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“Garden,” by Melissa Broder: “I was in Eden. God’s light / Tongued the leaves.”

The author Sarah Anderson reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

In Sharon Horgan’s new HBO comedy, “Youth,” Alex, a fiftysomething divorcée, struggles to adjust to her newly empty nest, only to find her son back at home after his first week at college, with nary an explanation. Midlife, in fact, bears little resemblance…

The author discusses her story “Dark Horse.”

At least once a day I press the Thought like a bruise, and if I don’t it eventually starts to play anyway.

“Debt,” by Daniel Poppick: “What debt is this whose currency is sleep?”

If you listened carefully, almost two years ago, on the day that the Carroll Gardens Thai restaurant Ugly Baby announced that it would be closing, you could almost hear a wail of anguish rising up over Brooklyn. The chef, Sirichai Sreparplarn, a Bangkok native…

Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction?

W​hen some of you asked if I’d record my thoughts as I hang by my fingertips over my impending death, I thought, Why not?

There is a certain YouTube clip that I watch from time to time, when I need a pick-me-up, or when I’m in a giddy mood and want to push it further—to the upper reaches of euphoria. The video, from 2018, is titled “Eagles strip sack on Tom Brady - Local Announcers…

The Maltese Version, by Katy Simpson Smith (Farrar, Straus& Giroux). The timeworn saying about there being two sides to every story gains new dimension in this probing novel, which posits that “two sides means there are two stories.” Here, readers are presented…

Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own.

Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 best-seller is back on the list, all thanks to a young TikToker who’s never had a latke.

When Georgia Oakley was in her final year of secondary school, in Berkshire, England, she went to a movie audition on a lark. She didn’t land a main role—those went to Saoirse Ronan and Romola Garai, who helped propel the film, “Atonement,” to multiple awards…