In a forgotten essay, Portugal’s greatest writer resists the rise of antisemitism
The oldest contract of them all
Talking to a rabbi about who—or what—in this world we can trust
Two handfuls of items that you should know happened, or are happening
Designers such as Galia Lahav reinvented not only what a gown could look like, but how it was made
How the red-green alliance was built on a Jewish foundation—and why it cannot acknowledge that fact
Helen C. Epstein’s ‘Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic’
Frankenstein-ing the ideal celebration—elaborate smorgs, dress codes, and more
A lifelong swimmer on the therapeutic ritual of immersion
The brief, improbable life of the ‘Paris Metro’
In this issue
At the end of Uruguay’s Punta del Este is the legendary beach town of José Ignacio, where well-born Latin American elites flee, party, and take family vacations amid some of the world’s most striking brutalist seaside architecture
The Bernie Goetz vigilante shootings continue to be a litmus test for our understandings of race and violence
The Gen X improvisers commanded Vegas’ temple of technological excess
Business is booming, but the clients have changed—and not necessarily for the better
The sounds of Nashville
The matchmaker and entrepreneur on date night, consistency, and why love-bombing will ruin your life
