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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.

Amateur Hour

A quarter-century after Pam and Tommy’s sex tape, there have been countless copycats—and nothing like it.

It's A Dog's Market

Adopting used to be a good thing that good person could do. These days, you’re probably not good enough.

100 Bewildering Hours at Cannes

The most glamorous film festival remains unchanged—except for that pesky Delta variant.

Another Bard, Another Park

Classical Theatre of Harlem and Will Power refashion Richard III

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Biden’s Everything Bill The sweeping $3.5 trillion package is so big it might paradoxically be passable.

The Inner Game

A study of a champion still struggling to feel like one.

The Group Portrait: America's Tastemakers

Across the river, a quiet industry determines the flavors of our foods.

Inkwell: Alex Shephard

Trump Books Are Magic Everyone in publishing is sick of the former president. But they keep making books about him anyway.

Jennifer Coolidge – The Other Woman

For most of her career, Jennifer Coolidge has been spinning roles as trophy wives and divorcées into comic gold. Now she gets to show what else she can do.