Reporting
- The Wayward Press
A Coup at the WestView News
A succession battle involving a fight for the patronage of Sarah Jessica Parker threatens to stop the presses at a Greenwich Village newspaper.
- Onward and Upward in the Garden
What We Learn from Leafing Through Seed Catalogues
They promise forty-pound beets, rhubarb that tastes like wine, tomatoes that look like stained-glass windows, and world salvation. It doesn’t hurt to dream.
- Life and Letters
The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far
After the Afro-Cuban writer H. G. Carrillo died, his husband learned that almost everything the writer had shared about his life was made up—including his Cuban identity.
- Annals of Science
The Little-Known World of Caterpillars
An entomologist races to find them before they disappear.
The Critics
- Books
How America Manufactures Poverty
The sociologist Matthew Desmond identifies specific practices and policies that consign tens of millions to destitution.
- Books
What Conversation Can Do for Us
Our culture is dominated by efforts to score points and win arguments. But do we really talk anymore?
- Books
The Novelist Watching Us Work
For more than twenty years, Maylis de Kerangal has been writing strange, singular books that turn the worlds of our jobs into art.
- Pop Music
Central Cee, Britain’s Hip-Hop Ambassador
The musician takes Americans on a tour of British rap.
- The Art World
Senga Nengudi’s Journeys Through Air, Water, and Sand
In a show at Dia Beacon, the artist explores her poetics of the body and her philosophical belief in flow.
- The Theatre
Jessica Chastain’s Close Listening in “A Doll’s House”
Jamie Lloyd’s ascetic production of Ibsen’s 1879 drama eliminates nearly every conventional marker of character, location, or gesture.
The Talk of the Town
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the battle over abortion pills; in Florida but not of Florida; papering the walls; a field trip with Ben Platt; make way for the alligator.
- Comment
The Expanding Battle Over the Abortion Pill
Republican state attorneys general are threatening action against pharmacies that dispense it, as a federal lawsuit challenges the F.D.A.’s authority to approve it.
- Gone South
A New York Poet Laureate in Deepest, Darkest Florida
Billy Collins strolls among the palm trees to explain why he left Westchester for Winter Park, and why his poems keep getting shorter.
- Stop the Press
Extra! Local Woman Publishes Personal Newspaper for Two Decades
The editor, writer, publisher, and only subject of the sometimes weekly Jennifer Mills News considers stories such as “Woman Finds Hardboiled Egg in Purse.”
- The Boards
When Skinheads Picket Your Broadway Show
Ben Platt, the Tony-winning star of “Dear Evan Hansen” and, now, “Parade,” discusses some links to the character he plays, and discovering that he’s Josh Groban’s cousin.
- Sketchpad
See You on the Q Train, Alligator
New Yorkers want to know, where will a big scaly reptile turn up next?
Shouts & Murmurs
- Shouts & Murmurs
How to Tell If You’re in a TV Show
A rousing, emotional speech often changes minds on television. In real life, not so much.
Cartoons
Fiction
- Sketchbook
Persia on the Periphery: Iran, Imagined
A cartoonist’s view of his parental homeland, gleaned from secondary and secondhand sources.
- Fiction
“False Star,” by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
“As far back as I could remember, I had heard discussion of claim checks.”
Puzzles & Games Dept.
Poems
Goings On About Town
- Art
New Paintings from Gerhard Richter
The German artist returns to New York City with a show of works made during the past seven years, at the Zwirner gallery.
- Tables for Two
The Thrilling Japanese Breakfasts of Brooklyn
Some of the spots offering a beautiful teishoku, or set meal, are Okonomi, in Williamsburg, and Dashi Okume and Rule of Thirds, in Greenpoint.
