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A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang--who died at thirty-two--wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

C'mon, I'm a dog. We sense these things. It's a tumor. I give the guy two weeks.

Smoking a cig takes twenty minutes off your life. But thinking about Rudy Giuliani's downfall might add some time back.

How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power.

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go--and what might we find?

Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

"Here's a book / on neutrinos captured in Antarctica, / here's another on solar flares."

He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places--yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner crisis.

The author and former marine served the country in the closet. Now, amid Pete Hegseth's anti-L.G.B.T.Q. military mission, Cope White is prouder than ever--just look at his new Norman Lear-backed Netflix show, "Boots."

Scott Johnson's murder case became synonymous with a movement to redress anti-gay violence in Australia. But the evidence that led to a man's conviction has never been made public.