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The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis
New York magazine

The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis

Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual assault and abuse, the massive, multinational, extralegal institution remains in conflict with itself.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
You've Heard This One Before
New York magazine

You've Heard This One Before

Maggie Nelson believes we react too quickly and think ungenerously. In her new book, she’s guilty of doing both.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Jessica Chastain and Liv Ullmann – Same Role, 48 Years Apart
New York magazine

Jessica Chastain and Liv Ullmann – Same Role, 48 Years Apart

Jessica Chastain reprises Liv Ullmann’s part in the Ingmar Bergman classic Scenes From a Marriage. Their approaches couldn’t be more different.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Getting to Know H.E.R.
New York magazine

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.

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7 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Ruth Ozeki, Amplifier
New York magazine

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.

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4 mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The ‘Bingo' Heiress's Fantastical Duplex
New York magazine

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.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
THE POPE OF GLOOP
New York magazine

THE POPE OF GLOOP

For 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The Group Portrait: Emerson String Quartet
New York magazine

The Group Portrait: Emerson String Quartet

They’re moving into the coda of a peerless 47-year run.

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2 mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The Money Game: Jen Wieczner
New York magazine

The Money Game: Jen Wieczner

The Antiquarian’s Approach to Crypto Wall Street’s top cop wants to police new finance with old rules.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
New York magazine

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Democrats for Rent The wealth lobby is buying them up to defeat Biden’s tax reform.

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6 mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Ride Like Hell
New York magazine

Ride Like Hell

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20
New York magazine

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.

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10+ mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Planning For The Worst
New York magazine

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.

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10+ mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Adrienne Warren Stands Up
New York magazine

Adrienne Warren Stands Up

She opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb.

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7 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
A Baritone Digs Deep
New York magazine

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.

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5 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Ruth Negga – ‘Imagine a Black Woman Just Wanting Something'
New York magazine

Ruth Negga – ‘Imagine a Black Woman Just Wanting Something'

In Passing, Ruth Negga plays a character who dares you to disapprove of her choices.

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8 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
1,960 minutes with …Isaac Fitzgerald
New York magazine

1,960 minutes with …Isaac Fitzgerald

A pilgrimage with the most gregarious member of the literary internet.

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6 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Is There Room for Fashion Criticism in a Racist Industry?
New York magazine

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.

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7 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
The Devil Wears Allbirds
New York magazine

The Devil Wears Allbirds

Silicon Valley companies are sucking up all the fashion editors.

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8 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Planet Knausgaard
New York magazine

Planet Knausgaard

Norway’s most famous self-exile debarks for a new frontier: genre fiction.

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10+ mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
The RED-PILLING OF Kitson
New York magazine

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.

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August 30 - September 12, 2021
The Roys Summer in Italy
New York magazine

The Roys Summer in Italy

On location with the cast of ‘Succession,’ the most interestingly terrible billionaires on TV.

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10+ mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
THE HIGH PRIEST OF CRYPTOPIA REGRETS NOTHING
New York magazine

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.

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August 30 - September 12, 2021
The Visible Man
New York magazine

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.

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8 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
MODEL MOGUL Mother
New York magazine

MODEL MOGUL Mother

NAOMI CAMPBELL, at 51, is discovering what comes after GLOBAL ICON.

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10 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
My Endless SEARCH for American FASHION
New York magazine

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?

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10+ mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Relearn How to Look
New York magazine

Relearn How to Look

Ten fall shows to train your eye.

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5 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
The Girlboss Is Dead. Long Live the Girlboss.
New York magazine

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.

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7 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
The Group Portrait: The U.S. Open's Tenure Track
New York magazine

The Group Portrait: The U.S. Open's Tenure Track

At court with the most senior ball-lobbers and towel-profferers in tennis.

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2 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
SPOTTING PETER DO
New York magazine

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.

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10 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021