What a Classical-Music Critic Reads
Anthony Tommasini, the former chief classical-music critic for The New York Times, recommends books and music.
Ron DeSantis Debates His Grievances
For Gavin Newsom, the TV exposure had a clear logic. But for the Florida governor, all that was apparent was his psychic need.
May December Exposes the Art of Self-Deception
Todd Haynes’s film is a beautiful, terrible nesting doll of a story with a uniquely twisted core.
She Made the Pop Album of the Year. But Is She a Pop Star?
The 29-year-old singer-songwriter Amaarae is trying to bring wide-screen ambition back in the TikTok age.
Inflation Is Your Fault
If people are so mad about high prices, why do they keep buying so many expensive things?
What Kissinger Didn’t Understand
His blindness to human suffering was, in the end, both a moral failure and a strategic one.
What If Americans Are Happy at Work?
Persistent employment misery is a myth.
Meet the Super SPAC
The political group No Labels is creating a shell campaign. It will acquire a candidate later.
Photos of the Week: Origami Mosaic, Ice Web, Monkey Festival
The Loy Krathong festival in Thailand, a funeral service for Rosalynn Carter in Georgia, an eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, hostage and prisoner releases in Israel and the West Bank, and much more
The Murky Shoplifting Narrative
Perceptions of an increase in retail theft are fueling changes to policy and the experience of shopping.
Admit It, the Cybertruck Is Awesome
The world needs weirder EVs.
One Year In, ChatGPT’s Legacy Is Clear
The technology is less important than the ideas it represents.
A Masterful Depiction of Male Cruelty
For decades, Claire Keegan has been exploring the shabby way the world treats women.
Spotify Doesn’t Know Who You Are
It’s okay if you’ve listened to Steely Dan 42,031 times this year. Really.
Henry Kissinger’s Real Legacy
The Atlantic’s writing and reporting on one of the most controversial and influential foreign-policy thinkers of the past 50 years
Something Big Just Happened at COP
Wealthy countries might finally pay for the climate change they caused.
Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic Is Fantastic
Maestro is a wonderful look at the composer that dives headfirst into his brilliant work and complicated inner life.
Netanyahu’s Odd Embrace of Elon Musk
The Israeli prime minister is playing a seedily transactional game.
We’re Living the Reality of the Pandemic’s Simplest Math
Sick season will be worse from now on.
Three Ways to Tell If Research Is Bunk
Here are some rules for deciding whether a new social-science finding is really useful to you.