CATEGORIES

THE CURRENT CINEMA - OUTLIERS

“Joyland” and “Acidman.”

GENTLEMAN'S GAME

\"Great Expectations,\" on Hulu.

BLUES MEN

\"Hang Time,\" by Zora Howard.

THE STORY GOES

The shape-shifting fictions of Kelly Link.

LONG DIVISION

How the East German novelist Brigitte Reimann electrified socialist realism.

ANNALS OF RELIGION UNDER GOD

How Christian is Christian nationalism?

UPCOMING LANDMARKS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

SHOUTS & MURMURS

AMERICAN CHRONICLES DATA-DRIVEN

Machines have given powerful way of knowing things. There are others.

Good Talk

Can conversation save our souls?

Mysteries of Love

Kate Soper’s "The Romance of the Rose,” and Wagner's "Lohengrin” at the Met.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

\"Inside\" and \"What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?\"

HIVE MIND

\"Swarm,\" on Prime Video.

GEORGIA ON OUR MIND

The musical \"Parade\" revisits the charged trial of Leo Frank.

GHOSTS ON THE STAGE

Pina Bausch's legacy.

SEEING THINGS

Sebastian Barry's Irish marvels.

COSTUME DRAMA

J. Crew and the paradoxes of prep.

Minority Report

I dream often of a man I knew more than thirty years ago. When I say “knew,” that is not accurate; I barely I than thirty years ago. When I say “knew,” that is not accurate; I barely knew him at all.

PINS AND NEEDLES

How Demna engineered the rise— and near-fall—of the house of Balenciaga.

DRAWING BOARD

The graphic designer Milton Glaser made America cool again.

PLEASE INVITE ME TO YOUR PARTY

I’m a great guest. For one, I will appreciate all your deep cleaning. The baseboards you scrubbed, the silverware you polished to a high gleam, the corners you awkwardly maneuvered the Swiffer into, to sweep the last crumbs and bits of cat hair out of sight.

THE OZEMPIC ERA

Will new medications change how we think about being fat and being thin?

Books – Abolish the Poor

Matthew Desmond argues that poverty persists because we let it.

A Little-Known Planet

An entomologist races to find caterpillars before they disappear.

A Little Bit Rock 'n' Roll

HARDY brings fresh energy to an unfashionable genre.

USE YOUR HANDS

How Maylis de Kerangal turns work into writing.

FALSE STAR

Sterling Holy White Mountain

MAGIC REALISM

The novelist H. G. Carrillo's inventions went too far.

PAY DIRT

Leafing through the seed catalogues.

VILLAGEGATE

At a downtown paper, a fight over succession-and Sarah Jessica Parker.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

More than half of abortions in the United States are accomplished with pills, rather than with surgeries.