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Trump Goes Quiet as the Stock Market Slumps

Having boasted as the Dow Jones was rising, the President can hardly complain if people now associate him with it as it falls.

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Ornate Architectural Grandeur, Captured in Thousands of Digital Photographs

Markus Brunetti’s pictures of church façades have nothing to do with religion but you still have to take them on faith.

“The Cloverfield Paradox” Didn’t Have to Be Bad

The J. J. Abrams-produced movie, which Netflix surprise-released after the Super Bowl, boasts a charismatic cast, but the film has been edited to death.

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Laura Kipnis on the State of #MeToo

The feminist critic says that the power of the movement is being hijacked by institutions in order to control the lives of employees and students.

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Trump Considering Firing Dow Jones Industrial Average

“Seeing the negative Dow numbers in the corner of the TV screen has been wrecking eleven hours of every day for him,” an aide said.

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How to Survive a Cold

Visit the pharmacy, invent a perpetual-nose-blowing machine, and other essential tips.

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The Philosophy of the Midlife Crisis

Can we think our way out of middle-aged ennui?

Malika Favre’s “The Butterfly Effect”

“I wanted to capture the poise and the pose of the original Eustace Tilley dandy, but do it as something extremely simple and modern,” Favre says.

Rachel Kushner on Life in Prison, from the Inside and Outside

The novelist discusses “Stanville,” her short story in this week’s issue of the magazine.

The Imperfect Michelangelo

If Michelangelo had been granted his dying wish, none of the drawings in the Met’s “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer” would have ever been seen.

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“No. Calling first is a sign of weakness.”

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The Animals Who Captivated a Legendary Downtown Photographer

Peter Hujar saw the individuality, and the mystery, in his non-human subjects, too.

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In This Week’s Issue

Love in the Afternoon

A new play tells an abridged history of Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

“Stanville”

“Gordon had dreaded death row but found that it didn’t quite conform to his nightmares.”

Interpretive Protest?

Near City Hall, a dance class called “Body Politic, Somatic Selves” translates movement into a form of resistance.

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The Nunes Memo Undermines the Right’s Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory

The document directly contradicts a right-wing belief about what prompted the investigation into the President’s ties to Russia.

Why Were the Democrats So Worried About the Nunes Memo?

The memo’s true purpose may be to justify firing people in the Justice Department whom Trump doesn’t like—or has already pushed out.

Trump Considering Firing Dow Jones Industrial Average

“Seeing the negative Dow numbers in the corner of the TV screen has been wrecking eleven hours of every day for him,” an aide said.

The Rising Pressure of the #MeToo Backlash

There is a reflexive cry: we shouldn’t lump all male misbehavior together. But little room has been made for the gradations of women’s resistance.

“The Memory Palace”: History in Escapist Vignettes

If you’re in a certain mood, Nate DiMeo’s podcast is transporting, provoking gratitude for its humanistic historical lessons and its creator’s care and attention.

“Winchester” Confronts the American Curse of Firearms

As an heiress haunted by gun deaths, Helen Mirren lends the classical and creaky horror film a quiet grandeur.

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A Night at Nixon’s, and Laura Kipnis on the State of #MeToo

A provocative feminist critic of “sexual paranoia” explains why #MeToo has gone too far and not far enough. Plus, a few daiquiris with Richard Nixon.

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