Dawn Wooten bravely exposed mistreatment of immigration detainees in the facility where she worked. Why is she suffering the consequences? Plus, the state of the Olympics in China.

Hilton Als and Emma Cline on the late writer’s influence on generations of younger authors. And our correspondents assess the successes and failures of Biden’s first year.

The political scientist Barbara F. Walter studies political violence, and she says America is nearing the danger zone. Plus, Nnedi Okorafor on writing fantasy through an African lens.

The young poet’s reading at President Biden’s Inauguration made her as famous as a poet can be. She talks with Kevin Young about writing a new book once the stakes were much higher.

A diva in the Americana scene shows her global side. Plus: a burglar took seventy million dollars’ worth of art from a French museum. Selling it was harder than stealing it.

How did San Juan children have a snowball fight—and why? Plus, a look at how poor students struggle to afford college, even on scholarship.

The filmmaker returns to his home terrain, where he set “Boogie Nights” and other movies. Plus, millennial writers reflect on the particular sense of despair in their generation.

Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. A dozen years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made?

The Foo Fighters’ frontman tells stories from a life of rock and roll. And Mann, a singer-songwriter, discusses her latest album, “Queens of the Summer Hotel.”