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A Brooklyn Family's Pet-Friendly, Kid-Filled Self-Made Comfort Zone

Ada Davila and Agustin Hurtado transformed part of a 19th-century brewery in East Williamsburg into a bright and lively home.

121 minutes with …Guy Fieri

A trip to the ranch with America’s most misunderstood chef.

An 1880 Artist's Cottage in the Rockaways That Feels Like a Ship

Patrick Clark has spent the last 22 years bringing the house back to life, preserving it for its next century.

The Group Portrait: The Unhinged Observers of ‘The Drunken Canal'

Dimes Square gets the publication it deserves.

Reasons We've Loved New York

So Long, Friends - A send-off to the many places, big and small, that closed in 2020.

We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time

The silver bullet we’ve been waiting for took all of one weekend to design.

Afterimages – Our Shared Unsharing

Our Shared Unsharing Instagram couldn’t handle 2020 either.

Noticed: Black Surgical Masks

Favored among the stylish from Calabasas to the Odeon.

Cold Comforts

Two downtown Asian-inspired kitchens brave the elements with distinctly personal, creative cooking.

Quarantine Brain

Nothing made sense this year—unless you were on the internet.

The Group Portrait: Rockettes, Spectacular-less

For the first time since its inception in 1933, there will be no Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.

Children Of Quarantine

What does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain?

First Taste - Don't Call It Tex-Mex

Yellow Rose brings fresh flour tortillas, vegan queso, and a honky-tonk vibe to the East Village.

Moving On Up (on TikTok)

In 2019, Ashnikko broke out after a viral hit on the app. What if it wasn’t a fluke?

And a Week of Watching

The agony of cable news (Kornacki notwithstanding).

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

And Now, for My Last Act The danger (and ineptitude) of Trump’s failed coup.

The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister

Stacey Abrams on Finishing the Job in Georgia “It can be undone just as quickly as we did it.”

One Big Sweaty, Gorgeous Party*

How Steve McQueen and his cast and crew created the year’s most unforgettable movie scene.

On Behalf of the Plutocrats

Kathy Wylde, the longtime head of the Partnership for New York City, started her career as a community organizer— and has a message for today’s young socialists.

A Lounge in the Sky in the West Village

How architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio apartment into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home—with enough space for 30 Dutch soldiers.

133 minutes with …Hugh Hamrick

After 30 years of dating David Sedaris, “Congressman Prude” finally tells his side of their story.

Who Dies

COVID took my grandfather. But it wasn’t what killed him.

America Is Not the Country Joe Biden Believes It to Be

The durability of the liberal delusion and the future of the right.

Exhale, America

The one-term reign of the man who never should've won

Weave of Destruction

Bad Hair is a love letter written with a poison pen.

The Horny and the Holy

Ariana Grande is a singer of many contrasts.

THE GREAT 21ST-CENTURY TREASURE HUNT

Was there a better way to spend the past decade than on a sometimes maddening, occasionally deadly, brain scrambling search for gold hidden somewhere in the American West?

Shuggie Bain Makes It Out

Out First-time novelist Douglas Stuart’s unsparing account of a life not unlike his own might be the best-reviewed book you’ve not yet read in 2020.

Bringing the Beauty Out

For the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, the moment was always now.

NEWYORK, TIMES CHANGES

For the sake of the country—and the business model—the New York Times evolved during the Trump years: less dispassionate, more crusading. This has sparked a raw internal debate over the paper’s mission and future.