The 12.9.18 Issue

Highlights

The Best Actors of 2018
We still crave movement on screen and this year’s great performances were magnificently physical.
By A.O. Scott and Wesley Morris
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The Year's Great Performers Dancing in a Series of Short Films
Julia Roberts, Lakeith Stanfield, Ethan Hawke, Yalitza Aparicio and more of the year's best actors in a series of original dance flicks.
By Justin Peck
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The Everyday Ballet
When ordinary acts become moments of extraordinary grace.

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Photos of the Year’s Best Actors Dancing Everyday Ballets
The year’s greatest performers frozen in moments of movement.
Photographs by Philip Montgomery
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New Sentences: From ‘The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling’
The wrestling term “kayfabe” has a perfect origin story: Nobody knows exactly where it came from.
By Sam Anderson
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New Sentences
In Washington, Sending Off the Old Normal
In the Trump era, the ritual of the state funeral stands in for an increasingly distant past.
By Mark Leibovich
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Notebook
It’s Time to Study Whether Eating Particular Diets Can Help Heal Us
We rigorously research the medicine molecules we put in our bodies. We should be doing the same for the nutrients we ingest.
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro
On Medicine
Poem: We See ‘The Lion King’ on Broadway, I Enter the Pride
Selected by Rita Dove.
By Remica Bingham-Risher
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Poem
Judge John Hodgman on Buying Multiple Christmas Trees
What if you want to make themed trees?
By Judge John Hodgman
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Judge John Hodgman

Behind the Cover: Great Performers Dance
For this issue, a look at the year's best actors in everyday ballets.

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