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Empires: David Wallace-Wells

America Is Broken The government has abdicated its most basic responsibility in the face of a pandemic.

The Girl With the Midas Touch

How Billie Eilish, Finneas, and Hans Zimmer rethought the James Bond theme for a new generation.

The Art World's Mini-Madoff And Me

For a few years, Inigo Philbrick and I were inseparable. And then it turned out he was running a con. Not that he thinks he did anything wrong. But did I?

How to Throw a Party From a Distance

When Shanika Gunaratna felt like the only responsible move was to cancel her 31st-birthday celebration, a Google Hangouts party suddenly seemed less like a Black Mirror episode and more like—okay, still Black Mirror–esque, but at least a happier episode.

This Will Get Worse

The grim math of a coronavirus future.

Only the Beginning

The pandemic arrives, and the city shudders.

The Disaster Artist

Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel reimagines a world thrown off its axis by financial collapse. But it’s her previous novel that’s speaking to our pandemic-frenzied moment.

The CULTURE PAGES CRITICS

Helen Shaw on Girl From the North Country … Matt Zoller Seitz on Westworld … David Edelstein on First Cow.

Bushwick Rococo

Salman Toor lets himself go.

Sophie Allison – “Inside, I'm Still So Blue”

Sophie Allison, a.k.a. Soccer Mommy, is a little bit country and a little bit goth.

The Congress Woman From California

Katie Hill’s rise heralded the arrival of a new and modern political generation. And then the pictures leaked.

Judged By Their Covers

How the Assoulines made their name on books to be seen (and occasionally read).

WILL THE MILLENNIAL AESTHETIC EVER END?

The TYRANNY of TERRAZZO

What Comes After TV?

Snapchat is making hypercondensed shows specifically to watch on a smartphone. It’s harder than you’d think.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

This Is Fine As the world reaches for face masks, Trump buries his head in the sand.

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BEING A PLANT

The actually convincing science of light therapy.

Shell Is Looking Forward

The fossil-fuel companies expect to not just survive climate change but profit from it.

Nevertheless, He Persisits

The ego and the altruism of Mike Bloomberg.

THE (J)OY OF FRAN

What you first need to understand is that I learned joie de vivre from The Nanny.

Garbage Language

Why do corporations speak the way they do?

Well, Here We Are

Two weeks until Iowa, the race has narrowed. One of these people could beat Trump, right?

Meghan Markle's Bigger Dreams

She isn’t letting the royal family get in her way.

You'll Want Frites With That

The Chez Ma Tante team’s classic-brasserie-style Le Crocodile feels familiar, but that’s the point.

Intelligencer – 11 Months From Today

A second term for Trump seems more possible than ever. But what would it look like?

45s and Heartbreak

A new High Fidelity broadens the vision of the original in more ways than one.

This Is Not a Love Story

When she started writing My Dark Vanessa at 16, Kate Elizabeth Russell saw her story about a student’s affair with a teacher as a romance. She sees it differently now.

What's in the Box?

Donald Judd wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it.

THE IMMODERATE SUSAN COLLINS

After a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?

NBA 90210

The children of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade play on the same L.A. prep-school basketball team— along with the child of another NBA player, the seven-foot-tall son of a Chinese pro, and two other future first-round picks. It’s a very strange kind of teenage fame.

Josh Thomas Isn't Afraid of America

After Please Like Me, the Aussie comic now has his own (uncomfortably, hilariously honest) teen sitcom.