Brought Back

Lit

Caracas, Venezuela— A demonstrator was engulfed in

You Tubes

Rio de Janeiro— Residents loot a truck on May 2 after

Rocket, Man!

Vandenberg Air Force Base, California—An unarmed Minuteman

VIVE LE CENTRE!

Establishment Europe shouldn’t feel too relieved about right-winger Marine Le Pen’s defeat in France

IVORY TAX HAVENS

How the richest U.S. colleges get richer

CRUDE AWAKENING

Opening up California’s coastal waters for oil drilling will be a boon for Trump and some members of his Cabinet

WHY JOHNNY CAN’T INTEGRATE

From Birmingham, Alabama, to Malibu, California, rich communities are bringing back school segregation. Did you forget that one of the three R’s is ‘racism’?

Medical Training

ONCE A YEAR, PEOPLE IN RURAL RUSSIA LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING EXPERT HEALTH CARE—AT THEIR LOCAL RAILWAY STATION

HAPPY GARBAGE MEAL!

Scientists stumble upon caterpillars that can eat plastic

FLY THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES

The internet made flying hell but may have a nice escape slide

FAT AND FICTION

There’s a dangerous racial bias in the body mass index

KNOCKIN’ DOLPHIN BOOTS

RESEARCHERS MAKE A HUGE BREAKTHROUGH IN UNDERSTANDING HOW DOLPHINS DO WHAT THE BIRDS AND THE BEES DO

Rotterdam, Netherlands A new wave of music rolls in

OLIVER COATES is probably a little weary of being described

Woman on a Mission Can Jill Soloway change the way we make TV?

Woman on a Mission Can Jill Soloway change the way

Memory Sticks Carl Blücher chooses alternative souvenirs at Aria One.Six.Eight

Memory Sticks Carl Blücher chooses alternative souvenirs

Short, but Sweet

THE AUSTRIAN SCULPTOR Erwin Wurm, 62, conceived his

Historian Tamara Chalabi investigates Albert Camus

“I first read The Meursault Investigation by Algerian

Read ‘October’ China Miéville has written a suspenseful history of the Russian Revolution

Read ‘October’ China Miéville has written a suspenseful

Discomfort Food The Dinner promises a feast —but proves hard to digest

Discomfort Food The Dinner promises a feast —but proves

Cuban Revolutionaries

ONCE, THE MENTION of Cuba brought to mind cigars and

PARTING SHOT

‘ Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia’ Marchand & Meffre, 2012