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Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?
What Set You Off? Didn’t You Care About Me? What Did I Do to Make This Happen? Have You Learned Anything From This? Will You Ever Change?
A Return to Company
Stephen Sondheim and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick revisit the making of the iconic cast album—and Elaine Stritch’s beautiful meltdown.
TV's White Guys Are in Crisis
They’re no longer the main characters, but they’re still around. So what happens to them?
How Andrew Cuomo Lost The Governorship
In 2001, as he set out on his first, disastrous campaign for public office, Andrew Cuomo invited a columnist for this magazine to join him for a car ride through New York City.
Barbecue Bliss in the Bronx
Hudson Smokehouse is worth a trip from any borough.
Meet My Multiple MEs
Decades after Hollywood sensationalized the diagnosis, some people with dissociative identity disorder are presenting their selves on YouTube to rapturous fans.
She Lost a View But Gained a Gallery
Construction of a hotel next door to Han Feng’s loft covered her east-facing windows, so she came up with a plan.
The Spine COLLECTOR
FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS, A mysterious figure HAS BEEN STEALING BOOKS BEFORE THEIR RELEASE. IS IT espionage? REVENGE? A trap? OR A COMPLETE waste OF TIME?
They Call Him Loop Daddy
Marc Rebillet livestreams improvised music to millions of fans, often in just his boxer briefs.
More Like Tragicomic
Revisiting Cathy, neurotic of the funny pages.
From Townhouse To Bauhaus
After years in a Greenwich Village brownstone, Alexandra Pappas wanted to live her modernist dream. To a point.
Everyone In San Francisco Has Something To Say About Chesa
Chesa Boudin, the son of Weathermen radicals, is the nation’s most progressive prosecutor in one of the country’s most liberal cities. And now, 18 months into his term, many residents are trying to throw him out.
86 minutes with … Kathryn Garcia
The bureaucrat enters a new phase of life: political celebrity.
And Not a Drop to Drink
A neo-noir set in an even thirstier Hollywood.
Out of Line
What does it feel like to watch stand-up if all you’re seeing is a cartoon?
Gawain in the Gloaming
A reluctant knight, a mythic challenge, and an evergreen question: What does it all mean?
Redemption in a Rewrite
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over is the first Broadway play to open post-lockdown—and she’s determined to land it on a high note.
The Good-Enough Woman
Depictions of mothers on TV generally suck. In her latest role, Sandra Oh wants to change that.
The Case for Speed-watching
How I came to love watching TV shows really fast. (I swear I’m not a monster.)
Space Invaders
Space Invaders The parking job that prompted thousands of insults, threats, and moral judgments.
Scott Rudin in the Wings
As Broadway reopens, its most significant producer has been banished— perhaps for the good, perhaps permanently. But also, perhaps, not.
The System: Zak Cheney-Rice - Settling for Nothing
Now Why Joe Biden’s racial-justice agenda is stalled.
The Group Portrait: These Finders Are Keepers
Archivists, librarians, and staff check back in.
SCANDALS - Tonnogate
Is celebrity butcher Dario Cecchini really selling tuna fish at his meaty new sandwich shop?
New Shanghai
At CheLi in the East Village, soup dumplings only scratch the surface of a menu that is traditional and innovative at once.
FLEETING EATING Cherries for Chile Heads
A hot cold-fruit salad brings a sting of spice.
This IP Can't Dunk
King James gets traded to the Warner Bros. super-team.
Daniel Everette Hale – Call Me a Traitor
Daniel Hale was an Air Force intelligence analyst who hated American empire, found Edward Snowden too compromising, and taught us almost everything we know about the drone war. The documents he leaked were published in 2015. Then he waited. Nothing changed.
The Greenpoint Kids' “Fight Club”
Watching a group of 5-to-7-year-olds tussle in a park while their parents brawl online over whether that should be allowed.
Boys, Interrupting
At home with the members of sketch-comedy group Please Don’t Destroy, viral auteurs of the absurd roommate run-in.