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Getting to Know H.E.R.
The artist is halfway to an EGOT, but she’s still a mystery to young audiences. You have to see her live to understand her.
Ruth Ozeki, Amplifier
Her latest novel teems with voices—most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.” The book of form and emptiness is out September 21.
The ‘Bingo' Heiress's Fantastical Duplex
With its Fragonard staircase, koi-pond bathroom, and rodeo-themed kitchen, Gail Ann Lowe Maidman’s apartment is like nothing else on the Upper East Side. Or anywhere else, really.
THE POPE OF GLOOP
For 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.
The Group Portrait: Emerson String Quartet
They’re moving into the coda of a peerless 47-year run.
The Money Game: Jen Wieczner
The Antiquarian’s Approach to Crypto Wall Street’s top cop wants to police new finance with old rules.
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
Democrats for Rent The wealth lobby is buying them up to defeat Biden’s tax reform.
Ride Like Hell
Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.
Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20
We should also acknowledge that a pervasive question after 9/11—“Why do they hate us?”—was the wrong question.
Planning For The Worst
After 9/11, we had a chance to build the downtown that New York deserves. Two decades later, timidity and fear have us hemmed in at every turn.
Adrienne Warren Stands Up
She opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb.
A Baritone Digs Deep
Will Liverman steps into the opera world’s most visible spot— the Met’s opening-night lead—in Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
Ruth Negga – ‘Imagine a Black Woman Just Wanting Something'
In Passing, Ruth Negga plays a character who dares you to disapprove of her choices.
1,960 minutes with …Isaac Fitzgerald
A pilgrimage with the most gregarious member of the literary internet.
Is There Room for Fashion Criticism in a Racist Industry?
AS A BLACK GIRL growing up in Wisconsin, I papered my bedroom walls with a collage of images cut out of the pages of Vogue, Essence, Teen Vogue, and Ebony magazines.
The Devil Wears Allbirds
Silicon Valley companies are sucking up all the fashion editors.
Planet Knausgaard
Norway’s most famous self-exile debarks for a new frontier: genre fiction.
The RED-PILLING OF Kitson
It was the ULTIMATE AUGHTS shop—PARIS and LINDSAY and VON DUTCH HATS and JUICY SWEAT SUITS. Now its owner, FRASER ROSS, is PUSHING something even MORE popular: CONSPIRACIES.
The Roys Summer in Italy
On location with the cast of ‘Succession,’ the most interestingly terrible billionaires on TV.
THE HIGH PRIEST OF CRYPTOPIA REGRETS NOTHING
Ian Freeman could have been a bitcoin billionaire. Instead, he built a renegade society in a small New Hampshire town—and could go to prison for the rest of his life.
The Visible Man
Penn Badgley is famous for his roles as a gossip and a stalker—and he’s a little disturbed by what fans see in him.
MODEL MOGUL Mother
NAOMI CAMPBELL, at 51, is discovering what comes after GLOBAL ICON.
My Endless SEARCH for American FASHION
When I started my career, I saw the potential for an American style that was beautiful, uncomplicated, and singular. Where has it gone?
Relearn How to Look
Ten fall shows to train your eye.
The Girlboss Is Dead. Long Live the Girlboss.
The trope was infantilizing, sexist, and embodied every pitfall of corporate feminism. But for many women, it was also essential.
The Group Portrait: The U.S. Open's Tenure Track
At court with the most senior ball-lobbers and towel-profferers in tennis.
SPOTTING PETER DO
The YOUNG DESIGNER and his friends-cum-partners BORROWED AND SCRAPED to create a label—and Fashion Week’s most anticipated NEW RUNWAY SHOW.
Cooking With Paris Is Anti-Aspirational Food Television
Paris Hilton rattles the very foundations of cooking shows.
Anthony Veasna – Infinite Self
Anthony Veasna so died unexpectedly last winter, before his debut short-story collection, Afterparties, was released. Everyone remembers him differently.
Who's Pulling the Strings?
A celebration of the puppets that have always lived among us.