What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine
by Joshua Yaffa
After thwarting a quick victory for Russia, Ukrainians are galvanized—and facing a punitive assault.
What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine
The Access Trap.
What Happens When an Élite Public School Becomes Open to All?
by Nathan Heller
After the legendarily competitive Lowell High School dropped selective admissions, new challenges—and new opportunities—arose.
The Inimitable.
The Crisis That Nearly Cost Charles Dickens His Career
by Louis Menand
The most beloved writer of his age, he had an unfailing sense of what the public wanted—almost.
Late Harvest
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
by Dorothy Wickenden
Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward.
How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit
How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit
by Jonathan Blitzer
The musician’s political persecution pushed him into a career he was never sure he wanted.
Tabula Rasa: Volume Three.
Tabula Rasa: Volume Three.
by John McPhee
Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
by Jane Mayer
Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.
A Sense of Where He’s Been
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.â€
David Byrne Does Broadway on the Fly
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
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.