Mining for rare-earth metals has severe environmental consequences. Speaking with Elizabeth Kolbert, the journalist Vince Beiser says that the U.S.... more

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The songwriter and performer on her journey from pop music to theatre, with a live performance of “Gravity.”

Munro kept quiet about the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner—but wrote about the family trauma in fiction.

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The food guru explains why she hated dinnertime growing up, and how she learned to love it. Plus, Pick Three:... more

In 1979, a minister received a telegram from Iranian militants who had taken hostages in the American embassy, inviting him... more

The actor talks with Adam Howard about playing a vampire hunter in Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.” After hundreds of... more

James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yorker Festival, in... more

Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, launched her career as a guitar virtuoso—a real shredder—in indie rock, playing alongside artists... more