A Former Garage in Hudson

When the onetime East Village antiques dealer John Eaton returned after a year in Paris, he decided to settle in an industrial space upstate.

Boss of the Beach

For 40 years, the city’s LIFEGUARD CORPS has been mired in controversy—falsified drowning reports, sexual-assault allegations, drugs, and alcohol—and for 40 years it’s been run by one man: PETER STEIN.

Inkwell: Lila Shapiro Critic vs. Critics

Why over half of the board of the National Book Critics Circle just quit.

High Culture Brought Low

The pandemic silenced the city’s symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning?

EVERYBODY HATES Bill

Weeks into the George Floyd protests, Mayor de Blasio has alienated his constituents, the police, and even his own staff.

CHEF, INTERRUPTED: Rawlston Williams Grows His Congregation

The Food Sermon chef has a new location, a book deal, and a built-in clientele.

Going Over the Line

In Josephine Decker’s new film, Shirley (and in life generally), being a muse is a trap.

A Leafy Backyard Compound in Clinton Hill

Design Hunting

Inkwell: Lauren Michele Jackson

Keep reading but don’t expect black writers to do the hard work for you.

Haim – Summertime Sadness

Haim returns with an album begging you to sob on the dance floor with it.

The Long View: John Lewis

The congressman and civil-rights legend will never lose hope.

THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET: Ignacio for Dummies

Altro Paradiso’s meal kits are a welcome reprieve from quarantine cooking.

This Can't Be Contained

OVER THE PAST WEEK, protests and riots in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have been met with increasingly menacing calls to restore order.

CRITICS

Craig Jenkins on Chromatica … Jen Chaney on Space Force … Alison Willmore on The Vast of Night.

95 minutes with … Sarah Feinberg

The woman tasked with saving the city’s public transit is still commuting.

The Slow-Burn Star

With Homecoming and Driveways, Hong Chau is landing roles that match her talent. But the road along the way has been bumpy.

“Whoever's Been President Has Usually Been a Friend”

Martha Bartlett, who introduced JFK to Jackie, doesn’t dwell.

Long Lives

Old people have never been so powerful— or, now, so vulnerable.

“I Said to My Mother, ‘Did You See the Blood?' She Said, ‘I Hoped You Hadn't Noticed.'”

Marga Griesbach was sent to Stutthof concentration camp in 1944. This past February, she left Washington State to take a cruise around the world.

Botticelli's Quarantine

This is the saddest picture I have ever seen.

Cine Phobia

What will make Americans feel comfortable going out to the movies again?

CRITICS

Craig Jenkins on Petals for Armor … Jen Chaney on Snowpiercer … Alison Willmore on Capone.

My Two Cents: “I'm 39, Divorced, and I Lost All My Income”

How a massage therapist who can’t work is getting by.

Life in Pictures: The Borough President Lives in Borough Hall

Eric Adams, in for the duration.

Jody Williams and Rita Sodi Bounce Back

The Via Carota partners discuss the view from their window.

Joe Biden Has a Very Bleak View of the Fall

He’ll win the presidency, he thinks, and survive Tara Reade’s accusations. But suddenly, the country needs a lot more than an average-Joe president. He knows it.

What Stays With You

Everything in collector and curator Pierre Apraxine’s West Village apartment has a life of its own.

What is College Without The Campus?

No one knows what the university experience will look like in the fall, but millions of college students are having to decide this month whether it will be worth the price tag.

Kehlani Writes Throwback Songs About Heartbreak

Kehlani Writes Throwback Songs About Heartbreak, But She’d Love a Little Less of It in Her Life

PROPHETIC POP - Matty Healy

Matty Healy Is Glad to Not Be a Junkie Cliché and Believes the New 1975 Album Is Quite Prescient