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Identities: Kathleen Hou

Swallowing Our Bitterness The quiet costs of being Asian in America.

Heartbreak and Resurrection

A brutal, essential show that pulls from the canon of Black contemporary art.

Beige Ambition

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up to make New York’s most desirable clothes. But can even perfection survive the pandemic?

The Nightmare Share

She posted an ad for a roommate. What’s the worst that could happen?

TikTok Is the New Radio

“Drivers License,” the latest song to top the charts alongside a viral challenge, tells us something about the kind of music the app rewards.

Design Hunting: Rock-Star Journalist Lisa Robinson Has Lived in Her Apartment for 45 Years

She’s kept an archive of the cassette tapes containing hundreds of interviews she’s done in her Upper East Side rental.

Extremely Online: Scott Galloway

The Capitalist Case for Overhauling Twitter We know it’s terrible for society. But it’s also a terribly run company.

Patricia Lockwood's Infinite Scroll

The Twitter-famous poet’s first novel, No One Is Talking About This, moves between the body in space and the mind online.

Judas and the Black Messiah – In the Struggle

Is it possible to make a convincing Hollywood movie about an anti-capitalist radical?

Happiness Is a Warm Reboot

A nostalgia play that never pulls the football away.

Maya Wiley – The Crisis Candidate

Maya Wiley believes a traumatized city deserves a progressive mayor—and she is certain she’d be better at it than her former boss Bill de Blasio.

Living the Scheme

Born into poverty, a young man claws his way into the gilded class.

Heritage Foods

At Stone Barns Center, guest-chef residencies are bringing fresh flavors to fine dining.

A Vibrant Reimagining of a Mid-'60s Williamsburg High-Rise Co-op

Cassandra Bromfield inherited the apartment from her mother and has made it her own.

Chloe Zhao's America

The creator of quiet indie dramas is now the most-sought-after director in Hollywood.

The Gut Renovation of Ryan Serhant

He was a real-estate striver slinging cheap rentals until ‘Million Dollar Listing’—and a pandemic market—made him the plutocracy’s broker of choice.

Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells

Imagining a COVID Endgame “Should we be satisfied with just slightly speeding up the status quo?”

253 minutes with …Jeffrey Wernick

The 65-year-old Parler investor is caught up in a technological, legal, and political debacle of the highest order.

When COVID Becomes the Story

How Superstore leaned into a pandemic it couldn’t ignore.

Let Sharon Mashihi Whisper in Your Ear

Her strange, intimate podcast, Appearances, feels like a breakthrough for the form.

Reintroducing Sonia Sotomayor

Over a decade into her tenure, the once-maligned justice has taken up the mantle of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall. But what can she accomplish on the most conservative court in decades?

The Group Portrait: Running Zoom on Zoom

How this group of executives managed a period of explosive growth while working from their own platform.

Come As You Are

A taxonomy of intimacy from a veteran of the Bay Area queer scene.

Morfydd Clark – A Star in Waiting

Morfydd Clark’s breakout moment was supposed to come last year. She’s been too busy shooting The Lord of the Rings to worry about it.

127 Minutes With… Sam Bankman-Fried

Who was that mysterious Biden donor? A dispassionate 28-year-old with $10 billion in crypto.

The City Politic: David Freedlander

A Mayoral-Race Mystery Why is the Black frontrunner getting snubbed by the Black political Establishment?

Lost in the Club

A joint effort from two hitmakers that hits only half the time.

Mike Nichols's Heartburn

The celebrated director was at the top of his game when friend Nora Ephron trusted him to direct the movie based on his her messy breakup with Carl Bernstein. His own breakup—and breakdown—turned out to be right around the corner.

The File: Bad Bunny

Language barriers, gender norms, the sheer boringness of quarantine—none of it stands a chance against Bad Bunny, the artist remaking pop in his own wild image.

After Alarmism

The war on climate denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.