Invasion of the Robot Umpires
by Zach Helfand
The minor leagues have been testing the Automated Ball-Strike System. But isn’t yelling and screaming about bad calls half the fun of baseball?
Invasion of the Robot Umpires
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On Air with the Greatest Radio Station in the World
On Air with the Greatest Radio Station in the World
by David Owen
WPKN-FM—on which you can hear a Stevie Wonder song performed by an all-women jazz septet or twenty minutes of Tuvan throat singing—moves to a new location in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell
The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.
The Epic Style of Kerry James Marshall
The Epic Style of Kerry James Marshall
by Calvin Tomkins
The artist, a virtuoso of landscape, portraiture, still-life, history painting, and other genres of the Western canon since the Renaissance, can do anything.
Going Public
New York’s Dreamy, Disorienting Reopening
Photography by Matthew Pillsbury
Text by Zach Helfand
Matthew Pillsbury’s long-exposure photographs capture the return of crowds after COVID lockdown. As communal city life comes back, can we find one another?
Lyubov Sobol’s Hope for Russia
Lyubov Sobol’s Hope for Russia
by Masha Gessen
With Alexey Navalny in prison, one of his closest aides is carrying on the lonely work of the opposition.
Questlove Remembers the Black Woodstock
Questlove Remembers the Black Woodstock
by Bruce Handy
In his fight against Black erasure, the Roots drummer, who has amassed two hundred thousand LPs (plus bags full of “Soul Train†VHS tapes), makes his directorial début with “Summer of Soul,†about the mostly forgotten series of concerts in Harlem, in 1969.
The entire Talk of the Town
- The Plague After the Plague by Nick Paumgarten
- An Expedition to New York Harbor’s Secret, Transient Island by Robert Sullivan
- A Hundredth-Birthday Serenade, from Bill Murray by Sarah Larson
- Feeding the Chef Who Fed Eisenhower and de Gaulle by Rachel Felder
- The Supreme Court’s Surprising Term by Jeannie Suk Gersen
The Formidable Charm of Omar Sy
The Formidable Charm of Omar Sy
by Lauren Collins
How the star of “Lupin†pulled off his greatest confidence trick.
How a City Comes Back to Life
How a City Comes Back to Life
by Adam Gopnik
After a year of tragedy and uncertainty, New Yorkers are revisiting old haunts—and sharing them with new faces.