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Jason Bateman and David Harbour play best friends Clark and Floyd in DTF St. Louis.

DTF St Louis Is an Utterly Original Drama of Male Loneliness

Steven Conrad’s miniseries on HBO begins like a murder mystery, but turns into something weirder and more beautiful.

A photograph of Tom Junod’s father, Lou, on the steps of their home in Wantagh, New York, in the early 1960s. Lou wanted this photograph to be shown at his funeral, so mourners would remember him in his “prime".

Mychal Denzel Smith

My Father, the Midcentury Man—With a Lifetime of Secrets

Tom Junod wrestles with his father’s ideal of masculinity, and how to unlearn it.

An Elegy for the Foreign Correspondent

Civilian evacuees board a US Marine helicopter inside US Embassy in Saigon on April 30th 1975

An Elegy for the Foreign Correspondent

Books & the Arts

Watching The Pitt at the End of an Era for HBO

An overstretched emergency department and TV network have a surprising amount in common.

A black and white photograph titled Self‑Portrait Lying Down by Peter Hujar

Jeremy Lybarger

When Peter Hujar Met Paul Thek

A new joint biography traces the lives and work of the two artists, who became lovers in the 1960s.