THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Trisha Thadani’s cover essay on alternative medical clinics targeting cancer patients with misinformation, alongside Max Read’s examination of Silicon Valley products adopting the logic of gambling, and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Ethicist column on sponsoring a caregiver’s career.

Min Jin Lee Was Underestimated for Half Her Life. Then She Started to Write.

A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.

When Did Everyone Start Talking Like a Hollywood Windbag?

The phrase “the X of it all” started as a joke to mock the vague lingo of studio bosses. But there’s something widely appealing about speaking “casually, broadly and vaguely in order to reduce friction.” By Nitsuh Abebe

They Kept Outsiders Away for 500 Years. Their World Is About to Change.

My father dedicated his life to studying the Guna people of Panama, and they may soon allow unprecedented development through their land. I went on a trek through the jungle to find out why. By Ben Ryder Howe and Federico Rios

How Everything Became Gambling

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.