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So Now You Need a New Toothbrush Holder
Starting over with a divorce registry.
The Oh-So-Popular Popcorn Dress
\"It's the Hervé Léger bandage dress for hot Brooklyn 30-somethings making their way through the pandemic wedding backlog.\"
Introducing Nico Parker
Meet the breakout star of The Last of Us.
The Big Dissolve
They blew out their faces. Now they're melting them down.
Poker Face Shows Its Hand
Rian Johnson's latest mystery feels radically paint-by-numbers for a streaming series.
The Canceled As Character Study
In Tár, Barbarian, and Glass Onion, there's pleasure in watching celebrities fall.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Never Saw This Work Either
Nearly 30 years after the artist's death, David Zwirner stages two pieces that were never manifested during his lifetime. How should we think about them?
The Name on Everybody's Lips Is Jinkxie
The Drag Race champ says she's \"always aspired to be washed up.\" In Chicago, she's definitely the star.
The Tin Building Has Everything (Except a Purpose)
Jean-Georges Vongerichten's lovely but lifeless $200 million food hall.
REALITY CHECK
The boom-or glut-in TELEVISION DOCUMENTARIES has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and subjects who worry there are no industrywide ethical standards for how to make one.
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE?
ARE YOU SURE? AN EXHAUSTIVE, DECISIVE GUIDE TO EXISTING IN POLITE SOCIETY.
THE RADICAL, LONELY, SUDDENLY SHOCKING LIFE OF WANG JUNTAO
After half a century of resisting the Chinese Communist Party, a dissident confronts murder and espionage in Flushing.
The Group Portrait: To Dream of Pickleball City
The sport's die-hard fans are fighting for courts they can call their own.
The System: Zak Cheney-Rice
The Uprising That Ran Out The death of Keenan Anderson marks the end of an era.
59 Minutes With... Casey Johnston
The unlikely weight-lifting coach is making a killing arguing that pumping iron can be for everyone (yes, even you).
Sarah Sherman – A Beautiful Mind
For Sarah Sherman, comedy is all about putting on a show- and being absolutely disgusting.
At Least the Sofa Looks Fabulous
The Met's Fedora starts the year on a note of ho-hum.
Plane Delivers
Blood. Brutality. Beheadings. What more could you ask for?
The Next Apocalypse
A video game turned series that finds intimacy in disaster.
Club Freud
An evening with Parapraxis, a new lit mag for the new psychoanalysis crowd.
Four Fancy Soups
Elaborate broth is back.
In Search of the New York Happy Meal
Martinis and fries are the perfect pairing. In his inaugural dispatch, our new diner-at-large looks for the best place to enjoy them.
JAMES O'KEEFE GETS STUNG
After a decade of punking liberals with hidden-camera stings, his pursuit of Ashley Biden's stolen diary could blow up in his face.
Fort Walgreens
The recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).
ELON'S BIRDCAGE
Twitter's staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use it for their own endsthen one made himself the CEO.
Diary of a Hospital: Lisa Miller
\"There's No Room in the System' A plan to institutionalize the homeless has little meaning in the ER.
The Group Portrait: Fossil Hunters
Are there mammoth bones at the bottom of the East River?
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
The GOP's Eternal Return Why post-Trump Republicans are pivoting to a pre-Trump world.
A Tacombi on Every Corner
Can Danny Meyer's millions make the chain bigger than Shake Shack?
The System: Eric Levitz
When supply, not demand, is the problem the economy is changing. Liberalism must change with it.