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Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback”
The cover of the June 22, 2026, issue captures the joy on the streets of the city in the hours following OG Anunoby’s rocket-fuelled tip-in that capped the New...
The Hell-Raising Rocker Who Conquered Country Radio
About a decade ago, an aspiring rock star from Texas named Koe Wetzel had the mixed fortune of writing a song that stuck to him. The verses chronicled one...
In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits
Margaret, following her nutty North Star wherever it leads, would have been right at home in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), in which U.F.O. sightings make enraptured...
Welcome to What We’re Reading
What was the last good thing you read? I get asked this a lot when people learn that I edit book reviews for a living. It can be surprisingly...
In Her Memoir, Jill Biden Continues to Avoid Reality
The best rationale for First Lady memoirs is that the domestic details they offer can serve as a lever, lifting the reader from the mundane to reach some larger...
A World-Class Omakase in America’s Most Landlocked State
Many of the commercial strips in Omaha, a city of about half a million people, have the air of a nineties college town, with low-slung blocks of row houses...
Did a Rowdy English Nobleman Mastermind the American Revolution?
America’s fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled by a transnational élite an ocean away....
John Early Is Ready to Go There
I saw who you were sitting with.She was talking with Wallace Shawn, who was sitting behind me, and an usher told her, “Your seat is over there.” I had...
“Rafa”: the Destruction of a Man, and the Making of a Legend
For tennis champion Rafael Nadal, pain has always felt like weakness leaving the body, and a new Netflix docuseries shows the boons of this ideology, as well as its...
Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It
In search of a better understanding of our current moment, I recently went looking for A.I. adopters outside the tech industry. I asked the C.E.O. of a journalism nonprofit...
