Reporting
- A Reporter at Large
When Law Enforcement Alone Can’t Stop the Violence
Amid a murder crisis in America, community-based solutions have received a flood of funding. How effective are they?
- Onward and Upward with the Arts
Hildegard of Bingen Composes the Cosmos
How a visionary medieval nun became a towering figure in early musical history.
- Letter from Ukraine
The Hunt for Russian Collaborators in Ukraine
As occupied territories are liberated, some residents face accusations that they sided with the enemy.
- Annals of Entertainment
What Became of the Oscar Streaker?
After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk.
The Critics
- A Critic at Large
When Americans Lost Faith in the News
Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don’t. What happened to the power of the press?
- Books
Briefly Noted
“Pirate Enlightenment,” “The Scythian Empire,” “The Sense of Wonder,” and “The Guest Lecture.”
- Musical Events
The Ageless Exuberance of Michael Tilson Thomas
In the face of serious illness, the conductor led two memorable programs at the L.A. Phil.
- The Theatre
The One-Person Show, Served Three Ways
In “Small Talk,” “Without You,” and “cryptochrome,” Colin Quinn, Anthony Rapp, and Evan Silver take the mike.
- On Television
It’s Sunny with a Chance of Murder in Natasha Lyonne’s “Poker Face”
The case-a-week series, on Peacock, directed by Rian Johnson, is a warm homage to traditional mysteries. “Paul T. Goldman,” on the same platform, is more experimental—and more disturbing.
The Talk of the Town
Jelani Cobb on the battles over Black studies; against the odds; on pies and Sondheim; Welcome, Ruthie Rogers!; preschoolers have the power.
- Comment
Ron DeSantis Battles the African American A.P. Course—and History
The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true.
- Wind On Capitol Hill
Meet the Man Who Brought You George Santos
Chris Grant, the founder of Big Dog Strategies, consulted on more than a hundred Republican campaigns last year. His hero: Karl Rove.
- The Boards
Meat Pies (One Meatless) with “Sweeney Todd” ’s Newest Stars
Annaleigh Ashford (Mrs. Lovett) and Josh Groban (the demon barber of Fleet Street) compare notes on their early Sondheimian setbacks.
- Glorious Food
Your Food’s Alter Ego
The restaurateur Ruthie Rogers attends a party for her new book, which matches dishes (a loaf of focaccia) with a photographic echo (a tote bag flattened by tires).
- Atlanta Postcard
Tots vs. Cop City
Preschoolers at an anti-racist school in East Atlanta speak out against a police-training center to be built in the woods nearby, then play with blocks.
Shouts & Murmurs
- Shouts & Murmurs
What Does Writing Smell Like?
What kind of scented candle will help me face the blank page? Cotton? Piña colada? Oil-smeared rags?
Cartoons
Fiction
- Fiction
“The Middle Voice”
“It first happened the winter after she turned sixteen. The language that had pricked and confined her like clothing made from a thousand needles abruptly disappeared.”
Puzzles & Games Dept.
Poems
Goings On About Town
- Art
The Striking Public Art of Shahzia Sikander
The Pakistani American artist’s sculptures, in a project titled “Havah . . . to breathe, air, life,” are on view in Madison Square Park.
- Tables for Two
Traditional British Meats and Beyond, at Lord’s
In Greenwich Village, the proprietors of Dame offer exciting vegetables and seafood that balance out the heaviness of bloody steaks, Scotch eggs, and savory pies.
