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Artist Emily Mason's 4,700-Square-Foot Studio Is Just As She Left It
She painted there for 40 years.
An overwhelming demand for professional counseling has spawned slickly marketed companies promising a service they cannot possibly provide.
The summer of 2020, recalls Hillary Schieve, was hard. The pandemic was bearing down across the country, protests over racial injustice were erupting, and her sister’s breast cancer had become terminal. Schieve moved her sister into her house to take care of her; at night, she would watch the news and wonder how she was going to keep it together. Then her sister died, and a few weeks later, Schieve’s brother unexpectedly died too.
Lana Del Rey – A Case of Her
An homage to wild white womanhood that still feels hushed with the volume turned up.
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
Schooling the Left Biden’s first big break with his allies is over classroom reopenings.
The City Politic: David Freedlander
Yang vs. Everybody With three months to go, Andrew Yang is still, improbably, looking like New York’s next mayor.
King of the Geezer Teasers
Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to- video empire, where many of Hollywood’s most bankable stars have found lucrative early retirement.
How the Strand Lost Its Workers
The owner says the bookstore’s hanging by a thread—and staff say they’re the ones paying the price.
The Criminal Minds Of Jim And Tim
The Clemente brothers left the FBI to become Hollywood’s go-to murder consultants. Now they’re rebooting the biggest franchise in truecrime TV: America’s Most Wanted.
Lorraine O'Grady – Just Watch Me
More than four decades into her trailblazing career, Lorraine O’Grady finally has the world’s attention.
Royal Revisit
A sequel squeaks by with just enough gags and a lot of nostalgia.
43 Minutes With... Happy
Meditations on loneliness with a 50-year-old Elephas maximus.
Anything for You
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, artificial intelligence meets real sacrifice.
Abuse and Power
Andrew Cuomo’s governorship has been defined by cruel behavior that disguised chronic mismanagement. Why was that celebrated for so long?
THE MAGIC MOLEKULE
There has never been a better business (or planetary) climate in which to sell a handsome and expensive product designed to calm and stoke your anxieties about dirty air.
The Character-Actor Power Couple
Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel are two of the most in-demand performers working today. They are also really cute together.
True Believers
Listening in as two icons talk about their problematic fave: America.
The Receipt Keeper D'Angelo Wallace always knows how to cut through the chaos.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW what’s going on with YouTubers or anybody else with a modicum of influence online, you’ve got two options. You can watch their videos and scour Instagram—or you can get thee to a YouTube drama channel. And no one does a channel quite like D’Angelo Wallace. The Texas-based 22-year-old packs his superlong explainer videos (many of them run over an hour) with timelines, charts, and commentary—a hybrid model that perfectly encapsulates the messiness of the influencers he covers. He now has more than 2.18 million subscribers. “I will say it’s not necessarily a case of me always striving to have the best research, or I’m always going to be 100 percent correct,” Wallace said. “I just am obsessed with the storytelling of it all.”
Where's the Party?: Allison P. Davis
Are You Ready to Be Touched? Reintroducing the thrill of casual physical contact.
The Hierarchy of Tragedy
In this British series about the AIDS crisis, doom confers importance.
Fresh Pasta, Frozen Feet
Braving the elements for a taste of Rome off the Bowery.
No Sleep Till ‘Sidetalk'
Two NYU host the city's best 60-second talk show.
4 minutes with... Jill Biden
Grieving with the First Family.
A Work in Infinite Progress
For the Wooster Group, theater is a religion and the process is the point. Its latest: a years-in-the-making adaptation of Brecht’s The Mother.
Carlos Nazario – 12 Months.14 Covers.
The fashion industry can’t seem to get enough of Carlos Nazario.
Wang Off Duty
The designer Alexander Wang was famous for his partying. Now, he could become infamous.
The Power Grid: David Freedlander
Cuomo, Wounded Amid the governor’s scandals, his enemies are ready to unleash a decade of resentment.
The newest fashion trend in New York is— unironically, hyper-speciically—New York itself.
A FEW MONTHS ago, I met up with a friend who works in fashion for a socially distanced walk through Prospect Park. I noticed she was wearing a Yankees cap. Three years ago, she would have been dripping in Dries. “These days, it’s all I want to wear,” she said. I’m pretty sure she can’t name anybody on the team.
The Fresh-Faced Veteran
Youn Yuh-jung’s heart-shattering performance in Minari is likely to get an Oscar nod. She’s been doing this too long to care.
The Knickerbocker Bar & Grill
The neighborhood fixture has been dark for a year, but there’s hope yet for fans of T-bone steaks and supercolossal booths.
The Group Portrait: Working Wave After Wave at Elmhurst
Approaching 365 days in a hard-pressed hospital.