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Publications

The New York Times Magazine

Movies & TV

The Excavations of Pedro Almodóvar

The 72-year-old is still making movies that shock.

Marcela Valdes The New York Times Magazine Dec 2021 30min Permalink

Sports

Stream Team

A new pro league is paying teenagers six figures to quit high school for basketball.

Bruce Schoenfeld The New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article Sports

The Moody Monkish Genius of Kevin Durant

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

Sam Anderson The New York Times Magazine Jun 2021 30min Permalink

World

The Orban Effect

Inside the right-wing romance With Hungary.

Elisabeth Zerofsky The New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 25min Permalink

Music

The Passion of Questlove

The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.

Jazmine Hughes The New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink

Travel

We Went to Vegas to Wring Joy From Heartbreak

The writer and his oldest friends reunited to mourn the ones they lost—and honor the time they have left.

Mitchell S. Jackson The New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink

Music

The Pop-Punk Prodigies

Meet Me @ the Altar want to be household names—and that’s not a crazy notion.

Hanif Abdurraqib The New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 20min Permalink

World

The Heir Apparent

Qaddafi’s son is alive. And he wants to take Libya back.

Robert Worth The New York Times Magazine Jul 2021 30min Permalink

Science

The Living Century

Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered—but so did activism.

Steven Johnson The New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 30min Permalink

Music

All Together Now

What will it take to get the world’s choral musicians back together again?

Kim Tingley The New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 25min Permalink

Health

When the Pandemic Came to Sullivan Prison

As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.

John J. Lennon The New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 30min Permalink

Science

Animal Planet

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

Sonia Shah The New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 15min Permalink

Politics

Knocking on Two Million Doors

Control of the Senate could hinge on Black voters—and on an ambitious effort to get them to the polls in the largest numbers ever for the Jan. 5 runoff elections.

Audra D. S. Burch The New York Times Magazine Dec 2020 30min Permalink

The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord

Covid-19 has revealed the depths of the nation’s rental housing crisis—but a group of Minneapolis tenants has shown that a different future is possible.

Matthew Desmond The New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Travel

Is It Strange to Say I Miss the Bodies of Strangers?

A whirlwind tour of Istanbul’s public baths.

Leslie Jamison The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 25min Permalink

Science

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?

Abrahm Lustgarten The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 30min Permalink

Unwanted Truths

Inside Trump’s battles with U.S. intelligence agencies.

Robert Draper The New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Crime

Family Secrets

Why did two wealthy Sri Lankan brothers become suicide bombers?

Samanth Subramanian The New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 30min Permalink

Health

A Patient’s Story

How New Jersey’s first coronavirus patient survived.

Susan Dominus The New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 25min Permalink

Arts

How 'West Side Story' Was Reborn

Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.

Sasha Weiss The New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 30min Permalink

Becoming a Man

“What I learned about masculinity from my father, my father-in-law and my own transition.”

P. Carl The New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

Congratulations, You’re a Congresswoman. Now What?

A year in the lives of Abigail Spanberger and Ayanna Pressley.

Susan Dominus The New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 30min Permalink

How Does the Human Soul Survive Atrocity

After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis—many of them children—are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.

Jennifer Percy The New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Politics World

What Does Putin Really Want?

Russia is dead set on being a global power. But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation—amid America’s retreat.

Sarah A. Topol The New York Times Magazine Jun 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

All That Glitters

Unequal pay, harassment, or worse at the nation’s largest jewelry retailer.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner The New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink

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