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What Led Peru’s Former President to Take His Own Life?
Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.
The Lingering of Loss
My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest.
Stormzy at Glastonbury: King Michael Wears His Crown
There was something overwhelming and surreal about watching him as he leapt back and forth, beseeching us to match his boundless energy with our own, until we realized: Oh, yeah, that’s what a leader looks like.
Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?
Joe Biden’s son is under scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life.
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On the Road with Mitski
The musician, who writes achingly intense songs about private yearnings, has spent the past year in performance venues packed with fellow-loners.
A Word of Thanks for My Compression Socks
There’s something about starting at the bottom of your feet and squeezing all your excess up, as though you were a tube of toothpaste. Your body feels lighter, your head feels clearer, your limbs feel freer.
“Spider-Man: Far from Home”: The Illusion of a Good Movie
The latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a work of crude and trendy distinctions between material realities and fabricated media images.
Robert Caro on L.B.J., Robert Moses, and His Own Career
The journalist and biographer discusses his famous subjects and their use of power, his reporting methods, and the time he got called out by one of his professors at Princeton.
Coming Back to Ackee and Salt Fish
Our meals are associated with memories, but that’s not to say that we can’t carve out new ones. The things that we run away from can be the same things that call us home.
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The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music
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From This Week’s Issue
Go Bold at Da Long Yi Hot Pot
At the chain’s first American outpost, which distinguishes itself with a three-flavor pot, make like a Chengdu local and try pig brain and pork kidney.
Off-Kilter Humor on “Los Espookys” and “Alternatino”
The surreal, absurdist aesthetics of the silly and satisfying new series can be loose and healthily illogical, with plenty of big laughs.
Jim Jarmusch Is Afraid of Cherubs and Abe Lincoln
The director of “The Dead Don’t Die” on headstone symbols, mycology, how ghouls should move, and why zombies are having a moment.
“Uncle Jim Called”
“I held my breath, trying to hear. But I couldn’t understand a word. Or, rather, a word here and there was all I could understand. The sense eluded me.”