Cruise's Last Stand

Thirty-six years after the original, Top Gun: Maverick eulogizes the actor’s entire career.

The SAD YOUNG LITERARY MAN Is Now a MIDDLE-AGED DAD

KEITH GESSEN wrote a memoir about family life. His wife, EMILY GOULD, is mostly okay with that.

Bad Thoughts Make Good

A Strange Loop moves to Broadway, much to its own surprise.

A Spanish Revival on 23rd Street

The Hotel Chelsea's El Quijote is back and better than ever.

Abortion Funds Are a Lifeline. And a Target.

The right's attacks on grassroots groups have already begun.

128 Minutes With... Olúfemi Táíwò

The Georgetown philosopher's new book, Elite Capture, comes at a moment of change for identity politics.

This Pasta Granny Relishes the Spotlight

THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET

The Original The Famous

A pieman with a past, a business deal gone sour: New York's next great pizza feud ignites in Astoria.

The Group Portrait: Champions of the Office

Ten New York bosses urging workers back to their desks.

Mort & Me in Bed-Stuy

The artist Simone Bodmer-Turner lives in this apartment of her own devising with her rescue dog, Mort.

Send in the Clowns

Mike Myers returns as … well, a lot of different people.

How the proudly personally privileged NELL DIAMOND convinced so many women to wear PAJAMAS in public.

WAKING UP FROM THE NAP DRESS

IN CONVERSATION JOHN G.REILY

The actor thinks audiences just want to be surprised. He'd do (almost) anything to oblige.

Alone, Together

Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton on learning how to write their stories separately after a lifelong friendship.

318 Minutes With …Daniel Saynt

The upmarket-sex-club entrepreneur invited me to his Easter—sorry, Eostre—orgy.

When Smoke Gets in Your Wine

Growers, vintners, and scientists are scrambling to protect California’s prized Napa Cab from the aftertaste of wildfires.

Working Girls

Grace and Frankie may be ending, but the era of Jane Fonda–Lily Tomlin collaborations is in full swing.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice

Death by Firing Squad Why is an archaic form of execution making a comeback?

THE SUBWAY IS SCARY AGAIN. TO SOME PEOPLE. SOMETIMES.

The mass shooting on the N train underscored questions about safety that have dogged New Yorkers since the onset of the pandemic.

Black-ish Was No Televised Revolution

The show always aimed for the third rail, but it played it safe more often than not.

More or Less

After years of marriage, Dorothy and Stephen Globus grew apart aesthetically. So they built his and hers apartments, side by side.

The Aperitivo Hour

As more restaurateurs embrace the breezy Italian art of predinner drinking, New York is awash in bitter-liqueur-based cocktails and salty snacks. Here, where to go and what to get.

Not Quite a Religious Experience

The Shaker-inspired Commerce Inn underwhelms our critic.

The Hardest Day on Set: The Northman

Dozens of extras, nonstop rain, and a village full of animals— what could go wrong?

The Group Portrait: Amazon's Bane

Organizers for ALU are angling for a second historic victory.

THE INSIDE MAN

Meet JOSEPH KAHN, the new, old-school editor of the Times.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Political Correctness Is Losing How the Democratic Party fought back against illiberalism.

Blocked

Luke came out as trans when he was 11, hoping to start hormone therapy as a teenager. Instead, he was held hostage in a political and medical battle that’s far from over.

The Rise of the Gastrotavern

At Inga’s Bar and several other recently opened places, New York’s oldest style of restaurant gets new life.

What Does ‘Now' Look Like?

The Whitney Biennial returns, unusually late and uncommonly strong.