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With apologies to T. S. Eliot, clocking the dénouement of your kid's bedtime ritual, the energy-drink craze, and your career, to name a few.

In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world's tallest church--and an endlessly debated icon.

"I wanted to tell you about what it's like here now, / I wrote to my friend David."

The Latin-trap performer is probably the most important pop musician of our time. Key to his success is that the bigger he gets, the more local he seems.

Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

Lifelong lessons in yearning and style.

If I'd been oblivious to the multidimensional dangers seething below the surface of suburban life, the kids and the pool and the hillside out back brought them home to me.

The writer worried that the story was "too niche, too odd," the crime of flower theft "too minor." To think, I had loved it for precisely those qualities.

After a shooting with obvious political resonance, news about the perpetrator's motives rarely brings clarity.

A gifted cast elevates the poetic drama at the Shed.