Bad Bunny in Captivity
How does a Latin-pop superstar spend lockdown? Hanging out with his girlfriend, watching ‘Toy Story’ and surprising the world.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Root Bound"
A couple's attempt to create an offspring from nature.
Motherhood Through The Looking 'Gram
The cost of parents sharing their lives on Instagram.
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
Health-care workers have been on the job throughout the pandemic. What can they teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown?
A Biblical Mystery at Oxford
A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
David Haskell is the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine.
“Fingers crossed, knock on wood, we've got time here. You can't ever take that for granted, but I think it's fair to indulge a long-term perspective. More than fair, actually — I think it's part of the job, for me at least, to be plotting and dreaming years out. And to be fashioning the magazine toward that long-term vision as gingerly as I can without it breaking.”
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Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic
Production was shut down three times, the stars often clashed, and studio executives were baffled. Here’s how a difficult shoot led to an Oscar-winning masterpiece.
My Appetites
On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.
The Hacker Who Saved the Internet
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.
The King of Quarantine
“Yesterday I was just googling, I was going on YouTube to see how to microwave pasta.”
The CEO of Hamilton Inc.
A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.
Absence of Answers
Reexamining the murder of James Jordan.
The Truck Stop Killer
When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. Twenty-seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.
I Tried Hypnosis to Deal with My Pandemic Anxiety, and Got Something Much Weirder
Exploring your subconscious during quarantine.
Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea
The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
“We know we down in this shithole together.”
Prayers for Richard
A profile of Little Richard in the last years of his life, confined to a wheelchair and living in the penthouse suite at the Hilton in downtown Nashville.
Reinventing Grief in an Era of Enforced Isolation
On long-distance grief.
An Anti-Gay Crusader and Her Gay Son Were Making It Work. Then Came Trump.
A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.
Nine American Mormons Died in a Brutal Ambush in Mexico
Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?
This Doctor Is Suggesting COVID-19 Lockdowns Are a Conspiracy to Take Away Your Freedom
A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "There Is No Baby In This Story"
An antique high chair; the complexities of parenting and growing.
Can We Escape From Information Overload?
Meet the artist who hid away for a month in total darkness.
What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.
Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.
Cheryl Strayed is the author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. Her new podcast is Sugar Calling.
“I think that we have this limited idea of what ambition is. All through my twenties, you wouldn’t necessarily have looked at me and been like, ‘she’s ambitious.’ I mean, I was working as a waitress. I was goofing around and doing all kinds of things. But I was always writing. And I was always really sure and clear and serious about my writing. My ambition was this secret thing within me that I dedicated myself to.”
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