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Inkwell: Lila Shapiro Critic vs. Critics
Why over half of the board of the National Book Critics Circle just quit.
High Culture Brought Low
The pandemic silenced the city’s symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning?
EVERYBODY HATES Bill
Weeks into the George Floyd protests, Mayor de Blasio has alienated his constituents, the police, and even his own staff.
CHEF, INTERRUPTED: Rawlston Williams Grows His Congregation
The Food Sermon chef has a new location, a book deal, and a built-in clientele.
Going Over the Line
In Josephine Decker’s new film, Shirley (and in life generally), being a muse is a trap.
A Leafy Backyard Compound in Clinton Hill
Design Hunting
Inkwell: Lauren Michele Jackson
Keep reading but don’t expect black writers to do the hard work for you.
Haim – Summertime Sadness
Haim returns with an album begging you to sob on the dance floor with it.
The Long View: John Lewis
The congressman and civil-rights legend will never lose hope.
THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET: Ignacio for Dummies
Altro Paradiso’s meal kits are a welcome reprieve from quarantine cooking.
This Can't Be Contained
OVER THE PAST WEEK, protests and riots in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have been met with increasingly menacing calls to restore order.
CRITICS
Craig Jenkins on Chromatica … Jen Chaney on Space Force … Alison Willmore on The Vast of Night.
95 minutes with … Sarah Feinberg
The woman tasked with saving the city’s public transit is still commuting.
The Slow-Burn Star
With Homecoming and Driveways, Hong Chau is landing roles that match her talent. But the road along the way has been bumpy.
“Whoever's Been President Has Usually Been a Friend”
Martha Bartlett, who introduced JFK to Jackie, doesn’t dwell.
Long Lives
Old people have never been so powerful— or, now, so vulnerable.
“I Said to My Mother, ‘Did You See the Blood?' She Said, ‘I Hoped You Hadn't Noticed.'”
Marga Griesbach was sent to Stutthof concentration camp in 1944. This past February, she left Washington State to take a cruise around the world.
Botticelli's Quarantine
This is the saddest picture I have ever seen.
Cine Phobia
What will make Americans feel comfortable going out to the movies again?
CRITICS
Craig Jenkins on Petals for Armor … Jen Chaney on Snowpiercer … Alison Willmore on Capone.
My Two Cents: “I'm 39, Divorced, and I Lost All My Income”
How a massage therapist who can’t work is getting by.
Life in Pictures: The Borough President Lives in Borough Hall
Eric Adams, in for the duration.
Jody Williams and Rita Sodi Bounce Back
The Via Carota partners discuss the view from their window.
Joe Biden Has a Very Bleak View of the Fall
He’ll win the presidency, he thinks, and survive Tara Reade’s accusations. But suddenly, the country needs a lot more than an average-Joe president. He knows it.
What Stays With You
Everything in collector and curator Pierre Apraxine’s West Village apartment has a life of its own.
What is College Without The Campus?
No one knows what the university experience will look like in the fall, but millions of college students are having to decide this month whether it will be worth the price tag.
Kehlani Writes Throwback Songs About Heartbreak
Kehlani Writes Throwback Songs About Heartbreak, But She’d Love a Little Less of It in Her Life
PROPHETIC POP - Matty Healy
Matty Healy Is Glad to Not Be a Junkie Cliché and Believes the New 1975 Album Is Quite Prescient
THE EMO INSTIGATOR - Hayley Williams
Hayley Williams Never Thought She’d Be a Solo Artist—Even As She Was Blamed for Breaking Up Her Own Band
THE DIY QUEEN - Charli XCX
Stress-Cried a Lot While Recording Her Entire New Album in Quarantine