Shuggie Bain Makes It Out

Out First-time novelist Douglas Stuart’s unsparing account of a life not unlike his own might be the best-reviewed book you’ve not yet read in 2020.

Bringing the Beauty Out

For the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, the moment was always now.

NEWYORK, TIMES CHANGES

For the sake of the country—and the business model—the New York Times evolved during the Trump years: less dispassionate, more crusading. This has sparked a raw internal debate over the paper’s mission and future.

Last Days

Inside the White House as inevitability—and anger—set in.

Greenpoint's Greenest Building

The new public library cost a lot, and it may have been worth it.

Elvis Costello – This Year's Model

Elvis Costello is back with his 31st (or so) studio album. But don’t look for any consolation from him.

Ernesto's Interregnum

Between our critic’s first and last visits to the Basque-inspired taverna, not much (and everything) has changed.

The World's Best Bureaucrat

As chairman of the Federal Reserve during the global pandemic, Jerome Powell has managed to do something almost unimaginable in Washington: a good job.

Movies Were Better When Whoopi Was in Them

The actress has already achieved EGOT status. Now, finally, she’s a Master of Culture.

Nerding Out With David Fincher

The director talks about the decades-long journey behind Mank, his dense, bitter look at Hollywood history, political power, and the creative act.

Enablement

The torture self justification of one very powerful Trump loathing anonymous republican.

Wide Awake

The past four years have seen the birth of a modern progressive movement so vast and energetic it just might be equal to the right-wing forces that threaten its extinction.

TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WINNERS

Fifty-one insiders who profited off the Trump presidency. A collaboration with WNYC’s Trump, Inc. podcast.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice

White Houses Two visions of the suburbs are on the ballot. Both are myths.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

The Off-Ramp From Authoritarianism What an election can and can’t save.

Reopenings – Midtown As Microcosm

When it’s back, the city will be too.

When Nimby Met Maga

Liberals on the Upper West Side wanted to oust hundreds of homeless men from a local hotel. Then Tucker Carlson took up their cause.

Meanwhile, in Another World

How a Nicole Kidman–Hugh Grant drama series wound up becoming an inadvertent time capsule.

The National Interest: Good Genes

The president’s lifelong obsession with his superior DNA is put to the test.

The Writer's Room: I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up

The creator of ‘The Death of Stalin’ and ‘Veep’ on a week that surpassed satire.

Reality TV Glows Up

Docuseries are television’s latest prestige offering, but they’re not so different from their trashier predecessors.

Angry Bird

The story of John Brown, told with righteous fury.

Sohla El-Waylly, Food Wizard

After leaving Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.

THE SWAMP: The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event

Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s.

THE CITY'S PERMANENT GOVERNMENT” HAS ALWAYS BUILT ITS WAY OUT OF CRISIS. BUT WHAT IF IT CAN'T?

The Panic Attack of the Power Brokers

Injured?

Bruised egos, gobs of money, and the bitter feud that took down CELLI NO & BARNES, New York’s absurdly ubiquitous accident law firm.

Rumaan Alam – Delusions of Whiteness

In Rumaan Alam’s new thriller, a white family staying at a Hamptons Airbnb is startled when the Black owners knock on the door.

Dispatches - Returning to Restaurants

Our critic, fresh off hiatus, surveys the state of his neighborhood.

Lock Him Up?

For the Republic to survive Trump’s presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own.

Buying Myself Back

When does a model own her own image?