Reporting
- Annals of Technology
How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.
- American Chronicles
The Death of Hahnemann Hospital
When a private-equity firm bought a Philadelphia institution, the most vulnerable patients bore the cost.
- Letter from Silicon Valley
The Pied Piper of SPACs
Chamath Palihapitiya says that the investment tool lets ordinary people get rich off startups. It may be hype—but hype can be its own economic engine.
- The Sporting Scene
LeBron James’s Agent Is Transforming the Business of Basketball
Rich Paul is known for driving hard bargains for star clients, giving them new power in the N.B.A.
The Critics
- Books
The Last Battle Over Big Business
Ralph Nader, General Motors, and what we get wrong about regulation.
- Books
Briefly Noted
“The Haunting of Alma Fielding,” “On Violence and on Violence Against Women,” “Attrib.,” and “The Stone Loves the World.”
- Books
A Japanese Novelist’s Tale of Bullying and Nietzsche
In Mieko Kawakami’s “Heaven,” everyday dilemmas provide a forum for examining fundamental questions of power and morality.
- Books
What Our Biggest Best-Sellers Tell Us About a Nation’s Soul
Reading America through more than two centuries of its favorite books.
- Podcast Dept.
“Who? Weekly” Explains the New Celebrity
Today’s stars gain status not through distance but through aggressive proximity. For five years, one podcast has been tracking their rise.
- Pop Music
How Olivia Rodrigo Became Pop’s Brightest New Star
On “Sour,” Rodrigo delivers eleven semisweet songs, almost all of them about love gone wrong.
- The Current Cinema
Why Movies Love Kids’ Books
Craig Gillespie’s “Cruella,” starring Emma Stone, and the Finnish bio-pic “Tove” illustrate the pitfalls and the possibilities of cinema’s fixation on children’s classics and their authors.
The Talk of the Town
Amy Davidson Sorkin on the new abortion wars; the comforting clatter of cutlery; sprucing up the library; a dad on the campaign trail; the streets come back to life.
- Comment
The Unique Dangers of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear a Mississippi Abortion Case
The most pressing question now may be not whether Roe and Casey can survive but how reproductive rights can be sustained without them.
- Café Society
Danny Meyer Wants Outdoor Dining to Save New York
The impresario behind Union Square Café and Shake Shack, appointed by Bill de Blasio to lead the city’s reopening, wants to put diners in the Museum of Modern Art’s sculpture garden.
- Reboot Dept.
A Less Dingy, Less Raccoon-Infested Brooklyn Public Library
The architect Toshiko Mori, who just completed the first phase of the central branch’s redesign, lays out her vision of roof gardens and a terrace connecting the library to Mount Prospect Park and the Botanic Garden and Brooklyn Museum beyond.
- Cheering Section
A Movie Villain on the District Attorney Campaign Trail
Stephen Lang, who plays Colonel Quaritch, the bad guy in the “Avatar” franchise, walks the streets in a sandwich board promoting his daughter Lucy Lang, a progressive prosecutor running to replace Cy Vance.
Shouts & Murmurs
- Shouts & Murmurs
Fifty Less Punchy Ways to Leave Your Lover
While you’re at it, Stan, make some new friends, too—I don’t want to keep hearing about how well you’re doing. Same goes for you, Jack. And Gus. And Roy.
Cartoons
Fiction
- Fiction
“Before the Valley”
“Before wasn’t talked about often; it felt unseemly somehow, self-indulgent, to dwell on one’s past life.”
Puzzles & Games Dept.
Poems
Goings On About Town
- Movies
The Personal Works of Samuel R. Delany
At MOMA, the prodigious science-fiction writer programs the “Carte Blanche” film series, including his 1971 featurette, “The Orchid.”
- Tables for Two
The Best Burger to Eat Right Now, at Smashed NYC
Made-to-order smash burgers—beef or vegan; single-, double-, or triple-patty—are the specialty of a new Lower East Side shop.
