Sara Nics

The New Yorker’s legal counsel picks three favorites.

Tangier Island is washing out to sea, and its residents may be among the first American refugees of climate change. But that’s not how they see the loss of their island.    

The cartoonist Emily Flake’s favorite haunt is a dive bar fronted by a pig on the sidewalk.

George Saunders on a very dark night in the soul of Abraham Lincoln.    

Ian Frazier visits the farm of the future, in an industrial building in New Jersey.

Wiki, a New York rapper who cut his teeth in high school, comes of age.    

The Oscar-nominated composer of the “Moonlight” score tackles a very different kind of film: the tennis comedy “Battle of the Sexes.”    

Living with a voice-recognition program that is like “2001: A Space Odyssey” crossed with “The Golden Girls.”  

The Mashco Piro tribe is among the world’s most isolated people, but they have recently started coming out of the Amazon rainforest. Will contact with society be fatal?  

The writer of “12 Years a Slave” says that, despite the spectacle of white supremacy on the rise, America can change for the better.

Josh Rothman is the rare guy who loves romance novels. He tells Curtis Sittenfeld why he thinks other men are missing out.

One of the great nature writers describes the awesome, frightening experience of a total eclipse.    

Jake Halpern investigates a legend about a Nazi train filled with treasure, hidden deep underground.    

Cartoonist Emily Flake recommends a book of philosophy from the nineteen-thirties that presciently describes our current moment.    

George Strait has so many No. 1 hits that he can’t play them all in a single show. Will he make more?

Liana Finck likes to ride the Long Island Rail Road, but not to commute. She just needs a place to work. 

On the summer variety specials of long ago, a kid could learn a few things about life.       

Once celebrated by the government, Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous artist. Now he is persona non grata in his country, but won’t stop speaking out.    

A Chinese science-fiction fable about alien contact resonates across cultures.    

Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.