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The Power of the Past

The Power of the Past 

by David Schalliol | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Taming the Wild Web

Taming the Wild Web 

by Justin E. H. Smith | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
A Death in Karachi

A Death in Karachi 

by Saba Imtiaz and Tooba Masood | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
A Shattered Sisterhood

A Shattered Sisterhood

by Jamie Floyd and Mêlisa Annis | Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Caught in the Crosshairs

Caught in the Crosshairs 

Four questions on the future of American gun reform

by Adam Winkler | Wednesday, September 01, 2021
Going West

Going West 

by Jenn Emerling | Wednesday, September 01, 2021
Finding Our Inner Child

Finding Our Inner Child

by Maranie Staab | Monday, August 16, 2021
Life in Black and White

Life in Black and White

by Emily Bernard | Monday, August 02, 2021
Fashion Forward

Fashion Forward

Five questions about the future of what we wear

by Aditi Mayer | Thursday, June 10, 2021
The Baptismal Bowl

The Baptismal Bowl 

by Susan Bernofsky | Friday, April 23, 2021
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Good Thing Going

by Wendy Smith

Stephen Sondheim, that giant of musical theater, died on November 26. In our Autumn 2007 issue, Wendy Smith celebrated Sondheim’s already enormous legacy, spanning his 1957 Broadway debut (West Side Story) to gutsy later works like Assassins (1990). Sondheim remained a force in the Theater District despite its increasingly commercialized landscape, and “as long as musical theater exists,” Smith wrote, “his entire repertory will continue to be fruitfully restaged and reexamined.”

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