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Reinstall Tinder, or, If That Doesn't Work, Join a Virtual Sext Bunker
New York magazine

Reinstall Tinder, or, If That Doesn't Work, Join a Virtual Sext Bunker

COVID-19 is like the trip-to-Ikea litmus test for relationships.

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8 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to Survive This Plague – 24 Sign Up for Couples Therapy
New York magazine

How to Survive This Plague – 24 Sign Up for Couples Therapy

THANKS TO TIGHT QUARTERS (and looming existential dread), couples are arguing about everything and nothing at all.

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6 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to Survive This Plague – 3 Learn a TikTok Dance
New York magazine

How to Survive This Plague – 3 Learn a TikTok Dance

TikTok is full of 15-to-60-second-long user-choreographed dances, some of which go viral. Here, nine to try to teach yourself at home, ranked by difficulty. Can you get good enough to upload your own?

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4 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
As Long As You're Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live
New York magazine

As Long As You're Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live

Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he’s in another era. He shares his West Village railroad apartment with mementos and Queenie.

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2 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to survive this plague – Browse Masterpieces of Mass Death
New York magazine

How to survive this plague – Browse Masterpieces of Mass Death

Getting close to a Bruegel is like running your eyes through combed hay— rough, textured into infinity, every microdetail filled with energy.

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3 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to survive this plague – 1 Slow Down
New York magazine

How to survive this plague – 1 Slow Down

Like wars, plagues can make us see where we are.

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6 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
Or Don't Teach Them Anything
New York magazine

Or Don't Teach Them Anything

In our house, the adults did not instruct us or judge our progress. I spent months obsessed with making balloon animals.

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6 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
Hedge Your Bets
New York magazine

Hedge Your Bets

BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO END UP like Larry Kudlow, I don’t make claims about whether the stock market is going to go up or down.

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4 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
63 minutes with… Luann de Lesseps
New York magazine

63 minutes with… Luann de Lesseps

Decamping upstate with the Real Housewife of the Hudson Valley.

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6 mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
Empires: David Wallace-Wells
New York magazine

Empires: David Wallace-Wells

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

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5 mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
The Girl With the Midas Touch
New York magazine

The Girl With the Midas Touch

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

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6 mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
The Art World's Mini-Madoff And Me
New York magazine

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?

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10+ mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
New York magazine

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.

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1 min  |
March 16-29, 2020
This Will Get Worse
New York magazine

This Will Get Worse

The grim math of a coronavirus future.

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8 mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
Only the Beginning
New York magazine

Only the Beginning

The pandemic arrives, and the city shudders.

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10+ mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
The Disaster Artist
New York magazine

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.

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8 mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
The CULTURE PAGES CRITICS
New York magazine

The CULTURE PAGES CRITICS

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

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10+ mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
Bushwick Rococo
New York magazine

Bushwick Rococo

Salman Toor lets himself go.

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2 mins  |
March 16-29, 2020
Sophie Allison – “Inside, I'm Still So Blue”
New York magazine

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.

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6 mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
The Congress Woman From California
New York magazine

The Congress Woman From California

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

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10+ mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
Judged By Their Covers
New York magazine

Judged By Their Covers

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

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10 mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
WILL THE MILLENNIAL AESTHETIC EVER END?
New York magazine

WILL THE MILLENNIAL AESTHETIC EVER END?

The TYRANNY of TERRAZZO

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10+ mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
What Comes After TV?
New York magazine

What Comes After TV?

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

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10+ mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
New York magazine

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

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

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6 mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BEING A PLANT
New York magazine

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BEING A PLANT

The actually convincing science of light therapy.

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9 mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
Shell Is Looking Forward
New York magazine

Shell Is Looking Forward

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

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10+ mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
Nevertheless, He Persisits
New York magazine

Nevertheless, He Persisits

The ego and the altruism of Mike Bloomberg.

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10+ mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
THE (J)OY OF FRAN
New York magazine

THE (J)OY OF FRAN

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

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10+ mins  |
March 2–15, 2020
Garbage Language
New York magazine

Garbage Language

Why do corporations speak the way they do?

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10+ mins  |
February 17 - March 1, 2020
Well, Here We Are
New York magazine

Well, Here We Are

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

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10+ mins  |
January 20 - February 2, 2020