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Why Western writers have shrouded the history of Rapa Nui in myth and mystery.

Videos of Alex Pretti's fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power.

Ahead of a comeback in Milan, the Olympic freestyle skier and actor discusses alley-oops, auditions, and coming out of the closet as a professional athlete.

Inside a playhouse now owned by A24, a new restaurant offers frogs' legs, a killer cheeseburger, and a heavy dose of haute-theatrical glamour.

During the President's second term, he and his staff have made the media briefing his signature rhetorical form.

In his show "The Last Dyes," the photographer presents a world that feels fictional but fact-based.

When Sweden named its national treasures, the list was condemned as blinkered and dated. But it was also a chance to see the country anew.

Two stunning new documentaries--one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia--examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination.

Also: the many disciplines of Sudan Archives, a Max Ophüls retrospective, the facets of upstate cults, and more.

In Karl Ove Knausgaard's new cycle of novels, old mysteries reassert themselves.