A Plague is an Apocalypse But It Can Bring a New World

The meaning of this one is in our hands.

WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS

Sober, simple, expert advice for managing the risks of COVID-19.

An Apartment Inside a Former Church in Jersey City

A new life under Gothic vaults for designers Paul Melo and Tom Walko.

Two weeks with… Rachel Noerdlinger

From Bill de Blasio’s City Hall to George Floyd’s memorial service.

In Search of Alia SHAWKAT

In the spotlight since childhood— and now, suddenly, really in the spotlight.

Intelligencer – Vision 2020: Gabriel Debenedetti

Biden Is Booming A once unthinkable electoral map comes into focus.

Cop Show Confidential

How does it feel to make police shows in 2020?

Michaela the DESTROYER

How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.

Remembrance: Milton Glaser, 1929–2020

IF THEY’RE TALENTED AND THEY’RE LUCKY, designer-artist-creators get to lob an icon out into the larger culture—the ultrafamiliar shape of Leo Fender’s Stratocaster guitar, say, or Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster. If they’re great, maybe they create two. Milton Glaser, though, operated on another plane—he just kept hitting the bull’s-eye, again and again, throughout his seven decades as an illustrator, graphic designer, art director, and visual philosopher and paterfamilias. He loved New York City and celebrated it in multiple ways: with a magazine, with posters, and (most visibly of all) with the three-letters-and-a-red-heart slogan he created. Almost incidentally, he also changed the way you eat.

THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET - Alternate-Side Dining

With the reopening of New York restaurants, all food is street food.

Peak COMFORT

The triumph of brazenly uncomplicated entertainment.

Cityscape: JUSTIN DAVIDSON - There Are Much Better Ways to House the Old

Why do we Americans sentence ourselves to misery?

41 minutes with … Marc Elias

The Democrats’ top election lawyer warns of a voter-suppression catastrophe in November.

Navigating Hollywood's Creative Police State

Black Lives Matter protests are moving from the streets to the executive suites. This is the story of trying to make my film hashtag—and why I abandoned it in the end.

The City: Pride Was Always a Protest

In a year without a parade, thousands rallied for Black trans lives in Brooklyn.

What Made the Difference?

How one Brooklyn hospital survived its deadliest spring.

The Quiet Storm

Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard is an unlikely superhero film, both patient and intimate. But she’s always been uncompromising.

A Former Garage in Hudson

When the onetime East Village antiques dealer John Eaton returned after a year in Paris, he decided to settle in an industrial space upstate.

Boss of the Beach

For 40 years, the city’s LIFEGUARD CORPS has been mired in controversy—falsified drowning reports, sexual-assault allegations, drugs, and alcohol—and for 40 years it’s been run by one man: PETER STEIN.

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.