Reporting
ProfilesThe designer combines 3-D printing and hand stitching to reimagine the possibilities of the human body.
Letter from LagosIs conservative Nigeria ready for Amaka Osakwe?
The World of FashionWe’ve been dressing up as birds since the Stone Age. Eric Charles-Donatien has brought the craft of featherwork into the twenty-first century.
PortfolioAt Beautycon—where Sephora meets Coachella—cosmetics are sold with the self-empowering language of Instagram.
Annals of PoliticsShe talks about Trump, Comey, collusion, “deplorables,” and the power of sexism.
More ReportingShouts & Murmurs
Shouts & MurmursYou can’t intervene every time your parent plants the entire bag of expensive chia seeds you gave her in her flower garden.
More Shouts & MurmursFiction
Fiction“Eight months later I died in a moped accident in Portugal. One week later I was resurrected in Stockholm.”
More FictionThe Critics
BooksIn Jenny Erpenbeck’s masterly “Go, Went, Gone,” a retired academic befriends asylum-seekers in Berlin.
On TelevisionThe show is a classic David Simon joint, in which sex workers and porn actors are treated like any other alienated workforce.
Briefly Noted“Notes on a Foreign Country,” “Scale,” “Reading with Patrick,” and “Freud’s Trip to Orvieto.”
BooksHer work sees little point in exploring happiness, productivity, or self-understanding. Her focus is the void.
The Current CinemaDarren Aronofsky’s thriller, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, and a chronicle of tennis and sexism, with Steve Carell and Emma Stone.
More CriticismThe Talk of the Town
The Financial PageHow regulators start to serve special interests.
The Musical LifeThe pair on touring together and on their new album, “Everybody Knows.” It’s a collaboration fifty years in the making.
The PicturesIn his new film, “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House,” the writer-director delivers a complex portrait of Deep Throat.
L.A. PostcardA walking tour of where the Fascists and Hitlerites gathered in California.
CommentThe most important lesson of the hurricane is how close to the margins many Americans are now living.
More Talk of the TownGoings On About Town
Goings On About TownIn “Items: Is Fashion Modern?,” a hundred and eleven style specimens—including a white T-shirt, a black leather jacket, and a hijab—appear in the museum.
The TheatreAfter “The Leftovers” and “Fargo,” the actress is starring in the Off Broadway play “Mary Jane,” as a single mother whose child has a chronic illness.
DanceThe choreographer’s breakthrough piece is performed by her company in New York for the first time since 2003.
Tables for TwoThe cocktails are expensive and garage-house beats course through the dining room, but none of that matters once you start eating.
Bar TabAt this bar in Clinton Hill, everything is made in New York and the beer tastes much fresher than the average draught.
More Goings On About TownPoems
Poems“Optical illusion: how cleverly the war begins / in his ’93 Mazda MPV.”
Poems“It is now almost daylight, / I said to the firefly.”
More PoetryThe Mail
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