CATEGORIES

UPPER CRUST

How pizza became New Haven's calling card.

BIG LOVE

Chris Stapleton's case for affairs of the heart.

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

\"Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,\" \"Scene Partners,\" and \"Waiting for Godot.\"

CONDUCT UNBECOMING

THE CURRENT CINEMA

ARE YOU ENTERTAINED?

Barbra Streisand writes the mother of all memoirs.

GHOST, WRITER

When a friend died, she left behind a novel that needed finishing.

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Joyce Carol Oates's relentless search for a self.

POINT BLANK

How do you tell the story of a murder you don't remember?

THE FALL

Tumbling out of a bedroom window.

THE VIOLENCE OF THE RAMS

A lamb enters the fold.

METAMORPHOSIS

The godfather of A.I. thinks it’s actually intelligent—and that scares him.

DEAR PARENTS

Dear Parents, Welcome to Kinderkids Nursery School! We so loved meeting you all at orientation.

BEGIN END

A coder on the waning days of the craft.

TABLES FOR TWO

Lagos TSQ_ 727 Seventh Ave.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Twelve months out from Election Day, the Presidential campaign has inescapably begun with the slow, ominous, upward crank of a roller coaster.

GOINGS ON NOVEMBER 15 - 21, 2023

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES

Does facial-recognition technology lead police to ignore contradictory evidence?

INFINITE ART

The artist Holly Herndon prepares for a world shaped by ALL.

THE WAR ON CHAPLIN

Why the Tramp had to be brought low.

WILD REEDS

James Austin Smith proves that an oboist can have an adventurous solo career.

THE THEATRE THE HUMAN COMEDY

Off Of Broadway serves up FOOD,” Redwood,” and Faust.”

REALITY BITES

“The Curse,” on Showtime.

Annals of Crime – Desert Captives

An Eritrean started a trafficking business. Then he began kidnapping his clients for ransom.

Letter from Israel – In the Cities of Killing

The Hamas massacre, the air strikes in Gaza, and what comes after

A Dangerous Man

Why Congo's independence leader Patrice Lumumba had to die

COPING MECHANISMS

Philip Roth's \"Sabbath's Theater\" adapted for the stage, and \"I Need That.\"

TRYSTS TROPIQUES

The nested narratives of Tan Twan Eng's \"The House of Doors.\"

MAKE ME

Is free will an illusion? You decide.

THE CURRENT CINEMA MAN DOWN

\"Priscilla\" and \"Dream Scenario.\"

Our Time Is Up Clare Sestanovich

The mirrors reveal when it’s time to clean again. A thin layer of dust on the one in the bed room, toothpaste and fingerprints on the one in the bathroom, which doubles as a cabinet door. All the windows become mirrors at the end of the day, when it takes a subtle adjustment of the eyes to look through yourself instead of at yourself. But the windows will never be cleaned; the most that can be hoped for is a hard, purifying rain. There’s a yellow streak of bird shit on the glass in the living room, crusted over now, and the kitchen window still bears the ghostly pattern that Angela once traced on the fogged-up surface while waiting for something on the stove, she can no longer remember what: a pot to boil, a formless egg to acquire edges and turn opaque, a single drop of oil to escape its pan and scald her out of her thoughts.