The Magazine

Once a distant outpost of the British Empire, the islands have become a global crossroads. In the season of the coronavirus, the intimate communities may evolve yet again.

Discount chains are thriving. But what do they do to poor communities?

President Trump’s obstructions of justice were broader than those of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, and the special counsel’s investigation proved it. How come the report didn’t say so?

A conventional story of a band’s rise turns into a book on another plane entirely.

The pandemic and the protests inspire works of lamentation and rage.

The HBO series about the aftermath of sexual assault is a hangout vehicle, a detective story, and a comic bildungsroman.

“Humankind,” “Scandinavian Noir,” “Blue Ticket,” and “Seeing the Body.”

In an era that fetishizes form, Oates has become America’s preëminent fiction writer by doing everything you’re not supposed to do.

He’s skeptical about the conspiracy theories; his customers are post-lockdown revellers, looking to blow off steam.

It wasn’t too hard for the British actor to get into character for the new movie “Sometimes Always Never,” in which he plays a music-loving Merseyside tailor.

The wallpaper “Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord” was criticized for being too French when it was first installed in the White House. Now the Spence School is removing the paper from its walls, after black students said that it “glorifies the trans-Atlantic slave trade and abuse of Indigenous peoples.”

Janeece Smith, a real-estate agent in Washington State, sells property to people who are trying to escape from big cities like Seattle. Business is booming.

The city is open again—sort of.

Chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms that fry up like their namesake, snappy sea beans that need no extra salt, sassafras syrup, and other edible offerings from the wilds outside the city limits.