The Group Portrait: These Finders Are Keepers

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SCANDALS - Tonnogate

Is celebrity butcher Dario Cecchini really selling tuna fish at his meaty new sandwich shop?

New Shanghai

At CheLi in the East Village, soup dumplings only scratch the surface of a menu that is traditional and innovative at once.

FLEETING EATING Cherries for Chile Heads

A hot cold-fruit salad brings a sting of spice.

This IP Can't Dunk

King James gets traded to the Warner Bros. super-team.

Daniel Everette Hale – Call Me a Traitor

Daniel Hale was an Air Force intelligence analyst who hated American empire, found Edward Snowden too compromising, and taught us almost everything we know about the drone war. The documents he leaked were published in 2015. Then he waited. Nothing changed.

The Greenpoint Kids' “Fight Club”

Watching a group of 5-to-7-year-olds tussle in a park while their parents brawl online over whether that should be allowed.

Boys, Interrupting

At home with the members of sketch-comedy group Please Don’t Destroy, viral auteurs of the absurd roommate run-in.

Amateur Hour

A quarter-century after Pam and Tommy’s sex tape, there have been countless copycats—and nothing like it.

It's A Dog's Market

Adopting used to be a good thing that good person could do. These days, you’re probably not good enough.

100 Bewildering Hours at Cannes

The most glamorous film festival remains unchanged—except for that pesky Delta variant.

Another Bard, Another Park

Classical Theatre of Harlem and Will Power refashion Richard III

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Biden’s Everything Bill The sweeping $3.5 trillion package is so big it might paradoxically be passable.

The Inner Game

A study of a champion still struggling to feel like one.

The Group Portrait: America's Tastemakers

Across the river, a quiet industry determines the flavors of our foods.

Inkwell: Alex Shephard

Trump Books Are Magic Everyone in publishing is sick of the former president. But they keep making books about him anyway.

Jennifer Coolidge – The Other Woman

For most of her career, Jennifer Coolidge has been spinning roles as trophy wives and divorcées into comic gold. Now she gets to show what else she can do.

Katie Kitamura – The Interpreter

Katie Kitamura’s hypnotic new novel asks, What happens when your main character is a passive witness to her own life?

All the World's a Luxury Mall

The Shed was meant to artwash Hudson Yards. What artwashes the Shed?

Before, During, After, January 6

The Historical Perspective at Six Months

Choose Your Own Misadventure

The flashiest theater event since the shutdown is an interactive mixed bag.

Saweetie Wants You to See Her Sweat

She’s not yet the rapper she aspires to be. At least she finally knows what it’ll take.

70 minutes with …Ramtin Ray Nosrati

The builder of Los Angeles’s awesome, soulless spec palaces.

THE SOUND OF MY INBOX

The financial promise of email newsletters has enticed so many writers to launch so many micropublications that they have, in turn, created a new literary genre.

The Left

Making Sense of Murder Progressives shouldn’t avoid talking about rising homicides.

The City Politic

Who Won? A complicated new voting system meets an archaic bureaucracy.

Hell Is Other People

A hyperviolent series finally gives up on America.

This Used to Be the “Ugliest House on Mt. Merino”

Jeff Hayenga and Michael Belanger’s long-simmering upstate project.

His Secrets and His Success

Tyler, the Creator tangles with desires unfulfilled.

The Group Portrait: Winners Eat Free

How the restaurant Dr. Clark created Manhattan’s most promising new soccer team.