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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.

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.