Jul 31, 2017 Vol 190 No 5

Ambitious and Harrowing, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk Is a Masterpiece

Christopher Nolan: Dunkirk Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento
Director Christopher Nolan discusses his new film Dunkirk, which is already being hailed as one of the most important war movies ever made

Inside the Secret Plan to Stop Vladimir Putin’s U.S. Election Plot
The White House was prepared to call out the military to guard the vote from a Russian hack

Liu Xiaobo, China’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner, Dies at 61
He was jailed in 2009 for calling for multiparty democracy

The GOP Faces a New Crossroads

Why the Death of Malls Is About More Than Shopping
As America’s malls close down, more than stores are vanishing along with them

Turkey’s ‘Iron Lady’ Meral Aksener Is Getting Ready to Challenge Erdogan
Meral Aksener rose to prominence as a critic of the Turkish President. Now, she is preparing to take him on at the ballot box

Acid Attacks Have Become a Gruesome Criminal Trend in the U.K.
On Thursday night, five people across London were attacked within the space of 90 minutes

The Low-Caste Farmer’s Son Taking High Office In India

Winnie the Pooh and Homer Too

Can Tunisia Remain a Beacon of Democracy for the Arab World?

Why There Is Crying In Baseball, and Tennis, and Golf, and Soccer …

The Risky Business of Angel Investing

Steve Ballmer: 5 Facts About the U.S. Government That Blew My Mind
And could help improve the conversations we have about how the country should be

Remembering America’s ‘Angel of Death Row’

Why Cauliflower Is the New ‘It’ Vegetable
The versatility of cauliflower has boosted its popularity

Review: Girls Trip Is the Funniest, Raunchiest Movie of the Summer
A flawless comedy that doesn’t make the mistakes of the women-behaving-badly genre

Landline Is a Message From the Lost World of the 1990s

Valerian’s Half-Crazed Space Race

Amazon Tries to Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Unfinished Novel

Bateman’s Stab at High Drama

Spider-Man, Ranked
The latest one is a thrill--and a hit. But how does it stack up against the rest?

Her Food, Her Self

8 Questions With Al Gore

For the Record

Milestones

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