The New York Times Magazine

“His books dance — with light, quick steps, never breaking eye contact — all over the line between the mythic and the mundane.”

“A trove of internal documents, combined with extensive reporting across the Middle East, reveals the tragic, disastrous failures of the U.S. military’s long-distance approach to warfare.”

“The honeymoon’s over for its residents now that wildfires are almost constant. Has living in this natural wonderland lost its magic?”

“I would never give my son back, for anything, but I would certainly give him a different mother.”

“After 9/11, Barrett believed that she’d never encounter another event that would have such a profound and widespread influence on dreams. Now, as the new virus spread and the world began to shut down, she realized she had been wrong. Like her dream-self in the library, she was living through a storm — what she would later call ‘the biggest crisis to be reflected in our dreams in my lifetime’ and also ‘an extraordinary time in the history of dreaming.’ Even as she, too, was now locked down at home, she felt she couldn’t miss the chance to try to study what it all meant.”

“What brought the teenager and so many others to the streets of Kenosha, Wis., equipped for war?”

“After 18 months of pandemic parenting isolation, the writer Jon Mooallem knew just where the cure might lie: a minor-league baseball game in eastern Washington.”

“What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?”

“When I turn the hearing aids on in these streets, my parents are dead again. So, I turn them off.”