JANUARY
Jorie Graham Takes The Long View
The Fossil Flowers That Rewrote The History Of Life
A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class
Behind The Humiliation Of Kevin McCarthy
Hell On Two Wheels, Until The E-Bike’s Battery Runs Out
Kevin McCarthy Is Not The Only Loser In The House G.O.P.’s Speaker Mess
Maggie Haberman, The Confidence Man’s Chronicler
Janelle Monae Peels The Onion
How Much Netflix Can The World Absorb?
UPS And The Package Wars
The Crisis Of Missing Migrants
How Should We Think About Our Different Styles Of Thinking?
Franz Kafka, Party Animal
Todd Field’s Long Road To “TAR”
The Mayor And The Con Man
The Getty Family’s Trust Issues
Can 3-D Printing Help Solve The Housing Crisis?
The Corrupt World Behind The Murdaugh Murders
Tala Madani’s Art Is A Raucous Assault
There’s Only One Thing To Call Biden’s New Scandal: Political Malpractice
Could Ultrasound Replace The Stethoscope?
The Biden-Documents Mess
After Bolsonaro, Can Lula Remake Brazil?
Nobody Has My Condition But Me
Rereading Russian Classics In The Shadow Of The Ukraine War
What’s The Matter With Men?
What Monks Can Teach Us About Paying Attention
How Native Americans Will Shape The Future Of Water In The West
The Police Folklore That Helped Kill Tyre Nichols
A Hunt For Russian Collaborators In Ukraine
When Law Enforcement Alone Can’t Stop The Violence
FEBRUARY
What Ron Klain Learned In The White House
What Became Of The Oscar Streaker?
Hildegard Of Bingen Composes The Cosmos
The Meaning Of African American Studies
The New G.O.P. Takes The Country Hostage With The Debt Ceiling
The Defiance Of Salman Rushdie
Austin’s Astonishing Transformation
Joe Biden, Once Again, Lucks Out With His Enemies
Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It
Fighting Negligence and Bias In Turkey’s Earthquake Response
The Forgotten History Of Head Injuries In Sports
Hayley Williams, Without A Guidebook
Angela Bassett’s Undeniable Royalty
Cate Blachett Plays Herself
Sandra Oh’s Sense Of Purpose
The Man Behind India’s Controversial Global Blockbuster “RRR”
How The War In Ukraine Ends
The Case For Free-Range Lab Mice
A Year Of Putin’s Wartime Lies
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister Of Chaos
Randall Park Breaks Out Of Character
The Dystopian Underworld Of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines
It’s Time To Rethink The Idea Of The “Indigenous”
An Anniversary Of Destruction, Loss, And Bravery In Ukraine
Watching Tucker Carlson For Work
Sliding Toward A New Cold War
The End Of The English Major
How The Biggest Fraud In German History Unravelled
MARCH
Phosphorus Saved Our Way Of Life – And Now Threatens To End It
The Worlds Of Italo Calvino
Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness?
Maria Pavchikh, Putin’s Grand Inquisitor
The Republicans Begin To Eye 2024
The Fight Over Penn Station And Madison Square Garden
Agnes Callard’s Marriage Of The Minds
How Russian Journalists In Exile Are Covering The War In Ukraine
Biomilq And the New Science Of Artificial Breast Milk
What Are We Protecting Children From By Banning Books?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Trans Rights
The Expanding Battle Over The Abortion Pill
A Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far
What We Still Don’t Understand About Postpartum Psychosis
A Coup At The Westview News
What We Learn From Leafing Through Seed Catalogues
What Secrets Does The “Donald Trump Of Beijing” Know?
What’s The Path Forward For Haiti?
The Curtain Rises ON Trump’s Legal Dramas
The Button-Pushing Impresario Of Balenciaga
Will Ozempic Change How We Think About Being Fat And Being Thin?
