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LOVER BOΥ

Erica Schmidt revives Tennessee Williams's \"Orpheus Descending.\"

EVOLUTION

Bethany Cosentino's songs of self-actualization

TASTE OF CHERRY

Ann Patchett's pandemic novel

THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE

In 1956, a Tennessee high school was desegregated; two years later, it was dynamited. What happened?

THE MAKING OF A MUTINY

How the Wagner Group went from fighting in Ukraine to staging an armed uprising at home

HIDDEN DEPTHS

How an amateur diver became a true-crime sensation

I'M A HACK, BY CHATGPT

Hello and welcome. I’m an artificial intelligence. One of the Writers Guild of America strike issues is me

DREAMING IN BABYLON

Revisiting a Rastafari childhood in Jamaica

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

In Israel, the saying goes, there are four seasons: election, war, strike, and summer

A French Doll

Fiction

American Chronicles: The Nashville Underground

Tennessee's politics have turned hard red, and the ruling sound in Music City is still bro country. Can other voices grab the mike?

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

“How does this indictment affect his candidacy?” Bill Hemmer, of Fox News, asked the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley last week

PANIC AT THE DISCO

“Here Lies Love” boogies onto Broadway

SICKENING

How bad is processed food?

BROTHERS IN LAW

Dostoyevsky’s novel of a family at war with itself

MONEY ON THE WALL

How Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world.

THE CURRENT CINEMA SHOCK WAVES

“Oppenheimer” and Barbie.”

BREAKING NEWS

A small-town paper takes on the county sheriff

ROYALLY SPEAKING

Harry spoke with multiple producers and production houses . . . to discuss possible shows

COURTING FAME

How Alex Spiro became the trial lawyer celebrities want on their side

Ice Cream Is Good for You

According to nutritionists, wine will either extend your life or shorten it

The Ice-Cream Truck

Not a lot of good sounds could be heard on our street. Police sirens and ambulances.

Becoming Tennessee

A portrait of the playwright as a young artist.

THIS MORTAL COIL

Ato Blankson-Wood stars in \"Hamlet\" in the Park.

THE PRICE IS RIGHT

The rise and fall of neoliberalism.

BEAR SEASON

Where the wild things

THE CURRENT CINEMA: THE HUNT IS ON

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tomtom, a pounding of the drums tells us that another installment of “Mission: Impossible” is under way.

The Maths Tutor

In her thirties, Lorraine was unfaithful once or twice; she didn’t tell her husband. Quentin owed her, she reckoned, in that long accounting of pluses and minuses which is marriage.

A LAND HELD HOSTAGE

Overrun by gangs and neglected by rich allies, Haiti tries to save itself.

SUBTLE REVOLUTION

In the treatment of M.S., small steps add up to a new approach to disease.