The Things We Carry
Sometimes, now as parents, we say things and only a while later realize that it was an echo of our parents, from decades before.
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Summer in the city in the days before air-conditioning.
How Apollo 13 got lost on its way to the moon—then made it back.
Notes from the Comma Queen: “who” or “whom”?
The surreal case of a C.I.A. hacker’s revenge.
Fiction by Edward P. Jones: “Bad Neighbors”
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Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
The Sporting Scene
Caitlin Clark’s New Reality
Clark isn’t yet the best player the W.N.B.A. has ever seen. What can she learn from the player who is?
By Louisa Thomas
Dept. of Pedigree
“H.M.S. Pinafore” Uptown, on Repeat
A century ago, some Manhattan blue bloods in Blue Hill, Maine, decided that performing Gilbert and Sullivan would keep the kids out of trouble. They’re still at it.
By Michael Schulman
The Financial Page
Trump’s Brazen Pact with the One Per Cent
After reaping huge profits in the Biden years, some Wall Street billionaires and tech barons are throwing their support behind the President’s rival, who is desperate for their money.
By John Cassidy