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Everyone knows there’s something kind of funny about country music. The genre’s cultural identity is linked to a stylized and unapologetically old-fashioned vision of America, which can seem rather hokey. In 1975, the legendary country singer and songwriter…

In Ildikó Enyedi’s meditative nature epic, “Silent Friend,” three lonely experimenters from three different eras seek to unlock the secrets of plants—and learn something vital about themselves.

Harriet Clark’s new novel, “The Hill,” parallels her own childhood years spent visiting the prison where her mother was incarcerated. She talks with Rachel Aviv.

The question of what to eat before dessert is not, usually, top of my mind. You eat a meal before dessert; you eat dessert after a meal—it’s not one of life’s persistent mysteries. But what do you eat before arriving at a dessert-focussed restaurant to experience…

As a teacher, she would talk about literature with other people’s children. Finally I got the same chance.

To get to Rikers Island, you have to cross a narrow bridge; it has a hump in the middle, which means that, from either end, the other side is invisible. Stanley Richards, the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, pointed this out…

For the first few minutes, you could be forgiven for thinking that Curry Barker’s début feature, “Obsession,” was a rom-com. The film opens with its shy, sensitive twentysomething protagonist, Bear, struggling to confess his feelings for his childhood friend…

The last time I dropped my daughter off for a flight at LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal, the New York base of Spirit Airlines, it was bedlam. Budget-conscious passengers, many of them young, formed a seemingly endless security line snaking around the rotunda…

Nearly two dozen kids were found at risk of abuse and neglect. Will their parents be held accountable?

The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis?

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Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.

What your sleeping position says about you.

Trump has declared himself the “President of Peace” who has ended ten wars around the world. But his ceasefires are interruptions, not resolutions, to conflicts.

“All the King’s Men,” the best American political novel ever written, is generally read as a cautionary tale about how power poisons slowly, like arsenic, or cynicism. But it’s also a fable about history, and why, like poetry, it’s so hard to write it fast.…

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A scientist aboard the M.V. Hondius describes how the hantavirus outbreak unfolded. It was “shock after shock,” he said. “You just kind of get numb to it, I guess.”

Mark Burns, an evangelical pastor, explains that Trump’s supporters don’t think of him as a godlike figure, even as the President posts pictures of himself as Jesus.