Ecologists are trying to undo environmental damage in rain forests, deserts, and cities. Can their efforts succeed even as Narendra Modi pushes for rapid development?
The eighty-nine-year-old novelist has long dealt with apocalyptic themes. But a pair of novels about ill-starred mathematicians takes him down a different road.
The Hulu series, starring Kumail Nanjiani and Murray Bartlett, traces the spectacular rise and sordid fall of a cheesy yet pivotal corner of the sexual revolution.
Andrew Marantz on a consequential election-law case; government-surplus auctions; a new creative peak; Hiroshi Sugimoto in Chelsea; Amber Ruffin’s late nights.
Deals, deals, deals! New York’s municipalities are selling twenty-five-foot fire hoses, a pair of Nikes given to Mayor Bloomberg as a gift, and a school bus without working brakes.
The artist futzes around in his Chelsea studio, where he keeps off-time clocks and fossilized dinosaur eggs, and discusses his redesign of the sculpture garden at the Hirshhorn Museum.
The comedian and host of “The Amber Ruffin Show” (and author, writer for “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Drunk History” guest, and book writer for three musicals) discusses mining laughs from racism.
In Port Richmond, a popular deli has expanded into a restaurant and bakery called San Jeronimo, serving pan dulce and a wide array of Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes.
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