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New Play Plumbs the Personal and Political Civil War

Tom Klingenstein’s Our American Queen runs June 11–29. In the summer of 1862, Katherine (Kate) Chase, 22, was the toast of Washington. “The Belle of the North,” she hosted parties that brought together the leading Republican politicians and the Union’s…

Keep Willem de Kooning Weird

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story ​​There was a time not too long ago when “Willem de Kooning and Italy,” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, in Venice, would have had fans back in the U.S. gnashing their teeth.…

Lying to My Dad

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How Members of the Chinese Diaspora Found Their Voices

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On October 13, 2022, more than two years into China’s totalizing COVID lockdowns, a man wearing a yellow helmet stood on the Sitong Bridge, an expressway overpass in downtown Beijing, and…

Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Three years ago, Emma Stone and her husband, Dave McCary, got word of a micro-budget horror movie called “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.” The film, which became a festival…

Charli XCX Toys with Stardom on “BRAT”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Halfway through Charli XCX’s new album, “BRAT,” the British pop star delivers a lyric that is “pop” in neither form nor content. She is rapping, more or less, her voice slightly…