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 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
by Adam Gopnik
After a year of tragedy and uncertainty, New Yorkers are revisiting old haunts—and sharing them with new faces.
How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers
by Rachel Monroe
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.
Are U.S. Officials Under Silent Attack?
by Adam Entous
The Havana Syndrome first affected spies and diplomats in Cuba. Now it has spread to the White House.
The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant
by Rebecca Mead
On a hillside ages ago, people inscribed a naked man with a twenty-six-foot-long erect penis. Why did they do it?
Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?
by Douglas Preston
The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.
An Artist on How He Survived the Chain Gang
by Winfred Rembert
You have to play a role that isn’t really you. It’s like slavery. You have to meet all those demands and keep a sense of yourself as well.
“Fending” and Other Terms for Fridge-Foraging Dinners
by Roz Chast
“Getcheroni,” “eek,” “having weirds,” “going Darwin,” “OYO” (on your own), and “farrapo velho”—Portuguese for “old rag.”