Annals of Education
Prep for Prep and the Fault Lines in New York’s Schools
Do programs that help low-income students of color get into selective private schools obscure the system’s deeper inequalities?
by Vinson Cunningham
A Reporter At Large
Survivor’s Guilt In The Mountains
Alpinists are intimately familiar with death and grief. A therapist thinks he can address the unique needs of these élite athletes.
by Nick Paumgarten
American Chronicles
Can Slavery Reënactments Set Us Free?
Underground Railroad simulations have ignited controversy about whether they confront the country’s darkest history or trivialize its gravest traumas.
by Julian Lucas
A Reporter at Large
The Fight To Save An Innocent Refugee From Almost Certain Death
Omar Ameen came to the U.S. to escape the violence in Iraq. Now he’s accused of being a member of an ISIS hit squad.
by Ben Taub
American Chronicles
The Fight To Preserve African-American History
Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.
by Casey Cep
Dept. of Wormholes
A Tale of Two Harveys
Stranger than fiction! One of Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers represented a man who, in 1993, kidnapped another Harvey Weinstein and kept him captive for twelve days in a pit next to the West Side Highway.
by Bruce Handy
Personal History
Tabula Rasa
Volume One
by John McPhee
The Current Cinema
Greta Gerwig’s Raw, Startling “Little Womenâ€
What emerges from Gerwig’s adaptation is a strong sense that indignation is not just the natural lot of women but their rousing right.
by Anthony Lane
Profiles
Scenes from the Life of Roz Chast
In the past four decades, the cartoonist has created a universe of spidery lines and nervous spaces, turning anxious truth-telling into an authoritative art.
by Adam Gopnik
Letter from Moscow
The Kremlin’s Creative Director
How the television producer Konstantin Ernst went from discerning auteur to Putin’s unofficial minister of propaganda.
by Joshua Yaffa