How the Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Made America Cool Again
J. Crew And The Paradoxes Of Prep
How To Spend Your City’s Money
The Myth Of The Alpha Wolf
How Republicans Are Handling Trump’s Possible Indictment
The Dirty Secrets Of A Smear Campaign
Has Netanyahu’s Assault On Israeli Democracy Been Stopped?
The Wild World Of Music
How Christian Is Christian Nationalism?
An American Tragedy, Act III
APRIL
The Unexpected Grief Of A Hysterectomy
The Trump Show Moves To A Courtroom
Living In Adoption’s Emotional Aftermath
The Return Of The Non-Stop Trump News Cycle
America’s First Indicted Ex-President Is Very Sorry – For Himself
How The I.R.A. Almost Blew Up The British Government
Inside The Hush-Money Payments That May Decide Trump’s Legal Fate
How Will Donald Trump’s Trial Play On The Campaign Trail?
What’s Behind The Fight Between Pope Francis And The Latin Mass Movement?
The Covert Mission To Solve A Mexican Journalist’s Murder
Why Were Two Female Running Champions Killed In Kenya?
How One Mother’s Love For Her Gay Son Started A Revolution
The Exhausting History Of Fatigue
How Slutty Vegan Puts The Party In Plant-Based Food
How I Was Reborn
Leslie Marmon Silko Saw It Coming
Crooks’ Mistake Bet On Encrypted Phones
How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?
Fertility’s Future
Taco Bell’s Innovation Kitchen, The Front Line In The Stunt-Food Wars
What Happens When You Kill Your King
The Gospel Of Candace Owens
How Allan Gurganus Became A Writer
The Great Electrician Shortage
A Heat Shield For The Most Important Ice On Earth
India’s Quest To Build The World’s Largest Solar Farms
The Climate Crisis Gives Sailing Ships A Second Wind
The Sad Dads Of The National
Can Charles Keep Quiet As King?
Tucker Carlson And The Right
MAY
The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai
Paul Schrader Wants To Make Another Movie
The Making Of Jackie Kennedy
A Fire Started In Waco. Thirty Years Later, it’s Still Burning
Jordan Neely’s Death And A Critical Moment In the Homelessness Crisis
In The Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker – By Design
Will Trump’s Crimes Matter On The Campaign Trail?
The Problem With Planned Parenthood
Turkey’s Earthquake Election
Notes From Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter
The Parents Who Fight The City For A “Free Appropriate Public Education”
Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Perilous Power Of Respectability
The Price Of A Father’s Labor
Remembering My Hijacking
Earth League International Hunts The Hunters
How A Disaster Expert Prepares For The Worst
How Philipp Plein Became The King Of Lowbrow High Fashion
How To Quit Cars
“Debt-Limit Terror” Is No Way To Run A Superpower
Upstaged By Marlon Brando
Guns, Trump, And The G.O.P.
The Tortured Bond Of Alice Sebold And The Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Her Rape
What We Owe Our Trees
Two Weeks At The Front In Ukraine
Putting Black Cuisine At The Center Of U.S. History
The History Of Nepo Babies Is The History Of Humanity
Notes on Losing
Tom Hanks On The Rewards And “Vicious Reality” Of Making Movies
How To Hire A Pop Star For your Private Party
The Case For And Against Ed Sheeran
Kem Petras Wants To Be A Superstar
JUNE
The Sound And Fury Of the House Freedom Caucus
The Secret Soul Of Stax
Look What Taylor Made Us Do
How Richard Hell Found His Vocation
How The Marvel Cinematic Universe Swallowed Hollywood
Does This Writer Actually Know Tennessee Williams?
How A Fringe Legal Theory Became A Threat To Democracy
A Mother’s Exchange For Her Daughter’s Future
The Legal Dynamics Of Trump’s Second Indictment
The View From Inside Beatlemania
How Will The G.O.P. Field Respond To Donald Trump’s Indictment?
