The Magazine
The Health Issue
April 8, 2019
Reporting
A Reporter at Large
Turning Bystanders Into First Responders
In the mass-shooting era, civilians must help one another in a crisis—and keep victims from bleeding to death.
Dept. of Public Health
The Hidden Air Pollution in Our Homes
Outdoor air has been regulated for decades, but emissions from daily domestic activities may be more dangerous than anyone imagined.
American Chronicles
The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?
Annals of the Former World
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
The Critics
Books
Susan Choi’s Novel Takes High-School Drama Seriously
In “Trust Exercise,” the characters reckon with their pasts through fiction—on the page and on the stage.
A Critic at Large
How the South Won the Civil War
During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.
Books
What Baseball Teaches Us About Measuring Talent
The clash between data and intuition opens onto a larger debate.
Books
Poetry That Bears Witness to a Changing Natural World
David Baker is a poet of American anti-pastoral, rendering both the landscape and the forces that imperil it.
Books
Briefly Noted
“My Young Life,” “Sounds Like Titanic,” “The Nocilla Trilogy,” and “The Altruists.”
The Current Cinema
The Winning Excess of “The Beach Bum”
As the lead in Harmony Korine’s follow-up to “Spring Breakers,” Matthew McConaughey is bereaved, arrested, and sent to rehab—yet everything washes over him, as if existence were one big beach.
The Talk of the Town
Cupertino Postcard
Tim Cook’s Big Apple Circus
With ambient music and themed pastries, the tech giant cheerily took Big Bird, Oprah, and the journalism business under its tent.
The Boards
A Nerd Learns to “Be More Chill”
Shoved into a locker as a teen, the actor Will Roland vowed to transform himself—and made it to the nerd-heaven of Broadway.
Ink
Robert Mueller, Best-Seller?
Three publishers are racing to print the account of the Russia investigation, following in the footsteps of classic page-turners from the Warren Commission and Kenneth Starr.
Comment
The Media and the Mueller Report’s March Surprise
The Attorney General’s summary reported no conspiracy, but serious newsrooms and journalists did the job they are supposed to do.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
It’s a Flat Earth
Cartoons
1/17
“I loved it as a child, so I’m going to force you to love it, too.”
Fiction
Fiction
Lulu
Poems
Goings On About Town
Goings On About Town
“Soundtrack of America” Brings a Broad Spectrum of Black Music to the Shed
Lovingly curated with an eye toward innovation, a progressive bill at the new arts space is filled with artists as galvanizing as they are virtuosic.
Tables for Two
Rocco DiSpirito’s Nostalgic Return to the Kitchen at the Standard Grill
After a decade out of the limelight, the chef pays homage to his early career while playing catch-up on some of the trends he missed.
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