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“Hammond B3 Organ Cistern”“The days I don’t want to kill myself / are extraordinary.”

A Pill to Make Exercise Obsolete What if a drug could give you all the benefits of a workout?

Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique?By mythologizing the Romans’ Trojan origins, Virgil turned a story about losers into an epic about winners.

#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement What began as an attempt at a simpler life quickly became a life-style brand.

The Optimized Anti-Style of Allbirds Shoes There is nothing exciting or sensual or dangerous about Allbirds. And yet there is a seductive pull in their promise of maximum comfort, simplicity boiled down to an eco-friendly gastrique.

The Forest Elephants of the Central African Republic Are in Peril As few as eighty thousand of the megafauna remain. A new documentary exposes the challenges to and defenders of this endangered population.

Wayne Gretzky and the Mysteries of Athletic Greatness One of the implicit lessons of “In Search of Greatness,” a new documentary that focusses on the N.H.L. legend, is that you can’t teach athletic excellence; you can only encourage it or stifle it.

Win Thanksgiving (and Post-Thanksgiving) with Double Stock A true double stock is a culinary showpiece, an investment of time and ingredients that is worthy of its own spotlight.

TMZ Redefines Celebrity Dirt Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency. How did it become so powerful?

How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative.

Kyrsten Sinema’s Victory in Arizona May Be the Democrats’ Biggest Win of the Trump Era Sinema, by campaigning as a moderate willing to cross party lines, exposed the fault line in the Arizona G.O.P., which is divided between the old-line Party establishment and a seething base of Trump supporters.

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 14th The four stages of climate-change denial.

How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative.

Why Do Filmmakers Love van Gogh?Julian Schnabel’s “At Eternity’s Gate,” starring Willem Dafoe, stands in a lineage of movies that use the painter’s tortured life to probe the nature of art.

The Weekly Crossword: Monday, November 12, 2018 Carraway’s neighbor: six letters.

How Essential Oils Became the Cure for Our Age of Anxiety Aromatic oils have become big business. But are they medicine or marketing?

In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?Advances in digital imagery could deepen the fake-news crisis—or help us get out of it.

The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome Unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies. What happened?

A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30 Oksana Iyovitch: purchased a kitten after seeing a picture on the Twitter feed Cute Emergency. Tried to return it when it “got too big.”

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?