Biden’s Dilemma At The Border
Daniel Bard Made An Improbable Comeback. The He Had To Do It Again
Is Donald Trump Scared?
How Dowries Are Fuelling A Femicide Epidemic
Pilvi Takala And The Art Of Awkwardness
The Age Of Chat
Trump’s Brazen And Breathtaking Defense
What Can We Do About Pandemic-Related Learning Loss?
Why Sarah Jessica Parker Keeps Playing Carrie Bradshaw
When Dying Patients Want Unproven Drugs
Is the Army’s New Tactical Bra Ready For Deployment?
How A Frenchman Stole Two Billion Dollars’ Worth Of Art
The Case Against Travel
The Wagner Group Is A Crisis Of Putin’s Own Making
The Perils And Promises Of Penis-Enlargement Surgery
The Double Education Of My Twins’ Chinese School
The Divine Comedy Of Roman Emperors’ Last Words
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us
The Supreme Court Overturns Fifty Years Of Precedent On Affirmative Action
JULY
The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting To Happen”
After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toy Box
On Killing Charles Dickens
After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toy Box
Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, And The City
“The Kitchen God”
“Colorin Colorado”
“P’s Parties”
What We’re Reading This Summer
What To Do With Climate Emotions
Are You My Mother?
Reinventing The E.R. For America’s Mental-Health Crisis
What COVID Revealed About American Psychiatry
The Invention Of “The Male Gaze”
Growing Up In The House Of Freud
The Parent Of A Teenager Is An Emotional-Garbage Collector
Country Music’s Culture Wars And The Remaking Of Nashville
Haiti Held Hostage
A New Approach To M.S. Could Transform Treatment Of Other Diseases
How “Oppenheimer” And “Barbie” Bring Monumental Figures To Life
Finally, The Trump Case We’ve Been Waiting For
What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me
The World Cup And The Frustrating, Inspiring State Of Women’s Soccer
How Larry Gagosian Reshaped The Art World
A Small-Town Paper Lands A Very Big Story
Should Hotel Chains Be Held Liable For Human Trafficking?
The Perils Of Highly Processed Food
Alex Spiro Keeps The Rich And Famous Above The Law
Why Barbie Must Be Punished
Israel On The Brink
Inside The Wagner Group’s Armed Uprising
AUGUST
How An Amateur Diver Became A True-Crime Sensation
Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself
Lisa Yuskavage’s Bodies Of Work
Trump’s Subdued Courtroom Appearance
The Hidden Harms Of CPR
The Challenges Of Trump’s Third, Momentous Indictment
Eric Adams’s Administration Of Bluster
The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools
What Should You Do With An Oil Fortune?
How Sudan Archives Became The Violin’s Domme
Disappointment’s Disciplining Power
The Problem Of Nature Writing
An Ambassador Without A Country
The Ukrainians Forced To Flee To Russia
In Georgia, Trump And His Gang Get The Mob Treatment
What Happens To All The Stuff We Return?
How The Writer And Critic Jacqueline Rose Puts The World On The Couch
How Carl Linnaeus Set Out Label All Of Life
Bringing Up Lady Bird
Noname’s Ambivalent Triumphant Comeback
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
The Mobster Cosplay Of Donald Trump
David Zaslav, Hollywood Antihero
A Chaotic Display Of Conservatism At The First Republican Debate
What A Heat Wave Does To Your Body
Watching Childhood End In My Back Yard
How The Authors Of The Bible Spun Triumph From Defeat
How A Man In Prison Stole Millions From Billionaires
The Case For Negotiation With Russia
Scenes From Hollywood’s Hot Labor Summer
What Are Dreams For?
SEPTEMBER
Virtual-Reality School As The Ultimate School Choice
The Transformative, Alarming Power Of Gene Editing
Donald Trump And The Pardon Debate
Can We Talk To Whales?
