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Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel. | Continue reading
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The queen of video-game acting. | Continue reading
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The scholar Myisha Cherry discusses rage as a tool in the fight against racial injustice. | Continue reading
The writer had a deep bond with his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But he also had a profound connection with Emerson’s wife. | Continue reading
From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong. | Continue reading
The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse? | Continue reading
The whistle-blower Frances Haugen hoped that her revelations would prompt a reckoning. Instead, the company has doubled down. | Continue reading
The co-winner, Dmitry Muratov, is the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, which has lost more journalists to murder than any other Russian news outlet. | Continue reading
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William Finnegan discusses his reporting on the best surfer in the world, Kelly Slater, and how his revolutionary wave machine both advanced and disrupted the surfing industry. | Continue reading
Patricia Highsmith’s diaries and notebooks chart her early work and love life. | Continue reading
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From the magazine’s archive: a selection of extraordinary profiles of the uniquely gifted. | Continue reading
Nick Paumgarten on Ashima Shiraishi, from 2016: If the rock-climbing champion can already scale the hardest ascents in existence at the age of fourteen, what else is possible? | Continue reading
A diary of 2016—the year of Trump, Brexit, and Carol the fox. | Continue reading
In a renewed debate over élite higher education, the question is whether the system is broken or the whole idea was a terrible mistake. | Continue reading
Instagram and TikTok erased the authority of the traditional teen magazine, but teen-agers still want guidance and a community. | Continue reading
TikTok’s Americancore meme critiques cultural appropriation by exoticizing the familiar. Who has the last laugh? | Continue reading
New psychological research suggests that trigger warnings do not reduce negative reactions to disturbing material—and may even increase them. | Continue reading
A conversation with Chris Herd, who foresees a future in which most companies are remote-first. | Continue reading
Why, more than a year and a half into the pandemic, do strange shortages keep popping up in so many corners of American life? | Continue reading
A new manufacturing technique could drastically reduce the footprint of one of our dirtiest materials. | Continue reading
The new “Scenes from a Marriage,” on HBO, avoids the dark questions that Ingmar Bergman confronted in the original. | Continue reading
What happens when the experience of celebrity becomes universal? | Continue reading
By studying crows, a German biologist has helped to solve a centuries-old mystery. | Continue reading
Patients and skeptics are squaring off. Can research heal the rift? | Continue reading
One in five hundred Americans has died in the pandemic, and Republicans are actively rooting for the country to fail. | Continue reading
How one video game tells the story of an industry. | Continue reading
Befriending a rock star isn’t necessarily as cool as you’d think—particularly when tragedy happens. | Continue reading
The guidebook guru discusses a year and a half without seeing Europe, the next chapter in post-pandemic travel, and why you should order whatever beverage the locals are having. | Continue reading
Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization. | Continue reading
In his latest book, “Metahuman,” the doctor and self-help guru touches on some of his signature themes: that science can obscure our potential for self-awareness, and that self-improvement can “move creation itself.” | Continue reading
Can the company co-opt liberals? | Continue reading
Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. | Continue reading
In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them. | Continue reading
Maria Schrader’s film, starring Dan Stevens as a robot designed to be the perfect man, confirms comedy as the playground of philosophy: nothing is funnier or more stirring than the sight of somebody learning how to be. | Continue reading
In a calculated bit of legal trolling, the video-game company has landed a victory with major implications for users and developers alike. | Continue reading
Derek Gow’s maverick efforts to breed and reintroduce rare animals to Britain’s countryside. | Continue reading
Why we’re so tired of optimizing our work lives, and what we should do about it. | Continue reading