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RIVKA GALCHEN - HOW I BECAME A VET

When I say “vet,” I do not mean veteran. A veteran is someone formerly in contact with death on a regular basis. A veterinarian is someone currently in contact with death on a regular basis. A part of me is moved to specify that not all veterans have been in contact with death, nor are all veterinarians so on a regular basis. But I’m older now. I know that many people experience such clarifications as weird. Weirdness does, though, generate uncommon strengths. Such was my experience with the suicide dogs, who, like most of us, were not what they seemed.

THE WAY THINGS WORK

Money, politics, and the public good in the fight over Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.

MARRIAGE OF THE MINDS

The philosopher Agnes Callard'’s search for what one human can be to another human.

MILKING IT

Can breast milk—the gold standard in infant nutrition—bve re-created in a lab?

NEWS IN EXILE

How Russian journalists are covering the war in Ukraine.

Writer's Bloc

What a Serbian British novelist makes of her homelands.

THE PRICE OF BELIEF

The unravelling of Wirecard, the biggest fraud in German history.

THE END OF THE ENGLISH MAJOR

Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

ELEMENTAL NEED

Phosphorus helped save our way of life—and now threatens to end it.

TWITTER CHECK MARKS, UPDATED

Twitter launched a new verified program this winter with manual authentication and different-colored check marks for different types of users. The C.E.O., Elon Musk, tweeted, “Gold checks for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) . . . Painful, but necessary.”

TALKING TO OURSELVES

Can artificial minds heal real ones?

SHOCKING THE CONSCIOUSNESS

The New Age sounds of Laraaji.

MARVELLOUS THINGS

The worlds of Italo Calvino.

THE AFTER-PARTY

The return of Party Down,” on Starz.

MAKING TRACKS

“Cocaine Bear” and The Quiet Girl.”

A G.P.S. Route for My Anxiety

Shouts & Murmurs

A Reporter at Large – After the Gold Rush

How South Africa's abandoned mines filled with men risking their lives for a fortune.

OUT OF FOCUS

\"Pictures from Home\" and \"Cornelia Street.\"

FLUIDITY

Justin Peck finds his feet.

DEATH BECOMES HER

Rebecca Makkai confronts our true-crime obsession.

TURN OFF THE LIGHT

What’s lost when darkness becomes endangered?

THE ART WORLD DUTCH TREAT

A bravura show at the Rijksmuseum gathers more Vermeers at once than the artist himself ever saw.

THE LAST GROWN UP

She heard their footsteps on the stairs. Water running in their bathroom. She sensed her daughters every where, but it was just her imagination.

LETTER FROM ISRAEL MINISTER OF CHAOS

Itamar Ben-Gvir and the politics of reaction.

ANNALS OF INQUIRY YOU FIRST

Does anyone really know what it means to be \"Indigenous\"?

LATE SHIFT

After a career made from amiable roles, Randall Park breaks out of character.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, ordered the invasion of Ukraine, unleashing the full force of his military on an unthreatening neighbor, and the full force of his propagandists on his own population.

TABLES FOR TWO

Legacy Pizza: Naples vs. N.Y.C.

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Ever since Nora, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s proto-feminist masterwork “A Doll’s House,” from 1879, walked out on her husband and out of her domestic cage, actresses have yearned to play her. Jessica Chastain (above, center), last year’s Best Actress Oscar winner, steps into the role for a sixteen-week Broadway run, now in previews at the Hudson, opening March 9. Jamie Lloyd directs a new adaptation, by Amy Herzog, featuring (from left to right) Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Okieriete Onaodowan (“Hamilton”).

Annals of Psychology: Not Fooling Anyone

The dubious rise of impostor syndrome.