING EXTINCTION

Tragicomic creatures of a terrifying future.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

The origami menagerie that graces the tree at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 8) includes beetles, butterflies, and grasshoppers, in both a nod to the past and a preview of coming attractions.

FLESH WOUND

Norman Mailer went to war and wrote a big novel about it. Did he ever really come back?

THE LOWER DEPTHS

“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Living.”

STICK FIGURES

The divergent conducting careers of Klaus Mäkelä and Xian Zhang.

NO LIMITS

What Kevin McCarthy will do to gain power.

THE THEATRE :OUT OF THE DARKNESS

“Your Own Personal Exegesis” and “Ohio State Murders.”

THE NUMBERS GAME

Mystic quests and mathematicians in Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels.

THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

How the quantum computer will change the world—eventually.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Before last month’s midterm election, progressives—and centrists, and socialists, and anyone, really, who thought that it was a bad idea to put election deniers in charge of state elections—braced for a red wave.

THE KING AND I

Remembering the late, great film director Jean-Luc Godard.

THE OTHER PARTY

My daughter walked into the house with a boy named Brendan. She came into the kitchen limping a little, her mascara smeared, and lay down on the floor in front of the stove.

ON TELEVISION :NAKED AMBITION

\"Welcome to Chippendales,\" on Hulu.

The Culture Pages – Buckle Up

In Jordan E. Cooper's bawdy Broadway debut, Ain't No Mo, no one is safe.

Patti Smith Keeps Working

As the artist, writer, and musician gears up for a new show, Smith looks back on an astonishing 50-year career and what drives her forward

Mstyslav Chernov – Photojournalist, The Associated Press; documentarian, 20 Days in Mariupol; and author, The Dreamtime

"Boundaries between work and life have blurred"

Consuming Passions

“The Fabelmans” and “Bones and All.”

Talk Therapy

Sarah Polley, a former child star, has made a searingly frank film about sexual assault.

Goings on About Town

In 1949, the writer Adrienne Kennedy, now ninety-one, enrolled at Ohio State University, where she became enamored with “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” but, as one of only a few Black female students, was stung by racism within the institution. She revisited this time in her 1992 one-act “Ohio State Murders.” The play’s Broadway première is now in previews, starring the theatrical luminary Audra McDonald (above). Kenny Leon’s production marks Kennedy’s Broadway début, and the first show at the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre.

Hugh Jackman

The award-winning actor and star of The Son on birthday presents, the ocean, and his love for Bill Nighy

Inventing Ivana

Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York Cityand help define its "greed is good" era. From her heyday presiding over her husband's properties to her decadent postDonald denouement selling costume jewelry and cavorting with a series of "freaky" Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name

The Knight's Tale

At Lavish gatherings from Monaco to the Middle East, Anthony Ritossa built a lucrative business convening the titans who control the "Family offices" of the überwealthy. But the self-styled knight of the realm and purported Nobel Prize nominee turned out to be a Wall Street washout, a deadbeat dad, and a dangerous con man

Across the Universe

Chloé creative director Gabriela Hearst is drawing fashion inspiration from clean energy and the results are electrifying

Hall of Fame

Hollywood director and Rolling Stone veteran Cameron Crowe is taking his rock-movie classic ALMOST FAMOUS to Broadway

Naomi Ackie – The Voice

Naomi Ackie, the dazzling British actor playing Whitney Houston in a new Hollywood biopic, opens up about her surprising road from drama school to Star Wars to the greatest love of all