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A BELATED DÉBUT

An 1887 opera by the Black composer Edmond Dédé finally appears onstage.

FLIRTING WITH DISASTER

\"Chicken Shop Date\" gives the celebrity interview a screwball spin.

SHADOW WARRIOR

How a career spy helped shape his country's defense against Russia.

Masks OFF

He spent his teen years concealing his sexuality. Now BENITO SKINNER IS mining that awkward time for art

VIBE CHECK

WITH 2024 IN THE REARVIEW, HIGH-RANKING DEMOCRATS ARE FINALLY ARRIVING AT THE HARD TRUTH THAT THEIR PARTY IS UNWELL. \"DISARRAY\" DOESN'T QUITE COVER IT. AS FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING ABOUT IT-AND WHETHER THEY CAN EVER WREST THE COUNTRY BACK FROM TRUMP AND TRUMPISMIT DEPENDS ON WHOM YOU ASK

WHERE DEI Went to D-I-E

Many people of color in Hollywood suspected it was mostly window dressing—and they’ve been proven right

Gastronomic IMMUNITY

Washington, DC's ascendant dining scene prepares to seat a second Trump administration

No WONDER

RUPERT EVERETT reveals what’s behind his new collection of short stories, a meditation on rejection

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

AS THE SENSATIONAL HIT SERIES THAT LAUNCHED HER CAREER COMES TO AN END, MILLIE BOBBY BROWN HAS A PLAN TO SUSTAIN THE MOMENTUMALL WHILE SAYING NO AS MUCH AS SHE NEEDS TO AND LIVING ON A FARM IN GEORGIA. WHY NOT? STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED

NYPD CONFIDENTIAL

Along with a contingent of detectives and undercover operatives, the NYPD's counterterror czar, Rebecca Weiner, defends New York City and the nation against enemies foreign and domestic. ADAM CIRALSKY reports from inside the country's most elite local law enforcement agency

SECOND ACT

SMASH, THE SHORT-LIVED 2012 TV SERIES, DEVELOPED A DEDICATED CULT FOLLOWING. NOW, STEVEN SPIELBERG AND COMPANY HAVE RESURRECTED IT FOR BROADWAY. MICHAEL RIEDEL TELLS THE BACKSTORY OF THE ORIGINAL SHOW AND THE NEW PRODUCTION, REVEALING THE MAD RHAPSODIES OF MAKING A MUSICAL

Ahead of Their Time

Excavations reveal the surprising sophistication of Copper Age villagers in southwestern Iran 6,000 years ago

THE SHELL SEEKERS

How hunter-gatherers in northern Florida facing an uncertain future revived a powerful symbol of their past

AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE REBORN

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens

UNEARTHING ANELUSIVE EMPIRE

Archaeologists have discovered rare evidence of an enlightened medieval dynasty that ruled much of Central Asia

The Secrets of Porvenir

Remembering the victims of a 1918 massacre that shook a Texas border community

ROYAL FLUSH

The fall of red.

CHUKA

I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name.

Kevin Young on James Baldwin's "Letter from a Region in My Mind"

The reputation of the writer James Baldwin rose and fell during his lifetime, but since his death, in 1987, his star has only ascended.

PERSONAL HISTORY - A VISIT TO MADAM BEDI

I was estranged from my own mother, so a friend tried to lend me his.

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Mike White's mischievous morality plays.

A TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE TO YOUR MOVING WALL OF SPIKES

Problem: Moving wall of spikes starts inching across room toward victim, stops midway; straining sounds.

THE CONTROL OF NATURE - HELICOPTER PARENTS

The daring attempts to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES - WAR OF WORDS

Editors, writers, and the making of a magazine.

LIVE FROM NEW YORK

A new docuseries commemorates fifty years of \"Saturday Night Live.\"

SUBJECT AND OBJECT

What happened when Lillian Ross profiled Ernest Hemingway.

TANGLED WEB

An arachnophobe pays homage to the spider.

STEPPING OUT

High-school band contests turn marching into a sport—and an art.

Rachel Aviv on Janet Malcolm's "Trouble in the Archives"

As Janet Malcolm worked on \"Trouble in the Archives,\" a two-part piece about prominent psychoanalysts who disagreed about Freud, she began a correspondence with Kurt Eissler, the head of the Sigmund Freud Archives.

Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion's "everywoman.com"

Joan Didion: one thinks of the Stingray, the mohair throw and the typewriter, bloodshed in Laurel Canyon, the decaying Summer of Love.