How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart
A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.
A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.
Parul Sehgal New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink
The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.
David Enrich New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 30min Permalink
As the city is transformed by gentrification and inequality, comedies have begun depicting it as a place of magical connection.
Willy Staley New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 15min Permalink
When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.
Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 50min Permalink
On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:
The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine May 2011 25min Permalink
On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 35min Permalink
The enigmatic leader of the U.A.E. may soon emerge as the region’s most powerful figure. What does he really want?
A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.
Jennifer Kahn New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 30min Permalink
“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”
Heidi Julavits New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 25min Permalink
Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Dec 2019 35min Permalink
In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema. Fifty-five years later, the project is reaching its conclusion.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New York Times Magazine Dec 2019 35min Permalink
The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.
Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 30min Permalink
The film is a rare portrayal of black people in our fullness—angry and frightened and hurt, euphoric and loving and free.
Carvell Wallace New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 20min Permalink
Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.
Christine Smallwood New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 25min Permalink
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Jul 2019 45min Permalink
The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.
Ferris Jabr New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Maria Ressa, editor of a popular news site in the Philippines, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.
Joshua Hammer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 20min Permalink
Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
Alex W. Palmer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 50min Permalink
A circle of young black playwrights is doing some of the most vital work in American theater. And Perry is at its center.
Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 15min Permalink
An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.
Fahim Abed, Fatima Faizi New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.
McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 40min Permalink
Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.
William Langewiesche New York Times Magazine Sep 2019 55min Permalink
Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.
Paul Tough New York Times Magazine Sep 2019 Permalink
On the nature of coincidence.
Lisa Belkin New York Times Magazine Aug 2002 30min Permalink
He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.
Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 45min Permalink