Features
Project: First Drafts
How does that spark of creativity find its way to the canvas, the page, the dinner plate, or the movie screen? Inside the messy, maddening, and mysterious process of creating something new. With Paul Simon, Frank Gehry, Tim Burton, Chuck Close and others.
Herman Wouk Is Still Alive
New fiction from Stephen King
Q&A With Stephen King: An interview with the author on the creative process, the state of fiction, and more
The Cross Word
A story and puzzle in 76 clues
Dispatches
The Iowa Caucus Kingmaker
Bob Vander Plaats offers GOP candidates a choice: join his crusade against gay marriage or lose the primary.
Hear Me Now?
The Verizon Guy gets his life back.
The Nostalgia Trap
In Brooklyn and London, the future is losing to the past.
Running the Asylum
A schizophrenic tries to save the mentally ill in Pakistan, a land gone mad.
Sister Schmuck Takes a Stand
A nun fights to recover her good name.
Valencia Is Burning
Each spring, Spanish artists construct masterpieces—and then set them ablaze at the party of the year.
Are You Following a Bot?
How to manipulate social movements by hacking Twitter
Books
The Great Los Angeles Novel
HBO’s Mildred Pierce is based on James M. Cain’s book that has to go down as one of the great failures of American fiction.
Philip Larkin, the Impossible Man
How the most exasperating of poets met his match
The Legacy of Malcolm X
Why his vision lives on in Barack Obama
Columns
The Joy of Not Cooking
High-end retailers are counting
on us to spend more money
on our kitchens—even as
we spend less time in them.
How Heavy Metal Is Keeping Us Sane
Dark and disturbing, the music is honest about human nature.
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