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Married Life: A Romance

Will this be our forever?

Little Island Goes Big

Also: Inkoo Kang’s streaming picks, of Montreal’s indie pop, a new Nanni Moretti film, and more.

Summer Camp and Parenting Panics

Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.

The Mini Crossword: Friday, May 24, 2024

The Iliad and the Odyssey, for two: five letters.

Three London Shows Put a New Spin on Old Classics

Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Ickes’s “Player Kings,” Benedict Andrews’s “The Cherry Orchard,” and Ian Rickson’s “London Tide.”

There Is Literally Nothing Trump Can Say That Will Stop Republicans from Voting for Him

On Nikki Haley’s announcement that she’s backing her party’s “unhinged” nominee.

Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope?

Most polls show Donald Trump leading in swing states, but the Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg believes the President’s chances are better than the surveys suggest.

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 23rd

“We all bought a town house together because we think society puts too much emphasis on fighting about money with your spouse and not enough on fighting about money with your friends.”

The Journalist Biography in an Age of Crisis

A memoir by Nicholas Kristof and a biography of Barbara Walters invoke halcyon days in the news business. What can we learn from their lives?

Things in the Nineties That Sparked My Love of Houseplants

The bonsai tree from “The Karate Kid,” Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, and more.