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  1. book review
    Zero ToleranceFive years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
    By Andrea Long Chu
  2. parenting
    Let Your Kids Watch TV. It’s Fine.A no-guilt screen-time guide.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  3. backstories
    How The Gilded Age Pulled Off the Wedding of the 19th CenturyHundreds of tailors, thousands of flowers, and one very unhappy bride.
    By Rebecca Alter
  4. tv review
    Too Much, But Not EnoughLena Dunham’s first Netflix series can’t reconcile her autobiography with expat escapism.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. movie review
    28 Years Later Is Totally NutsAnd not necessarily in a bad way.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  6. remembrance
    The Double Standards of White and Black GeniusBrian Wilson and Sly Stone were musical innovators whose public reputations diverged drastically toward the end of their careers.
    By Craig Jenkins
  7. extremely online
    How I’m Fixing My Broken Attention SpanThe infinite scroll has ruined our ability to focus. Is wasting more time the key to getting it back?
    By Rebecca Jennings
  8. the hollywood issue
    Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It)“We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I’ll have the movie.”
    By Lila Shapiro
  9. the hollywood issue
    Michael B. Jordan Did the ImpossibleIn an era of mounting crises in Hollywood, the Sinners star got people off their couches and into theaters for an original film.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  10. first person
    Pee-wee and MeThe film I made about my childhood hero was four years in the making, and it almost broke me.
    By Matt Wolf
  11. exit interview
    ‘No One Wants to Think That Their Pilot Is Weird’How Nathan Fielder channeled a longtime personal obsession into his most ambitious project yet.
    By Jeff Wise
  12. album review
    Arcade Fire Make a Cowardly ComebackThe healing cart has jumped ahead of the reckoning horse.
    By Craig Jenkins
  13. encounter
    Whitney Cummings Finds Her PeopleThe comedian’s politics has changed. So has her audience.
    By Kerry Howley
  14. books
    There Is No Safe WordHow the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
    By Lila Shapiro
  15. the yesteryear issue
    ‘Good God, It Was Fun!’Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dick Van Dyke, and more legends of Broadway reprise their most memorable characters.
    Photographs by Mark Seliger
  16. overnights
    The White Lotus Season-Finale Recap: The Suicide TreeThis show has never been subtle about the interconnectedness of money, suffering, and death, but this is almost too much.
    By Amanda Whiting
  17. remembrance
    The Most Interesting Roommate in the WorldAt first, he was movie star Val Kilmer. But after weeks of us living together, he just became Val.
    By Will Forte
  18. overnights
    The White Lotus Recap: Smash and GrabIt’s the final night at the White Lotus and everyone’s last chance to pull off their schemes before things turn violent at tomorrow’s checkout.
    By Amanda Whiting
  19. overnights
    The White Lotus Recap: Brokedown PalaceThe Ratliffs are so over.
    By Amanda Whiting
  20. remembrance
    My Cool Friend MichelleThe kids at school misunderstood Trachtenberg. In our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.
    By Mara Wilson
  21. overnights
    The White Lotus Recap: To Love!This week’s episode is a neon riot of action and sex punctuated by the season’s zingiest jokes.
    By Amanda Whiting
  22. encounter
    Will Shortz Is Back in the GameThe Times’ crossword-puzzle editor returns to work — and table tennis — after two strokes that nearly ended his career.
    By Matthew Schneier
  23. overnights
    The White Lotus Recap: Party, Part IGary’s superyacht party is the stuff of Below Deck nightmares.
    By Amanda Whiting
  24. slaycation
    The White Lotus Kill-or-Be-Killed Report: Are We Having Fun Yet?Someone — or someones — is scamming too close to the sun.
    By Jessica M. Goldstein
  25. tv review
    Meghan Markle Pioneers New Frontiers in UnrelatabilityWith Love, Meghan desperately wants your approval and playacts normalcy to try to get it.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  26. on location
    At Thailand’s Real White Lotus Hotel, Where the Ultrarich Get Coddled“Sometimes they’ll ask us to bring the sun.”
