A Sense of Where He’s Been
by Thomas Beller
Bill Bradley, a staid member of the rarefied (the Rhodes Scholarship), the very rarefied (the U.S. Senate), and the super-rarefied (the Knicks’ two championship teams), premières his autobiographical one-man Broadway show, “Rolling Along.”
David Byrne Does Broadway on the Fly
by Rich Benjamin
When COVID sidelined cast and crew of “American Utopia,” Byrne offered ticket holders a refund or the option to attend a reimagined performance with whatever cast members could cook up in a few days.
China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class
by Peter Hessler
My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.
The Afghans America Left Behind
by Eliza Griswold
The U.S. promised protection to the locals it relied on during the war. When it withdrew, it abandoned thousands to the Taliban.
Alison Roman Just Can’t Help Herself
by Lauren Collins
A food-world star’s method and mess.
The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising
by Dexter Filkins
How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.
The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
by Ian Urbina
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.
How the World’s Foremost Maze-Maker Leads People Astray
by Nicola Twilley
Adrian Fisher has devoted the past four decades to bringing back mazes, long regarded as historical curiosities. He has created more than seven hundred—including one on a skyscraper in Dubai and another that’s now reproduced on Britain’s five-pound note.
Can Russia’s Press Ever Be Free?
by Masha Gessen
The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.
The Great Organic-Food Fraud
by Ian Parker
There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.