The Case for Explorers’ Day
This year, I won’t be celebrating Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
A Baffling Movie Backed by Godfather Money
Culture and entertainment musts from Andrew Aoyama
Han Kang’s Transgressive Art
The author, who has never shied away from criticizing Korean culture, has also given South Korea its first Nobel Prize in Literature.
Scent of a Man
In a new memoir, Al Pacino promises to reveal the person behind the actor. But is he holding something back?
Shifting Campaign Strategies
How Harris and Trump are appealing to voters in states that could determine the election
Confessions of a Republican Exile
A longtime conservative, alienated by Trumpism, tries to come to terms with life on the moderate edge of the Democratic Party.
The Truth About Hurricane Geoengineering
Human attempts to control the weather are gaining momentum, but hurricanes are simply too powerful to harness.
How to Find a New Hobby
And how to deal with being bad at it for a while
Two of the Weirdest Albums of the 1970s
Peek behind the disco music, and you’ll find Richard Burton fighting Martians and Keith Moon warbling the Beatles.
‘Politics Can Do Strange Things to Demented People’
Campaigning in Pennsylvania, both Donald Trump and Barack Obama landed on a similar, aggressive line of attack: They don’t care about you.
The Lessons of Aging
Alan Hollinghurst’s and Lore Segal’s later writing takes two different approaches to growing old.
This Time, Bob Woodward Gets It Right
The Watergate journalist has taken a lot of hits—including from me. In his new Biden chronicle, War, he’s at his best.
The Wellness Industry Is Manifesting a Quantum World
Physics has become strangely entangled with alternative health practices.
Photos of the Week: Monkey Blessing, Gondola Crossing, Ocean Odyssey
The aftermath of Hurricane Milton in Florida, restoration efforts in the Vatican, a beachside air show in California, a historical autumn fair in England, cranberry harvesting in Massachusetts, and much more
Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place on Earth
It’s the farthest place in the world from land. A lot seems to be going on there.
The Russia Hoax Is Still Not a Hoax
So much for “America First.”
The Most Miraculous—And Overlooked—Type of Milk
Shelf-stable milk is a miracle of food science that Americans just won’t drink.
The Trap of Making a Trump Biopic
The Apprentice aims to avoid politics—and ends up being a shallow, murky portrait.
Hezbollah Waged War Against the People of My Country
I won’t mourn or celebrate its leader’s death.
Rumors on X Are Becoming the Right’s New Reality
The site formerly known as Twitter has become the center of a fantastical political culture.