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  27. overnights
    The White Lotus Recap: Biblical ProportionsSnakes. Incest. Apocalyptic dreams. Trump voters. Mike White gets Old Testament this week.
    By Amanda Whiting
  28. overnights
    The White Lotus Recap: GenesisThe guests are having difficulty enjoying paradise when the doom of their secrets constantly threatens them.
    By Amanda Whiting
  29. overnights
    The White Lotus Season-Premiere Recap: No Man Is an IslandBy now, we know what to expect from a stay at the White Lotus: class anxiety, a body count, and about a dozen recurring motifs to dissect.
    By Amanda Whiting
  30. power
    After LorneThe ringmaster of Saturday Night Live is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he retires?
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  31. disneyland
    Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Banished ForeverAfter waiting over a decade to get in, the Andersons were kicked out of Disneyland’s most exclusive club. They would not go willingly.
    By Justine Harman
  32. profile
    Sarah McNally’s Book ClubThe owner of the McNally Jackson literary empire is reshaping the city’s reading life.
    By Matthew Schneier
  33. gold rush
    The Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Oscar NominationsThe Academy promoted otherwise unheralded contenders to the front of the line and left out a few hopefuls that had looked secure since September.
    By Nate Jones
  34. remembrance
    Beyond the EndDavid Lynch spent his five-decade film and TV career contemplating life, death, and the indescribable realms in between.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  35. from the wings
    Life As a Millennial Stage MomA journey into the cutthroat and adorable world of professional child actors.
    By Lauren Hilgers
  36. hollywood
    ‘Are We Really Friends? Or Are You Just Using Me?’When Brian Jordan Alvarez made it big with English Teacher, he brought his friends along with him, just like they’d always dreamed. Except one.
    By E. Alex Jung
  37. golden globes 2025
    The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Golden Globe NominationsDune is not doin’ great.
    By Nate Jones and Jen Chaney
  38. movie review
    Wicked Is As Enchanting As It Is ExhaustingJon M. Chu’s film adaptation of the hit musical has charm, but the bloat is inescapable.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  39. movie review
    I Hate to Say This, But Men Deserve Better Than Gladiator IIRidley Scott’s sequel might make you wonder if we’ve lost the ability to treat brawny historical epics earnestly.
    By Alison Willmore
  40. in conversation
    Emily Watson: ‘I’m Blessed With a Readable Face’The double Oscar nominee grew up in a cultlike organization. Acting became her way out of it.
    By Jackson McHenry
  41. crime
    A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York PhilharmonicTwo musicians were fired for sexual misconduct. Why were they allowed back in the orchestra?
    By Sammy Sussman
  42. politics
    In Praise of Bad ReadersIn a time of war, there is a danger in surveying the world as if it were a novel.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  43. to the pods
    The Love MachineLove Is Blind creator Chris Coelen drops a new group of singles into his strange experiment — and wrestles with all the lawsuits against the series.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  44. boundaries
    Chappell Roan Performs At The O2 Academy Brixton
    Chappell Roan Got Too Famous Too FastShe’s gone from anonymous to ubiquitous in less than a year, and it’s too much to handle.
    By Nate Jones
  45. movie review
    Megalopolis Is a Work of Absolute MadnessThere is nothing in Francis Ford Coppola’s perhaps-final testament that feels like something out of a “normal” movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  46. close read
    The Pop Stars Who Flamed OutKaty Perry’s 143 joins the cursed ranks of musical missteps this year.
    By Craig Jenkins
  47. close read
    Hot CommodityIn Sally Rooney’s novels, love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. But this is also what makes it real.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  48. comics to watch
    2024’s Comedians You Should and Will KnowTwo dozen of tomorrow’s stand-up, sketch, and online comedy superstars, according to over 100 industry insiders.
  49. artifacts
    100 Pieces of Pop Culture That Defined ObamacoreYou know them when you see them — whether they were genius or, well, not.
    By Nate Jones
  50. books
    Four Friends, Two Marriages, One Affair — and a Shelf of Books Dissecting ItWhen writers cheat on each other, everything is fair game for publication.
    By Chris Heath
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