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There was more than met the eye in that den of iniquity. Peter Tonguette Sitting on my desk is a photograph I took sometime in the mid-1990s.  I was perhaps 14 when, on what looks to have been a pleasant…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy.…

The chess world is outraged after Magnus Carlsen and Ian “Nepo” Nepomniachtchi split the blitz title. For once, everyone in the chess world appeared to agree with the controversial American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann. “The Chess world is officially a…

Coolness and violence are inextricably linked in American culture, from the Old West to Luigi Mangione. Surely enough has been written already about Luigi Mangione, the ghost gun–toting Manhattan assassin who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the back. But…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Most filmmakers, like most people, have interesting things to say about what they’ve experienced and observed. But the definition of an epic is a subject that the author doesn’t know firsthand:…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Helen ShawStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. It’s a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Delaunay, an upscale brasserie in London, sits on a crescent-shaped road called Aldwych, where the West End meets Fleet Street, the city’s historic home for newspapers. Situated at the intersection…

An exceptional generation should get an exceptional name—and “Beta” isn’t it. Credit: Maxim Ibragimov/Shutterstock Generation Beta needs a rebrand, and they haven’t even been born yet. That’s right, the market research firm McCrindle just announced the arrival of Generation Beta,…

Here are the surprises 2025 could hold. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images) New Year’s columns are lugubrious but inevitable. Little ever happens in the dead week between Christmas and January 1, so your humble correspondents resort to silly lists of confidently made…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You have something important to do—something vital. It’s not an item on a list but a burdensome project, urgent and complicated. Your home office must be transformed into a nursery for…