Rachel Syme interviews the novelist Caro Claire Burke about her best-selling début novel, “Yesteryear,” gender in the modern age, and social media.
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When you immigrate, Karan Mahajan writes, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why he can’t stop writing about where he’s from?
David Denby reviews “Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind,” by Thomas Meyer.
Ian Buruma reviews “The Rise and Fall of American Europe,” by Glyn Morgan.
Atlanta has more street cameras per capita than anywhere outside of China. On a walking tour of the city, can anti-surveillance vigilantes spot—and dodge—them all? Charles Bethea reports.
Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more.
How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub. Michelle Lhooq writes.
Politicians on the left—such as Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Abdul El-Sayed—have been critical of data centers, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes. More surprisingly, Republicans like Greg Abbott and Vivek Ramaswamy suddenly have, too.
Brady Brickner-Wood on how the advent of the live stream has allowed ordinary people to become both the celebrity and the paparazzi of their own lives.
Jill Lepore on the A.I. companies inventing new ways of proving humanity in the bot era.
In 2007, local artists painted a mural decreeing “Queens is the future.” Now the tagline is proudly displayed on welcome signs—right above the name of Astoria’s own Zohran Mamdani. Ben McGrath reports.
Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, is the presumptive front-runner in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
The actor performs real people’s stories onstage—from loyal Trump voters to superfans of the band Phish. Now he’s bringing his “journalistic theatre” back to Joe’s Pub. Nathan Heller reports.
Anna Russell on hyperemesis gravidarum, or H.G., and the scientists searching for a biological cause and treatment.