A new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the back-to-the-landers movement alive.

“Lost Child,” fiction by Joyce Carol Oates: It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside.

“Now the air / is darker; my garden plots are empty.”

Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.

The author Joyce Carol Oates reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on power still exist.

Short reviews of recent releases.

For the September 21, 2026, issue, Dean Rohrer portrayed the city as a place for new beginnings. “When our younger daughter moved to New York, it caused my wife and me to reflect on our start in life—the excitement, the feeling of boundless possibility,”…

During the summer of 2019, not long before COVID shut the country down, I spent three and a half days driving from Connecticut, where I live, to Kansas City, where I grew up, and three and a half days driving back. My routes in both directions were lazy and…

Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.

Before becoming a child movie star, in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies,” the Oscar-winning actor Ke Huy Quan, born in Vietnam to ethnic-Chinese parents, lived with them and his eight siblings over his father’s plastic-bag factory,…

The 1998 Grammy Awards should have been a triumphant night for the singer-songwriter Paula Cole. She was nominated for seven awards for her second album, “This Fire,” including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, an honor that has yet to go to a woman (a…

Earlier this year, when Keke Palmer was featured on “Open Door,” a video series of celebrity-home tours published by Architectural Digest, the actress was eager to draw attention to the evidence of a large family: a sister’s shelf of horror paperbacks, a…

Billionaires have never been more central to the cultural and political conversation, more impressed with themselves, or more consumed with a sense of their own victimhood. From “Billions” and “Succession” to the latest social-media spasms of Musk or Ackman…

A company called Fortell made an A.I.-powered device that tries to tune out background noise in real time. Does it work? Ask Fortell’s test subject, Steve Martin.

In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth challenges the conventional wisdom that says we shouldn’t run away from our problems.

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