Annals of War
What’s Behind Trump’s New World Disorder?
A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence.
By Daniel Immerwahr
How Doodles Became the Dog du Jour
Poodle crossbreeds have grown overwhelmingly popular, sparking controversy in dog parks and kennel clubs alike.
By John Seabrook
Lisa Kudrow Is Back—Again
Profiles
Twenty-two years after the end of “Friends,” the actress returns with a new installment of “The Comeback.”
By Michael Schulman
How Zac Posen Went from Making Ball Gowns to Remaking the Gap
The World of Fashion
The fashion designer was brought on as Gap Inc.’s creative director to help restore the company’s cultural relevance. Has the Gapaissance arrived?
By Rachel Syme
Shouts & Murmurs
Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools
Internal memo: Meet our new suite of A.I.-optimized losers and douche bags. Although they are fully agentic, we’re sure they will annoy you in all the ways you’re accustomed to.
By Lizzie Widdicombe and Paige Ferrari
Fiction
“My Balenciaga”
It could have been an experiment by the master. An early draft. A failed caprice.
By Han Ong
The Critics
How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
A Critic at Large
How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
His show became the epicenter of early-nineties cool, with the decade’s biggest names, from Tom Cruise to Bill Clinton, stopping by to earn street cred.
By Jennifer Wilson
Briefly Noted
Books
Briefly Noted
“On Morrison,” “Scale Boy,” “Sisters in Yellow,” and “White River Crossing.”
Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?
Books
Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?
Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub.
By Adam Gopnik
Can Psychoanalysis Help You Get the Life You Want?
Books
Can Psychoanalysis Help You Get the Life You Want?
In a new book, Adam Phillips wages a playful war on the strictures of traditional talk therapy.
By Katy Waldman
What Egon Schiele Saw at the Hospital
The Art World
What Egon Schiele Saw at the Hospital
At the Neue Galerie, a show suggests that the artist’s raw, contorted depictions of the body were influenced by a formative relationship with a doctor.
By Zachary Fine
Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
The Theatre
Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Clare Barron’s “You Got Older” is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn’s “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” is defiantly tender about an amoral one.
By Emily Nussbaum
“Project Hail Mary”: In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes
The Current Cinema
“Project Hail Mary”: In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes
In Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, Ryan Gosling’s star power fuels an unlikely tale of far-flung friendship.
By Justin Chang
Poems
“Réservoir”
Poems
“Réservoir”
“This is the season of crushing elder box leaves with our feet.”
By Tova Gannana
“Then”
Poems
“Then”
“Then the full / moon rose / & filled the / windows.”
By Jorie Graham