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An Oscar-winning filmmaker takes on the Church of Scientology.
Wendy Wasserstein on the baby who arrived too soon.
The young stowaways thrown overboard at sea.
As he rose in politics, Robert Moses discovered that decisions about New York City’s future would not be based on democracy.
The Muslim tamale king of the Old West.
Fiction by Jamaica Kincaid: “Girl.”
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Leslie Stein is the author of “I Know You Rider.”
The Sporting Scene
Armand Duplantis, the Timothée Chalamet of the Pole Vault
The American Swedish heartthrob showed his mastery of the strangest of sports, setting another new record.
By Sam Knight
In the Dark
Episode 4: What They Saw
Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines involved in the killings, and another from a very different perspective.
Cover Story
Roz Chast’s “Flavor of the Week”
The artist’s enticing (and not so enticing) tweaks to one of summer’s enduring pleasures.
By Françoise Mouly