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The Sporting SceneHe has been called the most talented player since Roger Federer. But does he even want to win?
Annals of CultureWhat “The Merchant of Venice” taught me about ethnic hatred and the literary imagination.
A Reporter at LargeWith right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether.
More ReportingShouts & Murmurs
Shouts & MurmursJeff Sessions was in such frequent contact with Sergey Kislyak that they would often both fall asleep while FaceTiming.
More Shouts & MurmursFiction
Comic StripReading all the mean things I said about her on Facebook, and other fresh terrors the future may hold.
Fiction“Oghi knew that his mother-in-law was worried about him. He also knew that she blamed him. He was the reason that her one and only child was gone.”
More FictionThe Critics
BooksNo maestro was more revered—or more reviled. On the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, it’s time to give him a fair hearing.
BooksPhilip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther solves crimes for Nazi Germany. Why do we like him so much?
BooksEmmanuel Carrère’s “The Kingdom” explores how a tiny sect became a global religion.
Books“Paradise Lost,” “Abandon Me,” “Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World,” and “Do I Make Myself Clear?”
Pop MusicThe country and folk singer shows that there is something gloriously American about turning pain into business.
The Theatre“Marvin’s Room,” “1984,” and “Seeing You” all feature dying as an imminent possibility or reality, but each handles it differently.
The Current CinemaA touching twist on the haunted-house genre, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, and Bong Joon-ho’s fantasy about a genetically modified superpig.
More CriticismThe Talk of the Town
CommentReading Frederick Douglass’s Independence Day address from 1852 may ease the despair caused by listening to the President.
At City HallDelegates of New York night life argue for the repeal of the cabaret law, which prohibits dancing in venues without a license.
The PicturesThe actress, who plays a fiercely protective mom in both “The Big Sick” and “Strange Weather,” remembers her start.
Vibrations Dept.Over the course of three months of anxiety-producing headlines, the Rubin collected more than ten thousand chants.
The Financial PageWhat makes investors push out a C.E.O.? Scandal, yes. But also plain old fear for their money.
More Talk of the TownGoings On About Town
Classical MusicAngela Meade, one of the Met’s brightest stars, ends the festival’s glorious run.
Classical MusicThe prodigious multi-instrumentalist and composer transcends the borders of jazz, classical, and experimental music.
The TheatreStephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical draws out what’s scary and silly about America’s armed malcontents.
DanceThe great, elegiac documentary on tap dance is restored.
Tables for TwoIt looks like a sultry night club and tastes like the feast of a Bedouin sheikh.
Bar TabCape House’s coastal décor and littlenecks on the half shell make it easy to believe you’re in the favorite watering hole of a quiet fishing village.
More Goings On About TownPoems
Poems“Though there was subtlety in how Miles muttered, / One always ached to hear a song line uttered / With definition, lyrical and real.”
Poems“On days off / it still goes in— / wrecking balls are / workaholics.”
More PoetryThe Mail
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