In a brief and beautiful essay, Anders Nilsen remembers his friend, the late cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée, and describes the difficult process of helping finish her final work.

We’ve built supply chains that help us get the things we want fast and cheap, while also obscuring unpleasant truths about how that happens.

In this essay from our Fine Lines series, raising a teenager of her own offers author A.M. Homes a glimpse into her mother’s experience of raising her.

Fed to a crocodile? Baked into a meat pie? Everyone in Larrimah has a theory about what happened to Paddy Moriarty.

Steve Silberman’s deep-dive into Bill Evans, one of the most enigmatic figures in jazz, is a fantastic read that examines the intersection of what happens when virtuosic talent inexplicably falls short. Silberman also probes his own obsession with ‘Nardis,’ a complex arrangement which Miles Davis, who employed Evans as a member of his sextet, said the pianist could play “the way it was meant to be played.”

Anna Wiener explores what 13 years of the data she’s given Facebook can give back to her.

A profile of filmmaker Nicole Holofcener, whose movies — from her 1996 debut, “Walking and Talking,” to the as yet to be released “Land of Steady Habits” — are informed to varying degrees by her own experiences.

In 1994, a group of talking dinosaurs warned humanity about the end of our world.

“The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.”

“I never really studied acting… In fact, the master classes I do, my course is called Practical Acting. You shut up and do it.”

“Barbra Streisand is not alone. At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous. It’s made for more than a few questions of bioethics.”

Maybe having rooms with doors that close and the attendant modicum of privacy wasn’t so bad after all.

Enjoy the bunk beds and the single bespoke clothes hanger.

In this personal essay, Laura Jean Baker finds that being a feminist married to a progressive man isn’t a fail-safe against sexism occasionally intruding in their marriage.

In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.

Fariha Róisín considers the limits of cancel culture.

Theatre critic Jose Solís profiles Anika Noni Rose, the actress and singer playing the title role in the musical “Carmen Jones” at New York’s Classic Stage Company.

Jazz pianist Hazel Scott was the first black woman to host a variety show on US television, but after being accused of “communist sympathies” in 1950, her career faltered.

How does Hammacher Schlemmer, which publishes the longest-running mail-order catalog in American history, survive in the age of Amazon?