This week’s story, “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub,” opens as two old friends, Tracey and Lois, meet for coffee in London on a hot May day. (“The air was already at blood heat outside,” you write.) They’re discussing Tracey’s new cooker and how much she dislikes…

A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.

The Black Shield, by Wilbert L. Cooper (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In this multilayered work, a journalist examines a Black police organization, known as the Black Shield, that emerged in Cleveland in the nineteen-forties, alongside his own parents’ membership…

More than a century after its incendiary début, “Woman with a Hat” remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste.

When the rapper Fenix Flexin débuted a new accent on his single “Rubberz,” he stumbled into a century-old fight over musical fraudulence.

Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before this honorable court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. Today, the court will issue a decision in the case Coyote v. Acme. A special judge has been drafted…

Marlon James’s novels, though they range from historical fiction to high fantasy, share a distinct spiritual frequency—a mix of bravado and bereavement. They are heroic in their scope, ambition, length, extremity, variety, unclassifiability, and apparent…

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.

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A reckoning with the “woke” years.

In 2015, when Donald Trump descended a golden escalator to announce his campaign for President, he had a clear target: GeorgeW. Bush’s younger brother Jeb. Jeb was at the top of the polls. His super PAC had raised more than a hundred million dollars, dwarfing…

Everyone wants to know the secret to my success. The truth is, there are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, stay persistent, and trust that one day your efforts will pay off. Or, as in my case, that you’ll win a multimillion-dollar payout from the circus…

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997.

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