Reporting
Letter from MoscowThe stories of those who survived detention and torture and are now living undercover in Putin’s Russia.
Annals of CrimeAdultery, false identities, and a lethal sedation: a baroque courtroom drama unfolds in upstate New York.
The Publishing WorldThe tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit. Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?
A Reporter at LargeA local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.
More ReportingShouts & Murmurs
Shouts & MurmursShouts & Murmurs: Steve and Chloe have a long history of her not having intercourse with him. But, in fairness to her, she hasn’t seen tonight’s denim yet.
More Shouts & MurmursFiction
Fiction“One by one they fell, backward or forward, and he alone was cutting through the air, bent double over his skis, until he saw her.”
More FictionThe Critics
BooksThe macho icon has been recast as a gender-bending progressive. But what really made his pulse race?
BooksFrancis Spufford’s fiction début is a fast-paced romp, but it keeps its eyes on the moral conundrums of America.
Books“The Hello Girls,” “The Souls of China,” “Miss Burma,” and “My Cat Yugoslavia.”
On TelevisionTwo funky female-ensemble shows, on Netflix and TNT.
Musical EventsTransitions at the Met and the Philharmonic.
The Current CinemaEdgar Wright’s car-chase extravaganza, starring Kevin Spacey and Ansel Elgort, and Bertrand Tavernier’s cornucopian survey of great French moviemaking.
More CriticismThe Talk of the Town
CommentThough the plan is morally shocking, politically it is not.
Wind On Capitol HillWhen David H. Rank learned of Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Agreement on climate change, he resigned and moved home from China.
The PicturesThe director and star of the forthcoming film “The Little Hours” pay a visit to the Cloisters.
Dept. of DirndlsAt a pageant in Hempstead, descendants of the bygone Austrian settlement speculate about the First Lady’s ancestry.
Rumination Dept.The day before his new show opened, the painter and sculptor walked to his gallery in Chelsea and recalled the area as he first knew it.
More Talk of the TownGoings On About Town
Goings On About TownTech bros, Facebook over-sharers, proud parents of the gender-fluid: all feature in Unitard’s new sketch show, “Tard Core—There Are No Safe Words.”
ArtIn “Hypermobility,” the last Whitney show curated by Jay Sanders, the artist’s works become engines for joy.
MOVIES“Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” is a proto-bromance that becomes a crime story halfway through.
Tables for TwoEven nostalgists can agree that Mario Carbone’s iteration has institutional potential.
Bar TabAll profits at this bustling Astor Place bar support institutions threatened by the Trump Administration.
More Goings On About TownPoems
Poems“Who I was depended. / I feared consensus / because stupidity lies / in numbers.”
Poems“Now I’m watching my cohort / master the skills at each grade / of incapacity / and get promoted to the next.”
More PoetryThe Mail
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