The Lies In Your Grocery Store
Life And Death In America’s Hottest City
George Eliot’s Holy Heresies
The Force Behind Film Forum
A Departure From Reality
The Challenges Facing Joe Biden
A Journey From Homelessness To A Room Of One’s Own
Ross Douthat’s Theories Of Persuasion
How A Culture War Over Race Engulfed A School District
The Secret Life And Anonymous Death Of A Prolific War-Crimes Investigator
Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”
Lost In The Mountains
The Covid Bump
How Thom Browne’s Gray Suit Conquered American Fashion
Jeremy O. Harris, Before And After “Slave Play”
A Young Architect’s Designs For The Climate Apocalypse
The Bloomsbury Group Is Back In Vogue
Best Foot Forward
The Last Gun I Shot
The Washington Gerontocracy
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Family Bubble
Is An All-Meat Diet What Nature Intended?
The Emotionally Haunted Electronic Music Of Oneohtrix Point Never
The Crosstalk Chaos Of The Second Republican Debate
China’s Underground Historians Battle The Politics Of Amnesia
They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work A Lie?
OCTOBER
Biden, Trump, And What’s At Stake In The U.A.W. Strike
The Next Targets For The Group That Overturned Roe
They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work A Lie?
Among The Cabin Fanatics Of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty
Kwame Onwuachi’s Cuisine Of The Self
How Queer Is “Frankenstein”?
The Long History Of Jewface
Patrick Stewart Boldly Goes There
The Crimes Behind The Seafood You Eat
Israel’s Calamity – And After
A Trans Teen In An Anti-Trans State
Under The Carpetbag
The Impossible Dilemma Of Gaza
The Unholy Son
The Problem Of The Too-Truthful Woman
The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle
When Foster Parents Don’t Want To Give Back The Baby
Beyond The Myth Of Rural America
The Devastation Of Be’eri
Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest For Power
Another Hospital in Gaza is Bleeding
Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest For Power
China’s Age Of Malaise
Why Tupac Never Died
If Not Now, Later
Why We Need To Talk About Marriage
In The Cities Of Killing
On The Line
In The Cities Of Killing
Why Maui Burned
NOVEMBER
Teachers Against Tests
How Israel is Splitting the Democrats
Boxed Out
Women Talking
Can Seawalls Save Us?
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Complex
Reinventing The Dinosaur
Desert Captives
The Israeli Crackdown On Speech
The Math And Magic Of Necktie Knots
The Rivals
How to Maintain Hope In An Age Of Catastrophe
The Godfather Of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
In Front Of Their Faces
What The Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
The Sphere And Our “Immersion” Complex
Bravo In The Flesh
“According To Alice”
Holly Herndon’s Infinite Art
Joyce Carol Oates’s Prolific Search For A Self
The Fall Of My Teenage Self
One Family’s Perilous Escape From Gaza city
Memories Of Thanksgivings Abroad And In Between
Ghost, Writer
Point Blank
The Death Of A Relic Hunter
What Happens To A School Shooter’s Sister?
The Man Behind The Nose
The Chosen Chip
Star Crossed
DECEMBER
The Inside Story Of Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI
Who Gets to Play in Women’s Leagues?
Dolly Parton Salutes Rock And Roll
The Mistrial
Jessie Itzler’s Secrets Of Success
Close To The Bone
Life in the Assholocene
Terms Of Aggrievement
In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
How Hamas Used Sexual Violence On October 7th
What Makes A Murder?
Sleeper Cells
Watch This Space
Don’t Laugh
How A Student Group Is Politicizing A Generation On Palestine
What Would It Mean To Treat Animals Fairly?
The Chancellor Of Berkeley Weighs In
Vanishing Panels
Speed
Shots Fired
Game Theory
Rearrangements
When Philosophers Become Therapists
Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle
Greetings, Friends!
Unsafe Passage
The Great Exhaustion
The Ventriloquist
Has Gratuity Reached A Tipping Point?
How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?