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STATE OF PLAY
Politics and the real” at the Festival d‘Avignon.
BORN AGAIN
The past and future of Christian fundamentalism.
OUT THERE
In midlife, Gillian Anderson is proving that she’s not so buttoned-up.
PLAYING THE NUMBERS
My mother, the gambler.
THE FIN AND THE FURY
Beware of sharkless waters.
attila
Martha got the knife away from her mother and shut her in the garage. The garage was not for cars; it had been converted by the house’s previous owners into what the broker called a “mother-in-law apartment.”
UNCONVENTIONAL
No fear and loathing in Milwaukee, just confidence.
BLOOD RELATIVES
Did the U.K.’ most infamous family massacre end in a miscarriage of justice?
What Happened To The Yuppie?– In 1979, an article by Blake Fleetwood in the Times Magazine reported a surprising phenomenon: young people were moving to big cities
Tom McGrath's "Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation" (Grand Central) is an entertaining recap of that period. McGrath doesn't offer a novel sociological interpretation of the yuppies. What he has to say about them would have been conventional even during their time.
Old Money - How treasure from an eighteen-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple
How treasure from an eighteenth-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple.
Writing for a Warming World - Imagining the overwhelming, the ubiquitous, the world-shattering.
Climate change is one of those topics that can throw novelists—and everyone else—into a fearful and cowering silence. When the earth is losing its familiar shapes and consolations, changing drastically and in unpredictable ways beneath our feet, how can we summon our creative resources to engage in the imaginative world-building required to write a novel that takes on these threats in compelling ways? And how to avoid writing fiction that addresses irreversible climate change without letting our prose get too preachy, overly prescriptive, saturated with despair?
How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap
When I was growing up, in the early two-thousands, I knew of only one way that a mere mortal could be pictured in a bikini for paying subscribers.
Abject Naturalism + Sarah Braunstein
The baby's father left before the Cesarean incision had fully healed, when it was still a raised red line, tender to the touch, glistening with Vitamin E oil. Perfidy!
HEAVY WEATHER
Some first-generation disaster films were real-life disasters for their actors. D. W. Griffith's 1920 melodrama \"Way Down East,\" featuring the climactic rescue of a woman being carried off on an ice floe in raging currents, was filmed in a real river after a real blizzard.
BIZARRE REALITY
Julio Torres's \"Fantasmas\" finds truth in fantasy.
GOINGS ON
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.
DEAD RECKONING
At the Sphere, a fan wrestles with what the Grateful Dead have left behind.
WRITING PROMPTS
Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller.
THE BRINK OF WAR
Will Hezbollah's border fight with Israel lead to a wider conflict?
OVERCORRECTION
On the abolition of prisons.
A YOUNG ARTIST
An Italian widow is still discovering the joy of painting at ninety-three.
BEACH BOYS
Eating and drinking through Provincetown.
BOT THERAPY
He appeared one day on Instagram. He had noticed my posts and asked if I wanted to talk.
THE POWER OF THE PIRATES
Their flag meant death. What else did it mean?
HEAR NO EVIL
An artist uses audio analysis to investigate violence.
SEX AND SENSIBILITY
The rise and fall of the Bluestockings.
CHARMED
Clairo makes music about the wallop and jolt of romantic connection.
PARADISE BRONX
The borough’ history has always been shaped by its in-between-ness.
BLOCKING
\"Sing Sing.\"
INSIDE THE TRUMP PLAN FOR 2025
A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President's return to the White House.